School board - who to vote for

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have any thoughts on Joftus vs. Yang?

I would sort of like both of them to be on the board. But I voted for Joftus.

I thought this was a helpful piece about both of them in Bethesda Beat.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2022/10/21/two-former-educators-compete-for-district-3-board-of-education-seat/

Thanks for sharing- that was helpful for me too.

Thanks for making his wife so happy! She can keep her hobby going! Hugs!

I merely said it was helpful, did not say in which direction. But I will say only one of the two candidates spoke to something that is one of my top concerns.

And you can be sure the hubs will keep speaking to stuff for years. He won't do anything, ever, but he will keep speaking to stuff. That's why all his supposed supporters haven't donated to his campaign. Julie Yang has far and away out campaigned and fundraised compared to hubs.

You're unhinged.

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Other than McKnight/Coll, we all know who will win each race.

Tbh tho, it would be nice if those candidates at least pretended to campaign. It doesn’t set the next tone when they just take it for granted

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Anonymous wrote:This is the first year I may consider supporting the Apple Ballot. The Apple Ballot is a list of who the teacher union supports and this time they are not endorsing any incumbents.

The BOE did a horrible job keeping schools closed for 18 months for most students, there’s been a lack of resources at the school level to address the pandemic learning loss, there’s been no plan to address the shortages for in school and substitute positions, and the BOE gave a contract to a Superintendent that had two votes of no confidence by the union members underneath her.

One quick note, while we're discussing incumbents and pandemic - Scott Joftus was appointed to the BoE in December, to fill the seat vacated by Patricia O'Neill's passing. So while he is technically an incumbent he does not bear any responsibility for the Board's handling of the first 18 months of pandemic. I'd urge people to keep this in mind before chucking him out with the rest of the incumbents.

For those who aren't aware of Joftus's background, he has a very different profile / background than the average BoE member and is in my view much more qualified:
https://joftus4boe.com/about/

Did he support McKnight? Because she's just awful and I can't see why they spent so much money looking for people for the job and ended up with her. ugh

Joftus is perfect for the BOE because he and his wife have readymade lies to spew while they suck money away from MCPS. Classic is claiming that you have been evaluated every year when you've never been evaluated and MCPS only took a head count for two years.

https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2022/11/fact-check-mocoboe-spouse-says-kid.html

To be honest, with all the drama about Joftus and his family with KID Museum, I personally do not think he would be a good choice for BOE.

To be honest if the parents coalition is trying to sink him that’s a point in his favor.

Have to agree. Will probably vote for him just because those nuts are against him.

Great news for fraud, waste and abuse of MCPS Operating Budget! Many, many vendors ready to siphon off MCPS $$$ thank you! Especially the vendors that are embezzling cash like the diesel bus company in Annapolis. You've made their world a happier place.

You mean imaginary fraud since nothing like that happened and no charges have been filed. Just in the minds of a few unhinged right-wing nutjobs.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the first year I may consider supporting the Apple Ballot. The Apple Ballot is a list of who the teacher union supports and this time they are not endorsing any incumbents.

The BOE did a horrible job keeping schools closed for 18 months for most students, there’s been a lack of resources at the school level to address the pandemic learning loss, there’s been no plan to address the shortages for in school and substitute positions, and the BOE gave a contract to a Superintendent that had two votes of no confidence by the union members underneath her.

One quick note, while we're discussing incumbents and pandemic - Scott Joftus was appointed to the BoE in December, to fill the seat vacated by Patricia O'Neill's passing. So while he is technically an incumbent he does not bear any responsibility for the Board's handling of the first 18 months of pandemic. I'd urge people to keep this in mind before chucking him out with the rest of the incumbents.

For those who aren't aware of Joftus's background, he has a very different profile / background than the average BoE member and is in my view much more qualified:
https://joftus4boe.com/about/

Did he support McKnight? Because she's just awful and I can't see why they spent so much money looking for people for the job and ended up with her. ugh

Joftus is perfect for the BOE because he and his wife have readymade lies to spew while they suck money away from MCPS. Classic is claiming that you have been evaluated every year when you've never been evaluated and MCPS only took a head count for two years.

https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2022/11/fact-check-mocoboe-spouse-says-kid.html

To be honest, with all the drama about Joftus and his family with KID Museum, I personally do not think he would be a good choice for BOE.

To be honest if the parents coalition is trying to sink him that’s a point in his favor.

Have to agree. Will probably vote for him just because those nuts are against him.

Great news for fraud, waste and abuse of MCPS Operating Budget! Many, many vendors ready to siphon off MCPS $$$ thank you! Especially the vendors that are embezzling cash like the diesel bus company in Annapolis. You've made their world a happier place.

You mean imaginary fraud since nothing like that happened and no charges have been filed. Just in the minds of a few unhinged right-wing nutjobs.

News blackout in your brain? https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2022/10/audit-finds-off-the-books-account-used-by-vendors-to-pay-montgomery-co-schools-staff/

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Anonymous wrote:Other than McKnight/Coll, we all know who will win each race.

Tbh tho, it would be nice if those candidates at least pretended to campaign. It doesn’t set the next tone when they just take it for granted

That would be Wolff/Coll

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Anonymous wrote:This is the first year I may consider supporting the Apple Ballot. The Apple Ballot is a list of who the teacher union supports and this time they are not endorsing any incumbents.

The BOE did a horrible job keeping schools closed for 18 months for most students, there’s been a lack of resources at the school level to address the pandemic learning loss, there’s been no plan to address the shortages for in school and substitute positions, and the BOE gave a contract to a Superintendent that had two votes of no confidence by the union members underneath her.

One quick note, while we're discussing incumbents and pandemic - Scott Joftus was appointed to the BoE in December, to fill the seat vacated by Patricia O'Neill's passing. So while he is technically an incumbent he does not bear any responsibility for the Board's handling of the first 18 months of pandemic. I'd urge people to keep this in mind before chucking him out with the rest of the incumbents.

For those who aren't aware of Joftus's background, he has a very different profile / background than the average BoE member and is in my view much more qualified:
https://joftus4boe.com/about/

Did he support McKnight? Because she's just awful and I can't see why they spent so much money looking for people for the job and ended up with her. ugh

Joftus is perfect for the BOE because he and his wife have readymade lies to spew while they suck money away from MCPS. Classic is claiming that you have been evaluated every year when you've never been evaluated and MCPS only took a head count for two years.

https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2022/11/fact-check-mocoboe-spouse-says-kid.html

To be honest, with all the drama about Joftus and his family with KID Museum, I personally do not think he would be a good choice for BOE.

To be honest if the parents coalition is trying to sink him that’s a point in his favor.

Have to agree. Will probably vote for him just because those nuts are against him.

Great news for fraud, waste and abuse of MCPS Operating Budget! Many, many vendors ready to siphon off MCPS $$$ thank you! Especially the vendors that are embezzling cash like the diesel bus company in Annapolis. You've made their world a happier place.

You mean imaginary fraud since nothing like that happened and no charges have been filed. Just in the minds of a few unhinged right-wing nutjobs.

You sing it sister! Yeah! Right-wing, nutjobs! Yeah. I always spend $1M on bocce ball for disabled kids at MCPS... and loved the $4M discrimination training... I just can't get enough of (I lost count - was it $4M covid money, and $1,632,632, $94,434 on 8/25/20, then another $2.37M On 9/9/22 - so it's 7-8M?) Kid Museum... I totally believe Leader in Me is worth 1.8M... yup...

And the best part was it all was mostly Federal Covid grant money to keep the kids and teachers safe!

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Anonymous wrote:This is the first year I may consider supporting the Apple Ballot. The Apple Ballot is a list of who the teacher union supports and this time they are not endorsing any incumbents.

The BOE did a horrible job keeping schools closed for 18 months for most students, there’s been a lack of resources at the school level to address the pandemic learning loss, there’s been no plan to address the shortages for in school and substitute positions, and the BOE gave a contract to a Superintendent that had two votes of no confidence by the union members underneath her.

One quick note, while we're discussing incumbents and pandemic - Scott Joftus was appointed to the BoE in December, to fill the seat vacated by Patricia O'Neill's passing. So while he is technically an incumbent he does not bear any responsibility for the Board's handling of the first 18 months of pandemic. I'd urge people to keep this in mind before chucking him out with the rest of the incumbents.

For those who aren't aware of Joftus's background, he has a very different profile / background than the average BoE member and is in my view much more qualified:
https://joftus4boe.com/about/

Did he support McKnight? Because she's just awful and I can't see why they spent so much money looking for people for the job and ended up with her. ugh

Joftus is perfect for the BOE because he and his wife have readymade lies to spew while they suck money away from MCPS. Classic is claiming that you have been evaluated every year when you've never been evaluated and MCPS only took a head count for two years.

https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2022/11/fact-check-mocoboe-spouse-says-kid.html

To be honest, with all the drama about Joftus and his family with KID Museum, I personally do not think he would be a good choice for BOE.

To be honest if the parents coalition is trying to sink him that’s a point in his favor.

Have to agree. Will probably vote for him just because those nuts are against him.

Great news for fraud, waste and abuse of MCPS Operating Budget! Many, many vendors ready to siphon off MCPS $$$ thank you! Especially the vendors that are embezzling cash like the diesel bus company in Annapolis. You've made their world a happier place.

You mean imaginary fraud since nothing like that happened and no charges have been filed. Just in the minds of a few unhinged right-wing nutjobs.

Some nut got all bent out of shape over some nice program the county did with the kids museum. High school's gone there a bunch of times and the kids really like it. Jofus accused himself from that decision and made it clear before taking the job that he had a conflict. The really is nothing to see here.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the first year I may consider supporting the Apple Ballot. The Apple Ballot is a list of who the teacher union supports and this time they are not endorsing any incumbents.

The BOE did a horrible job keeping schools closed for 18 months for most students, there’s been a lack of resources at the school level to address the pandemic learning loss, there’s been no plan to address the shortages for in school and substitute positions, and the BOE gave a contract to a Superintendent that had two votes of no confidence by the union members underneath her.

One quick note, while we're discussing incumbents and pandemic - Scott Joftus was appointed to the BoE in December, to fill the seat vacated by Patricia O'Neill's passing. So while he is technically an incumbent he does not bear any responsibility for the Board's handling of the first 18 months of pandemic. I'd urge people to keep this in mind before chucking him out with the rest of the incumbents.

For those who aren't aware of Joftus's background, he has a very different profile / background than the average BoE member and is in my view much more qualified:
https://joftus4boe.com/about/

Did he support McKnight? Because she's just awful and I can't see why they spent so much money looking for people for the job and ended up with her. ugh

Joftus is perfect for the BOE because he and his wife have readymade lies to spew while they suck money away from MCPS. Classic is claiming that you have been evaluated every year when you've never been evaluated and MCPS only took a head count for two years.

https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2022/11/fact-check-mocoboe-spouse-says-kid.html

To be honest, with all the drama about Joftus and his family with KID Museum, I personally do not think he would be a good choice for BOE.

To be honest if the parents coalition is trying to sink him that’s a point in his favor.

Have to agree. Will probably vote for him just because those nuts are against him.

Great news for fraud, waste and abuse of MCPS Operating Budget! Many, many vendors ready to siphon off MCPS $$$ thank you! Especially the vendors that are embezzling cash like the diesel bus company in Annapolis. You've made their world a happier place.

You mean imaginary fraud since nothing like that happened and no charges have been filed. Just in the minds of a few unhinged right-wing nutjobs.

You sing it sister! Yeah! Right-wing, nutjobs! Yeah. I always spend $1M on bocce ball for disabled kids at MCPS... and loved the $4M discrimination training... I just can't get enough of (I lost count - was it $4M covid money, and $1,632,632, $94,434 on 8/25/20, then another $2.37M On 9/9/22 - so it's 7-8M?) Kid Museum... I totally believe Leader in Me is worth 1.8M... yup...

And the best part was it all was mostly Federal Covid grant money to keep the kids and teachers safe!

It would be great if the leader in me empowered a child to lead a bocce club field trip to the kid's museum.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the first year I may consider supporting the Apple Ballot. The Apple Ballot is a list of who the teacher union supports and this time they are not endorsing any incumbents.

The BOE did a horrible job keeping schools closed for 18 months for most students, there’s been a lack of resources at the school level to address the pandemic learning loss, there’s been no plan to address the shortages for in school and substitute positions, and the BOE gave a contract to a Superintendent that had two votes of no confidence by the union members underneath her.

One quick note, while we're discussing incumbents and pandemic - Scott Joftus was appointed to the BoE in December, to fill the seat vacated by Patricia O'Neill's passing. So while he is technically an incumbent he does not bear any responsibility for the Board's handling of the first 18 months of pandemic. I'd urge people to keep this in mind before chucking him out with the rest of the incumbents.

For those who aren't aware of Joftus's background, he has a very different profile / background than the average BoE member and is in my view much more qualified:
https://joftus4boe.com/about/

Did he support McKnight? Because she's just awful and I can't see why they spent so much money looking for people for the job and ended up with her. ugh

Joftus is perfect for the BOE because he and his wife have readymade lies to spew while they suck money away from MCPS. Classic is claiming that you have been evaluated every year when you've never been evaluated and MCPS only took a head count for two years.

https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2022/11/fact-check-mocoboe-spouse-says-kid.html

To be honest, with all the drama about Joftus and his family with KID Museum, I personally do not think he would be a good choice for BOE.

To be honest if the parents coalition is trying to sink him that’s a point in his favor.

Have to agree. Will probably vote for him just because those nuts are against him.

Great news for fraud, waste and abuse of MCPS Operating Budget! Many, many vendors ready to siphon off MCPS $$$ thank you! Especially the vendors that are embezzling cash like the diesel bus company in Annapolis. You've made their world a happier place.

You mean imaginary fraud since nothing like that happened and no charges have been filed. Just in the minds of a few unhinged right-wing nutjobs.

Some nut got all bent out of shape over some nice program the county did with the kids museum. High school's gone there a bunch of times and the kids really like it. Jofus accused himself from that decision and made it clear before taking the job that he had a conflict. The really is nothing to see here.

It's not a program for high schools, so that didn't happen. You are correct that Joftus accused himself. He accused himself of taking a position to funnel public school operating budget money to his wife. His wife lied about being evaluated by MCPS. That's the icing on the cake for the embezzlement of MCPS cash. It's really important for Joftus to keep lying about mentioning this obvious conflict before he was appointed, but he never did that. I guess that makes him look like a big man in his education conferences. That must be why his main supporters are out of state.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the first year I may consider supporting the Apple Ballot. The Apple Ballot is a list of who the teacher union supports and this time they are not endorsing any incumbents.

The BOE did a horrible job keeping schools closed for 18 months for most students, there’s been a lack of resources at the school level to address the pandemic learning loss, there’s been no plan to address the shortages for in school and substitute positions, and the BOE gave a contract to a Superintendent that had two votes of no confidence by the union members underneath her.

One quick note, while we're discussing incumbents and pandemic - Scott Joftus was appointed to the BoE in December, to fill the seat vacated by Patricia O'Neill's passing. So while he is technically an incumbent he does not bear any responsibility for the Board's handling of the first 18 months of pandemic. I'd urge people to keep this in mind before chucking him out with the rest of the incumbents.

For those who aren't aware of Joftus's background, he has a very different profile / background than the average BoE member and is in my view much more qualified:
https://joftus4boe.com/about/

Did he support McKnight? Because she's just awful and I can't see why they spent so much money looking for people for the job and ended up with her. ugh

Joftus is perfect for the BOE because he and his wife have readymade lies to spew while they suck money away from MCPS. Classic is claiming that you have been evaluated every year when you've never been evaluated and MCPS only took a head count for two years.

https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2022/11/fact-check-mocoboe-spouse-says-kid.html

To be honest, with all the drama about Joftus and his family with KID Museum, I personally do not think he would be a good choice for BOE.

To be honest if the parents coalition is trying to sink him that’s a point in his favor.

Have to agree. Will probably vote for him just because those nuts are against him.

Great news for fraud, waste and abuse of MCPS Operating Budget! Many, many vendors ready to siphon off MCPS $$$ thank you! Especially the vendors that are embezzling cash like the diesel bus company in Annapolis. You've made their world a happier place.

You mean imaginary fraud since nothing like that happened and no charges have been filed. Just in the minds of a few unhinged right-wing nutjobs.

You sing it sister! Yeah! Right-wing, nutjobs! Yeah. I always spend $1M on bocce ball for disabled kids at MCPS... and loved the $4M discrimination training... I just can't get enough of (I lost count - was it $4M covid money, and $1,632,632, $94,434 on 8/25/20, then another $2.37M On 9/9/22 - so it's 7-8M?) Kid Museum... I totally believe Leader in Me is worth 1.8M... yup...

And the best part was it all was mostly Federal Covid grant money to keep the kids and teachers safe!

It would be great if the leader in me empowered a child to lead a bocce club field trip to the kid's museum.

Exactly Jofus recused himself from this and had been upfront about his conflict. There was nothing to this. Not sure why the same poster has their panties in a bunch over this since it was of no signfiicance.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the first year I may consider supporting the Apple Ballot. The Apple Ballot is a list of who the teacher union supports and this time they are not endorsing any incumbents.

The BOE did a horrible job keeping schools closed for 18 months for most students, there’s been a lack of resources at the school level to address the pandemic learning loss, there’s been no plan to address the shortages for in school and substitute positions, and the BOE gave a contract to a Superintendent that had two votes of no confidence by the union members underneath her.

One quick note, while we're discussing incumbents and pandemic - Scott Joftus was appointed to the BoE in December, to fill the seat vacated by Patricia O'Neill's passing. So while he is technically an incumbent he does not bear any responsibility for the Board's handling of the first 18 months of pandemic. I'd urge people to keep this in mind before chucking him out with the rest of the incumbents.

For those who aren't aware of Joftus's background, he has a very different profile / background than the average BoE member and is in my view much more qualified:
https://joftus4boe.com/about/

Did he support McKnight? Because she's just awful and I can't see why they spent so much money looking for people for the job and ended up with her. ugh

Joftus is perfect for the BOE because he and his wife have readymade lies to spew while they suck money away from MCPS. Classic is claiming that you have been evaluated every year when you've never been evaluated and MCPS only took a head count for two years.

https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2022/11/fact-check-mocoboe-spouse-says-kid.html

To be honest, with all the drama about Joftus and his family with KID Museum, I personally do not think he would be a good choice for BOE.

To be honest if the parents coalition is trying to sink him that’s a point in his favor.

Have to agree. Will probably vote for him just because those nuts are against him.

Great news for fraud, waste and abuse of MCPS Operating Budget! Many, many vendors ready to siphon off MCPS $$$ thank you! Especially the vendors that are embezzling cash like the diesel bus company in Annapolis. You've made their world a happier place.

You mean imaginary fraud since nothing like that happened and no charges have been filed. Just in the minds of a few unhinged right-wing nutjobs.

You sing it sister! Yeah! Right-wing, nutjobs! Yeah. I always spend $1M on bocce ball for disabled kids at MCPS... and loved the $4M discrimination training... I just can't get enough of (I lost count - was it $4M covid money, and $1,632,632, $94,434 on 8/25/20, then another $2.37M On 9/9/22 - so it's 7-8M?) Kid Museum... I totally believe Leader in Me is worth 1.8M... yup...

And the best part was it all was mostly Federal Covid grant money to keep the kids and teachers safe!

It would be great if the leader in me empowered a child to lead a bocce club field trip to the kid's museum.

Exactly Jofus recused himself from this and had been upfront about his conflict. There was nothing to this. Not sure why the same poster has their panties in a bunch over this since it was of no signfiicance.

Joftus (do you misspell on purpose?) never was upfront about anything. It's a fun lie, but it's a lie. Just like his wife said that MCPS had evaluated the program and it had shown results. That never happened either. They are a good team.

Waste of MCPS education dollars is of no significance to parents who don't want teachers in classrooms. For parents that do want teachers in classrooms spending MCPS money on private programs with no benefits and no accountability is a problem. Sort of like having the MCPS transportation department embezzle millions for over 5 years. Stealing from students, is that the new MCPS brand?

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Anonymous wrote:This is the first year I may consider supporting the Apple Ballot. The Apple Ballot is a list of who the teacher union supports and this time they are not endorsing any incumbents.

The BOE did a horrible job keeping schools closed for 18 months for most students, there’s been a lack of resources at the school level to address the pandemic learning loss, there’s been no plan to address the shortages for in school and substitute positions, and the BOE gave a contract to a Superintendent that had two votes of no confidence by the union members underneath her.

One quick note, while we're discussing incumbents and pandemic - Scott Joftus was appointed to the BoE in December, to fill the seat vacated by Patricia O'Neill's passing. So while he is technically an incumbent he does not bear any responsibility for the Board's handling of the first 18 months of pandemic. I'd urge people to keep this in mind before chucking him out with the rest of the incumbents.

For those who aren't aware of Joftus's background, he has a very different profile / background than the average BoE member and is in my view much more qualified:
https://joftus4boe.com/about/

Did he support McKnight? Because she's just awful and I can't see why they spent so much money looking for people for the job and ended up with her. ugh

Joftus is perfect for the BOE because he and his wife have readymade lies to spew while they suck money away from MCPS. Classic is claiming that you have been evaluated every year when you've never been evaluated and MCPS only took a head count for two years.

https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2022/11/fact-check-mocoboe-spouse-says-kid.html

To be honest, with all the drama about Joftus and his family with KID Museum, I personally do not think he would be a good choice for BOE.

To be honest if the parents coalition is trying to sink him that’s a point in his favor.

Have to agree. Will probably vote for him just because those nuts are against him.

Great news for fraud, waste and abuse of MCPS Operating Budget! Many, many vendors ready to siphon off MCPS $$$ thank you! Especially the vendors that are embezzling cash like the diesel bus company in Annapolis. You've made their world a happier place.

You mean imaginary fraud since nothing like that happened and no charges have been filed. Just in the minds of a few unhinged right-wing nutjobs.

You sing it sister! Yeah! Right-wing, nutjobs! Yeah. I always spend $1M on bocce ball for disabled kids at MCPS... and loved the $4M discrimination training... I just can't get enough of (I lost count - was it $4M covid money, and $1,632,632, $94,434 on 8/25/20, then another $2.37M On 9/9/22 - so it's 7-8M?) Kid Museum... I totally believe Leader in Me is worth 1.8M... yup...

And the best part was it all was mostly Federal Covid grant money to keep the kids and teachers safe!

It would be great if the leader in me empowered a child to lead a bocce club field trip to the kid's museum.

Exactly Jofus recused himself from this and had been upfront about his conflict. There was nothing to this. Not sure why the same poster has their panties in a bunch over this since it was of no signfiicance.

Joftus (do you misspell on purpose?) never was upfront about anything. It's a fun lie, but it's a lie. Just like his wife said that MCPS had evaluated the program and it had shown results. That never happened either. They are a good team.

Waste of MCPS education dollars is of no significance to parents who don't want teachers in classrooms. For parents that do want teachers in classrooms spending MCPS money on private programs with no benefits and no accountability is a problem. Sort of like having the MCPS transportation department embezzle millions for over 5 years. Stealing from students, is that the new MCPS brand?

He said he had this conflict up front and recused himself from the vote. Not sure you can be more upfront than that.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the first year I may consider supporting the Apple Ballot. The Apple Ballot is a list of who the teacher union supports and this time they are not endorsing any incumbents.

The BOE did a horrible job keeping schools closed for 18 months for most students, there’s been a lack of resources at the school level to address the pandemic learning loss, there’s been no plan to address the shortages for in school and substitute positions, and the BOE gave a contract to a Superintendent that had two votes of no confidence by the union members underneath her.

One quick note, while we're discussing incumbents and pandemic - Scott Joftus was appointed to the BoE in December, to fill the seat vacated by Patricia O'Neill's passing. So while he is technically an incumbent he does not bear any responsibility for the Board's handling of the first 18 months of pandemic. I'd urge people to keep this in mind before chucking him out with the rest of the incumbents.

For those who aren't aware of Joftus's background, he has a very different profile / background than the average BoE member and is in my view much more qualified:
https://joftus4boe.com/about/

Did he support McKnight? Because she's just awful and I can't see why they spent so much money looking for people for the job and ended up with her. ugh

Joftus is perfect for the BOE because he and his wife have readymade lies to spew while they suck money away from MCPS. Classic is claiming that you have been evaluated every year when you've never been evaluated and MCPS only took a head count for two years.

https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2022/11/fact-check-mocoboe-spouse-says-kid.html

To be honest, with all the drama about Joftus and his family with KID Museum, I personally do not think he would be a good choice for BOE.

To be honest if the parents coalition is trying to sink him that’s a point in his favor.

Have to agree. Will probably vote for him just because those nuts are against him.

Great news for fraud, waste and abuse of MCPS Operating Budget! Many, many vendors ready to siphon off MCPS $$$ thank you! Especially the vendors that are embezzling cash like the diesel bus company in Annapolis. You've made their world a happier place.

You mean imaginary fraud since nothing like that happened and no charges have been filed. Just in the minds of a few unhinged right-wing nutjobs.

You sing it sister! Yeah! Right-wing, nutjobs! Yeah. I always spend $1M on bocce ball for disabled kids at MCPS... and loved the $4M discrimination training... I just can't get enough of (I lost count - was it $4M covid money, and $1,632,632, $94,434 on 8/25/20, then another $2.37M On 9/9/22 - so it's 7-8M?) Kid Museum... I totally believe Leader in Me is worth 1.8M... yup...

And the best part was it all was mostly Federal Covid grant money to keep the kids and teachers safe!

It would be great if the leader in me empowered a child to lead a bocce club field trip to the kid's museum.

Exactly Jofus recused himself from this and had been upfront about his conflict. There was nothing to this. Not sure why the same poster has their panties in a bunch over this since it was of no signfiicance.

Joftus (do you misspell on purpose?) never was upfront about anything. It's a fun lie, but it's a lie. Just like his wife said that MCPS had evaluated the program and it had shown results. That never happened either. They are a good team.

Waste of MCPS education dollars is of no significance to parents who don't want teachers in classrooms. For parents that do want teachers in classrooms spending MCPS money on private programs with no benefits and no accountability is a problem. Sort of like having the MCPS transportation department embezzle millions for over 5 years. Stealing from students, is that the new MCPS brand?

It's all McKnights fault! I blame her for all of this even though she's only been in power for a few months and these decisions were made long ago. It's still her fault. We should demand they stop spending money on these things like field trips, sports for the disabled, or student emotional well being! I just want things that benefit my kids and couldn't care less about all this stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the first year I may consider supporting the Apple Ballot. The Apple Ballot is a list of who the teacher union supports and this time they are not endorsing any incumbents.

The BOE did a horrible job keeping schools closed for 18 months for most students, there’s been a lack of resources at the school level to address the pandemic learning loss, there’s been no plan to address the shortages for in school and substitute positions, and the BOE gave a contract to a Superintendent that had two votes of no confidence by the union members underneath her.

One quick note, while we're discussing incumbents and pandemic - Scott Joftus was appointed to the BoE in December, to fill the seat vacated by Patricia O'Neill's passing. So while he is technically an incumbent he does not bear any responsibility for the Board's handling of the first 18 months of pandemic. I'd urge people to keep this in mind before chucking him out with the rest of the incumbents.

For those who aren't aware of Joftus's background, he has a very different profile / background than the average BoE member and is in my view much more qualified:
https://joftus4boe.com/about/

Did he support McKnight? Because she's just awful and I can't see why they spent so much money looking for people for the job and ended up with her. ugh

Joftus is perfect for the BOE because he and his wife have readymade lies to spew while they suck money away from MCPS. Classic is claiming that you have been evaluated every year when you've never been evaluated and MCPS only took a head count for two years.

https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2022/11/fact-check-mocoboe-spouse-says-kid.html

To be honest, with all the drama about Joftus and his family with KID Museum, I personally do not think he would be a good choice for BOE.

To be honest if the parents coalition is trying to sink him that’s a point in his favor.

Have to agree. Will probably vote for him just because those nuts are against him.

Great news for fraud, waste and abuse of MCPS Operating Budget! Many, many vendors ready to siphon off MCPS $$$ thank you! Especially the vendors that are embezzling cash like the diesel bus company in Annapolis. You've made their world a happier place.

You mean imaginary fraud since nothing like that happened and no charges have been filed. Just in the minds of a few unhinged right-wing nutjobs.

You sing it sister! Yeah! Right-wing, nutjobs! Yeah. I always spend $1M on bocce ball for disabled kids at MCPS... and loved the $4M discrimination training... I just can't get enough of (I lost count - was it $4M covid money, and $1,632,632, $94,434 on 8/25/20, then another $2.37M On 9/9/22 - so it's 7-8M?) Kid Museum... I totally believe Leader in Me is worth 1.8M... yup...

And the best part was it all was mostly Federal Covid grant money to keep the kids and teachers safe!

It would be great if the leader in me empowered a child to lead a bocce club field trip to the kid's museum.

Exactly Jofus recused himself from this and had been upfront about his conflict. There was nothing to this. Not sure why the same poster has their panties in a bunch over this since it was of no signfiicance.

Joftus (do you misspell on purpose?) never was upfront about anything. It's a fun lie, but it's a lie. Just like his wife said that MCPS had evaluated the program and it had shown results. That never happened either. They are a good team.

Waste of MCPS education dollars is of no significance to parents who don't want teachers in classrooms. For parents that do want teachers in classrooms spending MCPS money on private programs with no benefits and no accountability is a problem. Sort of like having the MCPS transportation department embezzle millions for over 5 years. Stealing from students, is that the new MCPS brand?

He said he had this conflict up front and recused himself from the vote. Not sure you can be more upfront than that.

You mean after his conflict was exposed in the media, after he was already on the board. How could he have been more upfront? He could have disclosed it before he was appointed to the Board of Education. He didn't do that and never did it until the media exposed him.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the first year I may consider supporting the Apple Ballot. The Apple Ballot is a list of who the teacher union supports and this time they are not endorsing any incumbents.

The BOE did a horrible job keeping schools closed for 18 months for most students, there’s been a lack of resources at the school level to address the pandemic learning loss, there’s been no plan to address the shortages for in school and substitute positions, and the BOE gave a contract to a Superintendent that had two votes of no confidence by the union members underneath her.

One quick note, while we're discussing incumbents and pandemic - Scott Joftus was appointed to the BoE in December, to fill the seat vacated by Patricia O'Neill's passing. So while he is technically an incumbent he does not bear any responsibility for the Board's handling of the first 18 months of pandemic. I'd urge people to keep this in mind before chucking him out with the rest of the incumbents.

For those who aren't aware of Joftus's background, he has a very different profile / background than the average BoE member and is in my view much more qualified:
https://joftus4boe.com/about/

Did he support McKnight? Because she's just awful and I can't see why they spent so much money looking for people for the job and ended up with her. ugh

Joftus is perfect for the BOE because he and his wife have readymade lies to spew while they suck money away from MCPS. Classic is claiming that you have been evaluated every year when you've never been evaluated and MCPS only took a head count for two years.

https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2022/11/fact-check-mocoboe-spouse-says-kid.html

To be honest, with all the drama about Joftus and his family with KID Museum, I personally do not think he would be a good choice for BOE.

To be honest if the parents coalition is trying to sink him that’s a point in his favor.

Have to agree. Will probably vote for him just because those nuts are against him.

Great news for fraud, waste and abuse of MCPS Operating Budget! Many, many vendors ready to siphon off MCPS $$$ thank you! Especially the vendors that are embezzling cash like the diesel bus company in Annapolis. You've made their world a happier place.

You mean imaginary fraud since nothing like that happened and no charges have been filed. Just in the minds of a few unhinged right-wing nutjobs.

You sing it sister! Yeah! Right-wing, nutjobs! Yeah. I always spend $1M on bocce ball for disabled kids at MCPS... and loved the $4M discrimination training... I just can't get enough of (I lost count - was it $4M covid money, and $1,632,632, $94,434 on 8/25/20, then another $2.37M On 9/9/22 - so it's 7-8M?) Kid Museum... I totally believe Leader in Me is worth 1.8M... yup...

And the best part was it all was mostly Federal Covid grant money to keep the kids and teachers safe!

It would be great if the leader in me empowered a child to lead a bocce club field trip to the kid's museum.

Exactly Jofus recused himself from this and had been upfront about his conflict. There was nothing to this. Not sure why the same poster has their panties in a bunch over this since it was of no signfiicance.

Joftus (do you misspell on purpose?) never was upfront about anything. It's a fun lie, but it's a lie. Just like his wife said that MCPS had evaluated the program and it had shown results. That never happened either. They are a good team.

Waste of MCPS education dollars is of no significance to parents who don't want teachers in classrooms. For parents that do want teachers in classrooms spending MCPS money on private programs with no benefits and no accountability is a problem. Sort of like having the MCPS transportation department embezzle millions for over 5 years. Stealing from students, is that the new MCPS brand?

It's all McKnights fault! I blame her for all of this even though she's only been in power for a few months and these decisions were made long ago. It's still her fault. We should demand they stop spending money on these things like field trips, sports for the disabled, or student emotional well being! I just want things that benefit my kids and couldn't care less about all this stuff.

Your only a few months is getting old. McKnight's been around for years and these votes were all taken when she was in charge. What you meant to say is you only want stuff that benefits your wife, none of this is about benefiting students.