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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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[/quote]

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. [/quote]

All true, but it's also true that she's anti-vax and anti-mask (and tried to use the bible to justify the latter). 
https://bethesdamagazine.com/2024/10/22/brenda-diaz-left-mcps/

I was close to voting for her, but can't based on this. Not thrilled with the options, will hope for the best with Lazo.[/quote]

I don’t know if that’s true, but what if she doesn’t like vaccines? So what? My body my choice, right? Right?[/quote]

Oh the anti vaxer morons have entered the chat.

Vaccine mandates for school children are important it is not the same as "my body my choice." Screw off you dumb pos.   Bodily autonomy typically means your choices only affect you. However, transmissible viruses impact the health and safety of vulnerable members of the public (e.g., the elderly, infants, or immunocompromised individuals).

Hegstaff the fool stopped mandating vaccines for our military; look how that has worked out, fool!.

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To be fair, some of the military-mandated vaccines are a bit much when they are not traveling abroad.    If she doesn't want to vaccinate, that's her choice, but given the situation with COVID, she should have been immediately terminated as she cannot follow basic rules; how do we expect students to?  Because of people like her refusing basic precautions, we had to keep our kids in virtual school due to serious health issues.

There are good reasons for some not to get vaccinated.  The covid vaccine made me sick for months, so I didn't do more than my two shots, but most people don't get hospitalized for it, like I did, as things got so serious.  I warned my doctor, but she refused to listen, so I did it, and I went from the vaccine clinic to being immediately hospitalized.  Getting COVID for me was far easier than the vaccine.

I slowed down my kids shots after one got a bad reaction and did 1-2 shots at a time (spread out over 6-8 weeks) but we worked with the doctor and they knew we'd come back and do them and it was much better doing less, more often but many parents aren't willing to do that many appointments which is why they do so many at once.

But Diaz faked medical issues, unlike some of us who have thousands of pages of medical records to prove what's going on.[/quote]

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