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Anonymous wrote:There were some good candidates who did not make it through the primary. Melissa Kim comes to mind.

Melissa ran a horribly late and lazy campaign.

Well she was a terrific candidate wuth it’s of relevant experience. Running a good campaign and being a good candidate are different things.

If you can’t muster up the energy to run a good campaign, how will you get people to vote for you? Most people have no idea who she is.

Then people on this board complaining about the BOE members should support people like Melissa who can be successful. Things will not change until we elect competent people.

We should support someone who couldn't muster up the skill and competence to run a successful campaign? How does that make sense? I think you've lost it.

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Anonymous wrote:There were some good candidates who did not make it through the primary. Melissa Kim comes to mind.

Yes, she is good. New to campaigning, and that is a learned skill. But she is a master educator and an experienced school district administrator. We could use her right now. I suspect our magnets would not be so endangered. And the superintendent would slow down on uprooting everything with insufficient information.

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Anonymous wrote:Make it full time jobs with oversight and accountability and you'll get real candidates and time devoted to things and research and the work that needs doing.

LOL just announced that BOE staff refuse to work for her. She can’t have oversight when Taylor freezes out BOE members.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone was hopeful when all incumbents (Lynne Harris, Rebecca Smondrowski and Shebra Evans) were pushed out of the BOE.

But Rita Montoya, Laura Stewart and Natalie Zimmerman have all been absolute flops who have failed to deliver on their campaign promises of increased transparency and accountability for MCPS. They almost immediately became part of the MCPS machine and have been chirpily toeing the party line and nauesatingly spending their time in BOE meetings thanking people for showing up to present or testify.

Agreed- it's disappointing. I thought we would finally see a shift but it's been more of the same.

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Anonymous wrote:I take the Apple ballot and make sure I don’t vote for anybody on it. I know it’s inconsequential because everybody else does but it’s a small political statement I make.

Wow arent' you a genius voting for the idiots in the room.

I don’t vote for people I don’t like.

It really doesn't matter. Taylor isn't going to listen to anything the BOE says. He's king.

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Anonymous wrote:I take the Apple ballot and make sure I don’t vote for anybody on it. I know it’s inconsequential because everybody else does but it’s a small political statement I make.

Wow arent' you a genius voting for the idiots in the room.

I don’t vote for people I don’t like.

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Anonymous wrote:I take the Apple ballot and make sure I don’t vote for anybody on it. I know it’s inconsequential because everybody else does but it’s a small political statement I make.

Wow arent' you a genius voting for the idiots in the room.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Make it full time jobs with oversight and accountability and you'll get real candidates and time devoted to things and research and the work that needs doing.

LOL just announced that BOE staff refuse to work for her. She can’t have oversight when Taylor freezes out BOE members.

Anonymous wrote:Make it full time jobs with oversight and accountability and you'll get real candidates and time devoted to things and research and the work that needs doing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There were some good candidates who did not make it through the primary. Melissa Kim comes to mind.

Yes, she is good. New to campaigning, and that is a learned skill. But she is a master educator and an experienced school district administrator. We could use her right now. I suspect our magnets would not be so endangered. And the superintendent would slow down on uprooting everything with insufficient information.

Anonymous wrote:There have been good candidates in the past, and they always lose. Two reasons:

1. If you don't get endorsed by the union (MCEA) and end up on the Apple Ballot, you wont' have sufficient support.
2. Most voters do not have kids in MCPS. They don't really care that much about BOE, so they vote whoever has the most advertssing = BOE and Apple Ballot.

Our solution was to move to private.

Anonymous wrote:I take the Apple ballot and make sure I don’t vote for anybody on it. I know it’s inconsequential because everybody else does but it’s a small political statement I make.

Anonymous wrote:There were some good candidates who did not make it through the primary. Melissa Kim comes to mind.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There were some good candidates who did not make it through the primary. Melissa Kim comes to mind.

Melissa ran a horribly late and lazy campaign.

Well she was a terrific candidate wuth it’s of relevant experience. Running a good campaign and being a good candidate are different things.

If you can’t muster up the energy to run a good campaign, how will you get people to vote for you? Most people have no idea who she is.

Then people on this board complaining about the BOE members should support people like Melissa who can be successful. Things will not change until we elect competent people.

We should support someone who couldn't muster up the skill and competence to run a successful campaign? How does that make sense? I think you've lost it.