Ben Jealous & MoCo Schools ???

[Anonymous]

Outgoing County Exec (and Democrat) Ike Leggett explains why Jealous's education plan will be bad for MoCo:
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/politic...l-declines-to-endorse-jealous/

[Anonymous]

Sorry here’s the unbroken link: https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/politics/leggett-still-declines-to-endorse-jealous/

[Anonymous]

Ike's an idiot and good riddance to him. His refusal to support ben jealous boils down to ike's eye towards his upcoming corporate jobs.

My children are literally pampered in school while kids in Baltimore county sit in unheated and un air conditioned, dilapidated schools.
Ben jealous has his policy clearly defined on his website:

The plan calls for utilizing revenue from the taxing and regulating of marijuana to provide full-day universal pre-K and significantly increasing teacher pay by keeping the promise made to voters and ensuring lottery and casino funds are actually used to increase education funding. In addition, Jealous proposes implementing recommendations from the Kirwan Commission and expanding vocational training in Maryland’s high schools so that every child graduates career and college ready.

Higher teacher pay?
PreK?
More special ed resources?
Mental health Professionals for every school?
Yep. I'll take it.
People read "the top 1% may have higher taxes and think that applies to them. If your income is above 500k then yes, it does apply to you.

I for one would like to see the lottery and casino money finally applied to schools, too

[Anonymous]

Ike is retiring. He doesn't need any more jobs.

Jealous's math is all wrong. He wants to fund it with casino tax revenues. Sounds good, right? Well, what are those revenues going towards now? Other programs. Basically it was a loophole that they essentially redirected casino revenues to the general fund. Now if they put that money towards education instead, what happens to the programs it's currently funding? That's left out of his education plan (I read it.. it's on his website).

Baltimore's unheated schools are a result of their own mismanagement at the local level, not lack of funds. I don't want to pay for their incompetence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ike's an idiot and good riddance to him. His refusal to support ben jealous boils down to ike's eye towards his upcoming corporate jobs.

My children are literally pampered in school while kids in Baltimore county sit in unheated and un air conditioned, dilapidated schools.
Ben jealous has his policy clearly defined on his website:

The plan calls for utilizing revenue from the taxing and regulating of marijuana to provide full-day universal pre-K and significantly increasing teacher pay by keeping the promise made to voters and ensuring lottery and casino funds are actually used to increase education funding. In addition, Jealous proposes implementing recommendations from the Kirwan Commission and expanding vocational training in Maryland’s high schools so that every child graduates career and college ready.

Higher teacher pay?
PreK?
More special ed resources?
Mental health Professionals for every school?
Yep. I'll take it.
People read "the top 1% may have higher taxes and think that applies to them. If your income is above 500k then yes, it does apply to you.

I for one would like to see the lottery and casino money finally applied to schools, too

+1

[Anonymous]

I don’t want to see dollars siphoned from this county to support another county—-Baltimore, Cecil or Caroline county. What I do want to see is that people in those counties holdi their local board and political officers accountable. I’m against bringing marijuana to this county. Just look to DC being unable to control synthetic marijuana and they are dealing with public overdoses in front of schools. Not to mention, heaven forbid high marijuana drivers on the beltway or public school officials coming to work high or an uptick in young teens using marijuana at a parent sponsored home party. I don’t want to see free universal pre-k. I’d rather that money be put toward smaller class sizes or instructional aides in grades K-3. Though we are close to DC, we don’t have DC revenue for capital flow, so let’s stop trying to keep up with the Jones’s.

[Anonymous]

Why would anyone buy synthetic marijuana when they could buy marijuana?
Hogan isnt doing anything for education so I'll take universal preK so my kids dont have to spend their first 3 years in school dumbed down to the kids who haven't learn how to spell their name

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t want to see dollars siphoned from this county to support another county—-Baltimore, Cecil or Caroline county. What I do want to see is that people in those counties holdi their local board and political officers accountable. I’m against bringing marijuana to this county. Just look to DC being unable to control synthetic marijuana and they are dealing with public overdoses in front of schools. Not to mention, heaven forbid high marijuana drivers on the beltway or public school officials coming to work high or an uptick in young teens using marijuana at a parent sponsored home party. I don’t want to see free universal pre-k. I’d rather that money be put toward smaller class sizes or instructional aides in grades K-3. Though we are close to DC, we don’t have DC revenue for capital flow, so let’s stop trying to keep up with the Jones’s.

All of your fears are already realized. Let's at least raise money off marijuana sales.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t want to see dollars siphoned from this county to support another county—-Baltimore, Cecil or Caroline county. What I do want to see is that people in those counties holdi their local board and political officers accountable. I’m against bringing marijuana to this county. Just look to DC being unable to control synthetic marijuana and they are dealing with public overdoses in front of schools. Not to mention, heaven forbid high marijuana drivers on the beltway or public school officials coming to work high or an uptick in young teens using marijuana at a parent sponsored home party. I don’t want to see free universal pre-k. I’d rather that money be put toward smaller class sizes or instructional aides in grades K-3. Though we are close to DC, we don’t have DC revenue for capital flow, so let’s stop trying to keep up with the Jones’s.

That's how state funding of education works, though. And how it ought to work.

All I ask is that the governor (1) not endorse the principle that local government is the best government and then impose an executive order that overrides the decisions of the local government (as in the Ocean City school calendar) and (2) not redistribute money from a tax increase away from areas that voted for the tax increase to areas that voted against the tax increase (as in the killing of the Baltimore Red Line).

I don't know what's going on with Ike Leggett's non-endorsement of Ben Jealous, but I seriously doubt it's about the Kirwan Commission recommendations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ike's an idiot and good riddance to him. His refusal to support ben jealous boils down to ike's eye towards his upcoming corporate jobs.

My children are literally pampered in school while kids in Baltimore county sit in unheated and un air conditioned, dilapidated schools.
Ben jealous has his policy clearly defined on his website:

The plan calls for utilizing revenue from the taxing and regulating of marijuana to provide full-day universal pre-K and significantly increasing teacher pay by keeping the promise made to voters and ensuring lottery and casino funds are actually used to increase education funding. In addition, Jealous proposes implementing recommendations from the Kirwan Commission and expanding vocational training in Maryland’s high schools so that every child graduates career and college ready.

Higher teacher pay?
PreK?
More special ed resources?
Mental health Professionals for every school?
Yep. I'll take it.
People read "the top 1% may have higher taxes and think that applies to them. If your income is above 500k then yes, it does apply to you.

I for one would like to see the lottery and casino money finally applied to schools, too

The lottery and casino money will never make it to the schools...despite the fact that it was sold to voters that way. They lied.

So I don't believe that the magical marijuana money will benefit schools or voters. It hasn't in other states. What it has done is create very serious new problems which ultimately create unintended costs.

Don't worry about Jealous...he has zero chance of winning. I'm a bleeding heart liberal who works in the social justice arena, and I'm shocked by how many registered Dems I know who plan to vote for Hogan. I would sooner cut off my arm than vote for a republican, but I still think hogan will win by a landslide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonexaminer.com/colorado-politicians-ignore-major-pot-problems%3f_amp=true

We don't have to imagine the potential problems of legalized marijuana---we can simply ask Colorado.

I'm the pp who works in the social justice/anti-poverty arena, and I've met with advocates, providers and elected officials in Co. While they jokingly refer to the windfall of pot money they've all been promised, they realize they won't ever see a dime. What they do see is a whole host of new problems as described in this article.

Think about the unintended consequences of legalizing pot in Baltimore and gang infested MoCo and PG. if they can't sell pot anymore (why would they if its legal?), then what will they sell? What will they do to make up the lost income? More serious drugs and more violent crime.

An opinion piece from the Examiner? No, thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ike's an idiot and good riddance to him. His refusal to support ben jealous boils down to ike's eye towards his upcoming corporate jobs.

My children are literally pampered in school while kids in Baltimore county sit in unheated and un air conditioned, dilapidated schools.
Ben jealous has his policy clearly defined on his website:

The plan calls for utilizing revenue from the taxing and regulating of marijuana to provide full-day universal pre-K and significantly increasing teacher pay by keeping the promise made to voters and ensuring lottery and casino funds are actually used to increase education funding. In addition, Jealous proposes implementing recommendations from the Kirwan Commission and expanding vocational training in Maryland’s high schools so that every child graduates career and college ready.

Higher teacher pay?
PreK?
More special ed resources?
Mental health Professionals for every school?
Yep. I'll take it.
People read "the top 1% may have higher taxes and think that applies to them. If your income is above 500k then yes, it does apply to you.

I for one would like to see the lottery and casino money finally applied to schools, too

The lottery and casino money will never make it to the schools...despite the fact that it was sold to voters that way. They lied.

So I don't believe that the magical marijuana money will benefit schools or voters. It hasn't in other states. What it has done is create very serious new problems which ultimately create unintended costs.

Don't worry about Jealous...he has zero chance of winning. I'm a bleeding heart liberal who works in the social justice arena, and I'm shocked by how many registered Dems I know who plan to vote for Hogan. I would sooner cut off my arm than vote for a republican, but I still think hogan will win by a landslide.

I am really baffled how you are sticking to voting for a Democrat just for party line basis even though you clearly know it’s not what’s in the best interest of education. How can you be a bleeding heart liberal and want to shaft ALL Maryland students? I thought liberals put education first? Surely marijuana and casinos are putting business interest first. I consider myself neither Democrat or Republican, I vote based on my values. I refuse to vote along party lines just because that’s what I’m “supposed” to do. I want candidates to earn my vote. —-Millenial parent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonexaminer.com/colorado-politicians-ignore-major-pot-problems%3f_amp=true

We don't have to imagine the potential problems of legalized marijuana---we can simply ask Colorado.

I'm the pp who works in the social justice/anti-poverty arena, and I've met with advocates, providers and elected officials in Co. While they jokingly refer to the windfall of pot money they've all been promised, they realize they won't ever see a dime. What they do see is a whole host of new problems as described in this article.

Think about the unintended consequences of legalizing pot in Baltimore and gang infested MoCo and PG. if they can't sell pot anymore (why would they if its legal?), then what will they sell? What will they do to make up the lost income? More serious drugs and more violent crime.

An opinion piece from the Examiner? No, thanks.

Or you could just look up the drastic yourself rather than bury your head in the sand. But you probably don’t care because you live in a MoCo gated community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Or you could just look up the drastic yourself rather than bury your head in the sand. But you probably don’t care because you live in a MoCo gated community.

Are there even any gated communities in Montgomery County?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonexaminer.com/colorado-politicians-ignore-major-pot-problems%3f_amp=true

We don't have to imagine the potential problems of legalized marijuana---we can simply ask Colorado.

I'm the pp who works in the social justice/anti-poverty arena, and I've met with advocates, providers and elected officials in Co. While they jokingly refer to the windfall of pot money they've all been promised, they realize they won't ever see a dime. What they do see is a whole host of new problems as described in this article.

Think about the unintended consequences of legalizing pot in Baltimore and gang infested MoCo and PG. if they can't sell pot anymore (why would they if its legal?), then what will they sell? What will they do to make up the lost income? More serious drugs and more violent crime.

An opinion piece from the Examiner? No, thanks.

Or you could just look up the drastic yourself rather than bury your head in the sand. But you probably don’t care because you live in a MoCo gated community.

No, I live in the ganglandia section of MoCo.