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BOE - who are people voting for?
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Anonymous
Did he throw his name in the race to shake up a group of mostly women candidates?Doesn't seem like he wants the job. |
Anonymous
I think a lot of candidates are running to make a point and aren't serious about wanting the job, so he's not the only one. |
Anonymous
I don't know. I don't think he's a spoiler candidate - I think he's a person who is frustrated with MCPS because he ended up moving his child from MCPS to a private special education school. I would actually welcome a member with experience navigating the special ed/IEP system within MCPS, but he has to actually turn up and tell his story to get votes. |
Anonymous
Trying to widen the umbrella? |
Anonymous
DP, but in the same boat as PP. I've been disappointed with Harris because I expected much greater circumspection (MCPS so very much needs bright lights shown on the items they gloss over/cover from view), and because she has focused on the fringier (if still very valid) agenda items more than the centrally important ones. However, I can't tell if that is because the makeup of the rest of the board, and its led-by-the-nose tendency, makes the latter particularly difficult. So, I'm considering Montoya if she continues to show that she would be able to focus on those areas that would bring proper oversight with a move towards academic excellence -- ensuring equitable opportunity along with that -- far more than on the side shows. Certainly, her campaign positions indicate that. Personally, though I've gotten a good rec on Kim from a DC parent, I'm concerned about her coming from a CO establishment. She could have great insight, there, but also could have a tendency to sympathize with CO. At the same time, I've seen her dive into things as though she knows it already, shutting out other voices missing important considerations. Given that, I'd need a much clearer statement from her as to her priorities (to ensure she wouldn't be aiming in the wrong direction for me) and a commitment to a shine-a-light/dig deep oversight approach. Her espousal of a return to higher academic achievement could mean an approach that provides differential resources to see all students provided reasonably equivalent opportunities at a high level, but it could also mean an approach that merely ensures that schools are resourced based on perception of community demand, where the result may be a considerably different experience for students at, say, the Pyles and Whitmans than for similar students elsewhere. Not familiar enough with Long, either, but, while I agree with his position about IEP red tape and under-resourcing, I'm concerned that this is and would be his dominant focus, and, again, I want attention to much more than that. I'd appreciate others' insights, as well, understanding that their priorities might be different from mine, and that shared thoughts might lead to a shift in preference. |
Anonymous
I was considering voting for her and now that I know this information, I will not. |
Anonymous
🙄 how brave of you |
Anonymous
Please clarify, were you going to vote for her because she is a white woman, to try to get one on a BOE that is not predominantly white? |
Anonymous
Don’t need your permission. |
Anonymous
No need to get clarification from you that you are a racist. |
Anonymous
Sounds like the Apple ballot is dead on as usual. |
Anonymous
Sounds like dead wrong. |
Anonymous
| We need to bring back academic excellence for ALL. Bring back free tutoring. Make programs accessible to students who want them even if their home school doesn't offer it. Can we also bring back safety in schools? I don't know if it means bringing back SROs or bringing back repercussions that actually WORK, but we need it back. Which of these candidates want these things? |
Anonymous
Also interested in these two things primarily and would appreciate any summary people are interested in providing. |
Anonymous
The only candidate who talked about this at the LWV forum was Harris. |