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[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]

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