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Anonymous wrote:I voted for Diaz even though I am a lifelong moderate Democrat because the Board needs balance, not a group of the same thinking individuals. MCPS handled Covid horribly because they made it political. Diaz is a counterbalance to the crazy liberal group think. She can’t do anything crazy on her own but she provides a check and balance to the rest of the crew.

I don't like what the current Board is doing, so I will elect someone who can't work with anybody, that'll fix it!

Anonymous wrote:I voted for Diaz even though I am a lifelong moderate Democrat because the Board needs balance, not a group of the same thinking individuals. MCPS handled Covid horribly because they made it political. Diaz is a counterbalance to the crazy liberal group think. She can’t do anything crazy on her own but she provides a check and balance to the rest of the crew.

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Anonymous wrote:Voting for the candidate endorsed by the fascist women's auxiliary is not an attractive idea.

Voting for the candidate endorsed by the group that wanted to keep schools closed indefinitely is not an attractive idea.

You’re already wrong bc MCEA never wanted schools closed indefinitely. Educate yourself, because you’re just embarrassing yourself. At best, you’re proving your own ignorance. Worst? You’re straight up a liar.

You've got a short attention span. They were mad when schools partially opened in the spring of 2021, and they were mad when schools remained open in January 2022.

And you want to put them on the BoE. That's nuts.

DP. I don't understand having this hatred towards teachers. These are the same people leading classrooms your kids are in every day, if you have kids.

The issue isn't teachers-- it is MCEA. The union is behind Zimmerman, not rank-and-file teachers. Just like the union was behind school closures and the opposition to special educator recruitment incentives, not the teachers. MCEA shouldn't be anywhere near the board.

You...you realize at one point in her ridiculous teaching "career" Diaz was a part of MCEA, right? The union IS made up of...wait for it.. TEACHERS. What don't you understand about this? Like, how is this hard to understand?

And teachers will often explain that they don't think the union is representing them well.

Teachers aren't the problem. MCEA is the problem.

You're just kind of a stupid person. MCEA is teachers. Made up of teachers. They might not represent every single teacher individually but what entity can? So teachers shouldn't be near the BOA? Teachers are the ones in the building (unlike Diaz who didn't bother to show up for work), every single day doing the work. They know what needs to be changed/fixed/etc. They are the people you want on the board.

Teachers have a conflict of interest. Their interests do not always coincide with what is best for students. That was made very obvious during the pandemic, but there are many other opportunities for that conflict to come through. The other big ones are early release days and virtual snow days. But we've also seen the union push back on attempts to restructure compensation and incentives based on supply/demand for the position (e.g., special educators, STEM).

If you don’t think teachers have students best interest in mind, go private or homeschool. “Big” ones like virtual snow days or half days? lol you’re insane. Those are not big issues and you’d be laughed out of any school district anywhere else in the country except MoCo. Parents here are just exceptionally weird and feel entitled to free daycare services while most places have regular half days…. Some even have 4 day school weeks.

Zimmerman should campaign on that. Parents, vote Zimmerman if you want 4 day school weeks! Otherwise there's Diaz.

We know that's what MCEA wants. Look at spring 2021. And if they can't get that, they'll go for half days, which MCEA lobbies for every year.

So no proof at all...and welcome to the year 2024. I'm sorry you seem to be stuck in 2020 but the rest of us have moved on.

Again, MCEA was behind the virtual snow day and every year they try to add more early release days to the calendar. Zimmerman should not be elected to the board.

Zimmerman, who I agree is a weak candidate, still gets my vote because Diaz is crazy. I wish we had better choices, but unfortunately both made it through the primary and we are stuck with one of them. And of the two, there is no question in my mind that Zimmerman is the better choice.

I understand why you would think that. If we were picking a Czar that could unilaterally make decisions, I would agree that Zimmerman would be the better choice. But the winner will be joining a board with six other people, several of whom were selected by MCEA. Diaz won't be able to pass any crazy proposals, but she would provide some balance against the MCEA-affiliated board members.

I don't think we need a school board that's balanced among non-cranks (on the one hand) and hate-supported crank (on the other). I prefer a school board that is an unbalanced 100% non-crank, 0% hate-supported crank.

Exactly this. All these people being like “oh vote for my candidate even if you think they would do a bad job because they’ll just be one person”

wtf people

Because a bunch of people on the board that are bad in the same way have an additive effect.

And putting bad people on the board has a destructive effect

I mean I get that there’s a sociology to boards but the answer isn’t to put put people on it that have shown they don’t work well with others and are way outside the maintstream

The BOE is currently Entirely bad people. Mainstream boards do not tolerate sexual harassment, embezzlement and waste.

Even if everyone currently on the BoE is bad people, we're still better off without an even worse, Moms For Liberty candidate on the board.

Exactly. Adding someone you know is terrible isn’t going to make things better

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Anonymous wrote:Diaz is a right wing Trumpster. If you don't vote for the other school board races, at least make sure you vote against her!

Thanks for letting me know! Now I know who to vote for.

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Anonymous wrote:Diaz is a right wing Trumpster. If you don't vote for the other school board races, at least make sure you vote against her!

Thanks for letting me know! Now I know who to vote for.

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Anonymous wrote:Voting for the candidate endorsed by the fascist women's auxiliary is not an attractive idea.

Voting for the candidate endorsed by the group that wanted to keep schools closed indefinitely is not an attractive idea.

You’re already wrong bc MCEA never wanted schools closed indefinitely. Educate yourself, because you’re just embarrassing yourself. At best, you’re proving your own ignorance. Worst? You’re straight up a liar.

You've got a short attention span. They were mad when schools partially opened in the spring of 2021, and they were mad when schools remained open in January 2022.

And you want to put them on the BoE. That's nuts.

DP. I don't understand having this hatred towards teachers. These are the same people leading classrooms your kids are in every day, if you have kids.

The issue isn't teachers-- it is MCEA. The union is behind Zimmerman, not rank-and-file teachers. Just like the union was behind school closures and the opposition to special educator recruitment incentives, not the teachers. MCEA shouldn't be anywhere near the board.

You...you realize at one point in her ridiculous teaching "career" Diaz was a part of MCEA, right? The union IS made up of...wait for it.. TEACHERS. What don't you understand about this? Like, how is this hard to understand?

And teachers will often explain that they don't think the union is representing them well.

Teachers aren't the problem. MCEA is the problem.

You're just kind of a stupid person. MCEA is teachers. Made up of teachers. They might not represent every single teacher individually but what entity can? So teachers shouldn't be near the BOA? Teachers are the ones in the building (unlike Diaz who didn't bother to show up for work), every single day doing the work. They know what needs to be changed/fixed/etc. They are the people you want on the board.

Teachers have a conflict of interest. Their interests do not always coincide with what is best for students. That was made very obvious during the pandemic, but there are many other opportunities for that conflict to come through. The other big ones are early release days and virtual snow days. But we've also seen the union push back on attempts to restructure compensation and incentives based on supply/demand for the position (e.g., special educators, STEM).

If you don’t think teachers have students best interest in mind, go private or homeschool. “Big” ones like virtual snow days or half days? lol you’re insane. Those are not big issues and you’d be laughed out of any school district anywhere else in the country except MoCo. Parents here are just exceptionally weird and feel entitled to free daycare services while most places have regular half days…. Some even have 4 day school weeks.

Zimmerman should campaign on that. Parents, vote Zimmerman if you want 4 day school weeks! Otherwise there's Diaz.

We know that's what MCEA wants. Look at spring 2021. And if they can't get that, they'll go for half days, which MCEA lobbies for every year.

So no proof at all...and welcome to the year 2024. I'm sorry you seem to be stuck in 2020 but the rest of us have moved on.

Again, MCEA was behind the virtual snow day and every year they try to add more early release days to the calendar. Zimmerman should not be elected to the board.

Zimmerman, who I agree is a weak candidate, still gets my vote because Diaz is crazy. I wish we had better choices, but unfortunately both made it through the primary and we are stuck with one of them. And of the two, there is no question in my mind that Zimmerman is the better choice.

I understand why you would think that. If we were picking a Czar that could unilaterally make decisions, I would agree that Zimmerman would be the better choice. But the winner will be joining a board with six other people, several of whom were selected by MCEA. Diaz won't be able to pass any crazy proposals, but she would provide some balance against the MCEA-affiliated board members.

I don't think we need a school board that's balanced among non-cranks (on the one hand) and hate-supported crank (on the other). I prefer a school board that is an unbalanced 100% non-crank, 0% hate-supported crank.

Exactly this. All these people being like “oh vote for my candidate even if you think they would do a bad job because they’ll just be one person”

wtf people

Because a bunch of people on the board that are bad in the same way have an additive effect.

And putting bad people on the board has a destructive effect

I mean I get that there’s a sociology to boards but the answer isn’t to put put people on it that have shown they don’t work well with others and are way outside the maintstream

The BOE is currently Entirely bad people. Mainstream boards do not tolerate sexual harassment, embezzlement and waste.

Anonymous wrote:Diaz is a right wing Trumpster. If you don't vote for the other school board races, at least make sure you vote against her!

Anonymous wrote:NOPE.

We are not voting for fascists.

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Anonymous wrote:Voting for the candidate endorsed by the fascist women's auxiliary is not an attractive idea.

Voting for the candidate endorsed by the group that wanted to keep schools closed indefinitely is not an attractive idea.

You’re already wrong bc MCEA never wanted schools closed indefinitely. Educate yourself, because you’re just embarrassing yourself. At best, you’re proving your own ignorance. Worst? You’re straight up a liar.

You've got a short attention span. They were mad when schools partially opened in the spring of 2021, and they were mad when schools remained open in January 2022.

And you want to put them on the BoE. That's nuts.

DP. I don't understand having this hatred towards teachers. These are the same people leading classrooms your kids are in every day, if you have kids.

The issue isn't teachers-- it is MCEA. The union is behind Zimmerman, not rank-and-file teachers. Just like the union was behind school closures and the opposition to special educator recruitment incentives, not the teachers. MCEA shouldn't be anywhere near the board.

You...you realize at one point in her ridiculous teaching "career" Diaz was a part of MCEA, right? The union IS made up of...wait for it.. TEACHERS. What don't you understand about this? Like, how is this hard to understand?

And teachers will often explain that they don't think the union is representing them well.

Teachers aren't the problem. MCEA is the problem.

You're just kind of a stupid person. MCEA is teachers. Made up of teachers. They might not represent every single teacher individually but what entity can? So teachers shouldn't be near the BOA? Teachers are the ones in the building (unlike Diaz who didn't bother to show up for work), every single day doing the work. They know what needs to be changed/fixed/etc. They are the people you want on the board.

Teachers have a conflict of interest. Their interests do not always coincide with what is best for students. That was made very obvious during the pandemic, but there are many other opportunities for that conflict to come through. The other big ones are early release days and virtual snow days. But we've also seen the union push back on attempts to restructure compensation and incentives based on supply/demand for the position (e.g., special educators, STEM).

If you don’t think teachers have students best interest in mind, go private or homeschool. “Big” ones like virtual snow days or half days? lol you’re insane. Those are not big issues and you’d be laughed out of any school district anywhere else in the country except MoCo. Parents here are just exceptionally weird and feel entitled to free daycare services while most places have regular half days…. Some even have 4 day school weeks.

Zimmerman should campaign on that. Parents, vote Zimmerman if you want 4 day school weeks! Otherwise there's Diaz.

We know that's what MCEA wants. Look at spring 2021. And if they can't get that, they'll go for half days, which MCEA lobbies for every year.

So no proof at all...and welcome to the year 2024. I'm sorry you seem to be stuck in 2020 but the rest of us have moved on.

Again, MCEA was behind the virtual snow day and every year they try to add more early release days to the calendar. Zimmerman should not be elected to the board.

Zimmerman, who I agree is a weak candidate, still gets my vote because Diaz is crazy. I wish we had better choices, but unfortunately both made it through the primary and we are stuck with one of them. And of the two, there is no question in my mind that Zimmerman is the better choice.

I understand why you would think that. If we were picking a Czar that could unilaterally make decisions, I would agree that Zimmerman would be the better choice. But the winner will be joining a board with six other people, several of whom were selected by MCEA. Diaz won't be able to pass any crazy proposals, but she would provide some balance against the MCEA-affiliated board members.

I don't think we need a school board that's balanced among non-cranks (on the one hand) and hate-supported crank (on the other). I prefer a school board that is an unbalanced 100% non-crank, 0% hate-supported crank.

Exactly this. All these people being like “oh vote for my candidate even if you think they would do a bad job because they’ll just be one person”

wtf people

Because a bunch of people on the board that are bad in the same way have an additive effect.

And putting bad people on the board has a destructive effect

I mean I get that there’s a sociology to boards but the answer isn’t to put put people on it that have shown they don’t work well with others and are way outside the maintstream

The BOE is currently Entirely bad people. Mainstream boards do not tolerate sexual harassment, embezzlement and waste.

Even if everyone currently on the BoE is bad people, we're still better off without an even worse, Moms For Liberty candidate on the board.

Exactly. Adding someone you know is terrible isn’t going to make things better

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Anonymous wrote:Voting for the candidate endorsed by the fascist women's auxiliary is not an attractive idea.

Voting for the candidate endorsed by the group that wanted to keep schools closed indefinitely is not an attractive idea.

You’re already wrong bc MCEA never wanted schools closed indefinitely. Educate yourself, because you’re just embarrassing yourself. At best, you’re proving your own ignorance. Worst? You’re straight up a liar.

You've got a short attention span. They were mad when schools partially opened in the spring of 2021, and they were mad when schools remained open in January 2022.

And you want to put them on the BoE. That's nuts.

DP. I don't understand having this hatred towards teachers. These are the same people leading classrooms your kids are in every day, if you have kids.

The issue isn't teachers-- it is MCEA. The union is behind Zimmerman, not rank-and-file teachers. Just like the union was behind school closures and the opposition to special educator recruitment incentives, not the teachers. MCEA shouldn't be anywhere near the board.

You...you realize at one point in her ridiculous teaching "career" Diaz was a part of MCEA, right? The union IS made up of...wait for it.. TEACHERS. What don't you understand about this? Like, how is this hard to understand?

And teachers will often explain that they don't think the union is representing them well.

Teachers aren't the problem. MCEA is the problem.

You're just kind of a stupid person. MCEA is teachers. Made up of teachers. They might not represent every single teacher individually but what entity can? So teachers shouldn't be near the BOA? Teachers are the ones in the building (unlike Diaz who didn't bother to show up for work), every single day doing the work. They know what needs to be changed/fixed/etc. They are the people you want on the board.

Teachers have a conflict of interest. Their interests do not always coincide with what is best for students. That was made very obvious during the pandemic, but there are many other opportunities for that conflict to come through. The other big ones are early release days and virtual snow days. But we've also seen the union push back on attempts to restructure compensation and incentives based on supply/demand for the position (e.g., special educators, STEM).

If you don’t think teachers have students best interest in mind, go private or homeschool. “Big” ones like virtual snow days or half days? lol you’re insane. Those are not big issues and you’d be laughed out of any school district anywhere else in the country except MoCo. Parents here are just exceptionally weird and feel entitled to free daycare services while most places have regular half days…. Some even have 4 day school weeks.

Zimmerman should campaign on that. Parents, vote Zimmerman if you want 4 day school weeks! Otherwise there's Diaz.

We know that's what MCEA wants. Look at spring 2021. And if they can't get that, they'll go for half days, which MCEA lobbies for every year.

So no proof at all...and welcome to the year 2024. I'm sorry you seem to be stuck in 2020 but the rest of us have moved on.

Again, MCEA was behind the virtual snow day and every year they try to add more early release days to the calendar. Zimmerman should not be elected to the board.

Zimmerman, who I agree is a weak candidate, still gets my vote because Diaz is crazy. I wish we had better choices, but unfortunately both made it through the primary and we are stuck with one of them. And of the two, there is no question in my mind that Zimmerman is the better choice.

I understand why you would think that. If we were picking a Czar that could unilaterally make decisions, I would agree that Zimmerman would be the better choice. But the winner will be joining a board with six other people, several of whom were selected by MCEA. Diaz won't be able to pass any crazy proposals, but she would provide some balance against the MCEA-affiliated board members.

I don't think we need a school board that's balanced among non-cranks (on the one hand) and hate-supported crank (on the other). I prefer a school board that is an unbalanced 100% non-crank, 0% hate-supported crank.

Exactly this. All these people being like “oh vote for my candidate even if you think they would do a bad job because they’ll just be one person”

wtf people

Because a bunch of people on the board that are bad in the same way have an additive effect.

And putting bad people on the board has a destructive effect

I mean I get that there’s a sociology to boards but the answer isn’t to put put people on it that have shown they don’t work well with others and are way outside the maintstream

The BOE is currently Entirely bad people. Mainstream boards do not tolerate sexual harassment, embezzlement and waste.

Even if everyone currently on the BoE is bad people, we're still better off without an even worse, Moms For Liberty candidate on the board.

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Anonymous wrote:Voting for the candidate endorsed by the fascist women's auxiliary is not an attractive idea.

Voting for the candidate endorsed by the group that wanted to keep schools closed indefinitely is not an attractive idea.

You’re already wrong bc MCEA never wanted schools closed indefinitely. Educate yourself, because you’re just embarrassing yourself. At best, you’re proving your own ignorance. Worst? You’re straight up a liar.

You've got a short attention span. They were mad when schools partially opened in the spring of 2021, and they were mad when schools remained open in January 2022.

And you want to put them on the BoE. That's nuts.

DP. I don't understand having this hatred towards teachers. These are the same people leading classrooms your kids are in every day, if you have kids.

The issue isn't teachers-- it is MCEA. The union is behind Zimmerman, not rank-and-file teachers. Just like the union was behind school closures and the opposition to special educator recruitment incentives, not the teachers. MCEA shouldn't be anywhere near the board.

You...you realize at one point in her ridiculous teaching "career" Diaz was a part of MCEA, right? The union IS made up of...wait for it.. TEACHERS. What don't you understand about this? Like, how is this hard to understand?

And teachers will often explain that they don't think the union is representing them well.

Teachers aren't the problem. MCEA is the problem.

You're just kind of a stupid person. MCEA is teachers. Made up of teachers. They might not represent every single teacher individually but what entity can? So teachers shouldn't be near the BOA? Teachers are the ones in the building (unlike Diaz who didn't bother to show up for work), every single day doing the work. They know what needs to be changed/fixed/etc. They are the people you want on the board.

Teachers have a conflict of interest. Their interests do not always coincide with what is best for students. That was made very obvious during the pandemic, but there are many other opportunities for that conflict to come through. The other big ones are early release days and virtual snow days. But we've also seen the union push back on attempts to restructure compensation and incentives based on supply/demand for the position (e.g., special educators, STEM).

If you don’t think teachers have students best interest in mind, go private or homeschool. “Big” ones like virtual snow days or half days? lol you’re insane. Those are not big issues and you’d be laughed out of any school district anywhere else in the country except MoCo. Parents here are just exceptionally weird and feel entitled to free daycare services while most places have regular half days…. Some even have 4 day school weeks.

Zimmerman should campaign on that. Parents, vote Zimmerman if you want 4 day school weeks! Otherwise there's Diaz.

We know that's what MCEA wants. Look at spring 2021. And if they can't get that, they'll go for half days, which MCEA lobbies for every year.

So no proof at all...and welcome to the year 2024. I'm sorry you seem to be stuck in 2020 but the rest of us have moved on.

Again, MCEA was behind the virtual snow day and every year they try to add more early release days to the calendar. Zimmerman should not be elected to the board.

Zimmerman, who I agree is a weak candidate, still gets my vote because Diaz is crazy. I wish we had better choices, but unfortunately both made it through the primary and we are stuck with one of them. And of the two, there is no question in my mind that Zimmerman is the better choice.

I understand why you would think that. If we were picking a Czar that could unilaterally make decisions, I would agree that Zimmerman would be the better choice. But the winner will be joining a board with six other people, several of whom were selected by MCEA. Diaz won't be able to pass any crazy proposals, but she would provide some balance against the MCEA-affiliated board members.

I don't think we need a school board that's balanced among non-cranks (on the one hand) and hate-supported crank (on the other). I prefer a school board that is an unbalanced 100% non-crank, 0% hate-supported crank.

Exactly this. All these people being like “oh vote for my candidate even if you think they would do a bad job because they’ll just be one person”

wtf people

Because a bunch of people on the board that are bad in the same way have an additive effect.

And putting bad people on the board has a destructive effect

I mean I get that there’s a sociology to boards but the answer isn’t to put put people on it that have shown they don’t work well with others and are way outside the maintstream

The BOE is currently Entirely bad people. Mainstream boards do not tolerate sexual harassment, embezzlement and waste.

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Anonymous wrote:Voting for the candidate endorsed by the fascist women's auxiliary is not an attractive idea.

Voting for the candidate endorsed by the group that wanted to keep schools closed indefinitely is not an attractive idea.

You’re already wrong bc MCEA never wanted schools closed indefinitely. Educate yourself, because you’re just embarrassing yourself. At best, you’re proving your own ignorance. Worst? You’re straight up a liar.

You've got a short attention span. They were mad when schools partially opened in the spring of 2021, and they were mad when schools remained open in January 2022.

And you want to put them on the BoE. That's nuts.

DP. I don't understand having this hatred towards teachers. These are the same people leading classrooms your kids are in every day, if you have kids.

The issue isn't teachers-- it is MCEA. The union is behind Zimmerman, not rank-and-file teachers. Just like the union was behind school closures and the opposition to special educator recruitment incentives, not the teachers. MCEA shouldn't be anywhere near the board.

You...you realize at one point in her ridiculous teaching "career" Diaz was a part of MCEA, right? The union IS made up of...wait for it.. TEACHERS. What don't you understand about this? Like, how is this hard to understand?

And teachers will often explain that they don't think the union is representing them well.

Teachers aren't the problem. MCEA is the problem.

You're just kind of a stupid person. MCEA is teachers. Made up of teachers. They might not represent every single teacher individually but what entity can? So teachers shouldn't be near the BOA? Teachers are the ones in the building (unlike Diaz who didn't bother to show up for work), every single day doing the work. They know what needs to be changed/fixed/etc. They are the people you want on the board.

Teachers have a conflict of interest. Their interests do not always coincide with what is best for students. That was made very obvious during the pandemic, but there are many other opportunities for that conflict to come through. The other big ones are early release days and virtual snow days. But we've also seen the union push back on attempts to restructure compensation and incentives based on supply/demand for the position (e.g., special educators, STEM).

If you don’t think teachers have students best interest in mind, go private or homeschool. “Big” ones like virtual snow days or half days? lol you’re insane. Those are not big issues and you’d be laughed out of any school district anywhere else in the country except MoCo. Parents here are just exceptionally weird and feel entitled to free daycare services while most places have regular half days…. Some even have 4 day school weeks.

Zimmerman should campaign on that. Parents, vote Zimmerman if you want 4 day school weeks! Otherwise there's Diaz.

We know that's what MCEA wants. Look at spring 2021. And if they can't get that, they'll go for half days, which MCEA lobbies for every year.

So no proof at all...and welcome to the year 2024. I'm sorry you seem to be stuck in 2020 but the rest of us have moved on.

Again, MCEA was behind the virtual snow day and every year they try to add more early release days to the calendar. Zimmerman should not be elected to the board.

Zimmerman, who I agree is a weak candidate, still gets my vote because Diaz is crazy. I wish we had better choices, but unfortunately both made it through the primary and we are stuck with one of them. And of the two, there is no question in my mind that Zimmerman is the better choice.

I understand why you would think that. If we were picking a Czar that could unilaterally make decisions, I would agree that Zimmerman would be the better choice. But the winner will be joining a board with six other people, several of whom were selected by MCEA. Diaz won't be able to pass any crazy proposals, but she would provide some balance against the MCEA-affiliated board members.

I don't think we need a school board that's balanced among non-cranks (on the one hand) and hate-supported crank (on the other). I prefer a school board that is an unbalanced 100% non-crank, 0% hate-supported crank.

Exactly this. All these people being like “oh vote for my candidate even if you think they would do a bad job because they’ll just be one person”

wtf people

Because a bunch of people on the board that are bad in the same way have an additive effect.

And putting bad people on the board has a destructive effect

I mean I get that there’s a sociology to boards but the answer isn’t to put put people on it that have shown they don’t work well with others and are way outside the maintstream

The BOE is currently Entirely bad people. Mainstream boards do not tolerate sexual harassment, embezzlement and waste.

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Anonymous wrote:Voting for the candidate endorsed by the fascist women's auxiliary is not an attractive idea.

Voting for the candidate endorsed by the group that wanted to keep schools closed indefinitely is not an attractive idea.

You’re already wrong bc MCEA never wanted schools closed indefinitely. Educate yourself, because you’re just embarrassing yourself. At best, you’re proving your own ignorance. Worst? You’re straight up a liar.

You've got a short attention span. They were mad when schools partially opened in the spring of 2021, and they were mad when schools remained open in January 2022.

And you want to put them on the BoE. That's nuts.

DP. I don't understand having this hatred towards teachers. These are the same people leading classrooms your kids are in every day, if you have kids.

The issue isn't teachers-- it is MCEA. The union is behind Zimmerman, not rank-and-file teachers. Just like the union was behind school closures and the opposition to special educator recruitment incentives, not the teachers. MCEA shouldn't be anywhere near the board.

You...you realize at one point in her ridiculous teaching "career" Diaz was a part of MCEA, right? The union IS made up of...wait for it.. TEACHERS. What don't you understand about this? Like, how is this hard to understand?

And teachers will often explain that they don't think the union is representing them well.

Teachers aren't the problem. MCEA is the problem.

You're just kind of a stupid person. MCEA is teachers. Made up of teachers. They might not represent every single teacher individually but what entity can? So teachers shouldn't be near the BOA? Teachers are the ones in the building (unlike Diaz who didn't bother to show up for work), every single day doing the work. They know what needs to be changed/fixed/etc. They are the people you want on the board.

Teachers have a conflict of interest. Their interests do not always coincide with what is best for students. That was made very obvious during the pandemic, but there are many other opportunities for that conflict to come through. The other big ones are early release days and virtual snow days. But we've also seen the union push back on attempts to restructure compensation and incentives based on supply/demand for the position (e.g., special educators, STEM).

If you don’t think teachers have students best interest in mind, go private or homeschool. “Big” ones like virtual snow days or half days? lol you’re insane. Those are not big issues and you’d be laughed out of any school district anywhere else in the country except MoCo. Parents here are just exceptionally weird and feel entitled to free daycare services while most places have regular half days…. Some even have 4 day school weeks.

Zimmerman should campaign on that. Parents, vote Zimmerman if you want 4 day school weeks! Otherwise there's Diaz.

We know that's what MCEA wants. Look at spring 2021. And if they can't get that, they'll go for half days, which MCEA lobbies for every year.

So no proof at all...and welcome to the year 2024. I'm sorry you seem to be stuck in 2020 but the rest of us have moved on.

Again, MCEA was behind the virtual snow day and every year they try to add more early release days to the calendar. Zimmerman should not be elected to the board.

Zimmerman, who I agree is a weak candidate, still gets my vote because Diaz is crazy. I wish we had better choices, but unfortunately both made it through the primary and we are stuck with one of them. And of the two, there is no question in my mind that Zimmerman is the better choice.

I understand why you would think that. If we were picking a Czar that could unilaterally make decisions, I would agree that Zimmerman would be the better choice. But the winner will be joining a board with six other people, several of whom were selected by MCEA. Diaz won't be able to pass any crazy proposals, but she would provide some balance against the MCEA-affiliated board members.

I don't think we need a school board that's balanced among non-cranks (on the one hand) and hate-supported crank (on the other). I prefer a school board that is an unbalanced 100% non-crank, 0% hate-supported crank.

Exactly this. All these people being like “oh vote for my candidate even if you think they would do a bad job because they’ll just be one person”

wtf people

Because a bunch of people on the board that are bad in the same way have an additive effect.

And putting bad people on the board has a destructive effect

I mean I get that there’s a sociology to boards but the answer isn’t to put put people on it that have shown they don’t work well with others and are way outside the maintstream