Moms for Liberty - CCMD Exposed

06/09/2025

In case you missed it.

Alexa Sciuto is kicking ass and taking names! Go get em!

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1G5q577P3V/

Alexa Sciuto, an LGBTQIA+ advocate who formerly taught in Baltimore County, claims the conservative legislators falsely accused her of making online death threats toward a Moms for Liberty member.

05/12/2025

Should a sitting Board of Education Member, be praising the very group that has been fighting to destroy our school system? The same group that is behind the push for the charter school?

Mr. Whisler appears to think it is quite appropriate to pander to this extremist group of moms.

04/17/2025

Hey Steve Whisler for Maryland State Delegate

What happened to everything you promised in your paid ads when you ran for Board of Education? We thought you were going to make sure that the teachers and students had all the resources they need to succeed? Or did that only mean that you were going to make sure that you had all the resources YOU needed to go on vacation on the taxpayer's dime??

What promises do you plan to make us in your run for delegate? Are you hoping for a bigger, grander vacation than just another cruise.

Are you going to go to the SBAE event in June in Ohio? Are we paying for that too? Or are you going to skip that one because you can't get on a cruise from there?

Do you have any response to our last post? We are surprised that none of your friends have come out to defend your use of CCPS funds. There are many questions from constituents looking for answers in the comments. You should start there, remember, people that may or may not vote for you for Delegate are watching!

04/16/2025

Mr. Whisler, current Board of Education member, and candidate for Delegate representing Carroll County, has stated multiple times that he is against requesting additional funding from the County Commissioners for our school system. He has justified his statements by saying that the school system should "live within our means" on multiple occasions.

He is also a strong supporter of the Charter School that members of Moms for Liberty have submitted an application to the state to have in our county. He has stated numerous times, erroneously, that this charter will not take funds away from the other schools. However, he forgets that funding follows the student, just like with Blueprint, the per pupil funding would follow the student. So if you take away a dozen students from one school, and send them to this charter, you take away the funding for that dozen students, which could negatively impact the resources and teachers available at the home school.

However, the charter school and Blueprint are not the topics of this post.

Mr. Whisler, who states the school system should live within its means, and not request additional funding, took it upon himself to attend a conference in Florida, on his personal time, not officially as a representative of the CCPS BOE. He then decided to fly into Tampa a week early, rumor has it that he took a cruise, then checked into the hotel in Orlando for the conference.

Mr "live within our means" requested (and had approved) the charges for his flight to Tampa Florida for his vacation, the hotel for the conference that he was not attending in an official capacity, and his flight home from Orlando Florida!

Mr "live within our means" had CCPS pay for his vacation! How is that living within your means?

04/15/2025

We will have an interesting little post for you all later today or early tomorrow at the latest, but in the meantime, we wanted to draw attention to Carroll County Sheriff's Office - Maryland very own Sheriff Jim DeWees' latest statements on the detainment of a member of our community.

This is the same Sheriff, that our commissioners have given over 20 new police cruisers to, has budgeted for a brand new multi-million dollar building for, and is discussing spending over 500 thousand dollars on a new swat vehicle for.

Yet, these commissioners refuse to fund our schools. Why is that?

04/11/2025

CCPS needs our help. This waiver will help our school system navigate this budget issue we are having. Please take the time and submit your feedback, in support of the waiver that CCPS is requesting.

On March 25, given overwhelming community feedback, Dr. Cynthia McCabe, Superintendent of Schools, announced that we were pausing the school and classroom level staffing changes planned to comply with Blueprint for Maryland's Future requirements. This pause in making the changes to staffing and class sizes was made pending the outcome of a waiver process before the Accountability and Implementation Board (AIB). We submitted our waiver request on April 1, 2025, to the AIB.

It is important that we send a message to the AIB that our community strongly supports this waiver. We would encourage you to review the waiver request which is available at https://bit.ly/429qHst.. If you support the waiver request, we urge you to email the AIB at [email protected] to inform them of your support.

Your message may be very brief, simply indicating that you request that the AIB approve the CCPS waiver request. The AIB is expected to make a decision on April 17; therefore, all emails must be received no later than Wednesday, April 16.

Thank you for your support in this very important matter.

03/26/2025

Mr, Whisler has a history of attacking those that speak out against him, as well as blocking them on his social media accounts, sometimes going so far as to cause issues for them at their places of employment.

The next time he claims to support local small businesses, remind him of the small business that was attacked by him, that filed a complaint against him with the state.

The screenshot below is what the state had to say about Mr. Whisler and how he conducts himself.

https://marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/legalopinions/2025/02/ITMO-Request-for-Removal-of-LB-Member-Whisler.Op.No.25-09.pdf

03/25/2025

It would appear that Mr. Whisler has decided to move up his announcement of his candidacy, to today, instead of waiting until his big party. I wonder why?!

As usual, Mr. Whisler has decided that the best way to get himself elected is to lie, and spread misinformation.

Here are a few of his mistruths he stated in his announcement, feel free to add more as you read his statements:

"raised new teacher salaries to $60,000 - two years ahead of the state's mandate"

Mr. Whisler has publicly and clearly stated that they should never have raised the salaries early.

"delivered results without forcing County Commissioners to raise taxes"

What results have you delivered? The almost guaranteed at this point loss of over 90+ teachers and resource staff? Those are some amazing results Mr. Whisler!

"expanded career & tech education"

Mr. Whisler, you had nothing to do with expanding career and tech education, as a matter of fact, the plaque that is hanging on the wall in the Career & Tech Center, doesn't even have your name on it!

"chairs the Board's Legislative Affairs Committee"

Mr. Whisler, what committee? This committee doesn't exist. You are nothing more than a Carroll County Liaison to MABE's Legislative Affairs Committee!

"collaborates with commissioners, the current state delegation, and other legislators statewide"

In what capacity Mr. Whisler? Your role on the Board of Education does not allow you to do this as a BOE member, as a matter of fact, this could be seen as a clear case of collusion, if you are discussing BOE matters with outside officials.

"Supporting Small Businesses"

Publicly attacking small businesses, that speak out against you, including a small local bookstore, doesn't seem to support this statement.

Those are just a few of his mistruths, that jumped out at us when reading through his announcement, feel free to add what jumped out at you in the comments below!

03/24/2025

Breaking news! He has plans to announce this at his coming event, I thought you all might want to hear it first ....

02/24/2025

Most of you are already aware that CCPS has a bit of a budget crisis for the coming school year. You are also likely aware that the BOE is going to request more funding from the County Commissioners, and that they are asking state to relax some of the funding requirements so that they can disperse funds a little more freely.

What you may not be aware of are the details, and why they are important.

The BOE voted during the most recent meeting, to request a total of $57 Million dollars from the Commissioners. $13 Million of this would be considered "unrestricted" funds, that would be used for things like saving Outdoor School (Hooray!!!!) and other programs. This also would have an effect on negotiations and our bus contracts. However, in order to have $13 Million in the "unrestricted" funds pot, we need more money in the funds required by Blueprint, hence the other $44 Million.

The way funding in Blueprint works, you need a % of funding to be used on the requirements in Blueprint, before you can allocate funding to your "unrestricted" budget.

This $44 Million, would go a long way to helping CCPS hire and acquire more staff and resources to meet the Blueprint requirements, to elevate the Tier 4 and Tier 5 schools, to bring them up to par with the other schools in CCPS. These funds would make it so that fewer positions would have to be eliminated, and fewer staff would be required to move to different schools. This would also make it less likely that we would hit that 40 students per class number that has been going around.

What our friends in Moms for Liberty, don't seem to understand, is the basic math of this situation. Well, that and the entire concept. Mr. Whisler proved, during the BOE meeting and on his social media, that he had no clue what he was talking about, and now we see that his bestie Ms. Hart, and even his wife are running with a similar narrative.

In short, CCPS needs the Commissioners to increase the CCPS Budget by $57 Million. Anything less than this will still have major impacts on our school system, and likely would not be able to save Outdoor School, like so many of you have been posting about.

Edit: Corrected reference to Title 1 and Title 2, and replaced with the correct terms Tier 1 and Tier 2.

Edit to correct referenced Tiers. Tiers 1 and 2 are the higher income, higher performing school tiers.

11/03/2024

West Middle PTO is hosting a basket bingo! There are some amazing baskets up for grabs. Many of you know these events are important fundraisers for our schools, and the PTO members work hard to get donations from the community. Many of you also know that the adults are who spends the money to play.

Apparently Moms for Liberty isn't aware, or doesn't care about those facts. They, as usual, are attempting to create controversy, in an attempt to gain membership in their little hate group.

Here you will see Ms. Maerten, failed candidate and member of the BMW Slate for Carroll County Commissioner, and Ms. Hinkhaus, current chair of the Family Life Committee, expressing their disgust over a book in one of these donated baskets.

If you love bingo, and love baskets of goodies, go out and support one of our local PTOs and go to this amazing event!

See https://facebook.com/events/s/west-middle-pto-basket-bingo/706710691627372/ for more information and to register!!!