I support GDS.

Anonymous wrote:There's already a thread.

And Gary Goodweather is better than JLG or private-school McDuffie.

+1

Anthony Williams, and s/he means bureaucrat, not autocrat.

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Anonymous wrote:JLG has been incredibly engaged with Ward 4 education activists and schools. I have my doubts McDuffie could say the same.

I don't think you have to agree with her or with him on specific topics, but I'd much rather go with an engaged mayor on education than one who is not.

I agree she is engaged. I've met her and she is very happy to listen and engage.

But many of her actual ideas are really, really bad. Im coming around to preferring a disengaged person with better ideas to an engaged person with destructive ideas.

An appointed, competent autocrat saved DC from itself. Then we elected him and he did a phenomenal job. People who are arguing that "engagement" of any sort is more important than ideas might want to consider that's the same line of thinking that go Trump elected. "He listens to me, understands my plight and I would want to have a beer with him."

Maybe it has just been a long day, but I have no idea who you are referring to in this thread - who is the autocrat who did a phenomenal job? If we are talking about the mayoral race, are you referencing back to Fenty?

This person was probably talking about Anthony Williams, who was the CFO for DC who balanced the budget, and then went on to become the mayor who brought in enough investment to fuel DC's growth for more than a decade.

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Anonymous wrote:JLG has been incredibly engaged with Ward 4 education activists and schools. I have my doubts McDuffie could say the same.

I don't think you have to agree with her or with him on specific topics, but I'd much rather go with an engaged mayor on education than one who is not.

I agree she is engaged. I've met her and she is very happy to listen and engage.

But many of her actual ideas are really, really bad. Im coming around to preferring a disengaged person with better ideas to an engaged person with destructive ideas.

An appointed, competent autocrat saved DC from itself. Then we elected him and he did a phenomenal job. People who are arguing that "engagement" of any sort is more important than ideas might want to consider that's the same line of thinking that go Trump elected. "He listens to me, understands my plight and I would want to have a beer with him."

Maybe it has just been a long day, but I have no idea who you are referring to in this thread - who is the autocrat who did a phenomenal job? If we are talking about the mayoral race, are you referencing back to Fenty?

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Anonymous wrote:JLG has been incredibly engaged with Ward 4 education activists and schools. I have my doubts McDuffie could say the same.

I don't think you have to agree with her or with him on specific topics, but I'd much rather go with an engaged mayor on education than one who is not.

I am honestly torn. We live in Ward 4 and her office was responsive about some pool issues. But we didn't hear a word from them when we wrote to ask that she support opening schools, after over a year of covid closures. Her office instead supported a policy of closing schools anytime the citywide positivity rate went above some threshold (luckily it didn't happen). That was so misguided and they were so unresponsive about why that would be the right policy, I can't let it go.

DC kept schools closed longer than almost any other place and even after they finally opened -- like, months after they finally reopened, JLG was still trying to reclose them because she will do literally anything WTU asks. It was unforgiveable, I think, and I will never vote for her again after that.

I see you hate teachers, speech language pathologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, social workers, etc.

If you hate us, home school. What’s unforgivable is the lies you people like to spout because you’d rather see a man in office who doesn’t give a single penny about public schooling.

He has been on the council for over a decade and has not pushed for anything beyond modernization (just for dcps btw) and tech. He has also not given ten anything passed.

How can anyone possibly still defend closing schools for as long as we did? There is a generation of kids who basically never came back to school. It was a disaster.

Teachers are essential workers like nurses and doctors. Most other societies recognized this.

Anonymous wrote:She hates charters with a passion and supports a plan their funding by $9k+ per child.

False.

Both McDuffie and JLG oppose the $1,850 per pupil funding gap in Bowser's budget proposal.

“‘The third thing that is important for me … is making sure that we have a fair funding formula for both our DC public schools and DC charter schools. And so that means everything needs to go through the funding formula. And what we have done is created an inequitable system by taking our funds out of that funding formula and then piecemealing our funding. We need to make sure that all of our students get the dollars they deserve because all of our students deserve the same level of investment.’” — Councilmember Janeese Lewis George, speaking at the Washington Latin Public Charter School education forum

“‘The school funding formula exists for a reason: to ensure every student is funded fairly and transparently. When we pull dollars out of the formula, it is students in our highest-need schools, particularly those in Wards 5, 7 and 8. Every child in the District deserves a quality education, no matter their ZIP code, school, or family income. As Mayor, I will fully fund and follow the funding formula to protect at-risk dollars.’” — Former At-Large Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie

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Anonymous wrote:Cannot vote for any candidate endorsed by the WTU.

So you hate teachers then?

NP. I hate the WTU. I think they are crooked. They are a detriment to our kids' education. I also love teachers.

If you can't differentiate between teachers and the WTU then...you probably collect a paycheck from the WTU.

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Anonymous wrote:JLG has been incredibly engaged with Ward 4 education activists and schools. I have my doubts McDuffie could say the same.

I don't think you have to agree with her or with him on specific topics, but I'd much rather go with an engaged mayor on education than one who is not.

I agree she is engaged. I've met her and she is very happy to listen and engage.

But many of her actual ideas are really, really bad. Im coming around to preferring a disengaged person with better ideas to an engaged person with destructive ideas.

An appointed, competent autocrat saved DC from itself. Then we elected him and he did a phenomenal job. People who are arguing that "engagement" of any sort is more important than ideas might want to consider that's the same line of thinking that go Trump elected. "He listens to me, understands my plight and I would want to have a beer with him."

Anonymous wrote:Cannot vote for any candidate endorsed by the WTU.

I think this is the thing that will push me to McDuffie.

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Anonymous wrote:JLG has been incredibly engaged with Ward 4 education activists and schools. I have my doubts McDuffie could say the same.

I don't think you have to agree with her or with him on specific topics, but I'd much rather go with an engaged mayor on education than one who is not.

I am honestly torn. We live in Ward 4 and her office was responsive about some pool issues. But we didn't hear a word from them when we wrote to ask that she support opening schools, after over a year of covid closures. Her office instead supported a policy of closing schools anytime the citywide positivity rate went above some threshold (luckily it didn't happen). That was so misguided and they were so unresponsive about why that would be the right policy, I can't let it go.

DC kept schools closed longer than almost any other place and even after they finally opened -- like, months after they finally reopened, JLG was still trying to reclose them because she will do literally anything WTU asks. It was unforgiveable, I think, and I will never vote for her again after that.

I’m a bit stuck, as I have the same type of grudge against McDuffie. I’m not a big fan of JLG, but his enthusiastic support of the absolutely embarrassing cash giveaway to the Commanders disqualifies him from ever being a contender for mayor in my mind. They wanted back to DC so badly, we are staring down a bleak budget, and we somehow still let them bleed us dry. He only regrets not being the mayor when it was inked. The corporate coziness worked when we were booming, but like h*ll I’d vote for that guy as mayor right now.

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Anonymous wrote:JLG has been incredibly engaged with Ward 4 education activists and schools. I have my doubts McDuffie could say the same.

I don't think you have to agree with her or with him on specific topics, but I'd much rather go with an engaged mayor on education than one who is not.

Engaged on basically anything… and I totally agree. Anyone who votes for McDuffie and then is surprised that he had literally no principles or interest in engaging anyone except special interest groups and corporations with $$$ deserves what they get.

So true. When they see him slash funding or give a position to his cousin (look it up) they should not be surprised.

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Anonymous wrote:JLG has been incredibly engaged with Ward 4 education activists and schools. I have my doubts McDuffie could say the same.

I don't think you have to agree with her or with him on specific topics, but I'd much rather go with an engaged mayor on education than one who is not.

I am honestly torn. We live in Ward 4 and her office was responsive about some pool issues. But we didn't hear a word from them when we wrote to ask that she support opening schools, after over a year of covid closures. Her office instead supported a policy of closing schools anytime the citywide positivity rate went above some threshold (luckily it didn't happen). That was so misguided and they were so unresponsive about why that would be the right policy, I can't let it go.

DC kept schools closed longer than almost any other place and even after they finally opened -- like, months after they finally reopened, JLG was still trying to reclose them because she will do literally anything WTU asks. It was unforgiveable, I think, and I will never vote for her again after that.

I see you hate teachers, speech language pathologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, social workers, etc.

If you hate us, home school. What’s unforgivable is the lies you people like to spout because you’d rather see a man in office who doesn’t give a single penny about public schooling.

He has been on the council for over a decade and has not pushed for anything beyond modernization (just for dcps btw) and tech. He has also not given ten anything passed.

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Anonymous wrote:She hates charters with a passion and supports a plan their funding by $9k+ per child.

I am actually worried that she is going to undermine charters somehow. I've never heard her say a positive word about them, while mcDuffie says charters need to be funded the same as DCPS because half the students attend charters. He clearly has no animosity towards charters but I think JLG actually does.

Anonymous wrote:Cannot vote for any candidate endorsed by the WTU.

So you hate teachers then?