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?

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.

This is why she was my #2. I want someone who can appreciate that it's ok to carry the one in solving math problems.

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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.

This is why she was my #2. I want someone who can appreciate that it's ok to carry the one in solving math problems.

Thanks for the post, but it makes her sound old and cranky. And other posters say she's arrogant. Just because the current Dems on the board aren't the best, doesn't mean APS needs some pseudo-republican complaining that young people just don't understand.

I like Terron, Cristina, and David. They all understand equity from direct experience...David through his kids.

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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.

This is why she was my #2. I want someone who can appreciate that it's ok to carry the one in solving math problems.

Thanks for the post, but it makes her sound old and cranky. And other posters say she's arrogant. Just because the current Dems on the board aren't the best, doesn't mean APS needs some pseudo-republican complaining that young people just don't understand.

I like Terron, Cristina, and David. They all understand equity from direct experience...David through his kids.

Yes!! The lived experience is soooo important! But I disagree about David. Yes, he has an interesting perspective as a father of biracial kids, but he's just too uninformed.

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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.

This is why she was my #2. I want someone who can appreciate that it's ok to carry the one in solving math problems.

Thanks for the post, but it makes her sound old and cranky. And other posters say she's arrogant. Just because the current Dems on the board aren't the best, doesn't mean APS needs some pseudo-republican complaining that young people just don't understand.

I like Terron, Cristina, and David. They all understand equity from direct experience...David through his kids.

YES! I didn't even rank her, mostly because of her arrogance/condescension but a little bit because it apparently is common knowledge among ACDC folks that she has admitted to voting for Trump in '16. I would have liked ACDC to ask the candidates about their Dem bona fides because I'm not convinced she is a Dem at all. I can't vote for someone who voted for Trump. Deal breaker for me.

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I don't think Priddy is uninformed. I think he just listens and thinks before making decisions, and isn't arrogant to think he has all the answers. I also think he works well collaboratively.

I'm interested in all this talk that Sandy is not really a Democrat. Is that true?

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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.

This is why she was my #2. I want someone who can appreciate that it's ok to carry the one in solving math problems.

Thanks for the post, but it makes her sound old and cranky. And other posters say she's arrogant. Just because the current Dems on the board aren't the best, doesn't mean APS needs some pseudo-republican complaining that young people just don't understand.

I like Terron, Cristina, and David. They all understand equity from direct experience...David through his kids.

YES! I didn't even rank her, mostly because of her arrogance/condescension but a little bit because it apparently is common knowledge among ACDC folks that she has admitted to voting for Trump in '16. I would have liked ACDC to ask the candidates about their Dem bona fides because I'm not convinced she is a Dem at all. I can't vote for someone who voted for Trump. Deal breaker for me.

+1 And I'm so disappointed in her.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think Priddy is uninformed. I think he just listens and thinks before making decisions, and isn't arrogant to think he has all the answers. I also think he works well collaboratively.

I'm interested in all this talk that Sandy is not really a Democrat. Is that true?

Watching this. I was going to rank Sandy fourth after Cristina, David, and Terron, but I'm not supporting a Trump supporter. David does seem less up on policy, but I agree with you that he listens and will work well with the other board members.

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Did Sandy really vote for Trump? Can someone source that better than a rumor?

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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.

This is why she was my #2. I want someone who can appreciate that it's ok to carry the one in solving math problems.

Thanks for the post, but it makes her sound old and cranky. And other posters say she's arrogant. Just because the current Dems on the board aren't the best, doesn't mean APS needs some pseudo-republican complaining that young people just don't understand.

I like Terron, Cristina, and David. They all understand equity from direct experience...David through his kids.

YES! I didn't even rank her, mostly because of her arrogance/condescension but a little bit because it apparently is common knowledge among ACDC folks that she has admitted to voting for Trump in '16. I would have liked ACDC to ask the candidates about their Dem bona fides because I'm not convinced she is a Dem at all. I can't vote for someone who voted for Trump. Deal breaker for me.

That feels like a lie and a really spurious attack. One of her strongest supporters is the super liberal father of biracial kids. I don’t believe he’d support her if this was “common knowledge.” And it’s not cranky to realize that the way teachers are teaching language and reading is disastrous for ELL and SpEd kids. The only reason NT MC kids aren’t failing in as large numbers is because someone has taught them to read before they got to K, or they have an older teacher who ignores the latest fads and teaches them to sound out words rather than just guess them based on a picture.

She was my number 2, not number 1, but these stupid attacks about her voting for Trump are just that, stupid and not credible. And anyone who is defending how reading is taught right now is not paying attention, at all, to the science of reading. Just ask SEPTA. Multiple candidates are critical of this, as they all should be. I just think it would be helpful to have a teacher on the board who could lead the reform. I don’t really care who leads the reforms, but whoever wins had better do it, because they are literally failing an entire generation. And that’s the shameful thing, and is at the root of inequity.

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I wonder how enforceable the rule that if you run for the ACDC endorsement and don't get it you agree not to run in November. Presumably that would finish you in Democratic politics, but if you are really just interested in the School Board, would you really care? In other words, if Sandy is getting trashed by rumors that she may have voted for Trump, perhaps she would run in November anyway (assuming she doesn't win the endorsement).

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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.

This is why she was my #2. I want someone who can appreciate that it's ok to carry the one in solving math problems.

Thanks for the post, but it makes her sound old and cranky. And other posters say she's arrogant. Just because the current Dems on the board aren't the best, doesn't mean APS needs some pseudo-republican complaining that young people just don't understand.

I like Terron, Cristina, and David. They all understand equity from direct experience...David through his kids.

YES! I didn't even rank her, mostly because of her arrogance/condescension but a little bit because it apparently is common knowledge among ACDC folks that she has admitted to voting for Trump in '16. I would have liked ACDC to ask the candidates about their Dem bona fides because I'm not convinced she is a Dem at all. I can't vote for someone who voted for Trump. Deal breaker for me.

That feels like a lie and a really spurious attack. One of her strongest supporters is the super liberal father of biracial kids. I don’t believe he’d support her if this was “common knowledge.” And it’s not cranky to realize that the way teachers are teaching language and reading is disastrous for ELL and SpEd kids. The only reason NT MC kids aren’t failing in as large numbers is because someone has taught them to read before they got to K, or they have an older teacher who ignores the latest fads and teaches them to sound out words rather than just guess them based on a picture.

She was my number 2, not number 1, but these stupid attacks about her voting for Trump are just that, stupid and not credible. And anyone who is defending how reading is taught right now is not paying attention, at all, to the science of reading. Just ask SEPTA. Multiple candidates are critical of this, as they all should be. I just think it would be helpful to have a teacher on the board who could lead the reform. I don’t really care who leads the reforms, but whoever wins had better do it, because they are literally failing an entire generation. And that’s the shameful thing, and is at the root of inequity.

Absolutely. If you don't think there's a problem with English education, go back and listen to the last SB work session with ELA. The heads of the department were very critical of some of the ES reading curricula!

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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.

This is why she was my #2. I want someone who can appreciate that it's ok to carry the one in solving math problems.

Thanks for the post, but it makes her sound old and cranky. And other posters say she's arrogant. Just because the current Dems on the board aren't the best, doesn't mean APS needs some pseudo-republican complaining that young people just don't understand.

I like Terron, Cristina, and David. They all understand equity from direct experience...David through his kids.

YES! I didn't even rank her, mostly because of her arrogance/condescension but a little bit because it apparently is common knowledge among ACDC folks that she has admitted to voting for Trump in '16. I would have liked ACDC to ask the candidates about their Dem bona fides because I'm not convinced she is a Dem at all. I can't vote for someone who voted for Trump. Deal breaker for me.

That feels like a lie and a really spurious attack. One of her strongest supporters is the super liberal father of biracial kids. I don’t believe he’d support her if this was “common knowledge.” And it’s not cranky to realize that the way teachers are teaching language and reading is disastrous for ELL and SpEd kids. The only reason NT MC kids aren’t failing in as large numbers is because someone has taught them to read before they got to K, or they have an older teacher who ignores the latest fads and teaches them to sound out words rather than just guess them based on a picture.

She was my number 2, not number 1, but these stupid attacks about her voting for Trump are just that, stupid and not credible. And anyone who is defending how reading is taught right now is not paying attention, at all, to the science of reading. Just ask SEPTA. Multiple candidates are critical of this, as they all should be. I just think it would be helpful to have a teacher on the board who could lead the reform. I don’t really care who leads the reforms, but whoever wins had better do it, because they are literally failing an entire generation. And that’s the shameful thing, and is at the root of inequity.

I agree that the voting for Trump thing seems baseless and inappropriate for this already muddied SB race, but multiple people who are friends with her have told me that she is not really a Dem. For whatever that is worth, which prob isnt a lot...

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Anonymous wrote:Did Sandy really vote for Trump? Can someone source that better than a rumor?

I have no knowledge of the situation but it sounds like a dirty smear campaign - Arlington Style. The ACDC is so dirty.

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Anonymous wrote:Did Sandy really vote for Trump? Can someone source that better than a rumor?

I have no knowledge of the situation but it sounds like a dirty smear campaign - Arlington Style. The ACDC is so dirty.

+1 ACDC probably is behind this to make sure their handpicked candidate gets the endorsement. Long overdue to get ACDC out of the SB race.

But serious question and I'm not even sure how I feel about it -- do you think candidates should reveal who they voted for?

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But serious question and I'm not even sure how I feel about it -- do you think candidates should reveal who they voted for?

No, especially not School Board elections.