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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I voted for Lazo, reading her response about textbooks, reducing tech, etc. I might vote for Diaz in November. As someone said upthread, "education matters more than how someone feels about pride flags."[/quote]

Flags are symbolic for real issues. Suicide among non-straight youth is high, because we live in an intolerant world, as evidenced by Diaz and her beliefs.[/quote]

I'm not worried that one school board member is going to turn 2026 Montgomery County MD into 1990's Kentucky on LGBTQ issues. I worry more about safety, discipline, and academic standards in this particular time and place.[/quote]

+1. I'm the one who made the comment about pride flags, and I agree. The safety of LGBT children and families is important to me (I am part of a queer family), but Brenda Diaz doesn't threaten that.

Here's what she's said about LGBT issues:

- She said parents should be able to opt out of LGBT books in the curriculum. This would have been the right choice in an environment where the Supreme Court was always going to rule the way it did. Instead we wasted money and energy on that fight only to wind up being forced to add the opt out anyway. 
-She said we needed to make sure students from families who don't share those values have a place in the school system. Maybe you're somewhere you have the luxury of not believing that, but I'm not. Our school has a lot of immigrant families from more conservative backgrounds. As a queer family, we have to navigate that, and the school board aggressively pushing makes that harder, not easier.[/quote]

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