School board - who to vote for

[Anonymous]

Still early, but Silvestre looks like the only incumbent with a good showing so far. Wolf is neck and neck with her challenger and Joftus is getting smoked. Interesting results so far.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's Dawn, Esther & Michael for me. Bring some balance to the conversation. Stop with the rubber stamping. All for accountability and transparency, it's what is best for the kids.

The only thing those three people give a crap about is advancing their insane clown posse agenda. They don't have any substantial experience working in education

I'm relieved they lost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's Dawn, Esther & Michael for me. Bring some balance to the conversation. Stop with the rubber stamping. All for accountability and transparency, it's what is best for the kids.

The only thing those three people give a crap about is advancing their insane clown posse agenda. They don't have any substantial experience working in education

I'm relieved they lost.

Don't speak too soon. The top 2 go to the November election, so it ain't over till it's over. Wells is in a comfortable second place and Fryar is really close to 2nd place, so 2 of the 3 could be up for election in November.

[Anonymous]

Yikes. Joftus might not even get enough votes to come in 2nd so he can limp into the November race.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately all the clowns will advance. It’s too bad we couldn’t have gotten a moderate like Jay Guan. Karla was the only one that I voted for that was in the top two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately all the clowns will advance. It’s too bad we couldn’t have gotten a moderate like Jay Guan. Karla was the only one that I voted for that was in the top two.

I’m not sure this board agrees on who the clowns are.

[Anonymous]

25k mail in votes still to be counted

[Anonymous]

I want some males, White or Asian representatives on BOE. As liberal as I am, too much fake "Wokeness" is horrible for MCPS and our children. Instead of bridging the achievement gap at all levels MCPS has just been dismantling the magnet programs. As if having some more URM students in a very small magnet program will automagically make up for piss poor performance of URM students across MCPS who are dealing with piss poor curriculum, classroom disruptions, large class sizes, inadequate teachers.

Really shameful that even after so many years of having URMs at every single level of MCPS administration, they have actually not done anything for URM students. The achievement gap has just widened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want some males, White or Asian representatives on BOE. As liberal as I am, too much fake "Wokeness" is horrible for MCPS and our children. Instead of bridging the achievement gap at all levels MCPS has just been dismantling the magnet programs. As if having some more URM students in a very small magnet program will automagically make up for piss poor performance of URM students across MCPS who are dealing with piss poor curriculum, classroom disruptions, large class sizes, inadequate teachers.

Really shameful that even after so many years of having URMs at every single level of MCPS administration, they have actually not done anything for URM students. The achievement gap has just widened.

How would increasing white/Asian or male reps help? The board is already 50% white (in a county that's 40% white).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately all the clowns will advance. It’s too bad we couldn’t have gotten a moderate like Jay Guan. Karla was the only one that I voted for that was in the top two.

I’m not sure this board agrees on who the clowns are.

+1. Still a whole lot of mail-in ballots to be counted starting tomorrow, but if the top two in each race stay the same, I think the November election will go well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately all the clowns will advance. It’s too bad we couldn’t have gotten a moderate like Jay Guan. Karla was the only one that I voted for that was in the top two.

I’m not sure this board agrees on who the clowns are.

LOL yes that PP is clueless. I'm sure the next board won't be perfect but it will be an improvement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want some males, White or Asian representatives on BOE. As liberal as I am, too much fake "Wokeness" is horrible for MCPS and our children. Instead of bridging the achievement gap at all levels MCPS has just been dismantling the magnet programs. As if having some more URM students in a very small magnet program will automagically make up for piss poor performance of URM students across MCPS who are dealing with piss poor curriculum, classroom disruptions, large class sizes, inadequate teachers.

Really shameful that even after so many years of having URMs at every single level of MCPS administration, they have actually not done anything for URM students. The achievement gap has just widened.

Plenty of men ran. Not sure about the ethnicity of those who ran, but sure if someone ran with the goal of expanding G&T education etc I'd vote for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately all the clowns will advance. It’s too bad we couldn’t have gotten a moderate like Jay Guan. Karla was the only one that I voted for that was in the top two.

I’m not sure this board agrees on who the clowns are.

LOL yes that PP is clueless. I'm sure the next board won't be perfect but it will be an improvement.

+1. Finally having someone new in District 1 will be an improvement in itself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:25k mail in votes still to be counted

It’s shocking that that’s all the mail in votes there were. There were over 100,000 sent out is what I read!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want some males, White or Asian representatives on BOE. As liberal as I am, too much fake "Wokeness" is horrible for MCPS and our children. Instead of bridging the achievement gap at all levels MCPS has just been dismantling the magnet programs. As if having some more URM students in a very small magnet program will automagically make up for piss poor performance of URM students across MCPS who are dealing with piss poor curriculum, classroom disruptions, large class sizes, inadequate teachers.

Really shameful that even after so many years of having URMs at every single level of MCPS administration, they have actually not done anything for URM students. The achievement gap has just widened.

The men who ran in this and the most recent cycle tend to be more reactionary and less likely to have education experience, either as a teacher, administrator, or even as a volunteer.