Anonymous
Post 05/15/2020 23:09     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
The problem isn't that she is a teacher or with the union. It's that she ran what is supposed to be a county-wide advocacy organization, and during her tenure completely ignored up-county and every W school that she loathes.

Many of you claim Stephen Austin only cares about his neighborhood, Lynne Harris has already proven she will do the same.

Had she done a better job listening to all, Austin probably wouldn't have felt the need to enter the race. And no, I am not voting for either of them.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2020 21:32     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
Anonymous wrote:Obviously his opponents are posting on here!

I will only vote for candidates who are for deportation.

This is for the BOE, not POTUS. LOL
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2020 21:30     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
Obviously his opponents are posting on here!

I will only vote for candidates who are for deportation.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2020 20:53     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
There’s nothing wrong with a teacher being in a union. My mom was a teacher for 40 years and was always in a union. She absolutely LOVED to teach and got so much joy in helping her students reach their goals. She taught everyone from the richest to the poorest kids. She brought work home EVERY night and would start preparing her classroom 3 weeks before school opened because she wanted it perfect for the kids. Every year she spent her own personal money (money that could have been spent on her own kids) to buy supplies for her students and she was excited about it. So don’t disparage our teachers just for “being in a union” especially if you have never made the kind of sacrifices that teachers make.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2020 18:25     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
Anonymous wrote:Austin has my vote. You can’t live on 25,000 salary they pay board members. The others are either Union front or employee of MCPS - more conflict of interest than Austin. The place needs an outsider - and he’s the ultimate one.


?????????
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2020 18:16     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
Austin has my vote. You can’t live on 25,000 salary they pay board members. The others are either Union front or employee of MCPS - more conflict of interest than Austin. The place needs an outsider - and he’s the ultimate one.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2020 17:34     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
Anonymous wrote:Yes. you are right. You cannot possibly be "elite" because that would mean you had some decent level of education and critical thinking skills that would allow you to read a candidate's profile and discern that he is a fair and decent man with a smart set of proposals. But now, you just want to stick to your echo chamber.

How is he fair if he doesn't want to look at adjacent cluster to relieve overcrowding? And how is not looking at adjacent clusters to relieve over crowding "smart set of proposals"?

IMO, Austin supporters also seem to be in an echo chamber. No Austin supporter has ever addressed the above.

Austin has clearly indicated he is ok with boundary changes *within* the cluster, but not with adjacent. Does Austin and his supporters not realize that some of the current boundaries have neighborhoods zoned for the school further away? Like miles away.. when there is a closer school to their neighborhood?
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2020 17:31     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Woman of color here again. Honestly, you guys need to chill out. It's just a BOE race. First time a lot of normal middle class/working class people have gotten involved. The majority of us, including the moms work. We have no choice but to work and we identify with Stephen Austin's hard working ethic. We had no idea politics was only reserved for the elite non-working "women who lunch" of Montgomery County. So sorry for ruining your tea party.


Normal middle-class person here. Full-time job. MCPS parent. Kind of baffled to be called an elite woman who lunches. Not a big fan of parties, but do like tea.

Also, absolutely not supporting Steve Austin.

+1 another mom who works FT and not supporting Austin. I prefer someone who is going to look out for the entire schools, not just his neighborhood.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2020 17:10     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
Same here.

All of my friends absolutely not supporting Steve Austin. He hides too much information which doesn't make any sense to hide.

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Woman of color here again. Honestly, you guys need to chill out. It's just a BOE race. First time a lot of normal middle class/working class people have gotten involved. The majority of us, including the moms work. We have no choice but to work and we identify with Stephen Austin's hard working ethic. We had no idea politics was only reserved for the elite non-working "women who lunch" of Montgomery County. So sorry for ruining your tea party.


Normal middle-class person here. Full-time job. MCPS parent. Kind of baffled to be called an elite woman who lunches. Not a big fan of parties, but do like tea.

Also, absolutely not supporting Steve Austin.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2020 14:53     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
Anonymous wrote:Yes. you are right. You cannot possibly be "elite" because that would mean you had some decent level of education and critical thinking skills that would allow you to read a candidate's profile and discern that he is a fair and decent man with a smart set of proposals. But now, you just want to stick to your echo chamber.


Even for DCUM, this is something.^^^
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2020 14:46     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
Yes. you are right. You cannot possibly be "elite" because that would mean you had some decent level of education and critical thinking skills that would allow you to read a candidate's profile and discern that he is a fair and decent man with a smart set of proposals. But now, you just want to stick to your echo chamber.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2020 14:40     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
Anonymous wrote:Woman of color here again. Honestly, you guys need to chill out. It's just a BOE race. First time a lot of normal middle class/working class people have gotten involved. The majority of us, including the moms work. We have no choice but to work and we identify with Stephen Austin's hard working ethic. We had no idea politics was only reserved for the elite non-working "women who lunch" of Montgomery County. So sorry for ruining your tea party.


Normal middle-class person here. Full-time job. MCPS parent. Kind of baffled to be called an elite woman who lunches. Not a big fan of parties, but do like tea.

Also, absolutely not supporting Steve Austin.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2020 14:36     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
Woman of color here again. Honestly, you guys need to chill out. It's just a BOE race. First time a lot of normal middle class/working class people have gotten involved. The majority of us, including the moms work. We have no choice but to work and we identify with Stephen Austin's hard working ethic. We had no idea politics was only reserved for the elite non-working "women who lunch" of Montgomery County. So sorry for ruining your tea party.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2020 14:23     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yeah, woman of color here! I'm a member of Stephen's group. Never been kicked out and no matter how much you guys try to throw crap at Stephen it's not going to stick. He is a good and honorable man. I don't know why you all are hell-bent on moving OTHER PEOPLE'S kids around. It's really none of your business. Please go and volunteer your time and do good for Montgomery County instead of fomenting division and destroying goodwill. This has already backfired spectacularly. We were completely oblivious to county politics and just kept our heads down and kept paying our rising taxes. You have no poked the bear and he's not going back to sleep.


That's the "it's never happened to me, so it hasn't happened" argument.

Steve Austin is running for a seat on the Montgomery County Board of Education, which oversees Montgomery County Public Schools. Not your school or my school. Not your child or my child. Our schools, and our children.

I do agree with your call for people to go and volunteer their time. Most of the other candidates have done just that. Steve Austin has not.

(Parenthetically, it's interesting how often someone on DCUM will respond to a comment specifically related to the specific experiences of black/African-American people with "As a person of color, I..." Probably, if they were black/African-American themselves, they'd say so, instead of saying " as a [non-specific] person of color, I..."?)

+1 agree with the () .. I'm a person of color. I'm Asian American. And no, Austin does not have my vote. I'm somewhat frugal, and building more to alleviate over crowded schools is more expensive than looking at adjacent clusters to alleviate over crowding. No one who is budget conscious would seriously think that building more is the answer to alleviate the overcrowded schools, or raisng taxes.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2020 14:12     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
Anonymous wrote:Yeah, woman of color here! I'm a member of Stephen's group. Never been kicked out and no matter how much you guys try to throw crap at Stephen it's not going to stick. He is a good and honorable man. I don't know why you all are hell-bent on moving OTHER PEOPLE'S kids around. It's really none of your business. Please go and volunteer your time and do good for Montgomery County instead of fomenting division and destroying goodwill. This has already backfired spectacularly. We were completely oblivious to county politics and just kept our heads down and kept paying our rising taxes. You have no poked the bear and he's not going back to sleep.


Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I just don’t understand why he is constantly, and I mean repeatedly kicking African American and Hispanic people out of his FB campaign group. That really rubs me wrong way. I’m white and was given access immediately; however, I have three African American women who I am friendly with at my school as well as my sister in law. We discussed the boundary analysis generally and were initially concerned based upon what he was saying. All four sought access to the group. Three were denied and one was kicked out after one day and she never posted anything! She even showed me her phone to show the timeline. I even went as far to ask two of my other white friends to request membership in the group, they were granted access within minutes and were never kicked out. I’ve heard this same story on Nextdoor and in another neighborhood list serv I am on.

I really don’t have an explanation for it and the members in that group have said some pretty racist stuff. I’m still in it but don’t post. And honesty don’t think that just because the group is large that all of those people support him. The group got started on an issue - the boundary analysis - and people were curious but it’s pretty dormant and sleepy. There is only a core group of like 10 people who are always kissing his arse and agreeing with him like Steven Tvardek who goes back and forth with anyone who disagrees with Austin. In fact he’s probably in thread now arguing with people and sockpuppeting


He only wants people who agree with his agenda and are like him. He kicks whites out too. He is an equal opportunity with those things.


Sure you’re a “woman of color” No one believes you. It is or the first time I’ve heard these stories about Austin.