Does Scott Joftus deserve a full term?

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Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Does anyone know how many full time staff are employed? The range of the salary?

Of course not. It's a private company. Funded with public dollars, but you don't get to know anything how the money is spent and there's no audit. Have fun guessing.

It's a 501c3. They file publicly.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/454070908/download990pdf_03_2022_prefixes_43-47%2F454070908_202006_990_2022032319804564

Joftus' wife got $64K in salary in 2020 (latest year I could find) to run the place. That's less than a moderately qualified teacher in MCPS gets.

And she should be paid out of MCPS Operating Budget funds INSTEAD of a teacher in a MCPS classroom because why?

MCPS pays Kid Museum for services rendered. They're a vendor.

What services? Vendor of what? Looking forward to your posting of the contract, invoices and payments.

https://news.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/staff-bulletin/all-in-kid-museum-partnership-help-prepare-our-students-for-their-futures/

That's a PR piece.
Now post the Contract.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Pretty much everyone was aware once he got the job. You’re cute but you’re not helping by simply not voting people in because status quo.

Pretty much everyone? Who? After he was appointed, but not before he was appointed? Why didn't he disclose the conflict of interest in his application?

He did disclose it in his application to be on the board, and he verbally mentioned it in his interview, both of which were publicly available. He has recused himself from all votes relating to Kid Museum.

Why would you lie about this when it is so easily fact checked.

Here's Scott Joftus' application to be on the Board of Education. There is no mention of his wife or her company.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/C8LLTQ57A2D3/$file/Joftus%2C%20Scott.pdf

There is no public record of Joftus' interview. The public wasn't able to watch that interview. Explain again how there was "public" vetting of this secret?

Tue, November 30 10:00 AM District 3 Candidate Interviews
List of Interviewees
*Meeting not televised

Yes, the public was able to watch the interview, because I, a member of the public, watched all of them. Perhaps the links aren't up anymore, but at the time of the interviews last fall, they were made public.

There were never any links. They weren't public. There was only limited seating in the room and that filled and there was no other access.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdU08EUmGi1KyJHhQR_2k91s-swJ7d071RJ8-wAwxM9hh5KwQ/closedform

Wrong. I watched them from my laptop.

In your imagination. Where's the link you supposedly watched?

Found it: it's still posted on the MCPS live meetings page archive, under Special Programs, 2021:

https://mcpsmd.new.swagit.com/videos/148980

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Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Pretty much everyone was aware once he got the job. You’re cute but you’re not helping by simply not voting people in because status quo.

Pretty much everyone? Who? After he was appointed, but not before he was appointed? Why didn't he disclose the conflict of interest in his application?

He did disclose it in his application to be on the board, and he verbally mentioned it in his interview, both of which were publicly available. He has recused himself from all votes relating to Kid Museum.

Why would you lie about this when it is so easily fact checked.

Here's Scott Joftus' application to be on the Board of Education. There is no mention of his wife or her company.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/C8LLTQ57A2D3/$file/Joftus%2C%20Scott.pdf

There is no public record of Joftus' interview. The public wasn't able to watch that interview. Explain again how there was "public" vetting of this secret?

Tue, November 30 10:00 AM District 3 Candidate Interviews
List of Interviewees
*Meeting not televised

Yes, the public was able to watch the interview, because I, a member of the public, watched all of them. Perhaps the links aren't up anymore, but at the time of the interviews last fall, they were made public.

There were never any links. They weren't public. There was only limited seating in the room and that filled and there was no other access.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdU08EUmGi1KyJHhQR_2k91s-swJ7d071RJ8-wAwxM9hh5KwQ/closedform

Wrong. I watched them from my laptop.

In your imagination. Where's the link you supposedly watched?

Found it: it's still posted on the MCPS live meetings page archive, under Special Programs, 2021:

https://mcpsmd.new.swagit.com/videos/148980

You mean you posted it. The BOE calendar was clear. The meeting wasn't televised.

Tue, November 30 10:00 AM District 3 Candidate Interviews
List of Interviewees
*Meeting not televised

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Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Does anyone know how many full time staff are employed? The range of the salary?

Of course not. It's a private company. Funded with public dollars, but you don't get to know anything how the money is spent and there's no audit. Have fun guessing.

It's a 501c3. They file publicly.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/454070908/download990pdf_03_2022_prefixes_43-47%2F454070908_202006_990_2022032319804564

Joftus' wife got $64K in salary in 2020 (latest year I could find) to run the place. That's less than a moderately qualified teacher in MCPS gets.

And she should be paid out of MCPS Operating Budget funds INSTEAD of a teacher in a MCPS classroom because why?

MCPS pays Kid Museum for services rendered. They're a vendor.

What services? Vendor of what? Looking forward to your posting of the contract, invoices and payments.

https://news.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/staff-bulletin/all-in-kid-museum-partnership-help-prepare-our-students-for-their-futures/

That's a PR piece.
Now post the Contract.

It's a contract for STEM Programs

http://procurement.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/Home/Award_Record/544

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Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Pretty much everyone was aware once he got the job. You’re cute but you’re not helping by simply not voting people in because status quo.

Pretty much everyone? Who? After he was appointed, but not before he was appointed? Why didn't he disclose the conflict of interest in his application?

He did disclose it in his application to be on the board, and he verbally mentioned it in his interview, both of which were publicly available. He has recused himself from all votes relating to Kid Museum.

Why would you lie about this when it is so easily fact checked.

Here's Scott Joftus' application to be on the Board of Education. There is no mention of his wife or her company.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/C8LLTQ57A2D3/$file/Joftus%2C%20Scott.pdf

There is no public record of Joftus' interview. The public wasn't able to watch that interview. Explain again how there was "public" vetting of this secret?

Tue, November 30 10:00 AM District 3 Candidate Interviews
List of Interviewees
*Meeting not televised

Yes, the public was able to watch the interview, because I, a member of the public, watched all of them. Perhaps the links aren't up anymore, but at the time of the interviews last fall, they were made public.

There were never any links. They weren't public. There was only limited seating in the room and that filled and there was no other access.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdU08EUmGi1KyJHhQR_2k91s-swJ7d071RJ8-wAwxM9hh5KwQ/closedform

Wrong. I watched them from my laptop.

In your imagination. Where's the link you supposedly watched?

Found it: it's still posted on the MCPS live meetings page archive, under Special Programs, 2021:

https://mcpsmd.new.swagit.com/videos/148980

You mean you posted it. The BOE calendar was clear. The meeting wasn't televised.

Tue, November 30 10:00 AM District 3 Candidate Interviews
List of Interviewees
*Meeting not televised

I do not work for MCPS. I am just a parent who watched the meeting that was linked to their web site last year, and guess what, it still is. Maybe it wasn't televised live on MCPSTV, but the recording was linked to that page that day or the next, because I watched it then.

At any rate, I encourage everyone to watch the interviews with Scott Joftus and Julie Yang, as it's a great opportunity to hear both of their responses to the board's questions.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Does anyone know how many full time staff are employed? The range of the salary?

Of course not. It's a private company. Funded with public dollars, but you don't get to know anything how the money is spent and there's no audit. Have fun guessing.

It's a 501c3. They file publicly.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/454070908/download990pdf_03_2022_prefixes_43-47%2F454070908_202006_990_2022032319804564

Joftus' wife got $64K in salary in 2020 (latest year I could find) to run the place. That's less than a moderately qualified teacher in MCPS gets.

And she should be paid out of MCPS Operating Budget funds INSTEAD of a teacher in a MCPS classroom because why?

MCPS pays Kid Museum for services rendered. They're a vendor.

What services? Vendor of what? Looking forward to your posting of the contract, invoices and payments.

https://news.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/staff-bulletin/all-in-kid-museum-partnership-help-prepare-our-students-for-their-futures/

That's a PR piece.
Now post the Contract.

It's a contract for STEM Programs

http://procurement.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/Home/Award_Record/544

That was last year and that contract already expired. Now find the new contract that is being approved tomorrow.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Pretty much everyone was aware once he got the job. You’re cute but you’re not helping by simply not voting people in because status quo.

Pretty much everyone? Who? After he was appointed, but not before he was appointed? Why didn't he disclose the conflict of interest in his application?

He did disclose it in his application to be on the board, and he verbally mentioned it in his interview, both of which were publicly available. He has recused himself from all votes relating to Kid Museum.

Why would you lie about this when it is so easily fact checked.

Here's Scott Joftus' application to be on the Board of Education. There is no mention of his wife or her company.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/C8LLTQ57A2D3/$file/Joftus%2C%20Scott.pdf

There is no public record of Joftus' interview. The public wasn't able to watch that interview. Explain again how there was "public" vetting of this secret?

Tue, November 30 10:00 AM District 3 Candidate Interviews
List of Interviewees
*Meeting not televised

Yes, the public was able to watch the interview, because I, a member of the public, watched all of them. Perhaps the links aren't up anymore, but at the time of the interviews last fall, they were made public.

There were never any links. They weren't public. There was only limited seating in the room and that filled and there was no other access.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdU08EUmGi1KyJHhQR_2k91s-swJ7d071RJ8-wAwxM9hh5KwQ/closedform

Wrong. I watched them from my laptop.

In your imagination. Where's the link you supposedly watched?

Found it: it's still posted on the MCPS live meetings page archive, under Special Programs, 2021:

https://mcpsmd.new.swagit.com/videos/148980

You mean you posted it. The BOE calendar was clear. The meeting wasn't televised.

Tue, November 30 10:00 AM District 3 Candidate Interviews
List of Interviewees
*Meeting not televised

I do not work for MCPS. I am just a parent who watched the meeting that was linked to their web site last year, and guess what, it still is. Maybe it wasn't televised live on MCPSTV, but the recording was linked to that page that day or the next, because I watched it then.

At any rate, I encourage everyone to watch the interviews with Scott Joftus and Julie Yang, as it's a great opportunity to hear both of their responses to the board's questions.

If you don't believe me, you can even find the archived page from Dec. 1, 2021 on the Internet Archive, and the Nov. 30th meeting was already linked there:

https://web.archive.org/web/20211201225400/https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/boe/meetings/live.aspx

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Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Pretty much everyone was aware once he got the job. You’re cute but you’re not helping by simply not voting people in because status quo.

Pretty much everyone? Who? After he was appointed, but not before he was appointed? Why didn't he disclose the conflict of interest in his application?

He did disclose it in his application to be on the board, and he verbally mentioned it in his interview, both of which were publicly available. He has recused himself from all votes relating to Kid Museum.

Why would you lie about this when it is so easily fact checked.

Here's Scott Joftus' application to be on the Board of Education. There is no mention of his wife or her company.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/C8LLTQ57A2D3/$file/Joftus%2C%20Scott.pdf

There is no public record of Joftus' interview. The public wasn't able to watch that interview. Explain again how there was "public" vetting of this secret?

Tue, November 30 10:00 AM District 3 Candidate Interviews
List of Interviewees
*Meeting not televised

Yes, the public was able to watch the interview, because I, a member of the public, watched all of them. Perhaps the links aren't up anymore, but at the time of the interviews last fall, they were made public.

There were never any links. They weren't public. There was only limited seating in the room and that filled and there was no other access.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdU08EUmGi1KyJHhQR_2k91s-swJ7d071RJ8-wAwxM9hh5KwQ/closedform

Wrong. I watched them from my laptop.

In your imagination. Where's the link you supposedly watched?

Found it: it's still posted on the MCPS live meetings page archive, under Special Programs, 2021:

https://mcpsmd.new.swagit.com/videos/148980

You mean you posted it. The BOE calendar was clear. The meeting wasn't televised.

Tue, November 30 10:00 AM District 3 Candidate Interviews
List of Interviewees
*Meeting not televised

I do not work for MCPS. I am just a parent who watched the meeting that was linked to their web site last year, and guess what, it still is. Maybe it wasn't televised live on MCPSTV, but the recording was linked to that page that day or the next, because I watched it then.

At any rate, I encourage everyone to watch the interviews with Scott Joftus and Julie Yang, as it's a great opportunity to hear both of their responses to the board's questions.

Right. The BOE didn't link to it, even said there was no recording, but you found the link. Why do you think Board of Education members and staff couldn't find the link to post it to their calendar? Maybe you should work for them and help them out.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Does anyone know how many full time staff are employed? The range of the salary?

Of course not. It's a private company. Funded with public dollars, but you don't get to know anything how the money is spent and there's no audit. Have fun guessing.

It's a 501c3. They file publicly.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/454070908/download990pdf_03_2022_prefixes_43-47%2F454070908_202006_990_2022032319804564

Joftus' wife got $64K in salary in 2020 (latest year I could find) to run the place. That's less than a moderately qualified teacher in MCPS gets.

And she should be paid out of MCPS Operating Budget funds INSTEAD of a teacher in a MCPS classroom because why?

MCPS pays Kid Museum for services rendered. They're a vendor.

What services? Vendor of what? Looking forward to your posting of the contract, invoices and payments.

https://news.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/staff-bulletin/all-in-kid-museum-partnership-help-prepare-our-students-for-their-futures/

According to this piece more than 1,650 students would have engaged with the organization in that school year. That is 1 percent of the student population of mcps. If you divide the investment (in the millions) by 1,650, it’s a huge fee per student and hard to justify when the other 158,000 students have no engagement or benefit.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Does anyone know how many full time staff are employed? The range of the salary?

Of course not. It's a private company. Funded with public dollars, but you don't get to know anything how the money is spent and there's no audit. Have fun guessing.

It's a 501c3. They file publicly.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/454070908/download990pdf_03_2022_prefixes_43-47%2F454070908_202006_990_2022032319804564

Joftus' wife got $64K in salary in 2020 (latest year I could find) to run the place. That's less than a moderately qualified teacher in MCPS gets.

And she should be paid out of MCPS Operating Budget funds INSTEAD of a teacher in a MCPS classroom because why?

MCPS pays Kid Museum for services rendered. They're a vendor.

What services? Vendor of what? Looking forward to your posting of the contract, invoices and payments.

https://news.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/staff-bulletin/all-in-kid-museum-partnership-help-prepare-our-students-for-their-futures/

According to this piece more than 1,650 students would have engaged with the organization in that school year. That is 1 percent of the student population of mcps. If you divide the investment (in the millions) by 1,650, it’s a huge fee per student and hard to justify when the other 158,000 students have no engagement or benefit.

This video says it was up to 7,500 students in 2021.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Does anyone know how many full time staff are employed? The range of the salary?

Of course not. It's a private company. Funded with public dollars, but you don't get to know anything how the money is spent and there's no audit. Have fun guessing.

It's a 501c3. They file publicly.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/454070908/download990pdf_03_2022_prefixes_43-47%2F454070908_202006_990_2022032319804564

Joftus' wife got $64K in salary in 2020 (latest year I could find) to run the place. That's less than a moderately qualified teacher in MCPS gets.

And she should be paid out of MCPS Operating Budget funds INSTEAD of a teacher in a MCPS classroom because why?

MCPS pays Kid Museum for services rendered. They're a vendor.

What services? Vendor of what? Looking forward to your posting of the contract, invoices and payments.

https://news.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/staff-bulletin/all-in-kid-museum-partnership-help-prepare-our-students-for-their-futures/

According to this piece more than 1,650 students would have engaged with the organization in that school year. That is 1 percent of the student population of mcps. If you divide the investment (in the millions) by 1,650, it’s a huge fee per student and hard to justify when the other 158,000 students have no engagement or benefit.

This video says it was up to 7,500 students in 2021.

$756 per student. That's a reasonable fee for a field trip.

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We so love the children's museum! So fun that they're doing this!

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Anonymous wrote:We so love the children's museum! So fun that they're doing this!

Doing what? What are they doing and why do you prefer to take your child to Bethesda instead of having a science teacher in your school?

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Anonymous wrote:Opinion: Why MCPS and the teachers union need to improve their relationship By Scott Joftus.

I dont remember any BOE member has voiced their own opinion publicly about the relationship between MCPS and the Teachers union. Does he speak for BOE?

Why wouldn't he?

Exactly!

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Anonymous wrote:Opinion: Why MCPS and the teachers union need to improve their relationship By Scott Joftus.

I dont remember any BOE member has voiced their own opinion publicly about the relationship between MCPS and the Teachers union. Does he speak for BOE?

Why wouldn't he?

Exactly!

I think his opponent starts these thrads.