Why isn’t anyone else running in District 5????

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Anonymous wrote:Valerie Coll of Silver Spring filed to run against incumbent Brenda Wolff for the District 5 seat on the Board of Education.
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/longtime-mcps-elementary-school-teacher-running-for-school-board/?fbclid=IwAR2vT-DBJ7i41w-FR6QNAbYFHXwHvlYSctu_f22ozi683ktYRoDlLer3imQ

Oh, that is verrrry interesting. I bet that MCEA endorses her instead of the incumbent.

Great. So our choices are Coll, a union shill, or Wolff who supports busing and teaching CRT principles to students. Frying pan or fire?

Why is she a union shill? She probably knows more about schools than the rest of the board put together, and 1000% more than Steve Austin, who flounced up north to Frederick.

Anyone backed by the teachers union is a union shill. They will expect her to support their positions on the BOE in exchange for their endorsement which, unfortunately, still carries a lot of weight in Montgomery County. I think most parents have woken up to the toxic nature of MCEA's effect on the schools. But most people without kids still have no idea and simply vote for whomever is on the Apple ballot.

When did the union endorse her? PP above was speculating.

My bad. I retract the shill comment and nerf it to "person with close teacher's union ties." I think my point still stands though not as tall.

I get it, but I’m willing to take a chance on her over Wolff at this point. And the fact that she has more recent experience in MCPS is a plus for me, some of the current members are out of touch.

At the very least, I'll be open minded with her. FWIW, I completely agree with her that the BOE and MCPS has not paid enough attention to elementary students for a long time. This goes back to before COVID, but their pandemic response highlighted that.

Elementary kids should have been back in Sept 2020, even if MS or HS kids had to wait longer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Brenda Wolff needs to go. Why hasn’t anyone stepped up to run for her seat?? Come on, people. She can’t just win this thing unopposed…

Really? She's the best person on the board. Why are you against her? Do you hate teachers?

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Anonymous wrote:Brenda Wolff needs to go. Why hasn’t anyone stepped up to run for her seat?? Come on, people. She can’t just win this thing unopposed…

Really? She's the best person on the board. Why are you against her? Do you hate teachers?

How so?

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Every time elections roll around, I've forgotten how voting for the school board works. For the primary, are you limited to voting for your district and the at large candidates? But then all district in the general?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Brenda Wolff needs to go. Why hasn’t anyone stepped up to run for her seat?? Come on, people. She can’t just win this thing unopposed…

Really? She's the best person on the board. Why are you against her? Do you hate teachers?

Gimme a break. People are excited to learn more about the ES teacher that's running against her. It's a pretty big stretch to accuse us of hating teachers when the person we're likely to vote for is LITERALLY a teacher.

I can't stand her because :

- her priorities seem wrong (urgent emergency meeting to give central an extra week, but keeping the meeting schedule after CDC changed guidance)
- Aloof attitude towards learning loss ("I don't see what the big deal is losing a few instructional days")
- Bullying / Unprofessional behavior (the debacle with the voting/motioning/etc)

I could continue. But I've seen enough of her that I'm going to give her opponent the benefit of the doubt and listen to her with an open mind. Her opponent would have to have some pretty crazy ideas to lose my vote

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Anonymous wrote:Every time elections roll around, I've forgotten how voting for the school board works. For the primary, are you limited to voting for your district and the at large candidates? But then all district in the general?

No, all voters can vote in all of the races, both district and at-large seats. Top two vote-getters advance to the general. Unless there are only two candidates, in which case there is no primary, only a general election in November.