District 4: Say No to Sezin Palmer (Part 2)

Posted on August 19, 2020August 27, 2020 by Jenny

Sezin Palmer is an unsuitable candidate to represent District 4 on the Board of Education in Howard County. This is a multi-part series discussing the reasons why. See Part 3 here. I recently saw a home in District 4 with several signs in the front yard. Signs for “Hate Has No Home Here,” Black Lives Matter, a rainbow flag, Joe Biden... and one for Sezin Palmer. This baffling incongruity demonstrates how successful Sezin is in misrepresenting herself to heavily Democratic and liberal Distr...

District 4: Say No to Sezin Palmer (Part 1)

Posted on August 13, 2020August 19, 2020 by Jenny

Sezin Palmer is an unsuitable candidate to represent District 4 on the Board of Education in Howard County. This is a multi-part series discussing the reasons why. See Part 2 here. I don’t know about you, but I had never heard of Sezin Palmer until last fall, when she and many other Howard County residents had a collective aneurysm over the idea of redistricting to better integrate our schools by socioeconomic status. The first time I saw her name was shortly after Howard County Public ...

Screaming Into a Pillow

Posted on July 18, 2020August 17, 2020 by Jenny

It’s been a crazy couple of weeks in Howard County. I’m starting to think I need to get a special pillow just for screaming. Does anyone else find themselves doing a lot of that lately? We had County Council Chair Deb Jung muting Councilman Opel Jones in a council Zoom meeting, the technological equivalent of walking over and putting her hand over his mouth. I can’t say I’ve ever seen Board of Education Chair Mavis Ellis ever do that for one of Christina “DeVos” Small’s lengthy sighing di...

Howard County, It’s Time to Ante Up

Posted on June 10, 2020August 17, 2020 by Jenny

It’s probably a safe bet (see what I did there) that you know what ante is. That seed money in the pot is an important part of the poker game. It’s what gets that jackpot growing. And if you don’t ante up, you don’t play. The Howard County Public School System is facing the reality that county residents and elected officials want to win the jackpot without tossing a chip on the table. In January, HCPSS Superintendent Michael Martirano requested a $964.1M FY21 operating budget for the scho...

Analysis of Scott E’s D2 BOE Debate

Posted on May 12, 2020August 17, 2020 by Jenny

*** May 28, 2020: This post originally stated that Larry Pretlow is not a member of the Stevens Forest Elementary School PTA. That is not accurate, and I have updated the post with the correct information. *** At long last, I made it through the last of Scott Ewart's online debates for Howard County Board of Education candidates. Over the weekend, he held the final debate, for District 2. Is anybody else exhausted? (ICYMI: my analyses of the debates for districts 3, 4, and 5.) Havin...