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1. Austin is the [b]one candidate pushing a false narrative[/b] that MCPS will be using buses to involuntarily send students across the county as a result of the boundary study. As a member of his Facebook group, I encourage anyone curious as to why his candidacy is so contentious to join and see for yourself the ridiculous statements made by Austin and several core members of his group. No one is going to be bussed from Potomac to White Oak, but that is THE core belief pushed on his group. In truth, the focus is on adjacent boundaries as candidates like Sunil have gone on the record as stating. There so much disparity between adjacent boundaries and students who are already on 30+ minute bus rides to schools much further away than their closest school that the consideration of involuntarily sending students across the county has never been brought up by anyone outside of the conspiracy theory touted in his group.

2. Austin is the one candidate with ZERO EXPERIENCE in education (see the Bethesda Magazine profile), yet he touts this as a positive. This is an insult to the other candidates who have invested and collaborated with education professionals and know how to make their input value-added in a collaborative environment.  We are not going to grow and mitigate challenging situations in MCPS by electing an antagonist.  We all have to work together to get this done.  Anyone with experience on a volunteer committee (even outside of education) knows this is the case. [b]Stephen Austin has no experience in education and the way he carries himself conveys the likelihood he has never volunteered or collaborated with others before in his life. We deserve a candidate with a track record of positive results. [/b][/quote]

For busing, I agree the analysis has not said there will be busing, but it also has not said there [b]won't[/b] be busing. The analysis is not at the stage of drawing boundaries, so how can we know either way until boundaries are drawn?

As for experience, the current BOE is a bunch of yes-women. They voted unanimously to renew Smith's contract earlier this year, along with a nice pay increase and more vacation time. Note a dissenter among them. None of them questioning how he's done on meeting various targets. Just a rubber stamp yes. We need some people actually questioning MCPS, instead of saying Yes all the time.[/quote]

1. Are you a member of his group? Please go count how many times Austin himself has labeled other candidates as pro-busing?

2. Being a skeptic is not worthy of a bullet point on a resume.

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