APS - Who is running for School Board?

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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.

Democrats have a right to know if she is lying to us about her party affiliation.

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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.

Democrats have a right to know if she is lying to us about her party affiliation.

Especially if she is a Trumper! This is Arlington.

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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.

Democrats have a right to know if she is lying to us about her party affiliation.

Especially if she is a Trumper! This is Arlington.

And this is what happens when the ACDC feels threatened.

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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.

Democrats have a right to know if she is lying to us about her party affiliation.

Especially if she is a Trumper! This is Arlington.

It’s a baseless attack. Just because someone hasn’t come to the monthly meetings doesn’t mean they’re a Trumper. More like, they’re a regular person who isn’t involved in politics. That’s fine with me, for an apolitical position. Again, what is this smear based on? Rumor?

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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.

Democrats have a right to know if she is lying to us about her party affiliation.

Especially if she is a Trumper! This is Arlington.

And this is what happens when the ACDC feels threatened.

If this is true, it seems embarrassing for ACDC. How are they running a caucus that has a Republican candidate? They need to review and amend their protocols.

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Democrats have a right to know if she is lying to us about her party affiliation.

Plenty of Democrats around the country voted for Trump. And the reality is that in Virginia most people are not "Republicans" or "Democrats" because we don't (thankfully in my view) have registration by party. So I doubt she is "lying" about her party affiliation.

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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?

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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.

She can't be a r because she's friends with a father of biracial kids?

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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.

Democrats have a right to know if she is lying to us about her party affiliation.

Where is this coming from? All of a sudden, she’s a Trump voter? Says whom? Maybe she voted for Vistadht? So did the majority of Dems, which is how he won. And we don’t even know that she did that either. That doesn’t make her a Trumper or even an R.

Also, I find it interesting that Frank O’Leary is supporting Terron. He’s the one who outed Melissa Bondi for tax evasion when she was the preferred candidate ACDC candidate for County Board. Sims was running then, too. Garvey wound up winning. Remember all that? Seems like he could easily have been the one to report the Hatch violation.

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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.

Democrats have a right to know if she is lying to us about her party affiliation.

Especially if she is a Trumper! This is Arlington.

And this is what happens when the ACDC feels threatened.

If this is true, it seems embarrassing for ACDC. How are they running a caucus that has a Republican candidate? They need to review and amend their protocols.

I'm not putting too much stock in this at all. Presumably she had to certify she is a Dem when she filed paperwork and she has to certify that when requesting a ballot. While it doesn't thrill me that she possibly supported Trump in '16, maybe she has since changed her mind. And it's not as if anyone can check her voting history or anything. I'd say let this one go and assess her candidacy based on what she has done and said throughout THIS campaign. That's what matters to me.

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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.

Democrats have a right to know if she is lying to us about her party affiliation.

Where is this coming from? All of a sudden, she’s a Trump voter? Says whom? Maybe she voted for Vistadht? So did the majority of Dems, which is how he won. And we don’t even know that she did that either. That doesn’t make her a Trumper or even an R.

Also, I find it interesting that Frank O’Leary is supporting Terron. He’s the one who outed Melissa Bondi for tax evasion when she was the preferred candidate ACDC candidate for County Board. Sims was running then, too. Garvey wound up winning. Remember all that? Seems like he could easily have been the one to report the Hatch violation.

I know, I really hate it when people expect candidates for public office to respect and follow the laws that are applicable to them. It's truly appalling.

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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.

She can't be a r because she's friends with a father of biracial kids?

Reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit, huh? Graduate of APS?

No, what I said was one of her vocal supporters is a lifelong Dem, and longtime civic activist, hates Trump with the fire of 1,000 suns, and happens to be the parent of biracial kids. That person would never support a candidate they knew or believed to be a Trump voter, or even an R. So I find this accusation without merit. I believe in his judgment, not some BS attack on an anonymous message board.

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Scrolling thru Sandy's personal Twitter feed, she's clearly anti-Trump, at least going back as far as 2018 (which was when I stopped scrolling), and way before she announced for office.

https://twitter.com/wlitc

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Anonymous wrote:Scrolling thru Sandy's personal Twitter feed, she's clearly anti-Trump, at least going back as far as 2018 (which was when I stopped scrolling), and way before she announced for office.

https://twitter.com/wlitc

THANK YOU! Hopefully this puts an end to this discussion.

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Anonymous wrote:Scrolling thru Sandy's personal Twitter feed, she's clearly anti-Trump, at least going back as far as 2018 (which was when I stopped scrolling), and way before she announced for office.

https://twitter.com/wlitc

THANK YOU! Hopefully this puts an end to this discussion.

I just looked too. She doesn't have posts before 2018 up??

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Anonymous wrote:Scrolling thru Sandy's personal Twitter feed, she's clearly anti-Trump, at least going back as far as 2018 (which was when I stopped scrolling), and way before she announced for office.

https://twitter.com/wlitc

THANK YOU! Hopefully this puts an end to this discussion.

I just looked too. She doesn't have posts before 2018 up??

She does. Lots of them. She's a frequent re-tweeter. I just spent 5 minutes looking and was satisfied enough to feel like this a debunkable myth. Feel free to invest more time in her feed and report back.