APS - School Shifts in the Fall?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh wow. Why would someone think it is a good idea to dox a community member and post it to Twitter? You can argue that they should have foia Miranda Turner's emails to the board since she's running for public office (like Mary Kadera), but why would someone foia the foia?

I'm so confused.

Aren’t some of the APE members trying to doxx APS staff?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh wow. Why would someone think it is a good idea to dox a community member and post it to Twitter? You can argue that they should have foia Miranda Turner's emails to the board since she's running for public office (like Mary Kadera), but why would someone foia the foia?

I'm so confused.

Aren’t some of the APE members trying to doxx APS staff?

As the comment above yours states so eloquently, both sides are bats**t. It's now SR's time to join the dumpster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh wow. Why would someone think it is a good idea to dox a community member and post it to Twitter? You can argue that they should have foia Miranda Turner's emails to the board since she's running for public office (like Mary Kadera), but why would someone foia the foia?

I'm so confused.

Aren’t some of the APE members trying to doxx APS staff?

Absolutely false. That’s just one of many nasty rumors started by the AEM trolls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh wow. Why would someone think it is a good idea to dox a community member and post it to Twitter? You can argue that they should have foia Miranda Turner's emails to the board since she's running for public office (like Mary Kadera), but why would someone foia the foia?

I'm so confused.

Aren’t some of the APE members trying to doxx APS staff?

Absolutely false. That’s just one of many nasty rumors started by the AEM trolls.

Well, one of those “trolls” is an APS staff member.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yup. At least four prominent members of SR follow that crazy twitter account. I recognize all of their names from belonging to that Facebook group. I don't know if it is the lawyer guy who created it, but I just lost a lot of respect for all of them. Too bad. I thought they cared about safe schools. They just care more about drama and getting one up on APE, it seems.

Pls screen shot the followers and let’s see if they are Mary supporters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just realizing two things, in the email where she wanted to get out all of the background on her emails and she apparently was so concerned about this she mentions nothing about advocating to open schools, or worrying about how this was affecting the inequity APS revealed in test scores and failing grades (something I think came out because, wait for it, a FOIA was done) or how essential workers needed childcare so they could continue to work while the rest of us hid in our houses (something even NY recognized in the spring of 2020). Did she email or do anything to try to advocate to speak on behalf of the inequities distance learning caused? She claims equity is one of her big things but it sounds like she didnt care about last spring when my kids got zero instruction and this year when literacy rates plummeted. Does she only care about McKinley boundaries? Does she only care if it’s her kids effected? Bet she’s one who would say they “thrived” while mine regressed and are now behind all their friends who went to private school. If she cared about equity there should be weekly emails asking them to vote and asking how they are going to deal with recovery from this past year. So if she wants to say she cares about equity or more than just boundaries (the only thing I think our board cares about now it seems) then prove it. Show us the emails where you advocate for safety measures to reopen faster, where you cared about widening gaps in testing scores, where you cared that working parents have had no childcare to go do their jobs like nurses, doctors and childcare providers. You cannot claim to care about equity and then say you want a dashboard (wth is that) and been completely silent the past year. Show us the work you did to advocate for solving more than just boundaries. If you can’t then you are the exact same as who we have now and look how well that’s gone.

Second, does no one recognize the hypocrisy of being upset over a FOIA of a candidate for elected office (maybe to see my point above? Maybe Mary should just release her emails to prove she had any concern over no new instruction or distance learning) but are fine with the FOIA of a private citizen? And then whoever did the FOIA of the FOIA (should be easy to figure out I’d imagine) goes and creates a troll account to go after their neighbors? Then a well known attorney posts the Twitter account using their real name on AEM? Is this real life? A dc super law potentially made a Twitter account to go after fellow parents? And then posts about it on AEM?

I may have slept through these caucuses in the past because I was fine with the status quo here in Arlington (I actually thought we cared about kids and things like libraries) but no longer will I let the arl dem establishment pick my candidates. We’ve all woken up and they should be concerned. The NY Times was right - I’ve been radicalized into paying attention.

+1. I emailed MK about some of these issues/questions--don't want to get into detail on this anonymous forum, but I did not feel like she had been thinking about what the last year (and counting) has been like for parents (like me) who cannot be home during the day to oversee/assist with virtual. To her credit, she said this gave her food for thought, but this suggests to me that she has not actually considered this...how is that possible? It also suggests that she doesn't know any families like mine and that is just inexcusable to me at this point--you don't have a single friend or acquaintance who you could reach out to and ask about what this has been like for them BEFORE you launch a bid for school board?

And to her point about this not being a single issue race--the question of how APS is handling things in the pandemic is HUGE! If we are lucky and the kids return full time this fall, they will have gone 18 months without anything resembling a normal school day. For kids at any level, 18 months is an enormous chunk of their entire time at whichever school! To pretend that we're not going to be wading through the fallout for years to come is just silly. Don't show me a plan for 3' spacing--show me a plan for how my ES kid is going to learn math after this mess.

[Anonymous]

The Twitter account is now protected. Screenshots live forever. I'll be sure to share liberally, to show just how bad the discourse has gotten.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both sides are batsh**. Let’s not pretend any of the APEs care about the kids at Carlin Springs whose families elected by a very large margin to remain virtual. As someone tangentially connected to CCPTA, that’s what they were busy doing. Coordinating support, food, clothing, school supplies, books, for the kids at that and other Title 1 schools and listening to those families rather than telling them that their kids need to go back to further our own agendas. That’s structural racism and nice white parenting, if I’ve ever seen it.

I’m sorry, wanting to open schools is structural racism? Where in the world did you come up with that? Kids get meals at school, they could get books there too and at the closed public libraries, they get access to an education too, a lot receive medical and dental care through schools too. Ever heard of a DD waiver? Did the half of kids (including minorities) who wanted to be in school not matter? Also aps students are more diverse than the teachers we were all “protecting” so whose side is structurally racist? None of that would have been necessary to do if schools were open.

I only ever see white parents arguing to keep schools closed till it’s “safe” meaning their level of their risk tolerance has to be met. Then I see them hide behind, “look the minorities don’t want schools to open”. White savior much? I didn’t see any of these people on AEM or in county board meetings argue to keep daycares closed (teachers there are usually minority) or that we should make sure break rooms in grocery stores be ventilated for example (also mostly minority) but public school (80% white staff) is unsafe? Hmmmm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh wow. Why would someone think it is a good idea to dox a community member and post it to Twitter? You can argue that they should have foia Miranda Turner's emails to the board since she's running for public office (like Mary Kadera), but why would someone foia the foia?

I'm so confused.

Aren’t some of the APE members trying to doxx APS staff?

Absolutely false. That’s just one of many nasty rumors started by the AEM trolls.

DP. Absolutely true.

The APE FB group founder even admitted that people were posting this on APE. He reportedly deleted those posts, but they were certainly trying to doxx APS staff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup. At least four prominent members of SR follow that crazy twitter account. I recognize all of their names from belonging to that Facebook group. I don't know if it is the lawyer guy who created it, but I just lost a lot of respect for all of them. Too bad. I thought they cared about safe schools. They just care more about drama and getting one up on APE, it seems.

Pls screen shot the followers and let’s see if they are Mary supporters.

So now you're not-so-appalled by doxxing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Twitter account is now protected. Screenshots live forever. I'll be sure to share liberally, to show just how bad the discourse has gotten.

Yes, the names of the APE people calling for the SB recall (and requesting the FOIA) are all out there now.

Did Turner ever state her position on the recall? I know she commented on the lawsuit, but don't remember her commenting on the SB recall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup. At least four prominent members of SR follow that crazy twitter account. I recognize all of their names from belonging to that Facebook group. I don't know if it is the lawyer guy who created it, but I just lost a lot of respect for all of them. Too bad. I thought they cared about safe schools. They just care more about drama and getting one up on APE, it seems.

Pls screen shot the followers and let’s see if they are Mary supporters.

So now you're not-so-appalled by doxxing?

What cognitive dissonance. No one had to FOIA them. They showed their own a$$es by following a public Twitter handle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup. At least four prominent members of SR follow that crazy twitter account. I recognize all of their names from belonging to that Facebook group. I don't know if it is the lawyer guy who created it, but I just lost a lot of respect for all of them. Too bad. I thought they cared about safe schools. They just care more about drama and getting one up on APE, it seems.

Pls screen shot the followers and let’s see if they are Mary supporters.

So now you're not-so-appalled by doxxing?

What cognitive dissonance. No one had to FOIA them. They showed their own a$$es by following a public Twitter handle.

public data is public data

whether you are a Twitter stalker or request FOIA

[Anonymous]

To get back to Kadera as a candidate, I also worry about whether she will be able to look at APS as a whole.

In the debate over whether to make McKinley a choice school, she was full speed ahead on the argument that the west side of Arlington needed all these neighborhood seats. Reed, McKinley, Discovery, Tuckahoe, Nottingham...all needed as neighborhood schools. Supported and circulated honestly ridiculous boundary map proposals to support this.

Flash forward (after she is no longer the PTA president) and it seems to be widely acknowledged the data doesn't support this position. And it's not just some post-Covid reality shift, I don't believe the data ever supported it. What comes to pass is APS draws a kind of dumb and temporary boundary for Reed to preserve the possibility they can take Tuckahoe or Nottingham offline as a neighborhood school in 2 years.

Was she just completely blinded by the McKinley hysterical/self-interest crowd? It makes me worry she'd be a bad School Board member.

Please someone counter any of this if you are able to. Genuinely. I'd like to support her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup. At least four prominent members of SR follow that crazy twitter account. I recognize all of their names from belonging to that Facebook group. I don't know if it is the lawyer guy who created it, but I just lost a lot of respect for all of them. Too bad. I thought they cared about safe schools. They just care more about drama and getting one up on APE, it seems.

Pls screen shot the followers and let’s see if they are Mary supporters.

So now you're not-so-appalled by doxxing?

What cognitive dissonance. No one had to FOIA them. They showed their own a$$es by following a public Twitter handle.

public data is public data

whether you are a Twitter stalker or request FOIA

Twitter stalker? No one would have ever known about a dead Twitter account until SR husband posted the link, thinking it was a great idea to dox someone. The followers were right there for everyone to see. Please.