1/🧵 Marilou Estes needs to step down from the #CUSD race. Here’s why.

If you haven’t yet watched the @SecularAZ candidate forum from earlier this week, go do that:

fb.watch/cKwE28SoV2/
2/🧵 It was an excellent opportunity for EVERY (yup, every) candidate for CUSD to show us who they are, and what they’re about.

And every single one of them did…
3/🧵 Kurt and Charlotte RSVP’d that they were busy or whatever.

Patti Serrano, Crystal Markowski, and Matt Young participated.

Marilou Estes did not participate or reply to the invite. It would seem that perhaps she just wasn’t interested, except…
4/🧵… she took enough of an interest to put a false claim on Facebook that not every candidate was invited.

Luckily it was seen by the one person who could immediately demonstrate with proof that this was just not true. But it was reckless, irresponsible, and frankly childish.
5/🧵Her false claim appears to have been posted the day of the forum. So even if she WAS left off (she wasn’t) if she was going to be upset about this the mature/responsible course of action would have been to reach out, introduce herself, and express interest in participating.
6/🧵 As it turns out, a candidate actually WAS erroneously left off the initial invite. But because of their close, regular involvement with CUSD-focused efforts, she learned of it, expressed a desire to participate, and this got fixed. And she made it! See how easy that was!
7/🧵 While the false claim was immediately proven false with that screenshot, clearly doubts are lingering out there about what actually happened. This happened elsewhere on FB:
8/🧵 When others there saw this and asked Marilou to basically do better about dispelling these lingering doubts, detailing the potential harm here, one person was pretty much blown off, and another person (as of the update received while typing this) has yet to be acknowledged.
9/🧵 Y’all this is just ridiculous. We have enough problems to solve, no? Are we really gonna vote for someone content to literally invent problems???
10/🧵 And hey, how many of the problems that we already have resulted from #CUSD leadership creating problems, not addressing them, not caring who gets hurt along the way, refusing to take any accountability/responsibility, and/or just ignoring ppl’s calls to do better?
11/🧵 Sound familiar?

This is so childish, y’all. And it NEVER NEEDED TO HAPPEN. There is no way of knowing if every repeat of this rumor is being caught. People only know about the ones which have been seen and caught. But why are other people having to clean up her mess?
12/🧵 A well-respected, fierce public school advocate should not have to worry if her reputation is taking a hit, or that of her org, b/c someone threw a tantrum via a false claim and then couldn’t be bothered to check their YAHOO SPAM FOLDER to clear this up once and for all.
13/🧵 As said by the one person asking her to do better… this is not leadership. It’s not. It’s just not. I don’t really care how many LD meetings she’s been to or goes to.
14/🧵 I know what Jeanne has done for #CUSD. I know what her involvement has been, and I know what her ongoing efforts are.

When I see a SOI filed for a board spot, and my only possible reaction is “who?” followed by trying to figure out how this person has been involved…
15/🧵…SPECIFICALLY w/ CUSD board business/developments, and the best I can find is they’re running around at events they’d likely be at anyway, collecting signatures for themself, to get ON that board? I already have questions for that person.
16/🧵 When I see this type of bullshit? I have no questions for them or anyone else who conducts themself in this manner.

Foolishness aside, managing an email inbox is like, THE GODDAMN FLOOR of what a board member needs to be able to do.
17/🧵 So… I don’t know Marilou, at all. From anything. But someone who does should maybe have a talk with her?

Our #CUSD candidate field is already too crowded. We already have 2 AMAZING candidates running for the 2 open seats.

Why, Chandler? WHY?!
*Markowsky !!! With a “y” !!! I just realized my autocorrect seems to like an “I” at the end there. Sorry, Crystal!!!

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May 1
1/🧵 Matt Young needs to step down from the #CUSD race. Here’s why.

If you haven’t yet watched the @SecularAZ candidate forum from earlier this week, go do that:

fb.watch/cKwE28SoV2/
2/🧵 Matt was unable to answer even basic questions about recent developments in CUSD, even some of the most explosive ones.

Early on, he shared that he decided to run in February after seeing too much that he didn’t like.

So presumably he was really dialed-in in February…
3/🧵 Except the KB policy disaster boiled over at the Feb 9 mtg:

When asked about it, Matt

✅ didn’t seem to know what it was
✅hadn’t done anything about it
✅ hoped it wouldn’t affect his son
✅ said “the board sits under the superintendent” 😬
Read 11 tweets
May 1
Attn #Chandler !

We need to talk.

It would be impossible to overstate the significance of this upcoming #CUSD election. We will either unlock the potential for amazing things to happen, or we will welcome in immeasurable harm.

There are things that just need to be said.
Y’all might not like what I’m about to say. You can think the honesty is rude. You can even be mad about it. But I pay VERY close/careful attention to what’s going on w/ #CUSD board/admin. So if you want to say I’m wrong, please make sure you have what you need to back that up.
Whether these are easy or hard for y’all to accept, they are all true & all need to be said.

re: #CUSD election & the potential for amazing things

Patti Serrano & Crystal Markowsky are both fantastic. They are undeniably the best candidates, & the ones we need on that board.
Read 7 tweets
Apr 29
1/ Hey #Chandler let’s not let this slide, huh? And let’s also refuse to accept there was nothing they could do.

If they can’t figure out how to run a school district AND show compassion/empathy for children at the same time, they have no business occupying those chairs.
2/ Pls go watch this child’s entire address in the thread above, & see how terribly she was treated. Here, we’ll revisit a key line:
“I’m here today to urge you to specifically redefine goals for equity and non discrimination in the 2023 political agenda.”

This. Really. Matters.
3/ And in case you think Board Pres Mozdzen was having a quiet night, just a few racist minutes before that student spoke she was all smiles & giggles basking in the glory of all the CUSD awards/scholarships/sunshine/rainbows they were all-too-happy to display earlier that mtg.
Read 18 tweets
Apr 28
1/🧵 Attention #Chandler. If you’re wondering what type of people are running our schools, please watch how Board President Barb Mozdzen and Superintendent @FrankNarducci responded to the following heart-wrenching address from a CUSD student at tonight’s meeting…
2/ 🧵 I’ve cut the clip to remove her name and school. People have been unbelievably shitty towards children who have spoken at these meetings. (Yes, I’m well aware that it’s still [all those things]. If you’re here to critique that keep moving.)
3/ 🧵 She begins by thanking the board and saying “Good evening. My name is ______ and I’m a sophomore at ______.” She then goes into an address that is beyond heart-breaking. I’m not sure what else to even say other than TW: bullying/harassment/violence/bigotry/everything ugly.
Read 9 tweets
Apr 28
@ChandlerUnified board meeting starts in just a few mins!

Watch live here:



(ps NO written comments submitted this week.)
I highly recommend watching the CUSD candidate forum from last night, graciously hosted by @SecularAZ and facilitated by the always fabulous @JeanneCasteen.
The forum link would help there, huh? (Sorry I don’t do the book, Face anymore!)

fb.watch/cFH_IoHnzk/
Read 13 tweets
Apr 5
1/🧵(Full-disclosure: I have a LOT of HW to do here as I just became aware of this situation today. For ex: Why did I just become aware of this situation today????)

Earlier, I came across this thread from Pima County Recorder Cázares-Kelly:
2/🧵 I decided to look into what she was describing. Not because I didn’t believe her - I do, and you should too - but because THIS is the sort of white supremacist bullshit that she is up against.

Sorry- what was that?

The additional work her office has to do is important???
3/🧵 Psst!!! THE FUCKING WHITE SUPREMACY IS IMPORTANT, @PimaDems.

This should go without saying except before you were worried about the extra work this was making for her office, your knee-jerk reaction was to kool-aid man yourselves in, concerned w/ defending… you. So… 🤷🏻‍♀️
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