School board - who to vote for

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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.

No I mean he stated it publicly and clearly before even joining the council, but sure in your imaginary world I'm guessing many facts don't line up with reality.

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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.

I'm on your side! The sky is falling! Society is in an unstoppable death spiral! McKnight is to blame for everything even global warming.

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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.

No I mean he stated it publicly and clearly before even joining the council, but sure in your imaginary world I'm guessing many facts don't line up with reality.

He's not on the council. He is on the Board of Education and he never stated it before he was appointed. He didn't state it clearly or publicly. He didn't state it at all and he's not on the council. Enjoy your imaginary world!

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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.

No I mean he stated it publicly and clearly before even joining the council, but sure in your imaginary world I'm guessing many facts don't line up with reality.

He's not on the council. He is on the Board of Education and he never stated it before he was appointed. He didn't state it clearly or publicly. He didn't state it at all and he's not on the council. Enjoy your imaginary world!

DP. In his interview before he was appointed, he told the board who he was married to. They knew who his wife is, because they had already had been working with Kid Museum for several years prior. After he was selected he went through the required conflict of interest vetting and passed with the condition that he recuse himself from votes relating to Kid Museum. Which he has.

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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

Yang is out there day in and day out. That's why she got 60% of the vote in the primaries, with two opponents. Unless Joftus swing voters from Yang to him, he's toast.

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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.

No I mean he stated it publicly and clearly before even joining the council, but sure in your imaginary world I'm guessing many facts don't line up with reality.

He's not on the council. He is on the Board of Education and he never stated it before he was appointed. He didn't state it clearly or publicly. He didn't state it at all and he's not on the council. Enjoy your imaginary world!

DP. In his interview before he was appointed, he told the board who he was married to. They knew who his wife is, because they had already had been working with Kid Museum for several years prior. After he was selected he went through the required conflict of interest vetting and passed with the condition that he recuse himself from votes relating to Kid Museum. Which he has.

So you agree. He never disclosed his conflict of interest before he was appointed. He kept that a secret until he was on the Board.

If Yang keeps her margin, he's gone after Tuesday.

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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.

No I mean he stated it publicly and clearly before even joining the council, but sure in your imaginary world I'm guessing many facts don't line up with reality.

He's not on the council. He is on the Board of Education and he never stated it before he was appointed. He didn't state it clearly or publicly. He didn't state it at all and he's not on the council. Enjoy your imaginary world!

DP. In his interview before he was appointed, he told the board who he was married to. They knew who his wife is, because they had already had been working with Kid Museum for several years prior. After he was selected he went through the required conflict of interest vetting and passed with the condition that he recuse himself from votes relating to Kid Museum. Which he has.

So you agree. He never disclosed his conflict of interest before he was appointed. He kept that a secret until he was on the Board.

If Yang keeps her margin, he's gone after Tuesday.

What secret? He told them. They knew. He was vetted. He passed. He complied.

I agree it's likely Yang will win. And she'll probably be fine. But your anti-Joftus tirades are ridiculous.

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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.

No I mean he stated it publicly and clearly before even joining the council, but sure in your imaginary world I'm guessing many facts don't line up with reality.

He's not on the council. He is on the Board of Education and he never stated it before he was appointed. He didn't state it clearly or publicly. He didn't state it at all and he's not on the council. Enjoy your imaginary world!

He stated it clearly. I remember reading this, and "Jofus" even recused himself from any decisions regarding the Kid's Museum. If even a fraction of what you are claiming had any truth to it, charges would;ve been filed, but since it's all made up nonsense they haven't

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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.

No I mean he stated it publicly and clearly before even joining the council, but sure in your imaginary world I'm guessing many facts don't line up with reality.

He's not on the council. He is on the Board of Education and he never stated it before he was appointed. He didn't state it clearly or publicly. He didn't state it at all and he's not on the council. Enjoy your imaginary world!

DP. In his interview before he was appointed, he told the board who he was married to. They knew who his wife is, because they had already had been working with Kid Museum for several years prior. After he was selected he went through the required conflict of interest vetting and passed with the condition that he recuse himself from votes relating to Kid Museum. Which he has.

So you agree. He never disclosed his conflict of interest before he was appointed. He kept that a secret until he was on the Board.

If Yang keeps her margin, he's gone after Tuesday.

What secret? He told them. They knew. He was vetted. He passed. He complied.

I agree it's likely Yang will win. And she'll probably be fine. But your anti-Joftus tirades are ridiculous.

Completely agree. I voted for Yang too, but it wasn't because of these wild conspiracies. it was because I liked her better.

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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.

No I mean he stated it publicly and clearly before even joining the council, but sure in your imaginary world I'm guessing many facts don't line up with reality.

He's not on the council. He is on the Board of Education and he never stated it before he was appointed. He didn't state it clearly or publicly. He didn't state it at all and he's not on the council. Enjoy your imaginary world!

DP. In his interview before he was appointed, he told the board who he was married to. They knew who his wife is, because they had already had been working with Kid Museum for several years prior. After he was selected he went through the required conflict of interest vetting and passed with the condition that he recuse himself from votes relating to Kid Museum. Which he has.

So you agree. He never disclosed his conflict of interest before he was appointed. He kept that a secret until he was on the Board.

If Yang keeps her margin, he's gone after Tuesday.

Man you have serious reading comp problems. The PP said the exact opposite.

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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.

No I mean he stated it publicly and clearly before even joining the council, but sure in your imaginary world I'm guessing many facts don't line up with reality.

He's not on the council. He is on the Board of Education and he never stated it before he was appointed. He didn't state it clearly or publicly. He didn't state it at all and he's not on the council. Enjoy your imaginary world!

DP. In his interview before he was appointed, he told the board who he was married to. They knew who his wife is, because they had already had been working with Kid Museum for several years prior. After he was selected he went through the required conflict of interest vetting and passed with the condition that he recuse himself from votes relating to Kid Museum. Which he has.

So you agree. He never disclosed his conflict of interest before he was appointed. He kept that a secret until he was on the Board.

If Yang keeps her margin, he's gone after Tuesday.

Man you have serious reading comp problems. The PP said the exact opposite.

It’s pretty clear to me after following this thread for several months that there is one deranged anti-Joftus poster (likely yang or someone closed to her) who keeps posting this stuff. It’s so clearly counterfactual that it’s really slander. I am tempted to flag this for the moderator and ask him to lock the thread, but that will probably make the poster come back on another thread even more deranged, so I hesitate.

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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.

No I mean he stated it publicly and clearly before even joining the council, but sure in your imaginary world I'm guessing many facts don't line up with reality.

He's not on the council. He is on the Board of Education and he never stated it before he was appointed. He didn't state it clearly or publicly. He didn't state it at all and he's not on the council. Enjoy your imaginary world!

DP. In his interview before he was appointed, he told the board who he was married to. They knew who his wife is, because they had already had been working with Kid Museum for several years prior. After he was selected he went through the required conflict of interest vetting and passed with the condition that he recuse himself from votes relating to Kid Museum. Which he has.

So you agree. He never disclosed his conflict of interest before he was appointed. He kept that a secret until he was on the Board.

If Yang keeps her margin, he's gone after Tuesday.

Man you have serious reading comp problems. The PP said the exact opposite.

It’s pretty clear to me after following this thread for several months that there is one deranged anti-Joftus poster (likely yang or someone closed to her) who keeps posting this stuff. It’s so clearly counterfactual that it’s really slander. I am tempted to flag this for the moderator and ask him to lock the thread, but that will probably make the poster come back on another thread even more deranged, so I hesitate.

You mean people that state the facts and some deranged Jofus family members that keep trying to cover for him. The fact is that Jofust never disclosed his conflict of interest before he was APPOINTED. Talk about reading problems, when will you get that? Once he was on the Board he was home free. Now he's running to be elected to the boe and backed by a company in NYC. Just what MCPS needs.

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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.

No I mean he stated it publicly and clearly before even joining the council, but sure in your imaginary world I'm guessing many facts don't line up with reality.

He's not on the council. He is on the Board of Education and he never stated it before he was appointed. He didn't state it clearly or publicly. He didn't state it at all and he's not on the council. Enjoy your imaginary world!

DP. In his interview before he was appointed, he told the board who he was married to. They knew who his wife is, because they had already had been working with Kid Museum for several years prior. After he was selected he went through the required conflict of interest vetting and passed with the condition that he recuse himself from votes relating to Kid Museum. Which he has.

So you agree. He never disclosed his conflict of interest before he was appointed. He kept that a secret until he was on the Board.

If Yang keeps her margin, he's gone after Tuesday.

Man you have serious reading comp problems. The PP said the exact opposite.

It’s pretty clear to me after following this thread for several months that there is one deranged anti-Joftus poster (likely yang or someone closed to her) who keeps posting this stuff. It’s so clearly counterfactual that it’s really slander. I am tempted to flag this for the moderator and ask him to lock the thread, but that will probably make the poster come back on another thread even more deranged, so I hesitate.

I know! It's funny they're the same nut that is obsessed with bocce too.

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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.

No I mean he stated it publicly and clearly before even joining the council, but sure in your imaginary world I'm guessing many facts don't line up with reality.

He's not on the council. He is on the Board of Education and he never stated it before he was appointed. He didn't state it clearly or publicly. He didn't state it at all and he's not on the council. Enjoy your imaginary world!

DP. In his interview before he was appointed, he told the board who he was married to. They knew who his wife is, because they had already had been working with Kid Museum for several years prior. After he was selected he went through the required conflict of interest vetting and passed with the condition that he recuse himself from votes relating to Kid Museum. Which he has.

So you agree. He never disclosed his conflict of interest before he was appointed. He kept that a secret until he was on the Board.

If Yang keeps her margin, he's gone after Tuesday.

Man you have serious reading comp problems. The PP said the exact opposite.

It’s pretty clear to me after following this thread for several months that there is one deranged anti-Joftus poster (likely yang or someone closed to her) who keeps posting this stuff. It’s so clearly counterfactual that it’s really slander. I am tempted to flag this for the moderator and ask him to lock the thread, but that will probably make the poster come back on another thread even more deranged, so I hesitate.

I know! It's funny they're the same nut that is obsessed with bocce too.

Yes, they seem to occupy a world of alternative facts and conspiracies that nobody can substantiate.

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Not sure if someone has posted this before, but the Post endorsement of Joftus tracks with what I've heard and observed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/19/school-board-endorsements-montgomery-prince-georges-maryland/