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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm saying worst case scenario. I think he's competent, and I thikn he's good at financial stuff. I also think even if he's mediocre at those, he'll be better at those than any current board members. We don't need more ex-teachers on the board --we have plenty of those already.

Worst case: he's incompetent and is the lone dissenting vote
Best case: he pushes for more financial controls and auditing, and convinces other board members that's worthwhile so it passes

I'm willing to take that risk.[/quote]
It all boils down to this, if you think MCPS is going in the right direction, vote for one of the equity candidates.

If you think MCPS is going in the wrong direction, vote for Stephen Austin.

Just look at the response from the candidates for question 7. Austin is the only that says that Jack Smith should not have been retained.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2020-primary-voters-guide/montgomery-county-board-of-education-at-large/[/quote]
It boils down to this single issue... if you don't want adjacent clusters to be looked at to alleviate over crowding and would rather have your child in over crowded schools or have your taxes raised so they can build/expand schools then vote for Austin because he is against looking at adjacent clusters.

If you want your boundary to remain status quo in the cluster then sure vote for Austin.  He's not a "shake things up" person. He's the "keep it status quo so that our property values are kept safe" person.[/quote]

He also wants financial accounatbilty and an independent auditor. No idea why we havent' had that all along, but I guess that qualifies as "shake things up" given the BOE hasn't done this so far.[/quote]

If you want more financial accountability why not advocate for an independent inspector general? The teachers’ union—yes the union—has been pushing that idea for years...but MCPS has opposed it. Teachers and parents working together get the Administration’s attention...separately...not so much.
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