APS - Who is running for School Board?

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Anonymous wrote:I always vote and have voted in past SB caucuses, so I assume I'm on voter lists that candidates can buy. So far I've gotten 1 letter each from Priddy & Krieger and 2 letters from Sims. Nothing from any other candidate.

Consider yourself lucky. I've received countless emails and now texts from Krieger, even though I unsubscribed to his communications multiple times. I can forgive getting a little bit of junk/spam mail from a candidate, but Krieger's campaign just won't quit!

Oh I've gotten emails & texts from Krieger. I was just talking about mail. Kind of surprised I haven't recieved anything from Cristina.

I received a call from one of her volunteers about her being endorsed by the AEA but had already voted for her at that point. Ditto about Terron's letter, but I do like him and David.

I really liked the Q&A on the ArlDems website, especially responses by Sandy and Sims. I also like that they both cut to the chase in a lot of the questionnaires that have been published by different groups. In at least one that I saw, Sandy just responded with a "yes" -- and it was totally appropriate given that it was a yes or no question. Some of the candidates just go on for way too long.

I didn't know there was a Q&A. Thanks for the info! Terron's responses were better than his performance during the ACDC debate, but he is fooling himself to think that he is going to scale a private school model to all of APS. I'm not sure what Sandy was thinking when she said that she doesn't need to have vision to lead APS. Why say that, especially when we need new ideas to get through the next year? I liked Steven's and Cristina's responses. I'm not a fan of David.

Did Sandy really say that? Is the Q&A on facebook ACDC website?

Link?

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Anonymous wrote:I always vote and have voted in past SB caucuses, so I assume I'm on voter lists that candidates can buy. So far I've gotten 1 letter each from Priddy & Krieger and 2 letters from Sims. Nothing from any other candidate.

Consider yourself lucky. I've received countless emails and now texts from Krieger, even though I unsubscribed to his communications multiple times. I can forgive getting a little bit of junk/spam mail from a candidate, but Krieger's campaign just won't quit!

Oh I've gotten emails & texts from Krieger. I was just talking about mail. Kind of surprised I haven't recieved anything from Cristina.

I received a call from one of her volunteers about her being endorsed by the AEA but had already voted for her at that point. Ditto about Terron's letter, but I do like him and David.

I really liked the Q&A on the ArlDems website, especially responses by Sandy and Sims. I also like that they both cut to the chase in a lot of the questionnaires that have been published by different groups. In at least one that I saw, Sandy just responded with a "yes" -- and it was totally appropriate given that it was a yes or no question. Some of the candidates just go on for way too long.

I didn't know there was a Q&A. Thanks for the info! Terron's responses were better than his performance during the ACDC debate, but he is fooling himself to think that he is going to scale a private school model to all of APS. I'm not sure what Sandy was thinking when she said that she doesn't need to have vision to lead APS. Why say that, especially when we need new ideas to get through the next year? I liked Steven's and Cristina's responses. I'm not a fan of David.

Did Sandy really say that? Is the Q&A on facebook ACDC website?

Link?

https://arlingtondemocrats.org/news/

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard Cristina talk a few times, and it never gets better. She only speaks in political jargon and has no clue what it is like to be a parent in APS. She talks a lot about equity, but with no specifics. I think having her on the board will be really scary.

Well, she's not a parent. So she totally lacks that perspective. To me, that, combined with her age, makes her a non-starter.

Now that I've had kids at all levels in APS, I see that so much changes from elem to middle to high school (and there are problems everywhere). That's why I like the candidates with older kids and some perspective. Also why Kreiger's "my kids are young" appeal does nothing for me. All that means is he has no clue what happens in most of APS.

Ditto to the earlier posts about hateful people. I have young kids. My vote is as important as every other person's vote.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard Cristina talk a few times, and it never gets better. She only speaks in political jargon and has no clue what it is like to be a parent in APS. She talks a lot about equity, but with no specifics. I think having her on the board will be really scary.

Well, she's not a parent. So she totally lacks that perspective. To me, that, combined with her age, makes her a non-starter.

Now that I've had kids at all levels in APS, I see that so much changes from elem to middle to high school (and there are problems everywhere). That's why I like the candidates with older kids and some perspective. Also why Kreiger's "my kids are young" appeal does nothing for me. All that means is he has no clue what happens in most of APS.

Ditto to the earlier posts about hateful people. I have young kids. My vote is as important as every other person's vote.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard Cristina talk a few times, and it never gets better. She only speaks in political jargon and has no clue what it is like to be a parent in APS. She talks a lot about equity, but with no specifics. I think having her on the board will be really scary.

Well, she's not a parent. So she totally lacks that perspective. To me, that, combined with her age, makes her a non-starter.

Now that I've had kids at all levels in APS, I see that so much changes from elem to middle to high school (and there are problems everywhere). That's why I like the candidates with older kids and some perspective. Also why Kreiger's "my kids are young" appeal does nothing for me. All that means is he has no clue what happens in most of APS.

Ditto to the earlier posts about hateful people. I have young kids. My vote is as important as every other person's vote.

+1

NP here, so I hope you don't think I'm one of the hateful people. I agree with the PP, though, that one of his campaign selling points is that he has the youngest kids in the system and I don't find that a necessarily compelling argument for me to vote for him. I absolutely think that everyone should vote, no matter the ages of your kids or whether you even have them! But when I see a FB ad from his campaign and the headline is "I have the youngest kids of any candidate or any current School Board member," that really doesn't sell me on him. So what does that really matter? All of the candidates bring a different perspective: Krieger has the youngest kids; Priddy is the only Dem candidate with children of color and with kids in ES and MS; Cristina is the only one without kids; Sandy is the only one with grandkids; Terron seems to be the only one with stepkids, the only one with a kid currently in HS, and possibly the only one with an LGBTQ kid.

While interesting, I don't think any candidate should use those bits of personal data as a primary argument for motivation to elect her or him to SB.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard Cristina talk a few times, and it never gets better. She only speaks in political jargon and has no clue what it is like to be a parent in APS. She talks a lot about equity, but with no specifics. I think having her on the board will be really scary.

Well, she's not a parent. So she totally lacks that perspective. To me, that, combined with her age, makes her a non-starter.

Now that I've had kids at all levels in APS, I see that so much changes from elem to middle to high school (and there are problems everywhere). That's why I like the candidates with older kids and some perspective. Also why Kreiger's "my kids are young" appeal does nothing for me. All that means is he has no clue what happens in most of APS.

Ditto to the earlier posts about hateful people. I have young kids. My vote is as important as every other person's vote.

+1

NP here, so I hope you don't think I'm one of the hateful people. I agree with the PP, though, that one of his campaign selling points is that he has the youngest kids in the system and I don't find that a necessarily compelling argument for me to vote for him. I absolutely think that everyone should vote, no matter the ages of your kids or whether you even have them! But when I see a FB ad from his campaign and the headline is "I have the youngest kids of any candidate or any current School Board member," that really doesn't sell me on him. So what does that really matter? All of the candidates bring a different perspective: Krieger has the youngest kids; Priddy is the only Dem candidate with children of color and with kids in ES and MS; Cristina is the only one without kids; Sandy is the only one with grandkids; Terron seems to be the only one with stepkids, the only one with a kid currently in HS, and possibly the only one with an LGBTQ kid.

While interesting, I don't think any candidate should use those bits of personal data as a primary argument for motivation to elect her or him to SB.

+1 I have no idea why he thinks that's a unique strength. I see the ideas people on AEM throw out as ways to manage the return to school and it's obvious who only considers school through the lens of early elementary school.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard Cristina talk a few times, and it never gets better. She only speaks in political jargon and has no clue what it is like to be a parent in APS. She talks a lot about equity, but with no specifics. I think having her on the board will be really scary.

Well, she's not a parent. So she totally lacks that perspective. To me, that, combined with her age, makes her a non-starter.

Now that I've had kids at all levels in APS, I see that so much changes from elem to middle to high school (and there are problems everywhere). That's why I like the candidates with older kids and some perspective. Also why Kreiger's "my kids are young" appeal does nothing for me. All that means is he has no clue what happens in most of APS.

Ditto to the earlier posts about hateful people. I have young kids. My vote is as important as every other person's vote.

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NP here, so I hope you don't think I'm one of the hateful people. I agree with the PP, though, that one of his campaign selling points is that he has the youngest kids in the system and I don't find that a necessarily compelling argument for me to vote for him. I absolutely think that everyone should vote, no matter the ages of your kids or whether you even have them! But when I see a FB ad from his campaign and the headline is "I have the youngest kids of any candidate or any current School Board member," that really doesn't sell me on him. So what does that really matter? All of the candidates bring a different perspective: Krieger has the youngest kids; Priddy is the only Dem candidate with children of color and with kids in ES and MS; Cristina is the only one without kids; Sandy is the only one with grandkids; Terron seems to be the only one with stepkids, the only one with a kid currently in HS, and possibly the only one with an LGBTQ kid.

While interesting, I don't think any candidate should use those bits of personal data as a primary argument for motivation to elect her or him to SB.

To be clear, I'm not supporting Steven because he has young kids like me. I just thought the previous poster was more interested in negatives than policy. I'd like our SB elections to be less political and demographics based.

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Anonymous wrote:I always vote and have voted in past SB caucuses, so I assume I'm on voter lists that candidates can buy. So far I've gotten 1 letter each from Priddy & Krieger and 2 letters from Sims. Nothing from any other candidate.

Consider yourself lucky. I've received countless emails and now texts from Krieger, even though I unsubscribed to his communications multiple times. I can forgive getting a little bit of junk/spam mail from a candidate, but Krieger's campaign just won't quit!

Oh I've gotten emails & texts from Krieger. I was just talking about mail. Kind of surprised I haven't recieved anything from Cristina.

I received a call from one of her volunteers about her being endorsed by the AEA but had already voted for her at that point. Ditto about Terron's letter, but I do like him and David.

I really liked the Q&A on the ArlDems website, especially responses by Sandy and Sims. I also like that they both cut to the chase in a lot of the questionnaires that have been published by different groups. In at least one that I saw, Sandy just responded with a "yes" -- and it was totally appropriate given that it was a yes or no question. Some of the candidates just go on for way too long.

I didn't know there was a Q&A. Thanks for the info! Terron's responses were better than his performance during the ACDC debate, but he is fooling himself to think that he is going to scale a private school model to all of APS. I'm not sure what Sandy was thinking when she said that she doesn't need to have vision to lead APS. Why say that, especially when we need new ideas to get through the next year? I liked Steven's and Cristina's responses. I'm not a fan of David.

Did Sandy really say that? Is the Q&A on facebook ACDC website?

Link?

https://arlingtondemocrats.org/news/

I'm not sure that Sandy intended to say that vision doesn't matter, but she's certainly lost my vote if she doesn't recognize that what worked before doesn't work now.

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Anonymous wrote:I always vote and have voted in past SB caucuses, so I assume I'm on voter lists that candidates can buy. So far I've gotten 1 letter each from Priddy & Krieger and 2 letters from Sims. Nothing from any other candidate.

Consider yourself lucky. I've received countless emails and now texts from Krieger, even though I unsubscribed to his communications multiple times. I can forgive getting a little bit of junk/spam mail from a candidate, but Krieger's campaign just won't quit!

Oh I've gotten emails & texts from Krieger. I was just talking about mail. Kind of surprised I haven't recieved anything from Cristina.

I received a call from one of her volunteers about her being endorsed by the AEA but had already voted for her at that point. Ditto about Terron's letter, but I do like him and David.

I really liked the Q&A on the ArlDems website, especially responses by Sandy and Sims. I also like that they both cut to the chase in a lot of the questionnaires that have been published by different groups. In at least one that I saw, Sandy just responded with a "yes" -- and it was totally appropriate given that it was a yes or no question. Some of the candidates just go on for way too long.

I didn't know there was a Q&A. Thanks for the info! Terron's responses were better than his performance during the ACDC debate, but he is fooling himself to think that he is going to scale a private school model to all of APS. I'm not sure what Sandy was thinking when she said that she doesn't need to have vision to lead APS. Why say that, especially when we need new ideas to get through the next year? I liked Steven's and Cristina's responses. I'm not a fan of David.

Did Sandy really say that? Is the Q&A on facebook ACDC website?

Link?

https://arlingtondemocrats.org/news/

I'm not sure that Sandy intended to say that vision doesn't matter, but she's certainly lost my vote if she doesn't recognize that what worked before doesn't work now.

I read Sandy's response more as "look, lots of SB members have big ideas (vision), but I, as an educator and someone with real classroom experience, know what will really work. It's one thing to have big ideas, but they're not very helpful if they aren't feasible." But maybe I'm reading too much into the response. Maybe I'm just overtired.

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Anonymous wrote:I always vote and have voted in past SB caucuses, so I assume I'm on voter lists that candidates can buy. So far I've gotten 1 letter each from Priddy & Krieger and 2 letters from Sims. Nothing from any other candidate.

Consider yourself lucky. I've received countless emails and now texts from Krieger, even though I unsubscribed to his communications multiple times. I can forgive getting a little bit of junk/spam mail from a candidate, but Krieger's campaign just won't quit!

Oh I've gotten emails & texts from Krieger. I was just talking about mail. Kind of surprised I haven't recieved anything from Cristina.

I received a call from one of her volunteers about her being endorsed by the AEA but had already voted for her at that point. Ditto about Terron's letter, but I do like him and David.

I really liked the Q&A on the ArlDems website, especially responses by Sandy and Sims. I also like that they both cut to the chase in a lot of the questionnaires that have been published by different groups. In at least one that I saw, Sandy just responded with a "yes" -- and it was totally appropriate given that it was a yes or no question. Some of the candidates just go on for way too long.

I didn't know there was a Q&A. Thanks for the info! Terron's responses were better than his performance during the ACDC debate, but he is fooling himself to think that he is going to scale a private school model to all of APS. I'm not sure what Sandy was thinking when she said that she doesn't need to have vision to lead APS. Why say that, especially when we need new ideas to get through the next year? I liked Steven's and Cristina's responses. I'm not a fan of David.

Did Sandy really say that? Is the Q&A on facebook ACDC website?

Link?

https://arlingtondemocrats.org/news/

I'm not sure that Sandy intended to say that vision doesn't matter, but she's certainly lost my vote if she doesn't recognize that what worked before doesn't work now.

I read Sandy's response more as "look, lots of SB members have big ideas (vision), but I, as an educator and someone with real classroom experience, know what will really work. It's one thing to have big ideas, but they're not very helpful if they aren't feasible." But maybe I'm reading too much into the response. Maybe I'm just overtired.

We need ideas right now I agree that classroom experience can help, she just seems arrogant and overconfident. I like how David listens more than dictates.

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Anonymous wrote:I always vote and have voted in past SB caucuses, so I assume I'm on voter lists that candidates can buy. So far I've gotten 1 letter each from Priddy & Krieger and 2 letters from Sims. Nothing from any other candidate.

Consider yourself lucky. I've received countless emails and now texts from Krieger, even though I unsubscribed to his communications multiple times. I can forgive getting a little bit of junk/spam mail from a candidate, but Krieger's campaign just won't quit!

Oh I've gotten emails & texts from Krieger. I was just talking about mail. Kind of surprised I haven't recieved anything from Cristina.

I received a call from one of her volunteers about her being endorsed by the AEA but had already voted for her at that point. Ditto about Terron's letter, but I do like him and David.

I really liked the Q&A on the ArlDems website, especially responses by Sandy and Sims. I also like that they both cut to the chase in a lot of the questionnaires that have been published by different groups. In at least one that I saw, Sandy just responded with a "yes" -- and it was totally appropriate given that it was a yes or no question. Some of the candidates just go on for way too long.

I didn't know there was a Q&A. Thanks for the info! Terron's responses were better than his performance during the ACDC debate, but he is fooling himself to think that he is going to scale a private school model to all of APS. I'm not sure what Sandy was thinking when she said that she doesn't need to have vision to lead APS. Why say that, especially when we need new ideas to get through the next year? I liked Steven's and Cristina's responses. I'm not a fan of David.

Did Sandy really say that? Is the Q&A on facebook ACDC website?

Link?

https://arlingtondemocrats.org/news/

I'm not sure that Sandy intended to say that vision doesn't matter, but she's certainly lost my vote if she doesn't recognize that what worked before doesn't work now.

I read Sandy's response more as "look, lots of SB members have big ideas (vision), but I, as an educator and someone with real classroom experience, know what will really work. It's one thing to have big ideas, but they're not very helpful if they aren't feasible." But maybe I'm reading too much into the response. Maybe I'm just overtired.

We need ideas right now I agree that classroom experience can help, she just seems arrogant and overconfident. I like how David listens more than dictates.

This is why I chose Sandy as my fourth choice. She's not helpful, but she isn't harmful.

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Anonymous wrote:I always vote and have voted in past SB caucuses, so I assume I'm on voter lists that candidates can buy. So far I've gotten 1 letter each from Priddy & Krieger and 2 letters from Sims. Nothing from any other candidate.

Consider yourself lucky. I've received countless emails and now texts from Krieger, even though I unsubscribed to his communications multiple times. I can forgive getting a little bit of junk/spam mail from a candidate, but Krieger's campaign just won't quit!

That last letter from Terron was confusing to read. What was he thinking with the Dickens quote?

I'm unsure but it didn't make me want to vote for him.

Steven, please stop!

I received another email from Steven attempting to convince us that he now cares about equity again. To be honest, I was fine with receiving the first unsolicited emails, but he should remove unsubscribers from the list.

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PP re: Kreiger's young kids and sorry if that came across as hateful. Not my intent. I think everyone should vote and all perspectives have value.

But what bothers me is he feels like having super young kids makes him uniquely qualified. He uses that in his ads as a selling point. It's a terrible argument.

He has the perspective of how how one APS school works at one level. And it's a choice school, too, which makes his experiences even less representative.

Having older kids who have gone through the system and are still in multiple levels, I have a different perspective now than when I was a 1-school APS parent. All the schools work very differently. And middle school and high school are very different from elementary school. School Board oversees all three levels. So, it's not an advantage to lack those other perspectives, and certainly not a selling point.

Plus, he seems to imply that he is more invested because his kids will be in the system longer. I also find that offensive. School Board is a 4-yr term.

I just find the argument to be a really terrible one, short-sighted and arrogant.

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Anonymous wrote:PP re: Kreiger's young kids and sorry if that came across as hateful. Not my intent. I think everyone should vote and all perspectives have value.

But what bothers me is he feels like having super young kids makes him uniquely qualified. He uses that in his ads as a selling point. It's a terrible argument.

He has the perspective of how how one APS school works at one level. And it's a choice school, too, which makes his experiences even less representative.

Having older kids who have gone through the system and are still in multiple levels, I have a different perspective now than when I was a 1-school APS parent. All the schools work very differently. And middle school and high school are very different from elementary school. School Board oversees all three levels. So, it's not an advantage to lack those other perspectives, and certainly not a selling point.

Plus, he seems to imply that he is more invested because his kids will be in the system longer. I also find that offensive. School Board is a 4-yr term.

I just find the argument to be a really terrible one, short-sighted and arrogant.

+1000

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Anonymous wrote:I always vote and have voted in past SB caucuses, so I assume I'm on voter lists that candidates can buy. So far I've gotten 1 letter each from Priddy & Krieger and 2 letters from Sims. Nothing from any other candidate.

Consider yourself lucky. I've received countless emails and now texts from Krieger, even though I unsubscribed to his communications multiple times. I can forgive getting a little bit of junk/spam mail from a candidate, but Krieger's campaign just won't quit!

Oh I've gotten emails & texts from Krieger. I was just talking about mail. Kind of surprised I haven't recieved anything from Cristina.

I received a call from one of her volunteers about her being endorsed by the AEA but had already voted for her at that point. Ditto about Terron's letter, but I do like him and David.

I really liked the Q&A on the ArlDems website, especially responses by Sandy and Sims. I also like that they both cut to the chase in a lot of the questionnaires that have been published by different groups. In at least one that I saw, Sandy just responded with a "yes" -- and it was totally appropriate given that it was a yes or no question. Some of the candidates just go on for way too long.

I didn't know there was a Q&A. Thanks for the info! Terron's responses were better than his performance during the ACDC debate, but he is fooling himself to think that he is going to scale a private school model to all of APS. I'm not sure what Sandy was thinking when she said that she doesn't need to have vision to lead APS. Why say that, especially when we need new ideas to get through the next year? I liked Steven's and Cristina's responses. I'm not a fan of David.

Did Sandy really say that? Is the Q&A on facebook ACDC website?

Link?

https://arlingtondemocrats.org/news/

I'm not sure that Sandy intended to say that vision doesn't matter, but she's certainly lost my vote if she doesn't recognize that what worked before doesn't work now.

I read Sandy's response more as "look, lots of SB members have big ideas (vision), but I, as an educator and someone with real classroom experience, know what will really work. It's one thing to have big ideas, but they're not very helpful if they aren't feasible." But maybe I'm reading too much into the response. Maybe I'm just overtired.

We need ideas right now I agree that classroom experience can help, she just seems arrogant and overconfident. I like how David listens more than dictates.

This is why I chose Sandy as my fourth choice. She's not helpful, but she isn't harmful.

I actually had quite a different response. I feel like she knows exactly what isn’t working and has first-hand experience as a recent APS teacher to know what needs changing. I wasn’t sold on her at first, but really, we have an absolute vacuum of institutional knowledge (3 SB members leaving and a new as-yet-to-be-named Super). We really need somebody with a lot of institutional knowledge, and I appreciate her perspective as a classroom teacher. She knows that all these stupid new initiatives that roll out one after the other with no teacher training and without any method of evaluating how well or if they are working are a large problem. Always chasing the shiny new thing and abandoning things without understanding why they didn’t work hasn’t worked and won’t work in the future. These sweeping “visions” without understanding how they’d be implemented, or the realities inside classrooms that sometimes make even the best ideas infeasible, are not what we need. We need experience, and a return to things that were working (like direct and explicit English language instruction). She’s the only one old enough to have gone to teacher’s college before the “balanced literacy” bs took over. She might be the only one to know that most teachers wouldn’t even know how to teach kids to read except the way they do now, and if we expect them to change, we won’t do it by shaming them, but by retraining them.