BOE - who are people voting for?

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Brenda Diaz spoke Moms for Liberty event is endorsed by the Maryland GOP, and was specifically NOT endorsed by the Maryland State Educators Association, the organization representing Maryland public school teachers

We don't want union-endorsed candidates. We want people that will look out for what's best for kids.

Well we don’t want Nazi loving Christian nationalists on BOE for public school who Denys science and history.
We don’t want book banners who support Stephen Millers hate
We don’t want a person who could not be bothered to show up for her job!

Moderately MOCO put on two forums that Diaz was present for not only were her answers nonsense literally incoherent her treatment of others was unacceptable. We need people who work together not people who bring hate and aggression instead of trying to problem solve.

But Diaz's bad ideas have no chance of getting past the other BoE members, whereas Zimmerman's might. As a result, Zimmerman has more potential to do damage.

No Diaz not only supports RFk Jr and Stephen Miller her ideas about curriculum are horrifying.

Diaz is ultra right wing hate.

Have you heard her speak? It’s literally garbage hate and stupidity,

Not to mention her tenure at Gaithersburg HS was abysmal. Nothing from that job gives her any credibility to be on a BOE much less any employee anywhere . Who the hell dies not show up for their job for months? They way she talked about her students of color and minorities no.

The primary thing I consider when deciding who to vote for is the impact each candidate would have if elected.

Diaz is sufficiently fringe that she won't have much of an impact. No other board member or candidate will support the things on her agenda.

That obviously isn't good, but Zimmerman is far worse. Some of the things she wants may be able to get through the BoE, particularly if the other MCEA candidates win.

I'm not so much voting for Diaz as much as I am voting against Zimmerman and the MCEA.

I love how you are trying to sound so educated and thoughtful about your voting process but you just come off sounding like a total moron.

Which Board members or candidates would vote with Diaz on the issues you're worried about?

DP. Diaz would gum up the works. BOE members, with their paltry stipend requiring them to have alternate means of income/financial support, barely have the time to review what MCPS puts in front of them, much less extend the time of meetings to hold contentious but unproductive discussion.

Maybe if we paid them the equivalent of full time-plus professionals with the analytical capability, understanding of policy and experience we'd want representing us, there would be the time to cover such while getting the work done. Diaz's support comes from the opposite end of the political spectrum from that which would support that kind of pay for elected reps.

What are the specific issues that Zimmerman promotes about which there would be concern of their passage by the BOE?

MCEA was responsibile for failing to reopen schools for 18 months. They were also behind the decision to do a worthless virtual day instead of using one of the makeup snow days built into the calendar. And they fought against an incentives package intended to recruit special educators. They've also lobbied to add more half-days to the school calendar. All those were terrible, and are far more likely than anything in Diaz's agenda.

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Brenda Diaz spoke Moms for Liberty event is endorsed by the Maryland GOP, and was specifically NOT endorsed by the Maryland State Educators Association, the organization representing Maryland public school teachers

We don't want union-endorsed candidates. We want people that will look out for what's best for kids.

Well we don’t want Nazi loving Christian nationalists on BOE for public school who Denys science and history.
We don’t want book banners who support Stephen Millers hate
We don’t want a person who could not be bothered to show up for her job!

Moderately MOCO put on two forums that Diaz was present for not only were her answers nonsense literally incoherent her treatment of others was unacceptable. We need people who work together not people who bring hate and aggression instead of trying to problem solve.

But Diaz's bad ideas have no chance of getting past the other BoE members, whereas Zimmerman's might. As a result, Zimmerman has more potential to do damage.

No Diaz not only supports RFk Jr and Stephen Miller her ideas about curriculum are horrifying.

Diaz is ultra right wing hate.

Have you heard her speak? It’s literally garbage hate and stupidity,

Not to mention her tenure at Gaithersburg HS was abysmal. Nothing from that job gives her any credibility to be on a BOE much less any employee anywhere . Who the hell dies not show up for their job for months? They way she talked about her students of color and minorities no.

The primary thing I consider when deciding who to vote for is the impact each candidate would have if elected.

Diaz is sufficiently fringe that she won't have much of an impact. No other board member or candidate will support the things on her agenda.

That obviously isn't good, but Zimmerman is far worse. Some of the things she wants may be able to get through the BoE, particularly if the other MCEA candidates win.

I'm not so much voting for Diaz as much as I am voting against Zimmerman and the MCEA.

I love how you are trying to sound so educated and thoughtful about your voting process but you just come off sounding like a total moron.

Which Board members or candidates would vote with Diaz on the issues you're worried about?

DP. Diaz would gum up the works. BOE members, with their paltry stipend requiring them to have alternate means of income/financial support, barely have the time to review what MCPS puts in front of them, much less extend the time of meetings to hold contentious but unproductive discussion.

Maybe if we paid them the equivalent of full time-plus professionals with the analytical capability, understanding of policy and experience we'd want representing us, there would be the time to cover such while getting the work done. Diaz's support comes from the opposite end of the political spectrum from that which would support that kind of pay for elected reps.

What are the specific issues that Zimmerman promotes about which there would be concern of their passage by the BOE?

MCEA was responsibile for failing to reopen schools for 18 months. They were also behind the decision to do a worthless virtual day instead of using one of the makeup snow days built into the calendar. And they fought against an incentives package intended to recruit special educators. They've also lobbied to add more half-days to the school calendar. All those were terrible, and are far more likely than anything in Diaz's agenda.

They were not closed, they were virtual. You mean you lost your free child care. Diaz homeschools her youngest and told everyone to homeschool. I’d rather have virtual than make up. Make up is a problem with camps and other things. Love half days.

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Brenda Diaz spoke Moms for Liberty event is endorsed by the Maryland GOP, and was specifically NOT endorsed by the Maryland State Educators Association, the organization representing Maryland public school teachers

We don't want union-endorsed candidates. We want people that will look out for what's best for kids.

Well we don’t want Nazi loving Christian nationalists on BOE for public school who Denys science and history.
We don’t want book banners who support Stephen Millers hate
We don’t want a person who could not be bothered to show up for her job!

Moderately MOCO put on two forums that Diaz was present for not only were her answers nonsense literally incoherent her treatment of others was unacceptable. We need people who work together not people who bring hate and aggression instead of trying to problem solve.

But Diaz's bad ideas have no chance of getting past the other BoE members, whereas Zimmerman's might. As a result, Zimmerman has more potential to do damage.

No Diaz not only supports RFk Jr and Stephen Miller her ideas about curriculum are horrifying.

Diaz is ultra right wing hate.

Have you heard her speak? It’s literally garbage hate and stupidity,

Not to mention her tenure at Gaithersburg HS was abysmal. Nothing from that job gives her any credibility to be on a BOE much less any employee anywhere . Who the hell dies not show up for their job for months? They way she talked about her students of color and minorities no.

The primary thing I consider when deciding who to vote for is the impact each candidate would have if elected.

Diaz is sufficiently fringe that she won't have much of an impact. No other board member or candidate will support the things on her agenda.

That obviously isn't good, but Zimmerman is far worse. Some of the things she wants may be able to get through the BoE, particularly if the other MCEA candidates win.

I'm not so much voting for Diaz as much as I am voting against Zimmerman and the MCEA.

I love how you are trying to sound so educated and thoughtful about your voting process but you just come off sounding like a total moron.

Which Board members or candidates would vote with Diaz on the issues you're worried about?

DP. Diaz would gum up the works. BOE members, with their paltry stipend requiring them to have alternate means of income/financial support, barely have the time to review what MCPS puts in front of them, much less extend the time of meetings to hold contentious but unproductive discussion.

Maybe if we paid them the equivalent of full time-plus professionals with the analytical capability, understanding of policy and experience we'd want representing us, there would be the time to cover such while getting the work done. Diaz's support comes from the opposite end of the political spectrum from that which would support that kind of pay for elected reps.

What are the specific issues that Zimmerman promotes about which there would be concern of their passage by the BOE?

Paying would not help. They’d still be incompetent. Diaz out of all of them will need to work and she homeschools her youngest. She’ll make a stink for a while and grandstand and get ignored.

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Brenda Diaz spoke Moms for Liberty event is endorsed by the Maryland GOP, and was specifically NOT endorsed by the Maryland State Educators Association, the organization representing Maryland public school teachers

We don't want union-endorsed candidates. We want people that will look out for what's best for kids.

Well we don’t want Nazi loving Christian nationalists on BOE for public school who Denys science and history.
We don’t want book banners who support Stephen Millers hate
We don’t want a person who could not be bothered to show up for her job!

Moderately MOCO put on two forums that Diaz was present for not only were her answers nonsense literally incoherent her treatment of others was unacceptable. We need people who work together not people who bring hate and aggression instead of trying to problem solve.

But Diaz's bad ideas have no chance of getting past the other BoE members, whereas Zimmerman's might. As a result, Zimmerman has more potential to do damage.

No Diaz not only supports RFk Jr and Stephen Miller her ideas about curriculum are horrifying.

Diaz is ultra right wing hate.

Have you heard her speak? It’s literally garbage hate and stupidity,

Not to mention her tenure at Gaithersburg HS was abysmal. Nothing from that job gives her any credibility to be on a BOE much less any employee anywhere . Who the hell dies not show up for their job for months? They way she talked about her students of color and minorities no.

The primary thing I consider when deciding who to vote for is the impact each candidate would have if elected.

Diaz is sufficiently fringe that she won't have much of an impact. No other board member or candidate will support the things on her agenda.

That obviously isn't good, but Zimmerman is far worse. Some of the things she wants may be able to get through the BoE, particularly if the other MCEA candidates win.

I'm not so much voting for Diaz as much as I am voting against Zimmerman and the MCEA.

I love how you are trying to sound so educated and thoughtful about your voting process but you just come off sounding like a total moron.

Which Board members or candidates would vote with Diaz on the issues you're worried about?

DP. Diaz would gum up the works. BOE members, with their paltry stipend requiring them to have alternate means of income/financial support, barely have the time to review what MCPS puts in front of them, much less extend the time of meetings to hold contentious but unproductive discussion.

Maybe if we paid them the equivalent of full time-plus professionals with the analytical capability, understanding of policy and experience we'd want representing us, there would be the time to cover such while getting the work done. Diaz's support comes from the opposite end of the political spectrum from that which would support that kind of pay for elected reps.

What are the specific issues that Zimmerman promotes about which there would be concern of their passage by the BOE?

MCEA was responsibile for failing to reopen schools for 18 months. They were also behind the decision to do a worthless virtual day instead of using one of the makeup snow days built into the calendar. And they fought against an incentives package intended to recruit special educators. They've also lobbied to add more half-days to the school calendar. All those were terrible, and are far more likely than anything in Diaz's agenda.

They were not closed, they were virtual. You mean you lost your free child care. Diaz homeschools her youngest and told everyone to homeschool. I’d rather have virtual than make up. Make up is a problem with camps and other things. Love half days.

There were make-up day options that weren't at the end of the year, but MCEA nixed using them during negotiations.

And yes, schools were closed. But it sounds like you agree, if you like closed schools and early release days, then Zimmerman is your candidate. Otherwise vote for Diaz.

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Brenda Diaz spoke Moms for Liberty event is endorsed by the Maryland GOP, and was specifically NOT endorsed by the Maryland State Educators Association, the organization representing Maryland public school teachers

We don't want union-endorsed candidates. We want people that will look out for what's best for kids.

Well we don’t want Nazi loving Christian nationalists on BOE for public school who Denys science and history.
We don’t want book banners who support Stephen Millers hate
We don’t want a person who could not be bothered to show up for her job!

Moderately MOCO put on two forums that Diaz was present for not only were her answers nonsense literally incoherent her treatment of others was unacceptable. We need people who work together not people who bring hate and aggression instead of trying to problem solve.

But Diaz's bad ideas have no chance of getting past the other BoE members, whereas Zimmerman's might. As a result, Zimmerman has more potential to do damage.

No Diaz not only supports RFk Jr and Stephen Miller her ideas about curriculum are horrifying.

Diaz is ultra right wing hate.

Have you heard her speak? It’s literally garbage hate and stupidity,

Not to mention her tenure at Gaithersburg HS was abysmal. Nothing from that job gives her any credibility to be on a BOE much less any employee anywhere . Who the hell dies not show up for their job for months? They way she talked about her students of color and minorities no.

The primary thing I consider when deciding who to vote for is the impact each candidate would have if elected.

Diaz is sufficiently fringe that she won't have much of an impact. No other board member or candidate will support the things on her agenda.

That obviously isn't good, but Zimmerman is far worse. Some of the things she wants may be able to get through the BoE, particularly if the other MCEA candidates win.

I'm not so much voting for Diaz as much as I am voting against Zimmerman and the MCEA.

I love how you are trying to sound so educated and thoughtful about your voting process but you just come off sounding like a total moron.

Which Board members or candidates would vote with Diaz on the issues you're worried about?

DP. Diaz would gum up the works. BOE members, with their paltry stipend requiring them to have alternate means of income/financial support, barely have the time to review what MCPS puts in front of them, much less extend the time of meetings to hold contentious but unproductive discussion.

Maybe if we paid them the equivalent of full time-plus professionals with the analytical capability, understanding of policy and experience we'd want representing us, there would be the time to cover such while getting the work done. Diaz's support comes from the opposite end of the political spectrum from that which would support that kind of pay for elected reps.

What are the specific issues that Zimmerman promotes about which there would be concern of their passage by the BOE?

Paying would not help. They’d still be incompetent. Diaz out of all of them will need to work and she homeschools her youngest. She’ll make a stink for a while and grandstand and get ignored.

Diaz is anti-buisng. She gets my vote.

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Anonymous wrote:Is Lynne Harris actually just ChatGPT in a trenchcoat?

https://moco360.media/2024/10/21/at-large-candidates-for-school-board/


What is this nonsense? It reads like a parody written by. DCUM comedian.

"I want to push our continuous improvement work, intentionally bringing the customers (students and staff) to the table for all problem-solving, policy-making, priority-setting conversations. We must ensure the work continues to make every building and classroom a truly inclusive and affirming place, where everyone feels safe, welcome and valued. We must continue making Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) a Net Zero school system. We must ground every MCPS conversation in pragmatic common sense. We must ensure our system continuously works to revise and update all curricula – with students participating in the work – so our content is climate current, engaging, rigorous, fun and reflects the truth and experience of our very diverse community. "

" Those serving on the board must bring a broad perspective and believe MCPS should be grounded in a philosophy of “windows and mirrors” – where every student sees themselves and their culture reflected in the content and educational experience, and also gains a thoughtful understanding of the experiences of others. In that way we provide an education that creates critical thinkers and problem solvers who are ready for 21st-century global opportunities, truly believing that everyone has value. I will do that by continuously listening to the lived experience of our students and ensuring our antiracist work moves forward in a fully inclusive way to create not just an antiracist school system, but an antibias school system. "

Lynne Harris is a policy wonk. That's a good thing. She digs deep into lots of issues that have policy implications for students. You can't breeze through what she writes and that is OK.

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She doesn’t dig at all. She is a fraud. A word salad does not mean she digs deep.

DP but I didn’t find that word salad at all. Maybe a little bit of jargon but was expecting worse

+1. It shows she's intelligent, and thoughtful.

I appreciated her thought experiment about making families “roll the dice” every year to see what school kids will attend each year in order to balance out demographics. That’s the kind of intelligent thought we need on the BOE.

Everyone is now dumber for having read your comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQCU36pkH7c

omg, this is the exact movie scene that played in my head over and over whenever I heard Laura Stewart try to answer a question on the fly during the candidate forums. Talk about word salad. She’s a tough listen

Laura Stewart's taking time to talk through her thoughts about a posed question is considerably better than Shebra Evans' non-answers/topic avoidance in relation to many, reflecting her general lack of incisive oversight of MCPS during her 8 years on the BOE.

Her oral responses are incomprehensible and its apparent to anyone that listens to any of the forums.

Ummm...no? I'd encourage people to actually listen to these things, rather than go with a take driven by someone's limited ability to ingest the thoughts presented. And definitely compare the responses of the two candidates.

Your post proves the point. Your suggestion that people can’t ingest the thoughts presented means that the thoughts are not being convened in a manner that is comprehensible to all. In other words, she’s spouting a word salad.

Again, I'd suggest anyone considering to actually watch/listen to the responses, rather than accept the take of a poster, here, who may have a motive simply to mischaracterize the responses of one candidate to promote the other. Even without such a motive, just because that poster has difficulty ingesting someone's verbalization of their extemporaneous thoughts doesn't mean that people, by and large, have difficulty doing so.

Watch both Stewart and Evans (and any other pair facing off for a seat about which one might be uncertain). Watch the responses to more than one question. Some here seem to be afraid of voters educating themselves that way.

This post does not help your point. Try employing plain-English principles. Wordy responses like this - "Even without such a motive, just because that poster has difficulty ingesting someone's verbalization of their extemporaneous thoughts doesn't mean that people, by and large, have difficulty doing so" - suggest that the writer is not confident with their arguments and is simply trying to obfuscate simple concepts. The concept here is Laura Stewart's woeful lack of public speaking skills and the inability to articulate concepts in plain-English to get her message across. This a busy electorate with a generally short attention span. Many may view this race an inconsequential race to their everyday lives. Insulting the electorate by suggesting that they are not sophisticated enough to understand a full-time volunteer's (Laura description of herself) rhetoric when most folks don't have the luxury to be full-time volunteers is a loser of an argument.

Holy mischaracterizations, Batman!

The post suggested that the electorate would better be served by using their considerable capabilities to see for themselves. Kind of the opposite of insulting their sophistication.

Suggesting that voters wouldn't want to be informed and suggesting that they would have a hard time digesting a post that goes a bit deeper than a tweet? Now that's insulting.

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Brenda Diaz spoke Moms for Liberty event is endorsed by the Maryland GOP, and was specifically NOT endorsed by the Maryland State Educators Association, the organization representing Maryland public school teachers

We don't want union-endorsed candidates. We want people that will look out for what's best for kids.

Well we don’t want Nazi loving Christian nationalists on BOE for public school who Denys science and history.
We don’t want book banners who support Stephen Millers hate
We don’t want a person who could not be bothered to show up for her job!

Moderately MOCO put on two forums that Diaz was present for not only were her answers nonsense literally incoherent her treatment of others was unacceptable. We need people who work together not people who bring hate and aggression instead of trying to problem solve.

But Diaz's bad ideas have no chance of getting past the other BoE members, whereas Zimmerman's might. As a result, Zimmerman has more potential to do damage.

No Diaz not only supports RFk Jr and Stephen Miller her ideas about curriculum are horrifying.

Diaz is ultra right wing hate.

Have you heard her speak? It’s literally garbage hate and stupidity,

Not to mention her tenure at Gaithersburg HS was abysmal. Nothing from that job gives her any credibility to be on a BOE much less any employee anywhere . Who the hell dies not show up for their job for months? They way she talked about her students of color and minorities no.

The primary thing I consider when deciding who to vote for is the impact each candidate would have if elected.

Diaz is sufficiently fringe that she won't have much of an impact. No other board member or candidate will support the things on her agenda.

That obviously isn't good, but Zimmerman is far worse. Some of the things she wants may be able to get through the BoE, particularly if the other MCEA candidates win.

I'm not so much voting for Diaz as much as I am voting against Zimmerman and the MCEA.

I love how you are trying to sound so educated and thoughtful about your voting process but you just come off sounding like a total moron.

Which Board members or candidates would vote with Diaz on the issues you're worried about?

DP. Diaz would gum up the works. BOE members, with their paltry stipend requiring them to have alternate means of income/financial support, barely have the time to review what MCPS puts in front of them, much less extend the time of meetings to hold contentious but unproductive discussion.

Maybe if we paid them the equivalent of full time-plus professionals with the analytical capability, understanding of policy and experience we'd want representing us, there would be the time to cover such while getting the work done. Diaz's support comes from the opposite end of the political spectrum from that which would support that kind of pay for elected reps.

What are the specific issues that Zimmerman promotes about which there would be concern of their passage by the BOE?

Paying would not help. They’d still be incompetent. Diaz out of all of them will need to work and she homeschools her youngest. She’ll make a stink for a while and grandstand and get ignored.

Diaz is anti-buisng. She gets my vote.

I don't think anything would be better if MCPS got rid of school buses. In fact, I think lots of things would be worse.

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Brenda Diaz spoke Moms for Liberty event is endorsed by the Maryland GOP, and was specifically NOT endorsed by the Maryland State Educators Association, the organization representing Maryland public school teachers

We don't want union-endorsed candidates. We want people that will look out for what's best for kids.

Well we don’t want Nazi loving Christian nationalists on BOE for public school who Denys science and history.
We don’t want book banners who support Stephen Millers hate
We don’t want a person who could not be bothered to show up for her job!

Moderately MOCO put on two forums that Diaz was present for not only were her answers nonsense literally incoherent her treatment of others was unacceptable. We need people who work together not people who bring hate and aggression instead of trying to problem solve.

But Diaz's bad ideas have no chance of getting past the other BoE members, whereas Zimmerman's might. As a result, Zimmerman has more potential to do damage.

No Diaz not only supports RFk Jr and Stephen Miller her ideas about curriculum are horrifying.

Diaz is ultra right wing hate.

Have you heard her speak? It’s literally garbage hate and stupidity,

Not to mention her tenure at Gaithersburg HS was abysmal. Nothing from that job gives her any credibility to be on a BOE much less any employee anywhere . Who the hell dies not show up for their job for months? They way she talked about her students of color and minorities no.

The primary thing I consider when deciding who to vote for is the impact each candidate would have if elected.

Diaz is sufficiently fringe that she won't have much of an impact. No other board member or candidate will support the things on her agenda.

That obviously isn't good, but Zimmerman is far worse. Some of the things she wants may be able to get through the BoE, particularly if the other MCEA candidates win.

I'm not so much voting for Diaz as much as I am voting against Zimmerman and the MCEA.

I love how you are trying to sound so educated and thoughtful about your voting process but you just come off sounding like a total moron.

Which Board members or candidates would vote with Diaz on the issues you're worried about?

DP. Diaz would gum up the works. BOE members, with their paltry stipend requiring them to have alternate means of income/financial support, barely have the time to review what MCPS puts in front of them, much less extend the time of meetings to hold contentious but unproductive discussion.

Maybe if we paid them the equivalent of full time-plus professionals with the analytical capability, understanding of policy and experience we'd want representing us, there would be the time to cover such while getting the work done. Diaz's support comes from the opposite end of the political spectrum from that which would support that kind of pay for elected reps.

What are the specific issues that Zimmerman promotes about which there would be concern of their passage by the BOE?

Paying would not help. They’d still be incompetent. Diaz out of all of them will need to work and she homeschools her youngest. She’ll make a stink for a while and grandstand and get ignored.

Diaz is anti-buisng. She gets my vote.

I don't think anything would be better if MCPS got rid of school buses. In fact, I think lots of things would be worse.

+1 agree

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Anonymous wrote:Is Lynne Harris actually just ChatGPT in a trenchcoat?

https://moco360.media/2024/10/21/at-large-candidates-for-school-board/


What is this nonsense? It reads like a parody written by. DCUM comedian.

"I want to push our continuous improvement work, intentionally bringing the customers (students and staff) to the table for all problem-solving, policy-making, priority-setting conversations. We must ensure the work continues to make every building and classroom a truly inclusive and affirming place, where everyone feels safe, welcome and valued. We must continue making Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) a Net Zero school system. We must ground every MCPS conversation in pragmatic common sense. We must ensure our system continuously works to revise and update all curricula – with students participating in the work – so our content is climate current, engaging, rigorous, fun and reflects the truth and experience of our very diverse community. "

" Those serving on the board must bring a broad perspective and believe MCPS should be grounded in a philosophy of “windows and mirrors” – where every student sees themselves and their culture reflected in the content and educational experience, and also gains a thoughtful understanding of the experiences of others. In that way we provide an education that creates critical thinkers and problem solvers who are ready for 21st-century global opportunities, truly believing that everyone has value. I will do that by continuously listening to the lived experience of our students and ensuring our antiracist work moves forward in a fully inclusive way to create not just an antiracist school system, but an antibias school system. "

Lynne Harris is a policy wonk. That's a good thing. She digs deep into lots of issues that have policy implications for students. You can't breeze through what she writes and that is OK.

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She doesn’t dig at all. She is a fraud. A word salad does not mean she digs deep.

DP but I didn’t find that word salad at all. Maybe a little bit of jargon but was expecting worse

+1. It shows she's intelligent, and thoughtful.

I appreciated her thought experiment about making families “roll the dice” every year to see what school kids will attend each year in order to balance out demographics. That’s the kind of intelligent thought we need on the BOE.

Everyone is now dumber for having read your comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQCU36pkH7c

omg, this is the exact movie scene that played in my head over and over whenever I heard Laura Stewart try to answer a question on the fly during the candidate forums. Talk about word salad. She’s a tough listen

Laura Stewart's taking time to talk through her thoughts about a posed question is considerably better than Shebra Evans' non-answers/topic avoidance in relation to many, reflecting her general lack of incisive oversight of MCPS during her 8 years on the BOE.

Her oral responses are incomprehensible and its apparent to anyone that listens to any of the forums.

Ummm...no? I'd encourage people to actually listen to these things, rather than go with a take driven by someone's limited ability to ingest the thoughts presented. And definitely compare the responses of the two candidates.

Your post proves the point. Your suggestion that people can’t ingest the thoughts presented means that the thoughts are not being convened in a manner that is comprehensible to all. In other words, she’s spouting a word salad.

Again, I'd suggest anyone considering to actually watch/listen to the responses, rather than accept the take of a poster, here, who may have a motive simply to mischaracterize the responses of one candidate to promote the other. Even without such a motive, just because that poster has difficulty ingesting someone's verbalization of their extemporaneous thoughts doesn't mean that people, by and large, have difficulty doing so.

Watch both Stewart and Evans (and any other pair facing off for a seat about which one might be uncertain). Watch the responses to more than one question. Some here seem to be afraid of voters educating themselves that way.

This post does not help your point. Try employing plain-English principles. Wordy responses like this - "Even without such a motive, just because that poster has difficulty ingesting someone's verbalization of their extemporaneous thoughts doesn't mean that people, by and large, have difficulty doing so" - suggest that the writer is not confident with their arguments and is simply trying to obfuscate simple concepts. The concept here is Laura Stewart's woeful lack of public speaking skills and the inability to articulate concepts in plain-English to get her message across. This a busy electorate with a generally short attention span. Many may view this race an inconsequential race to their everyday lives. Insulting the electorate by suggesting that they are not sophisticated enough to understand a full-time volunteer's (Laura description of herself) rhetoric when most folks don't have the luxury to be full-time volunteers is a loser of an argument.

Holy mischaracterizations, Batman!

The post suggested that the electorate would better be served by using their considerable capabilities to see for themselves. Kind of the opposite of insulting their sophistication.

Suggesting that voters wouldn't want to be informed and suggesting that they would have a hard time digesting a post that goes a bit deeper than a tweet? Now that's insulting.

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Brenda Diaz spoke Moms for Liberty event is endorsed by the Maryland GOP, and was specifically NOT endorsed by the Maryland State Educators Association, the organization representing Maryland public school teachers

We don't want union-endorsed candidates. We want people that will look out for what's best for kids.

Well we don’t want Nazi loving Christian nationalists on BOE for public school who Denys science and history.
We don’t want book banners who support Stephen Millers hate
We don’t want a person who could not be bothered to show up for her job!

Moderately MOCO put on two forums that Diaz was present for not only were her answers nonsense literally incoherent her treatment of others was unacceptable. We need people who work together not people who bring hate and aggression instead of trying to problem solve.

But Diaz's bad ideas have no chance of getting past the other BoE members, whereas Zimmerman's might. As a result, Zimmerman has more potential to do damage.

No Diaz not only supports RFk Jr and Stephen Miller her ideas about curriculum are horrifying.

Diaz is ultra right wing hate.

Have you heard her speak? It’s literally garbage hate and stupidity,

Not to mention her tenure at Gaithersburg HS was abysmal. Nothing from that job gives her any credibility to be on a BOE much less any employee anywhere . Who the hell dies not show up for their job for months? They way she talked about her students of color and minorities no.

The primary thing I consider when deciding who to vote for is the impact each candidate would have if elected.

Diaz is sufficiently fringe that she won't have much of an impact. No other board member or candidate will support the things on her agenda.

That obviously isn't good, but Zimmerman is far worse. Some of the things she wants may be able to get through the BoE, particularly if the other MCEA candidates win.

I'm not so much voting for Diaz as much as I am voting against Zimmerman and the MCEA.

I love how you are trying to sound so educated and thoughtful about your voting process but you just come off sounding like a total moron.

Which Board members or candidates would vote with Diaz on the issues you're worried about?

DP. Diaz would gum up the works. BOE members, with their paltry stipend requiring them to have alternate means of income/financial support, barely have the time to review what MCPS puts in front of them, much less extend the time of meetings to hold contentious but unproductive discussion.

Maybe if we paid them the equivalent of full time-plus professionals with the analytical capability, understanding of policy and experience we'd want representing us, there would be the time to cover such while getting the work done. Diaz's support comes from the opposite end of the political spectrum from that which would support that kind of pay for elected reps.

What are the specific issues that Zimmerman promotes about which there would be concern of their passage by the BOE?

MCEA was responsibile for failing to reopen schools for 18 months. They were also behind the decision to do a worthless virtual day instead of using one of the makeup snow days built into the calendar. And they fought against an incentives package intended to recruit special educators. They've also lobbied to add more half-days to the school calendar. All those were terrible, and are far more likely than anything in Diaz's agenda.

You think that means Diaz is competent no she’s not and furthermore we are not putting g a Christian nation book banning liar in the BOE

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Brenda Diaz spoke Moms for Liberty event is endorsed by the Maryland GOP, and was specifically NOT endorsed by the Maryland State Educators Association, the organization representing Maryland public school teachers

We don't want union-endorsed candidates. We want people that will look out for what's best for kids.

Well we don’t want Nazi loving Christian nationalists on BOE for public school who Denys science and history.
We don’t want book banners who support Stephen Millers hate
We don’t want a person who could not be bothered to show up for her job!

Moderately MOCO put on two forums that Diaz was present for not only were her answers nonsense literally incoherent her treatment of others was unacceptable. We need people who work together not people who bring hate and aggression instead of trying to problem solve.

But Diaz's bad ideas have no chance of getting past the other BoE members, whereas Zimmerman's might. As a result, Zimmerman has more potential to do damage.

No Diaz not only supports RFk Jr and Stephen Miller her ideas about curriculum are horrifying.

Diaz is ultra right wing hate.

Have you heard her speak? It’s literally garbage hate and stupidity,

Not to mention her tenure at Gaithersburg HS was abysmal. Nothing from that job gives her any credibility to be on a BOE much less any employee anywhere . Who the hell dies not show up for their job for months? They way she talked about her students of color and minorities no.

The primary thing I consider when deciding who to vote for is the impact each candidate would have if elected.

Diaz is sufficiently fringe that she won't have much of an impact. No other board member or candidate will support the things on her agenda.

That obviously isn't good, but Zimmerman is far worse. Some of the things she wants may be able to get through the BoE, particularly if the other MCEA candidates win.

I'm not so much voting for Diaz as much as I am voting against Zimmerman and the MCEA.

I love how you are trying to sound so educated and thoughtful about your voting process but you just come off sounding like a total moron.

Which Board members or candidates would vote with Diaz on the issues you're worried about?

DP. Diaz would gum up the works. BOE members, with their paltry stipend requiring them to have alternate means of income/financial support, barely have the time to review what MCPS puts in front of them, much less extend the time of meetings to hold contentious but unproductive discussion.

Maybe if we paid them the equivalent of full time-plus professionals with the analytical capability, understanding of policy and experience we'd want representing us, there would be the time to cover such while getting the work done. Diaz's support comes from the opposite end of the political spectrum from that which would support that kind of pay for elected reps.

What are the specific issues that Zimmerman promotes about which there would be concern of their passage by the BOE?

Paying would not help. They’d still be incompetent. Diaz out of all of them will need to work and she homeschools her youngest. She’ll make a stink for a while and grandstand and get ignored.

Diaz is anti-buisng. She gets my vote.

Yiou are ignorant
Diaz is unfit.

Moms4liberty Liibsoftiktok hate and ignorance

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Brenda Diaz spoke Moms for Liberty event is endorsed by the Maryland GOP, and was specifically NOT endorsed by the Maryland State Educators Association, the organization representing Maryland public school teachers

We don't want union-endorsed candidates. We want people that will look out for what's best for kids.

Well we don’t want Nazi loving Christian nationalists on BOE for public school who Denys science and history.
We don’t want book banners who support Stephen Millers hate
We don’t want a person who could not be bothered to show up for her job!

Moderately MOCO put on two forums that Diaz was present for not only were her answers nonsense literally incoherent her treatment of others was unacceptable. We need people who work together not people who bring hate and aggression instead of trying to problem solve.

But Diaz's bad ideas have no chance of getting past the other BoE members, whereas Zimmerman's might. As a result, Zimmerman has more potential to do damage.

No Diaz not only supports RFk Jr and Stephen Miller her ideas about curriculum are horrifying.

Diaz is ultra right wing hate.

Have you heard her speak? It’s literally garbage hate and stupidity,

Not to mention her tenure at Gaithersburg HS was abysmal. Nothing from that job gives her any credibility to be on a BOE much less any employee anywhere . Who the hell dies not show up for their job for months? They way she talked about her students of color and minorities no.

The primary thing I consider when deciding who to vote for is the impact each candidate would have if elected.

Diaz is sufficiently fringe that she won't have much of an impact. No other board member or candidate will support the things on her agenda.

That obviously isn't good, but Zimmerman is far worse. Some of the things she wants may be able to get through the BoE, particularly if the other MCEA candidates win.

I'm not so much voting for Diaz as much as I am voting against Zimmerman and the MCEA.

I love how you are trying to sound so educated and thoughtful about your voting process but you just come off sounding like a total moron.

Which Board members or candidates would vote with Diaz on the issues you're worried about?

DP. Diaz would gum up the works. BOE members, with their paltry stipend requiring them to have alternate means of income/financial support, barely have the time to review what MCPS puts in front of them, much less extend the time of meetings to hold contentious but unproductive discussion.

Maybe if we paid them the equivalent of full time-plus professionals with the analytical capability, understanding of policy and experience we'd want representing us, there would be the time to cover such while getting the work done. Diaz's support comes from the opposite end of the political spectrum from that which would support that kind of pay for elected reps.

What are the specific issues that Zimmerman promotes about which there would be concern of their passage by the BOE?

MCEA was responsibile for failing to reopen schools for 18 months. They were also behind the decision to do a worthless virtual day instead of using one of the makeup snow days built into the calendar. And they fought against an incentives package intended to recruit special educators. They've also lobbied to add more half-days to the school calendar. All those were terrible, and are far more likely than anything in Diaz's agenda.

They were not closed, they were virtual. You mean you lost your free child care. Diaz homeschools her youngest and told everyone to homeschool. I’d rather have virtual than make up. Make up is a problem with camps and other things. Love half days.

There were make-up day options that weren't at the end of the year, but MCEA nixed using them during negotiations.

And yes, schools were closed. But it sounds like you agree, if you like closed schools and early release days, then Zimmerman is your candidate. Otherwise vote for Diaz.

No, they were not closed, they were virtual. Your kids were still getting an education just in a different format. Your day care was closed. I do like early release days for doctors appointments and other things. Diaz is a nightmare.

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Brenda Diaz spoke Moms for Liberty event is endorsed by the Maryland GOP, and was specifically NOT endorsed by the Maryland State Educators Association, the organization representing Maryland public school teachers

We don't want union-endorsed candidates. We want people that will look out for what's best for kids.

Well we don’t want Nazi loving Christian nationalists on BOE for public school who Denys science and history.
We don’t want book banners who support Stephen Millers hate
We don’t want a person who could not be bothered to show up for her job!

Moderately MOCO put on two forums that Diaz was present for not only were her answers nonsense literally incoherent her treatment of others was unacceptable. We need people who work together not people who bring hate and aggression instead of trying to problem solve.

But Diaz's bad ideas have no chance of getting past the other BoE members, whereas Zimmerman's might. As a result, Zimmerman has more potential to do damage.

No Diaz not only supports RFk Jr and Stephen Miller her ideas about curriculum are horrifying.

Diaz is ultra right wing hate.

Have you heard her speak? It’s literally garbage hate and stupidity,

Not to mention her tenure at Gaithersburg HS was abysmal. Nothing from that job gives her any credibility to be on a BOE much less any employee anywhere . Who the hell dies not show up for their job for months? They way she talked about her students of color and minorities no.

The primary thing I consider when deciding who to vote for is the impact each candidate would have if elected.

Diaz is sufficiently fringe that she won't have much of an impact. No other board member or candidate will support the things on her agenda.

That obviously isn't good, but Zimmerman is far worse. Some of the things she wants may be able to get through the BoE, particularly if the other MCEA candidates win.

I'm not so much voting for Diaz as much as I am voting against Zimmerman and the MCEA.

I love how you are trying to sound so educated and thoughtful about your voting process but you just come off sounding like a total moron.

Which Board members or candidates would vote with Diaz on the issues you're worried about?

DP. Diaz would gum up the works. BOE members, with their paltry stipend requiring them to have alternate means of income/financial support, barely have the time to review what MCPS puts in front of them, much less extend the time of meetings to hold contentious but unproductive discussion.

Maybe if we paid them the equivalent of full time-plus professionals with the analytical capability, understanding of policy and experience we'd want representing us, there would be the time to cover such while getting the work done. Diaz's support comes from the opposite end of the political spectrum from that which would support that kind of pay for elected reps.

What are the specific issues that Zimmerman promotes about which there would be concern of their passage by the BOE?

MCEA was responsibile for failing to reopen schools for 18 months. They were also behind the decision to do a worthless virtual day instead of using one of the makeup snow days built into the calendar. And they fought against an incentives package intended to recruit special educators. They've also lobbied to add more half-days to the school calendar. All those were terrible, and are far more likely than anything in Diaz's agenda.

They were not closed, they were virtual. You mean you lost your free child care. Diaz homeschools her youngest and told everyone to homeschool. I’d rather have virtual than make up. Make up is a problem with camps and other things. Love half days.

There were make-up day options that weren't at the end of the year, but MCEA nixed using them during negotiations.

And yes, schools were closed. But it sounds like you agree, if you like closed schools and early release days, then Zimmerman is your candidate. Otherwise vote for Diaz.

No, they were not closed, they were virtual. Your kids were still getting an education just in a different format. Your day care was closed. I do like early release days for doctors appointments and other things. Diaz is a nightmare.

The choice is clear. If you want more virtual and early release days, then vote Zimmerman. If you want your kids in schools, vote Diaz.

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Brenda Diaz spoke Moms for Liberty event is endorsed by the Maryland GOP, and was specifically NOT endorsed by the Maryland State Educators Association, the organization representing Maryland public school teachers

We don't want union-endorsed candidates. We want people that will look out for what's best for kids.

Well we don’t want Nazi loving Christian nationalists on BOE for public school who Denys science and history.
We don’t want book banners who support Stephen Millers hate
We don’t want a person who could not be bothered to show up for her job!

Moderately MOCO put on two forums that Diaz was present for not only were her answers nonsense literally incoherent her treatment of others was unacceptable. We need people who work together not people who bring hate and aggression instead of trying to problem solve.

But Diaz's bad ideas have no chance of getting past the other BoE members, whereas Zimmerman's might. As a result, Zimmerman has more potential to do damage.

No Diaz not only supports RFk Jr and Stephen Miller her ideas about curriculum are horrifying.

Diaz is ultra right wing hate.

Have you heard her speak? It’s literally garbage hate and stupidity,

Not to mention her tenure at Gaithersburg HS was abysmal. Nothing from that job gives her any credibility to be on a BOE much less any employee anywhere . Who the hell dies not show up for their job for months? They way she talked about her students of color and minorities no.

The primary thing I consider when deciding who to vote for is the impact each candidate would have if elected.

Diaz is sufficiently fringe that she won't have much of an impact. No other board member or candidate will support the things on her agenda.

That obviously isn't good, but Zimmerman is far worse. Some of the things she wants may be able to get through the BoE, particularly if the other MCEA candidates win.

I'm not so much voting for Diaz as much as I am voting against Zimmerman and the MCEA.

I love how you are trying to sound so educated and thoughtful about your voting process but you just come off sounding like a total moron.

Which Board members or candidates would vote with Diaz on the issues you're worried about?

DP. Diaz would gum up the works. BOE members, with their paltry stipend requiring them to have alternate means of income/financial support, barely have the time to review what MCPS puts in front of them, much less extend the time of meetings to hold contentious but unproductive discussion.

Maybe if we paid them the equivalent of full time-plus professionals with the analytical capability, understanding of policy and experience we'd want representing us, there would be the time to cover such while getting the work done. Diaz's support comes from the opposite end of the political spectrum from that which would support that kind of pay for elected reps.

What are the specific issues that Zimmerman promotes about which there would be concern of their passage by the BOE?

MCEA was responsibile for failing to reopen schools for 18 months. They were also behind the decision to do a worthless virtual day instead of using one of the makeup snow days built into the calendar. And they fought against an incentives package intended to recruit special educators. They've also lobbied to add more half-days to the school calendar. All those were terrible, and are far more likely than anything in Diaz's agenda.

So if you are so appalled by anyone MCEA endorses, you must be voting for Diaz, Harris, and Evans? Two incumbents who probably voted for all those other things you hate? You really make no sense.

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Brenda Diaz spoke Moms for Liberty event is endorsed by the Maryland GOP, and was specifically NOT endorsed by the Maryland State Educators Association, the organization representing Maryland public school teachers

We don't want union-endorsed candidates. We want people that will look out for what's best for kids.

Well we don’t want Nazi loving Christian nationalists on BOE for public school who Denys science and history.
We don’t want book banners who support Stephen Millers hate
We don’t want a person who could not be bothered to show up for her job!

Moderately MOCO put on two forums that Diaz was present for not only were her answers nonsense literally incoherent her treatment of others was unacceptable. We need people who work together not people who bring hate and aggression instead of trying to problem solve.

But Diaz's bad ideas have no chance of getting past the other BoE members, whereas Zimmerman's might. As a result, Zimmerman has more potential to do damage.

No Diaz not only supports RFk Jr and Stephen Miller her ideas about curriculum are horrifying.

Diaz is ultra right wing hate.

Have you heard her speak? It’s literally garbage hate and stupidity,

Not to mention her tenure at Gaithersburg HS was abysmal. Nothing from that job gives her any credibility to be on a BOE much less any employee anywhere . Who the hell dies not show up for their job for months? They way she talked about her students of color and minorities no.

The primary thing I consider when deciding who to vote for is the impact each candidate would have if elected.

Diaz is sufficiently fringe that she won't have much of an impact. No other board member or candidate will support the things on her agenda.

That obviously isn't good, but Zimmerman is far worse. Some of the things she wants may be able to get through the BoE, particularly if the other MCEA candidates win.

I'm not so much voting for Diaz as much as I am voting against Zimmerman and the MCEA.

I love how you are trying to sound so educated and thoughtful about your voting process but you just come off sounding like a total moron.

Which Board members or candidates would vote with Diaz on the issues you're worried about?

DP. Diaz would gum up the works. BOE members, with their paltry stipend requiring them to have alternate means of income/financial support, barely have the time to review what MCPS puts in front of them, much less extend the time of meetings to hold contentious but unproductive discussion.

Maybe if we paid them the equivalent of full time-plus professionals with the analytical capability, understanding of policy and experience we'd want representing us, there would be the time to cover such while getting the work done. Diaz's support comes from the opposite end of the political spectrum from that which would support that kind of pay for elected reps.

What are the specific issues that Zimmerman promotes about which there would be concern of their passage by the BOE?

MCEA was responsibile for failing to reopen schools for 18 months. They were also behind the decision to do a worthless virtual day instead of using one of the makeup snow days built into the calendar. And they fought against an incentives package intended to recruit special educators. They've also lobbied to add more half-days to the school calendar. All those were terrible, and are far more likely than anything in Diaz's agenda.

They were not closed, they were virtual. You mean you lost your free child care. Diaz homeschools her youngest and told everyone to homeschool. I’d rather have virtual than make up. Make up is a problem with camps and other things. Love half days.

There were make-up day options that weren't at the end of the year, but MCEA nixed using them during negotiations.

And yes, schools were closed. But it sounds like you agree, if you like closed schools and early release days, then Zimmerman is your candidate. Otherwise vote for Diaz.

Diaz didn’t work during Covid she stayed home. Her politics over her students for over four months that piece of trash ignored her students didn’t answer emails didn’t do her job. She did protest with America Legal first with a mask on . Yes that’s right Ms Diaz is a liar she wore a mask outside to protest at Gaithersburg HS . All of you voting for her because you think
She’s anti mask jokes on you.