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Read more: MCPS Teacher Spreads Self Authored Nonbinary Identity Book
MCPS Teacher Spreads Self Authored Nonbinary Identity Book
An MCPS teacher has written a book, titled Hang, The Girl. The Amazon description of the book states: In Hank, the Girl, Hank discovers she is a girl after believing she was a boy. At first, Hank worries what her classmates will think, but she soon realizes their love and friendship are unconditional. As her classmates…
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Read more: FOIA Reveals Elrich Snubbed Jewish Community While Engaging Muslim Community after Oct 7th
FOIA Reveals Elrich Snubbed Jewish Community While Engaging Muslim Community after Oct 7th
A FOIA of MCPS emails related to the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack in Israel obtained by Parents Defending Education revealed that on October 16, 2023 Arwa Abde, Middle Eastern Liaison at the County Office of Community Partnerships, sent out an e mail inviting members of the Middle Eastern American Advisory Group to a…
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Read more: Showing compassion to our unemployed DEI neighbors
Showing compassion to our unemployed DEI neighbors
The Federal Aviation Administration’s Academy in Oklahoma City trains air traffic controllers for domestic and foreign airspace and is one of America’s premier educational institutions. Anyone can apply, few are accepted, even fewer graduate. As an example of the academy’s tough standards, students are given a blank paper and required to draw the airspace for…
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Read more: Petition to Change Gas Leaf Blower Law
Petition to Change Gas Leaf Blower Law
A new petition has been created on Change.org to gather community support for an Amendment to the MoC0 Gas Leaf Blower Ban. In addition to reports from private businesses expressing the need to reduce the size of their workforce to accommodate the cost of this ban, there are also growing reports from HOAs and neighborhood…
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Read more: Despite NCAA changes MCPS Still Promotes Transgender Sports
Despite NCAA changes MCPS Still Promotes Transgender Sports
On February 6th, the NCAA announced that the Board of Governors updated its policy for transgender student-athletes. The changes were in response to an executive order by the Trump administration. The new policy limits competition in women’s sports to student athletes assigned female at birth only. The President of NCAA stated: The NCAA is an…
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Read more: New MD Bill: Don’t use Grok to Mock Me!!
New MD Bill: Don’t use Grok to Mock Me!!
Always on the hunt for potential mechanisms that might undermine their authority or persuade votes to question their service, MoCo Delegate Anne Kaiser has sponsored legislation in the General Assembly to: Prohibiting a person from using fraud to influence or attempt to influence a voter’s voting decision; providing that fraud includes the use of synthetic…
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Read more: Who benefits from Jawando’s zoning pause? Wealthy progressives.
Who benefits from Jawando’s zoning pause? Wealthy progressives.
Michael Bell Wealthy progressives have an interesting personality duality: many of them put We Believe yard signs professing concern for the underserved, and simultaneously they struggle with entitlement. I saw this myself as I took a drive around Chevy Chase Section 5 last November. Many of that area’s palatial homes boast yard signs demanding a…
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Read more: Board of Education Compensation: Part 3—Granting talented teenagers a sense of entitlement
Board of Education Compensation: Part 3—Granting talented teenagers a sense of entitlement
Delegates Vogel and Charkoudian’s giveaway to their friends on the Board of Education includes a scholarship to the student member of the board (SMOB). SMOBs already receive a $25,000 scholarship, and Vogel-Charkoudian want to increase that to the lesser of a) the highest tuition + room + board within UMD and b) 80% of a…
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Read more: Natali announces fix for snow removal
Natali announces fix for snow removal
After receiving around 8 inches of snow this week, receiving multiple complaints about slow snow removal, and being forced to close school for 3 days, Natali-Gonzalez has a decided to take a stand. One Wednesday, she gathered with representatives from CASA to announce that she will be introducing legislation that cancels all current snow removal…
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Read more: Board of Education Compensation: Part 2—Nobody needs a full-time BoE
Board of Education Compensation: Part 2—Nobody needs a full-time BoE
In part 1 of this series we reviewed the historical narrative for granting full-time pay to MCPS Board of Education members. The overarching theme for the pay increase is that the board members are doing full-time work for part-time pay. Here is a map of the counties in the DC region. The ones shaded in…