Thanks for sharing, I was unaware of all this. The article doesn't say when the next election is though, any info on that or who else is running?

EDIT: For those of you curious, it looks like the elections are held in April, lookout for a flyer, you can even vote online. Some seats are one and some seats are two years, let's shake things up in April, if the turnout is as low as the article says just a handful of us can make a huge impact!

Good question. I wonder what the CA Board will say in response. I’m most troubled by the fact that they have hired separate legal counsel that’s being paid for with our assessment dollars.

Is there a counterpoint to this article?

These are the statements from McCoy on SROs. She said she is undecided.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0zvZvP4FhBhYgg4L3i5Wfbf4ctYxZ4BKeB6g9iomAe5mXDGNJqjh24xUhcWqavRual&id=100081157609001

Thanks for linking the article … I like 99% of Columbians just pay our dues and don’t think about the CA board.

Really good long informative article

I switched to JHCP at ~20 weeks pregnant in my first pregnancy after a terrible experience at The Women's Group.

The office is very busy and the appointments tend to run late, but I absolutely love the doctors and after 4 miscarriages I have been on the receiving end of the longer/extended appointments that have delayed others' appointments so I am more understanding.

Dr. Colon delivered my first, CRNM Melissa Fleming delivered my second. They are both amazing, though Dr Colon is no longer with the practice. Melissa is a phenomenal human being -- that pregnancy came after 2 miscarriages and about 2 years from the first time I was pregnant with a second child and I don't know if I could have made it through L&D with my anxiety and grief if it wasn't for her incredible support.

Dr Kwong has been there for a few of my miscarriages, including a hospitalization for an ectopic and I just really feel supported and like she is invested in me. Dr Rojas is also so so so incredibly caring and invested.

I really don't think you can go wrong with anyone there.

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https://www.cary-hoco.org/adler

Look at questions 4 and 5.

Also, at a recent BOE candidate forum, a gay father asked Adler (and Chen) why they don’t support his child feeling accepted in school. Adler’s response was that there are parents who aren’t comfortable yet. Others may disagree, but I don’t feel as though people that do not accept gay people in this day and age should dictate school policy. We do not accept racism as a valid reason for making school policy and we should not accept anti-LGBTQ beliefs as a valid reason.

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Let’s just start off with the fact that I did not downvote you so don’t jump to conclusions.

Adler was very good at putting on a nice face and saying things that sound ok at first but weren’t quite what they seemed when you looked deeper, so I didn’t trust her to restrict her position on books to just be “pedophilia dick-sucking.” Her positions on LGBTQ issues is a good example of this. She frequently said that she supported all students and that students should feel welcome and accepted in schools, but then supported policies that treated LGBTQ students like pariahs. Banning even the mention of anything relating to LGBTQ people from middle and elementary schools is absurd and detrimental to LGBTQ youth and kids with LGBTQ families. How do you think a kid in elementary school with 2 male or 2 female parents would feel if in a discussion of families they were not permitted to talk about their family? It’s potentially even worse for middle schoolers given their greater awareness. It’s hard to believe an 8th grader struggling with conflicted feelings about their sexual orientation wouldn’t feel some sort of shame about their feelings if presented with a policy that does not permit the mention of LGBTQ people or that they wouldn’t offended by the reduction of their own parents to inappropriate sexual beings rather than loving parents.

All one has to do is look to the groups pushing the Adler candidacy to see what a change in book policies in schools would have lead to. She was heavily supported by people from two Facebook groups, Howard County Neighbors United and Families Unite Howard County (yes, FUHC). These groups had many postings vilifying LGBTQ people and decrying the “indoctrination of students.” Their complaints went far beyond the example we’re talking about to anything LGBTQ related. To these people anything LGBTQ is sexually explicitly and needs to be banned. It seemed clear to me, given Adler’s position on even talking about LGBTQ issues that she would be sympathetic to this claim at the very least if not an outright supporter of it.

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She supported policies that would have prohibited even mentioning the existence of LGBTQ people in classes below the high school level and even then she supported giving parents the right to pull their kids out of any class that discussed LGBTQ issues. Her opinions on book banning also went beyond just that one example. She supported overriding decisions made by educators and librarians to allow banning books that have “sexually explicitly content”. What exactly is considered sexually explicit remained to be seen, but given the postings on Facebook by her most ardent supporters, it is clear that it if she were in power there would be attempts to ban books more innocuous than the example you provided. That language she used in her campaign, specifically the phrases neighborhood schools and parents rights while sounding innocent enough are code words used by far right groups pushing agendas far right agendas.

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Candidates use language that is associated with different parties. If a candidate says they want to remove CRT from classrooms, they are probably more closely affiliated with one party.

It will burn because we currently have a BOE that is mostly compromised of folks who are only concerned about their political agenda.

Capital Womens health care. Dr. Pilevsky delivered two of my kids and she was my favorite one there. Not sure if she is still an OB, but she is definitely still a gynecologist there.

McCoy is not undecided on SROs. There is video of her stance. She is against and feels staff should be trained in conflict resolution. McCoy also favors busing kids all over the county in the name of equity.

Reading comments like this, it becomes clear why the state of things in our schools is the way that it is.

Sams/BJs/Costco. No point in paying double for a sheet cake when it will be gobbled up.

I was tempted to vote for Newberger and Adler to watch it all burn.

How did that work out for Adler?

I'm with CWC in Rockville and love them. Discussing pregnancy with others and found out I've been given much more in depth care than normal without even asking. Kind and compassionate folks work here.

Seriously, that guy spent a lot of (his own?) money for a BoE race.

Chen prominently displayed that he had a PhD in a STEM field. That's a credential that impresses people that he's a smart guy, even if the field isn't really applicable to a job on the BoE.

As a female I can say I always feel safe anywhere during the day. I avoid walking along at night in my neighborhood out of an abundance of caution. However I have always felt fine walking alone from my car to shops at night.

Not to mention his quote on how we shouldn't talk about LGBTQ families in school because some people aren't ready to accept that yet.