BOE - who are people voting for?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m the PP. I am reading the links shared but what I’m not seeing is clear evidence for who made the miscalculation in state aid that cost MCPS 39 million. I understand Harris has oversight of the budget committee but does that mean it was her fault? Not necessarily. Without fully understanding how the MCPS budget works and what person or entity erroneously assumed Woodward would get a great level of state funding than it did, I need more info to see that she was directly responsible. I’m not seeing that in anything that was shared.

I am all for new blood and fresh leadership, but I’m also not about tossing out the baby with the bath water. Experience is important to have on a board, especially when people like Zimmerman and Montoya don’t have any experience at all with large multi million dollar budgets and seem very green.

Lynne is in charge of the fiscal management committee which has an oversight function. The suggestion that even though her committee didn't adequately do its job, she should still have a shot because of this experience is laughable. It’s like saying that Trump should be re-elected as president because he has previous experience as president whereas Harris has none.

I’ve worked in the nonprofit world for
Years and I know how boards work. I also know how budgets work. If someone puts together a budget that says, we’re going to get X amount of dollars for a grant and then they don’t because that staffer misread the paperwork or misunderstood the details of the grant or whatever reason, isn’t it that person’s responsibility? Or is it the boss or board who approved the budget?

I understand Harris had fiscal oversight but are you really expecting her to go through line by line of a multibillion dollar budget to verify each and every single line item, including verifying eligibility for state level grant funds? Presumably there is some team or staffer in the central office putting that aspect of the budget together who screwed up royally on this and made that miscalculation. But we aren’t talking about an accounting error here, we are talking about human error. Nowhere has anyone shared anything that pointed to this as Harris’ fault. Thomas said it was MCPS and I take that to mean someone screwed the numbers up and put it in a bad budget and no one caught it because the budget was approved.

It’s a colossal screw up to be sure - and one that’s certainly screwed up my kid’s class sizes and school staffing - so believe me, I’m angry about it. But I’m not sure tossing Harris out for it is the right move in favor of Montoya who doesn’t seem to have any experience managing a budget as large as MCPS. How would electing her be a better choice? If she’s never managed a budget how would she have caught this? I am all for electing teachers to boards but often they don’t have experience with massive budgets so that inexperience with budgets, financing, etc. has to be balanced out among the other board members. I’m not defending Harris and don’t really have a dog in the fight, I just think you are oversimplifying what is likely a far more complicated scenario that MCPS has not been transparent enough about.

Agree with this. The mistakes were the fault of Smith and McKnight's staff members in the capital planning and/or financial offices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m the PP. I am reading the links shared but what I’m not seeing is clear evidence for who made the miscalculation in state aid that cost MCPS 39 million. I understand Harris has oversight of the budget committee but does that mean it was her fault? Not necessarily. Without fully understanding how the MCPS budget works and what person or entity erroneously assumed Woodward would get a great level of state funding than it did, I need more info to see that she was directly responsible. I’m not seeing that in anything that was shared.

I am all for new blood and fresh leadership, but I’m also not about tossing out the baby with the bath water. Experience is important to have on a board, especially when people like Zimmerman and Montoya don’t have any experience at all with large multi million dollar budgets and seem very green.

Lynne is in charge of the fiscal management committee which has an oversight function. The suggestion that even though her committee didn't adequately do its job, she should still have a shot because of this experience is laughable. It’s like saying that Trump should be re-elected as president because he has previous experience as president whereas Harris has none.

I’ve worked in the nonprofit world for
Years and I know how boards work. I also know how budgets work. If someone puts together a budget that says, we’re going to get X amount of dollars for a grant and then they don’t because that staffer misread the paperwork or misunderstood the details of the grant or whatever reason, isn’t it that person’s responsibility? Or is it the boss or board who approved the budget?

I understand Harris had fiscal oversight but are you really expecting her to go through line by line of a multibillion dollar budget to verify each and every single line item, including verifying eligibility for state level grant funds? Presumably there is some team or staffer in the central office putting that aspect of the budget together who screwed up royally on this and made that miscalculation. But we aren’t talking about an accounting error here, we are talking about human error. Nowhere has anyone shared anything that pointed to this as Harris’ fault. Thomas said it was MCPS and I take that to mean someone screwed the numbers up and put it in a bad budget and no one caught it because the budget was approved.

It’s a colossal screw up to be sure - and one that’s certainly screwed up my kid’s class sizes and school staffing - so believe me, I’m angry about it. But I’m not sure tossing Harris out for it is the right move in favor of Montoya who doesn’t seem to have any experience managing a budget as large as MCPS. How would electing her be a better choice? If she’s never managed a budget how would she have caught this? I am all for electing teachers to boards but often they don’t have experience with massive budgets so that inexperience with budgets, financing, etc. has to be balanced out among the other board members. I’m not defending Harris and don’t really have a dog in the fight, I just think you are oversimplifying what is likely a far more complicated scenario that MCPS has not been transparent enough about.

This take is exactly right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m the PP. I am reading the links shared but what I’m not seeing is clear evidence for who made the miscalculation in state aid that cost MCPS 39 million. I understand Harris has oversight of the budget committee but does that mean it was her fault? Not necessarily. Without fully understanding how the MCPS budget works and what person or entity erroneously assumed Woodward would get a great level of state funding than it did, I need more info to see that she was directly responsible. I’m not seeing that in anything that was shared.

I am all for new blood and fresh leadership, but I’m also not about tossing out the baby with the bath water. Experience is important to have on a board, especially when people like Zimmerman and Montoya don’t have any experience at all with large multi million dollar budgets and seem very green.

Lynne is in charge of the fiscal management committee which has an oversight function. The suggestion that even though her committee didn't adequately do its job, she should still have a shot because of this experience is laughable. It’s like saying that Trump should be re-elected as president because he has previous experience as president whereas Harris has none.

I’ve worked in the nonprofit world for
Years and I know how boards work. I also know how budgets work. If someone puts together a budget that says, we’re going to get X amount of dollars for a grant and then they don’t because that staffer misread the paperwork or misunderstood the details of the grant or whatever reason, isn’t it that person’s responsibility? Or is it the boss or board who approved the budget?

I understand Harris had fiscal oversight but are you really expecting her to go through line by line of a multibillion dollar budget to verify each and every single line item, including verifying eligibility for state level grant funds? Presumably there is some team or staffer in the central office putting that aspect of the budget together who screwed up royally on this and made that miscalculation. But we aren’t talking about an accounting error here, we are talking about human error. Nowhere has anyone shared anything that pointed to this as Harris’ fault. Thomas said it was MCPS and I take that to mean someone screwed the numbers up and put it in a bad budget and no one caught it because the budget was approved.

It’s a colossal screw up to be sure - and one that’s certainly screwed up my kid’s class sizes and school staffing - so believe me, I’m angry about it. But I’m not sure tossing Harris out for it is the right move in favor of Montoya who doesn’t seem to have any experience managing a budget as large as MCPS. How would electing her be a better choice? If she’s never managed a budget how would she have caught this? I am all for electing teachers to boards but often they don’t have experience with massive budgets so that inexperience with budgets, financing, etc. has to be balanced out among the other board members. I’m not defending Harris and don’t really have a dog in the fight, I just think you are oversimplifying what is likely a far more complicated scenario that MCPS has not been transparent enough about.

This take is exactly right.

+100.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New to this thread and I cannot stomach reading 186 pages of this. I’m trying to decide between Harris and Montoya. Harris was great engaging with our PTA a few years ago on return to school and COVID issues and I found her answers to the questions on various candidate forums and her website policy positions to be sensible. Montoya seems like a good candidate but much less experienced and I wasn’t very impressed by her specific answers to candidate questions, which were a bit vague. Can anyone explain to me why the Apple ballot is supporting Montoya and not Harris? Or if there are issues with Harris I’m not aware of can someone enlighten me? I know Diaz is a total nut so no questions there.

I think the union decided they would not support any incumbents, hence Montoya. I am with you that she doesn’t bring enough experience to the table so am voting Harris.

Not only not enough experience, but also a lack of intentionality. You’re running for a spot on the BOE and yet you’re not caught up in the budget at this point. It’s published on the McPs website when it’s approved. There a regular Fiscal Committee meetings where updates are provided. There is a budget site that allows you to ask questions. It was a key topic of concern all summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m the PP. I am reading the links shared but what I’m not seeing is clear evidence for who made the miscalculation in state aid that cost MCPS 39 million. I understand Harris has oversight of the budget committee but does that mean it was her fault? Not necessarily. Without fully understanding how the MCPS budget works and what person or entity erroneously assumed Woodward would get a great level of state funding than it did, I need more info to see that she was directly responsible. I’m not seeing that in anything that was shared.



I am all for new blood and fresh leadership, but I’m also not about tossing out the baby with the bath water. Experience is important to have on a board, especially when people like Zimmerman and Montoya don’t have any experience at all with large multi million dollar budgets and seem very green.

I love how YT women twist themselves into knows to justify voting for the fellow YT woman with no endorsements simply because they don’t want to vote for the brown woman with all the endorsements.

JFC so we’re going here, are we? I don’t vote for people because of endorsements or skin color, I vote for who I think is the best person to do the job. I look at their policy positions, websites, candidate statements, stated priorities, experience, education, news stories aabout them, and also consider the endorsements. Too many voters just go for the Apple ballot and don’t think about it, but my mom was a teacher and the union rep and I know better than to just go for what the teacher’s union wants as they have their own biases and preferences. It’s own data point but not the data point.

Montoya’s stated policy positions, candidate statements, and budget experience are weak. Pointing that out doesn’t make me a racist, and I resent the suggestion. I care more about having someone with solid experience on the board than I care about what color they are.

And,Mehta budget experience does Diaz have. She is a job jumper who has not had a solid work experience or connected with MCPS.

Same goes for all the others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m the PP. I am reading the links shared but what I’m not seeing is clear evidence for who made the miscalculation in state aid that cost MCPS 39 million. I understand Harris has oversight of the budget committee but does that mean it was her fault? Not necessarily. Without fully understanding how the MCPS budget works and what person or entity erroneously assumed Woodward would get a great level of state funding than it did, I need more info to see that she was directly responsible. I’m not seeing that in anything that was shared.

I am all for new blood and fresh leadership, but I’m also not about tossing out the baby with the bath water. Experience is important to have on a board, especially when people like Zimmerman and Montoya don’t have any experience at all with large multi million dollar budgets and seem very green.

Lynne is in charge of the fiscal management committee which has an oversight function. The suggestion that even though her committee didn't adequately do its job, she should still have a shot because of this experience is laughable. It’s like saying that Trump should be re-elected as president because he has previous experience as president whereas Harris has none.

I’ve worked in the nonprofit world for
Years and I know how boards work. I also know how budgets work. If someone puts together a budget that says, we’re going to get X amount of dollars for a grant and then they don’t because that staffer misread the paperwork or misunderstood the details of the grant or whatever reason, isn’t it that person’s responsibility? Or is it the boss or board who approved the budget?

I understand Harris had fiscal oversight but are you really expecting her to go through line by line of a multibillion dollar budget to verify each and every single line item, including verifying eligibility for state level grant funds? Presumably there is some team or staffer in the central office putting that aspect of the budget together who screwed up royally on this and made that miscalculation. But we aren’t talking about an accounting error here, we are talking about human error. Nowhere has anyone shared anything that pointed to this as Harris’ fault. Thomas said it was MCPS and I take that to mean someone screwed the numbers up and put it in a bad budget and no one caught it because the budget was approved.

It’s a colossal screw up to be sure - and one that’s certainly screwed up my kid’s class sizes and school staffing - so believe me, I’m angry about it. But I’m not sure tossing Harris out for it is the right move in favor of Montoya who doesn’t seem to have any experience managing a budget as large as MCPS. How would electing her be a better choice? If she’s never managed a budget how would she have caught this? I am all for electing teachers to boards but often they don’t have experience with massive budgets so that inexperience with budgets, financing, etc. has to be balanced out among the other board members. I’m not defending Harris and don’t really have a dog in the fight, I just think you are oversimplifying what is likely a far more complicated scenario that MCPS has not been transparent enough about.

Agree with this. The mistakes were the fault of Smith and McKnight's staff members in the capital planning and/or financial offices.

If you say the lie enough times, people it’s the truth. GTFO

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New to this thread and I cannot stomach reading 186 pages of this. I’m trying to decide between Harris and Montoya. Harris was great engaging with our PTA a few years ago on return to school and COVID issues and I found her answers to the questions on various candidate forums and her website policy positions to be sensible. Montoya seems like a good candidate but much less experienced and I wasn’t very impressed by her specific answers to candidate questions, which were a bit vague. Can anyone explain to me why the Apple ballot is supporting Montoya and not Harris? Or if there are issues with Harris I’m not aware of can someone enlighten me? I know Diaz is a total nut so no questions there.

I think the union decided they would not support any incumbents, hence Montoya. I am with you that she doesn’t bring enough experience to the table so am voting Harris.

Not only not enough experience, but also a lack of intentionality. You’re running for a spot on the BOE and yet you’re not caught up in the budget at this point. It’s published on the McPs website when it’s approved. There a regular Fiscal Committee meetings where updates are provided. There is a budget site that allows you to ask questions. It was a key topic of concern all summer.

Lynne’s experience, as a current board member and chair of the fiscal management committee, is evidently not asking the right questions all summer and not being informed about the budget. But yeah, vote for Lynne

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New to this thread and I cannot stomach reading 186 pages of this. I’m trying to decide between Harris and Montoya. Harris was great engaging with our PTA a few years ago on return to school and COVID issues and I found her answers to the questions on various candidate forums and her website policy positions to be sensible. Montoya seems like a good candidate but much less experienced and I wasn’t very impressed by her specific answers to candidate questions, which were a bit vague. Can anyone explain to me why the Apple ballot is supporting Montoya and not Harris? Or if there are issues with Harris I’m not aware of can someone enlighten me? I know Diaz is a total nut so no questions there.

I think the union decided they would not support any incumbents, hence Montoya. I am with you that she doesn’t bring enough experience to the table so am voting Harris.

Not only not enough experience, but also a lack of intentionality. You’re running for a spot on the BOE and yet you’re not caught up in the budget at this point. It’s published on the McPs website when it’s approved. There a regular Fiscal Committee meetings where updates are provided. There is a budget site that allows you to ask questions. It was a key topic of concern all summer.

Lynne’s experience, as a current board member and chair of the fiscal management committee, is evidently not asking the right questions all summer and not being informed about the budget. But yeah, vote for Lynne

She's had her time. New blood is necessary. Vote Apple Ballot!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m the PP. I am reading the links shared but what I’m not seeing is clear evidence for who made the miscalculation in state aid that cost MCPS 39 million. I understand Harris has oversight of the budget committee but does that mean it was her fault? Not necessarily. Without fully understanding how the MCPS budget works and what person or entity erroneously assumed Woodward would get a great level of state funding than it did, I need more info to see that she was directly responsible. I’m not seeing that in anything that was shared.

I am all for new blood and fresh leadership, but I’m also not about tossing out the baby with the bath water. Experience is important to have on a board, especially when people like Zimmerman and Montoya don’t have any experience at all with large multi million dollar budgets and seem very green.

I love how YT women twist themselves into knows to justify voting for the fellow YT woman with no endorsements simply because they don’t want to vote for the brown woman with all the endorsements.

JFC so we’re going here, are we? I don’t vote for people because of endorsements or skin color, I vote for who I think is the best person to do the job. I look at their policy positions, websites, candidate statements, stated priorities, experience, education, news stories aabout them, and also consider the endorsements. Too many voters just go for the Apple ballot and don’t think about it, but my mom was a teacher and the union rep and I know better than to just go for what the teacher’s union wants as they have their own biases and preferences. It’s own data point but not the data point.

Montoya’s stated policy positions, candidate statements, and budget experience are weak. Pointing that out doesn’t make me a racist, and I resent the suggestion. I care more about having someone with solid experience on the board than I care about what color they are.

I know this woman’s type. She’s has her family volunteer once a year at the food bank on thanksgiving with the poors and then calls it a day for the rest of the years. And touts it all over Facebook.

That's os nice of her! I need to do that!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m the PP. I am reading the links shared but what I’m not seeing is clear evidence for who made the miscalculation in state aid that cost MCPS 39 million. I understand Harris has oversight of the budget committee but does that mean it was her fault? Not necessarily. Without fully understanding how the MCPS budget works and what person or entity erroneously assumed Woodward would get a great level of state funding than it did, I need more info to see that she was directly responsible. I’m not seeing that in anything that was shared.

I am all for new blood and fresh leadership, but I’m also not about tossing out the baby with the bath water. Experience is important to have on a board, especially when people like Zimmerman and Montoya don’t have any experience at all with large multi million dollar budgets and seem very green.

I love how YT women twist themselves into knows to justify voting for the fellow YT woman with no endorsements simply because they don’t want to vote for the brown woman with all the endorsements.

JFC so we’re going here, are we? I don’t vote for people because of endorsements or skin color, I vote for who I think is the best person to do the job. I look at their policy positions, websites, candidate statements, stated priorities, experience, education, news stories aabout them, and also consider the endorsements. Too many voters just go for the Apple ballot and don’t think about it, but my mom was a teacher and the union rep and I know better than to just go for what the teacher’s union wants as they have their own biases and preferences. It’s own data point but not the data point.

Montoya’s stated policy positions, candidate statements, and budget experience are weak. Pointing that out doesn’t make me a racist, and I resent the suggestion. I care more about having someone with solid experience on the board than I care about what color they are.

Yup. That’s exactly what this is. Ya’ll have screwed everything up yet someone think you know what’s best for communities of color. Still stuck in that white man’s burden mentality with zero accountability. Taylor, who wasn’t even there when the budget got screwed up took accountability. Yet zilch from the board. Good luck ever getting a YT woman to take accountability.

You’ve dominated this thread for over 20 pages calling every single person you think is white YT, which is offensive and also shows you get the majority of your news from TikTok. Please stop, you’re attacking everyone for being racist yet painting all
white people with a broad brush. Pot meet kettle.

Taylor said it was staffers in 2021 who made the budget error and none are still employed by MCPS. How is that the fault of Harris 3 years later? Let responsibility lie with the guilty parties.

You’ve clearly never managed a multibillion dollar budget and have oversimplified life into simple binaries when reality is much more complicated. Is it possible Harris has some annoying qualities and made mistakes but is still a stronger candidate than Montoya? Is it possible that Montoya is a well intentioned but green candidate who lacks fiscal management experience and voting her in with Stewart and Zimmerman is bringing in too many inexperienced but well intentioned board members to be effective and make the changes we need. A board has to be balanced in experience and skills.

I feel sad that you think all white people are racist just because we don’t automatically vote for people of color. I won’t speak about my volunteer experience in communities of color but you have me pegged very wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m the PP. I am reading the links shared but what I’m not seeing is clear evidence for who made the miscalculation in state aid that cost MCPS 39 million. I understand Harris has oversight of the budget committee but does that mean it was her fault? Not necessarily. Without fully understanding how the MCPS budget works and what person or entity erroneously assumed Woodward would get a great level of state funding than it did, I need more info to see that she was directly responsible. I’m not seeing that in anything that was shared.

I am all for new blood and fresh leadership, but I’m also not about tossing out the baby with the bath water. Experience is important to have on a board, especially when people like Zimmerman and Montoya don’t have any experience at all with large multi million dollar budgets and seem very green.

Lynne is in charge of the fiscal management committee which has an oversight function. The suggestion that even though her committee didn't adequately do its job, she should still have a shot because of this experience is laughable. It’s like saying that Trump should be re-elected as president because he has previous experience as president whereas Harris has none.

I’ve worked in the nonprofit world for
Years and I know how boards work. I also know how budgets work. If someone puts together a budget that says, we’re going to get X amount of dollars for a grant and then they don’t because that staffer misread the paperwork or misunderstood the details of the grant or whatever reason, isn’t it that person’s responsibility? Or is it the boss or board who approved the budget?

I understand Harris had fiscal oversight but are you really expecting her to go through line by line of a multibillion dollar budget to verify each and every single line item, including verifying eligibility for state level grant funds? Presumably there is some team or staffer in the central office putting that aspect of the budget together who screwed up royally on this and made that miscalculation. But we aren’t talking about an accounting error here, we are talking about human error. Nowhere has anyone shared anything that pointed to this as Harris’ fault. Thomas said it was MCPS and I take that to mean someone screwed the numbers up and put it in a bad budget and no one caught it because the budget was approved.

It’s a colossal screw up to be sure - and one that’s certainly screwed up my kid’s class sizes and school staffing - so believe me, I’m angry about it. But I’m not sure tossing Harris out for it is the right move in favor of Montoya who doesn’t seem to have any experience managing a budget as large as MCPS. How would electing her be a better choice? If she’s never managed a budget how would she have caught this? I am all for electing teachers to boards but often they don’t have experience with massive budgets so that inexperience with budgets, financing, etc. has to be balanced out among the other board members. I’m not defending Harris and don’t really have a dog in the fight, I just think you are oversimplifying what is likely a far more complicated scenario that MCPS has not been transparent enough about.

Agree with this. The mistakes were the fault of Smith and McKnight's staff members in the capital planning and/or financial offices.

If you say the lie enough times, people it’s the truth. GTFO

Except there's no lie here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New to this thread and I cannot stomach reading 186 pages of this. I’m trying to decide between Harris and Montoya. Harris was great engaging with our PTA a few years ago on return to school and COVID issues and I found her answers to the questions on various candidate forums and her website policy positions to be sensible. Montoya seems like a good candidate but much less experienced and I wasn’t very impressed by her specific answers to candidate questions, which were a bit vague. Can anyone explain to me why the Apple ballot is supporting Montoya and not Harris? Or if there are issues with Harris I’m not aware of can someone enlighten me? I know Diaz is a total nut so no questions there.

I think the union decided they would not support any incumbents, hence Montoya. I am with you that she doesn’t bring enough experience to the table so am voting Harris.

These are the same posters who have a personal grudge against Montoya. Earlier threads established this and called these posters out.

So you are saying that people who post they don’t think Montoya is experienced enough have a personal grudge against her? I don’t think that is fair.

As opposed to someone with “experience” who cost the school district $39 million?

Not to mention the debacle with electric buses under Lynne. Yeah, we see through racism. In this case, the BS about “experience” is just a dog whistle for choosing the white woman who screwed up the finances simply because she’s not a brown other.

When you compare Lynne’s endorsements (1 union and one county council member) versus Montoya’s (teachers union, a host of other organizations as well as multiple local and state officials), it’s hard not to see that these posters supporting Lynne either have a personal grudge or are just racist

The only candidate running that is racist is Diaz
And she’s not qualified to sit on a public board. She’s horrifying. When you support moms4 liberty that is prof positive you are racist anti semetic and stupid and hateful. Their rhetoric is not acceptable period

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m the PP. I am reading the links shared but what I’m not seeing is clear evidence for who made the miscalculation in state aid that cost MCPS 39 million. I understand Harris has oversight of the budget committee but does that mean it was her fault? Not necessarily. Without fully understanding how the MCPS budget works and what person or entity erroneously assumed Woodward would get a great level of state funding than it did, I need more info to see that she was directly responsible. I’m not seeing that in anything that was shared.

I am all for new blood and fresh leadership, but I’m also not about tossing out the baby with the bath water. Experience is important to have on a board, especially when people like Zimmerman and Montoya don’t have any experience at all with large multi million dollar budgets and seem very green.

I love how YT women twist themselves into knows to justify voting for the fellow YT woman with no endorsements simply because they don’t want to vote for the brown woman with all the endorsements.

JFC so we’re going here, are we? I don’t vote for people because of endorsements or skin color, I vote for who I think is the best person to do the job. I look at their policy positions, websites, candidate statements, stated priorities, experience, education, news stories aabout them, and also consider the endorsements. Too many voters just go for the Apple ballot and don’t think about it, but my mom was a teacher and the union rep and I know better than to just go for what the teacher’s union wants as they have their own biases and preferences. It’s own data point but not the data point.

Montoya’s stated policy positions, candidate statements, and budget experience are weak. Pointing that out doesn’t make me a racist, and I resent the suggestion. I care more about having someone with solid experience on the board than I care about what color they are.

Yup. That’s exactly what this is. Ya’ll have screwed everything up yet someone think you know what’s best for communities of color. Still stuck in that white man’s burden mentality with zero accountability. Taylor, who wasn’t even there when the budget got screwed up took accountability. Yet zilch from the board. Good luck ever getting a YT woman to take accountability.

You’ve dominated this thread for over 20 pages calling every single person you think is white YT, which is offensive and also shows you get the majority of your news from TikTok. Please stop, you’re attacking everyone for being racist yet painting all
white people with a broad brush. Pot meet kettle.

Taylor said it was staffers in 2021 who made the budget error and none are still employed by MCPS. How is that the fault of Harris 3 years later? Let responsibility lie with the guilty parties.

You’ve clearly never managed a multibillion dollar budget and have oversimplified life into simple binaries when reality is much more complicated. Is it possible Harris has some annoying qualities and made mistakes but is still a stronger candidate than Montoya? Is it possible that Montoya is a well intentioned but green candidate who lacks fiscal management experience and voting her in with Stewart and Zimmerman is bringing in too many inexperienced but well intentioned board members to be effective and make the changes we need. A board has to be balanced in experience and skills.

I feel sad that you think all white people are racist just because we don’t automatically vote for people of color. I won’t speak about my volunteer experience in communities of color but you have me pegged very wrong.

And Taylor lied.

[Anonymous]

Do any of you watch board meetings? I watch most. Lynne typically only comments on the following things: schedules at Thomas Edison and how that one school would be affected by the placement of early release days on the school calendar, affirming LGBTQ testimony, asking for MCPS to use more “green” and eco friendly cleaning products. That’s fine if these are her interests. Mine are actual curriculum, school safety, rational budgeting, staffing, rooting out rot/cronyism, helping all students reach their potential. Montoya’s goals align much more closely with what I think are the bigger priorities but ymmv.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do any of you watch board meetings? I watch most. Lynne typically only comments on the following things: schedules at Thomas Edison and how that one school would be affected by the placement of early release days on the school calendar, affirming LGBTQ testimony, asking for MCPS to use more “green” and eco friendly cleaning products. That’s fine if these are her interests. Mine are actual curriculum, school safety, rational budgeting, staffing, rooting out rot/cronyism, helping all students reach their potential. Montoya’s goals align much more closely with what I think are the bigger priorities but ymmv.

I also think with the big boundary analysis coming up, Lynne would be much much more likely to have students bussing all over in the name of diversity when most families of every race and ethnicity would prioritize sending their kids to schools close to home.