Brenda Diaz

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Anonymous wrote:I will vote for her. BOE is a disaster and a different voice will be beneficial. I don’t care if she's MAGA or not. This is not about the orange guy but about a bunch of lunatics destroying mcps and being voted again and again.

mmm'k. Diaz isn't going to fix this though. Sometimes people are so divisive that no one will work with or take them seriously. This is Diaz's problem; she lost credibility as being able to be anything other than a MAGA crazycat and no one on the board, current or future, will want to be seen working with her.

It's more than that. Diaz has zero ideas that are not ultra RW ignorance.

She can barely form sentences that are coherent. Her social media: omg, a photo of Tulsi Gabbard shooting up with an assault rifle something while posting "a role model for American women".

She will never show up for work. She didn't in any of her tenures at MCPS.

If this were an actual requirement of BOE members, Laura Stewart would have had to resign long ago.

THIS

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So who are we voting for instead?

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For at-large: Wylea Chase. Or Omar Lazo. We can then have months to sort out who’s best amongst the two

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Anonymous wrote:For at-large: Wylea Chase. Or Omar Lazo. We can then have months to sort out who’s best amongst the two

+1

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Anonymous wrote:For at-large: Wylea Chase. Or Omar Lazo. We can then have months to sort out who’s best amongst the two

What, sort out who between those two would do less for us? Neither would be doing anything to change from our current rubber stamp BOE.

Might as well have an alternative in November with Diaz, even if that would only represent one of seven on the board. And if all this negativity posted here bears out, it would be very easy to vote then for whichever of Chase or Lazo also advance to that ballot if we decide that no change is a better thing.

It's not like we are getting anything new from Rivera-Oven and Diggs, unopposed for those seats.

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Anonymous wrote:For at-large: Wylea Chase. Or Omar Lazo. We can then have months to sort out who’s best amongst the two

What, sort out who between those two would do less for us? Neither would be doing anything to change from our current rubber stamp BOE.

Might as well have an alternative in November with Diaz, even if that would only represent one of seven on the board. And if all this negativity posted here bears out, it would be very easy to vote then for whichever of Chase or Lazo also advance to that ballot if we decide that no change is a better thing.

It's not like we are getting anything new from Rivera-Oven and Diggs, unopposed for those seats.

What exactly do you think Brenda would do for any student in MCPS? Ban books?

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Anonymous wrote:For at-large: Wylea Chase. Or Omar Lazo. We can then have months to sort out who’s best amongst the two

What, sort out who between those two would do less for us? Neither would be doing anything to change from our current rubber stamp BOE.

Might as well have an alternative in November with Diaz, even if that would only represent one of seven on the board. And if all this negativity posted here bears out, it would be very easy to vote then for whichever of Chase or Lazo also advance to that ballot if we decide that no change is a better thing.

It's not like we are getting anything new from Rivera-Oven and Diggs, unopposed for those seats.

What exactly do you think Brenda would do for any student in MCPS? Ban books?

Misrepresentative dog whistle, there. I'm convinced you are a one-trick pony.

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Anonymous wrote:For at-large: Wylea Chase. Or Omar Lazo. We can then have months to sort out who’s best amongst the two

PP here I went with Omar.

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Omar Lazo has been on the board at Montgomery College. Has experience with handling large budgets.

Wylea Chase is absolutely against rubber stamping everything as argued. In the debate at the Luxmanor forum, she spoke emphatically about that exact topic.

Both candidates appear to be questioning and scrutinizing MCPS. And both avoid downside risk that Diaz represents

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She's moms for liberty.

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I Just voted and not for Diaz. I hope she does not win. I also voted for no incumbents, anywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For at-large: Wylea Chase. Or Omar Lazo. We can then have months to sort out who’s best amongst the two

What, sort out who between those two would do less for us? Neither would be doing anything to change from our current rubber stamp BOE.

Might as well have an alternative in November with Diaz, even if that would only represent one of seven on the board. And if all this negativity posted here bears out, it would be very easy to vote then for whichever of Chase or Lazo also advance to that ballot if we decide that no change is a better thing.

It's not like we are getting anything new from Rivera-Oven and Diggs, unopposed for those seats.

What exactly do you think Brenda would do for any student in MCPS? Ban books?

Misrepresentative dog whistle, there. I'm convinced you are a one-trick pony.

Diaz is endorsed by racists. Diaz didn't show up for work at any of her jobs. You think she will show up? LOL, no, she will not; her history in that area is strong. Not only is Diaz a book-banning idiot, and she promotes THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION CURRICULUM, what do you possibly not understand about how utterly ignorant of her that is? She is fully anti-vax, promoting RFK Jr crap on her social media. She thinks Tulsi Gabbard is a role model for kids shooting things up, also on her social media.

Do your dam homework before coming here and supporting an incompetent fool.

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Neither Lazo nor Chase has given reliable indication that they meaningfully would move to improve academics. Comments about better engagement over boundaries have been low-hanging fruit, populist at the moment, but with no solid promises behind them.

With those two, we get only the same thing as we've gotten from MCPS for twenty-plus years, trying to stem a tide of lower average performance with band-aids that lower standards for everyone while playing hide the ball with information when they are supposed to engage with the community. Then MCPS claims that as a win for not failing as many on those low standards as might have been the case if expectations hadn't been decimated. And trumpets its hollow, performative engagements, very much to plan.

And still MCPS results have gone downhill, even against those lower standards. They have more challenging populations, now, but are unwilling to reconsider this approach that has proven a failure, just doubling down on it at every turn, with the BOE going along every single time.

Get whichever of them, Chase or Lazo, advances to have to show more backbone in getting our kids excellent educations by demanding higher standards from the school system, and then demanding the resources from the county to do that equitably. And real bite with respect to those community engagement failures.

There's no chance of that kind of thing happening if we end up with both do-nothing candidates from the establishment as the two left on the ballot in November. There is a chance if they have to face Diaz.

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Anonymous wrote:Neither Lazo nor Chase has given reliable indication that they meaningfully would move to improve academics. Comments about better engagement over boundaries have been low-hanging fruit, populist at the moment, but with no solid promises behind them.

With those two, we get only the same thing as we've gotten from MCPS for twenty-plus years, trying to stem a tide of lower average performance with band-aids that lower standards for everyone while playing hide the ball with information when they are supposed to engage with the community. Then MCPS claims that as a win for not failing as many on those low standards as might have been the case if expectations hadn't been decimated. And trumpets its hollow, performative engagements, very much to plan.

And still MCPS results have gone downhill, even against those lower standards. They have more challenging populations, now, but are unwilling to reconsider this approach that has proven a failure, just doubling down on it at every turn, with the BOE going along every single time.

Get whichever of them, Chase or Lazo, advances to have to show more backbone in getting our kids excellent educations by demanding higher standards from the school system, and then demanding the resources from the county to do that equitably. And real bite with respect to those community engagement failures.

There's no chance of that kind of thing happening if we end up with both do-nothing candidates from the establishment as the two left on the ballot in November. There is a chance if they have to face Diaz.

Good points, all.

Chase seems to have nothing concrete to say. What exactly has she accomplished in her decades of educational advocacy work (anything?) and what does she plan to do other than speak in platitudes? Unclear. Lazo seems better, but experience with community college board less relevant than experience in the trenches as an educator. Diaz seems the sharpest of the three, but I understand the concerns. Right now torn between Lazo and Diaz.

https://patch.com/maryland/rockville/boe-candidate-brenda-diaz-aims-give-mcps-parents-real-seat-table

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Anonymous wrote:Neither Lazo nor Chase has given reliable indication that they meaningfully would move to improve academics. Comments about better engagement over boundaries have been low-hanging fruit, populist at the moment, but with no solid promises behind them.

With those two, we get only the same thing as we've gotten from MCPS for twenty-plus years, trying to stem a tide of lower average performance with band-aids that lower standards for everyone while playing hide the ball with information when they are supposed to engage with the community. Then MCPS claims that as a win for not failing as many on those low standards as might have been the case if expectations hadn't been decimated. And trumpets its hollow, performative engagements, very much to plan.

And still MCPS results have gone downhill, even against those lower standards. They have more challenging populations, now, but are unwilling to reconsider this approach that has proven a failure, just doubling down on it at every turn, with the BOE going along every single time.

Get whichever of them, Chase or Lazo, advances to have to show more backbone in getting our kids excellent educations by demanding higher standards from the school system, and then demanding the resources from the county to do that equitably. And real bite with respect to those community engagement failures.

There's no chance of that kind of thing happening if we end up with both do-nothing candidates from the establishment as the two left on the ballot in November. There is a chance if they have to face Diaz.

Good points, all.

Chase seems to have nothing concrete to say. What exactly has she accomplished in her decades of educational advocacy work (anything?) and what does she plan to do other than speak in platitudes? Unclear. Lazo seems better, but experience with community college board less relevant than experience in the trenches as an educator. Diaz seems the sharpest of the three, but I understand the concerns. Right now torn between Lazo and Diaz.

https://patch.com/maryland/rockville/boe-candidate-brenda-diaz-aims-give-mcps-parents-real-seat-table

Thanks for posting the patch.com interview. Can't say I disagree with much Diaz has to say here. I also agree the BOE needs both balance and a different perspective.