Goulet vs Sriqui Ward 3 Board of Education Race

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Why are kids who live in the Pallisades at Mann?

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Anonymous wrote:Why doesn’t Goulet have his kids in DCPS/DCPCS?

Probably for the same reason the council members never do.

Matt Frumin had his kids in DCPS k-12.

He lives walking distance to the highest performing schools in the city. Not exactly a risk taker.

Yeah, but you can hardly criticize him for living in Ward 3 and sending his kids to school there, then running for Ward 3 D.C. Council seat. If everyone who lives in Ward 3 sent their kids to DCPS all the way through 12th grade, that'd be great.

He is knowledgeable and would make a good At Large Rep, but he doesn’t seem to have the fire in the belly for the upcoming school redistricting fight. We need someone who is going to fight for Ward 3 and I don’t get the impression he’s up for this fight which is going to require a hard conversation about school boundaries.

What fight?

Lay it out in terms of what you want a SBOE or Ward 3 Councilmember to "fight" for.

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Anonymous wrote:Why doesn’t Goulet have his kids in DCPS/DCPCS?

Probably for the same reason the council members never do.

Matt Frumin had his kids in DCPS k-12.

He lives walking distance to the highest performing schools in the city. Not exactly a risk taker.

Yeah, but you can hardly criticize him for living in Ward 3 and sending his kids to school there, then running for Ward 3 D.C. Council seat. If everyone who lives in Ward 3 sent their kids to DCPS all the way through 12th grade, that'd be great.

Actually, it wouldn't be, because the public schools would be even more crowded.

Probably not that much more crowded, though they would be significantly whiter and wealthier, as the result would be virtually all the OOB slots would be taken by IB kids instead.

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Anonymous wrote:Why doesn’t Goulet have his kids in DCPS/DCPCS?

Probably for the same reason the council members never do.

Matt Frumin had his kids in DCPS k-12.

He lives walking distance to the highest performing schools in the city. Not exactly a risk taker.

Yeah, but you can hardly criticize him for living in Ward 3 and sending his kids to school there, then running for Ward 3 D.C. Council seat. If everyone who lives in Ward 3 sent their kids to DCPS all the way through 12th grade, that'd be great.

He is knowledgeable and would make a good At Large Rep, but he doesn’t seem to have the fire in the belly for the upcoming school redistricting fight. We need someone who is going to fight for Ward 3 and I don’t get the impression he’s up for this fight which is going to require a hard conversation about school boundaries.

What fight?

Lay it out in terms of what you want a SBOE or Ward 3 Councilmember to "fight" for.

Yeah, I don’t see this as a major issue for the W3 council member, and anyway, is there even a redistricting timeline? Or is this just all still about the GDS building?

[Anonymous]

Why can we not mention that a candidate for DC State Board of Education has his kids at a Bethesda public school and never once sent his kids to public school?

This is completely, utterly relevant and is in no way going after his family.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can we not mention that a candidate for DC State Board of Education has his kids at a Bethesda public school and never once sent his kids to public school?

This is completely, utterly relevant and is in no way going after his family.

It’s absolutely pathetic that he is even running. He knew absolutely nothing about education issues in Ward 3 when he started his primary campaign and barely anything by the time it finished. I guess he is desperately searching for something that the WaPo endorsement will help him with. The worry is that name recognition alone may win him votes from those who don’t give a damn about education issues in Ward 3. Hopefully the voters will be smarter, but I don’t have much confidence.

[Anonymous]

A certain Foxhall Village resident seems to have repurposed her anti-Tricia signs for the SBOE race, which now adorn the median of MacArthur Blvd.. Are these signs even legal?

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Anonymous wrote:A certain Foxhall Village resident seems to have repurposed her anti-Tricia signs for the SBOE race, which now adorn the median of MacArthur Blvd.. Are these signs even legal?

If you call DCBOE or OCF, they will say that you need to talk to DDOT. DDOT has no one working on signage. It's the wild west. Go get some signs made that say anything you want and put them in tree boxes.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are kids who live in the Pallisades at Mann?

Only north and west of Macomb Street. Key doesn’t have the capacity to absorb all students in Palisades.

[Anonymous]

Goulet once again hows how he is unfit for office

The false implication that these schools are endorsing his campaign is deplorable. Who of his advisors thought this would be acceptable?

[Anonymous]

For decades now, teachers unions have been an albatross around the neck of public education. They have done an awful lot to safeguard teachers' self-interest at the expense of public schools. It is beyond strange to hear so many voters speak as if being endorsed by a teachers union is a prerequisite for service on a school board.

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Anonymous wrote:Goulet once again hows how he is unfit for office

The false implication that these schools are endorsing his campaign is deplorable. Who of his advisors thought this would be acceptable?

He does this sh*t because he knows people will complain about it on Twitter and the listserves and create free publicity for his campaign. It’s the electoral equivalent of trolling.

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People who spend all their time fixated on Goulet seem rather deranged to me.

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Anonymous wrote:For decades now, teachers unions have been an albatross around the neck of public education. They have done an awful lot to safeguard teachers' self-interest at the expense of public schools. It is beyond strange to hear so many voters speak as if being endorsed by a teachers union is a prerequisite for service on a school board.

+1. It’s shocking that he would display the teachers union logo/endorsement on his website. Just as a test, try calling a child psychologist to get an appointment. You might get one a year from now. The teachers union erased 20 years of math gains and broke a generation of DC kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Goulet once again hows how he is unfit for office

The false implication that these schools are endorsing his campaign is deplorable. Who of his advisors thought this would be acceptable?

Agreed. He even knew it was shady before he did it. He asked the Office of Campaign Finance whether it was legal to display the logos before doing it. He knew something was sketchy/unethical, but chose to do it anyway because it was legal. Totally unfit for office.