Anybody know anything about Omar Lazo? Teachers' union pick for BOE At Large seat
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Anonymous
Are you trying to say having kids in a predominantly Latino school is somehow a bad thing? |
Anonymous
DP. I'm guessing that the PP was saying in a roundabout way that Lazo is going to toe the MCPS/MoCo establishment line. That that will offer us nothing new vs. the current BOE policies/MCPS plans which consistently have failed to address student need, except on the broad, facile bases on which they routinely rely for justification. And that that will continue the have/have-not and high-/low-expectation dichotomies among schools, disadvantaging those lower-income MoCo communities in which Latinx, currently, are disproportionately situated. |
Anonymous
Neither Chase nor Diaz, the two challengers to Lazo, reside in a W-school area. Maybe you are mis-projecting from the candidates for the District 3 seat, where they have to reside in that district, mostly a W-school area? |
Anonymous
No one should vote for Diaz in any district, period. She's is horrifyingly bad. |
Anonymous
Yup. Primary voters can vote for one candidate in each seat's race. The top two for each seat advance to the general election ballot in November. MoCo BOE positions are split, with three contested in one cycle and four the next cycle (2 years latee). The current seats up for election are District 1: Grace Rivera-Oven running unopposed for reelection District 5: Elma-Lorraine Diggs running unopposed for the seat currently occupied by Brenda Wolff District 3: Cassandra Sung, Sally McCarthy, Andrew Frykman, Bret DiResta & Sharon Creed running -- top 2 advance to November's general At-large: Omar Lazo, Brenda Diaz & Wylea Chase running -- top 2 advance to November's general In MoCo, districted seats for BOE mean only that the candidates must reside within the particular district -- any voter throughout the county may vote for them, however, making their representation/constituency effectively at large. This is different from races for County Council districted seats, where only voters from that district get to cast ballots. Designated as non-partisan (in name only, really), any MoCo voter (not just registered Ds or Rs) can cast a ballot for the BOE seats in this primary. Of course, primary turnout is lower, typically, than the general, and is dominated by those with party affiliation, who go to the primary polls (or mail in a ballot) with much greater likelihood than unaffiliated voters, as they are drawn by the up-ticket races, like those County Council seats or the one for County Executive. |
Anonymous
Are you ok? You need to check yourself. 1) I, as an anonymous poster on DCUM, don't owe you, also an anonymous poster on DCUM, my free labor to do candidate research. I don't work for Lazo's campaign or any of his opponents. I'm just an eligible voter. If you want to use your free time to review Omar's comments from all his public forums and interviews, have at it. I'm not doing that for you. 2) This thread is about Omar and his candidacy. Not about other opponents. You don't get to deflect candidates about his candidacy and campaign by asking what other candidates have done. Feel free to start a thread about those candidates and we can ask those questions there. |
Anonymous
We get it. You don't like her politics, you think her qualifications are suspect, you consider her decisions as a parent and teacher as wrong, and you question both her judgment and motivation. You've posted the same thing, over and over, going back two years to her earlier primary run. However, you say it in such a shrill and one-sided way, and with so little equivalent critical evaluation of others, that it calls into question the validity of your expressed opinion. |
Anonymous
it is so, so, sad that no one is challenging Rivera-Oven. She is TERRIBLE. |
Anonymous
I agree. I hate that both Grace and Elma-Lorraine's seats are going uncontested. But then again, I can't blame smart, intelligent and capable people for not choosing to run for the board given how it's currently set up. |
Anonymous
You made a claim. You can defend it or not, but don't be upset when people ask you to defend your claim. I haven't gotten any indication from what I have read about Lazo that he is exclusively focused on the Latino community. You're claim that because he has advocated for Latinos he doesn't care about other groups is personally offensive to me. |
Anonymous
Because his Latino kids go to school with lots of other Latino kids? That is an Fed up and nonsensical way to argue what you claim the PP is arguing. MCPS is not going downhill because it cares too much about Latinos lol... |
Anonymous
That’s your take. No, I’m saying those of us at these schools need better representation. |
Anonymous
The heavy Latino schools get far less. |
Anonymous
Not at all what I was suggesting might be the message. MCPS makes decisions that end up reinforcing the social status quo while paying lip service to broader definitions of equity which might upset that status quo. In the light of a student's academic need, they set up an environment of low expectations, and parallel lower-ceilinged academic delivery, wherever there is not a large proportion of families either pushing with significant academic supports outside of those provided by the school system or setting kids' expectations based on their own high academic achievement. Those large proportions at the local school level correlate closely with areas of higher wealth. Whether the individual student has capability or motivation to achieve matters little in this paradigm -- MCPS simply fails to provide equivalent opportunity. If characterization of Mr. Lazo as an insider is correct, he, like many insiders, political or school-based, may have been able to better ensure access to programs more aligned with the needs of his own kids, but he might not rock the boat to ensure that for others. With the above-described MCPS setup, that positioning might continue to leave. those in lower-wealth areas, which currently have higher Latinx representation in their schools, without equivalent access to the opportunites afforded more readily to those in higher-wealth (and lower underrepresented minority) areas of the county. That poster might chime in with their own clarification of their "If you knew him" claim. |
Anonymous
I feel like I have urged you before to take a writing class. Please consider it. Your writing is literally painful to read. |