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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The sign issue is stupid.  Illegal signs for candidates happens every election cycle, I imagine more so if you are new to it.  I find it comical that this particular election cycle, this particular race, people are complaining about it.  If this is your biggest complaint in life, get over it, because things are pretty good foe you.

[b]I don't think Austin intends to be what others label segregationist,[/b] he just hasn't been around long enough to understand the history of the language.  And yes, some of his followers are over the edge of appropriate, but from what I have seen, that is not him.  Penalizing him for being new and having low class followers doesn't feel right.

And the smear from the far left (which I usually count myself a member of), including a former BOE member, a current state senator, a current state delegate, and many, many others, is well beyond acceptable.  I may vote for him in protest of their behavior.

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If he didn't originally know that "neighborhood schools" was a segregationist slogan, then he didn't know much about the history of public schools. Which is not necessarily a qualification for serving on the BoE, but it's true that not everybody knows everything, and people learn (we hope).

But then people told him that it was a segregationist slogan. Did he stop using it? No. Did he defend his continued use of it? Yes. Is it a smear to point this out? No.[/quote]

I never heard of that being segregationist.

Here's a KIPP school using exactly that term -- in fact their company name is "Neighborhood Schools, Inc'! https://neighborschools.org/
Are they segregationist?

Also, the WXY report commissioned by MCPS for the boundary analysis uses the term as well:

"MCPS strives to create [b]neighborhood schools[/b] where students live as close as
possible to school. "

Page 32 of the WXY report on the MCPS website: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/publicinfo/Boundary_Analysis/interim-report/MCPS_InterimReport_Full.pdf

Are MCPS and WXY segregationist for using the terms?
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Coincidentally, that's exactly what Steve Austin said.[/quote]

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