Arlington: school board/county board candidates

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Anonymous wrote:I’m leaving the ballot blank. Like another PP wrote, it won’t stop her from getting on to the board, but at least I won’t have helped her get there.

I’m not gonna vote for someone who acts like she deserves credit for living in the Valley when, as some of her supporters claimed during her first run, she and her husband could afford to live anywhere in Arlington. White savior much?

Yeah she lived in the Valley but sent one kid to private school, and didn't send the others to the neighborhood school. Not good enough for her and Mr. Miranda MAGA apparently.

TEMPORARILY sent one to private. They went Arlington Montessori for public.

Exactly, they avoided going to Drew. With the black and brown kids.

Stop this nonsense right now. I can barely stomach even spending the energy to confront the sheer ignorance in this post, but, Miranda currently lives in Green Valley. Presently. She was on Drew's PTA. Run your eyeballs instead of your mouth and do some research, it will serve you better.

How many years have her three kids attended Drew, collectively?

Exactly. She was the white savior on Drew's PTA without deigning to actually send her OWN kids there. Despicable.

Her kids did go to Drew for elementary school, so this is nonsense. She’s also lived in Africa, so it’s ludicrous to suggest she’s avoided black people.

We have been over this. Her kids went to the Montessori program back when it was housed in the same building as Drew. Not the same thing at all.

So now it's relevant that she once lived in Africa? Even if true, that's like saying I'm not racist, I have a black friend.

No, it’s all irrelevant. You are continuing to bring it up though. “Housed in the same building as Drew. Not the same thing at all”. Well, for racial demographics it was, I toured it at the time, and there were hardly any white kids at all, same in Montessori classes as non-Montessori. You think black people don’t choose Montessori or something? Why are you discounting the experience of living in Africa? Nobody said anything about racism but you. There are plenty of racists in Africa, but Americans who want to “avoid Blacks” (as it was alleged here) don’t usually choose to spent extended time in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m leaving the ballot blank. Like another PP wrote, it won’t stop her from getting on to the board, but at least I won’t have helped her get there.

I’m not gonna vote for someone who acts like she deserves credit for living in the Valley when, as some of her supporters claimed during her first run, she and her husband could afford to live anywhere in Arlington. White savior much?

Yeah she lived in the Valley but sent one kid to private school, and didn't send the others to the neighborhood school. Not good enough for her and Mr. Miranda MAGA apparently.

TEMPORARILY sent one to private. They went Arlington Montessori for public.

Exactly, they avoided going to Drew. With the black and brown kids.

Stop this nonsense right now. I can barely stomach even spending the energy to confront the sheer ignorance in this post, but, Miranda currently lives in Green Valley. Presently. She was on Drew's PTA. Run your eyeballs instead of your mouth and do some research, it will serve you better.

How many years have her three kids attended Drew, collectively?

Exactly. She was the white savior on Drew's PTA without deigning to actually send her OWN kids there. Despicable.

Her kids did go to Drew for elementary school, so this is nonsense. She’s also lived in Africa, so it’s ludicrous to suggest she’s avoided black people.

We have been over this. Her kids went to the Montessori program back when it was housed in the same building as Drew. Not the same thing at all.

So now it's relevant that she once lived in Africa? Even if true, that's like saying I'm not racist, I have a black friend.

No, it’s all irrelevant. You are continuing to bring it up though. “Housed in the same building as Drew. Not the same thing at all”. Well, for racial demographics it was, I toured it at the time, and there were hardly any white kids at all, same in Montessori classes as non-Montessori. You think black people don’t choose Montessori or something? Why are you discounting the experience of living in Africa? Nobody said anything about racism but you. There are plenty of racists in Africa, but Americans who want to “avoid Blacks” (as it was alleged here) don’t usually choose to spent extended time in sub-Saharan Africa.

And they will avoid living in south Arlington, thereby avoiding them in their kids' schools.

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"Exactly. I wouldn't care where she lives except she's trying to use it to score points to show how enlightened she is. If she's going to do that, then people are certainly going to wonder why she won't send her kids to the neighborhood school. With the blacks."


OMG. You b---- about her not sending her kids to the school. You b---- that she served on the school's PTA. You b---- because she was one of the founding members of an organization, some members of which were a-holes and who BTW were members of your school communities in NORTH Arlington.

We get it: you despise her and you're going to criticize and b---- about everything she does and does not do. Every friggin' chance you can absolutely get. Just keep directing all those hours of advocacy you selflessly put in to better our entire school system to the other 4 clowns on the Board. MT's one vote won't make one bit of difference.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m leaving the ballot blank. Like another PP wrote, it won’t stop her from getting on to the board, but at least I won’t have helped her get there.

I’m not gonna vote for someone who acts like she deserves credit for living in the Valley when, as some of her supporters claimed during her first run, she and her husband could afford to live anywhere in Arlington. White savior much?

Yeah she lived in the Valley but sent one kid to private school, and didn't send the others to the neighborhood school. Not good enough for her and Mr. Miranda MAGA apparently.

TEMPORARILY sent one to private. They went Arlington Montessori for public.

Exactly, they avoided going to Drew. With the black and brown kids.

Stop this nonsense right now. I can barely stomach even spending the energy to confront the sheer ignorance in this post, but, Miranda currently lives in Green Valley. Presently. She was on Drew's PTA. Run your eyeballs instead of your mouth and do some research, it will serve you better.

How many years have her three kids attended Drew, collectively?

How many have YOUR kids attended there?

Do you think you're clever? None of us are running for the School Board. Miranda is. I have never heard her say why she won't send her own kids to the neighborhood school with the black and brown kids in their neighborhood.

I have. And it has nothing to do with skin color; everything to do with getting the educational needs of her own kids. Just like all you other parents who won't live anywhere near these schools. You just avoid it in a more "acceptable" manner. Virtual school didn't cut it - for a lot of us. She, like many others even in the "superior" schools up north, put her kid in private.

Do you even hear yourself? Drew isn't good enough for her own kids. But sure, nothing to do with the skin color of those who are there. Got it.

And she didn't put all of her kids in private, but she made sure to get them all out of Drew.

Just like you did, except you weren't even willing to live in such a neighborhood to begin with and that's how you made sure your kids would never have to go to the worst-performing school in the system. And NO....people don't pull their kids out of Drew because of the skin color of the students. They pull them out because their kids' basic educational needs aren't being met. The fact that that correlates to the student demographics is a separate issue.

Listen to yourself! Drew is good enough for the black and brown kids in Green Valley who have no other options but it doesn't meet the "basic educational needs" of Miranda's own precious snowflakes. And sure, this has nothing to do with demographics, nothing at all. Miranda's fake white savior complex sickens me.

All you do is deflect.

Look at YOU deflecting from the fact that you literally said that the school that the black and brown kids go to doesn't meet the "basic educational needs" of Miranda's own children so she's totally justified in sending her kids out of the neighborhood.

Not a deflection. Perhaps that word doesn't mean what you think it means.
The problem is, that school doesn't meet the basic education needs of MOST of its students, regardless of their skin color. ANY parent would be justified in sending their kids to an option program. But, as noted earlier, nobody criticizes a person of color living in the neighborhood for doing so.

I don't care whether some random Green Valley parent sends their kids to Drew. Miranda is not some random parent. She is running for the school board. So when she tries to win points for living in Green Valley but won't even send her own kids to Drew, people are going to take notice. You keep DEFLECTING from discussion of Miranda by asking other posters where we send our kids or pointing out that some hypothetical person of color in Green Valley might not send their kids to Drew. Doesn't matter. We're not about to be on the school board. She is.

She just has to say what neighborhood she lives in. And she did. As well as the neighborhood activities she is involved in. She's not asking you to give her a medal.

Her surrogates seem to think she deserves one. During her first one, they (including some on here) noted that she lives in Green Valley when she doesn't have to because she can afford to live anywhere in Arlington. Even someone in this thread noted that her time in Africa proves she's not avoiding black people. Fine, she lives in the Valley. Fine, she said where she lives. But not fine that she and/or her supporters think she deserves credit for where she lives.

I just voted and wrote in someone who lives in and is connected to the Valley without wearing it like a badge of honor. I know Miranda is going to win but I couldn't be part of helping her into office. Once she's in thought I hope that everyone treats her with the same grace and respect that she and her ilk showed the School Board during COVID.

It’s literally the opposite; she’s getting attacked for where she lives with (false) claims about where she’s sent her kids to school. Just in this thread someone called her a “white savior” just for where she lives, it’s ridiculous.

NP

This whole post is ridiculous. Some people clearly want to smear and cause damage to the next school board member. If she’s that awful, and I doubt she is, then put your money where your mouth is run for SB yourself. Otherwise time to move on and shut up.

She is accountable for her actions. She founded and led a group that was hostile to teachers, staff, and other parents. The only reason she's on the ballot is because she got very lucky with the endorsement vote.

A fact that applies to numerous board members, past and present.

I can't think of anyone else whose only competition was a 20 something newbie without any ties to APS but ok.

Bethany had zero competition for the ACDC endorsement.

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Who won?

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I live in Green Valley and i don't begrudge her for not sending her kids to Drew. When we first moved here in 2014 and went to check out the school for our kid, the principal refused to tell us about the neighborhood program. They would ONLY discuss the montessori program and basically told us there was no way we would want to do the neighborhood one so I should not consider it. If the school's OWN principal is telling you that, why would you go?

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Green Valley and i don't begrudge her for not sending her kids to Drew. When we first moved here in 2014 and went to check out the school for our kid, the principal refused to tell us about the neighborhood program. They would ONLY discuss the montessori program and basically told us there was no way we would want to do the neighborhood one so I should not consider it. If the school's OWN principal is telling you that, why would you go?

2014 was a long time ago. When did Miranda's kids enter APS?

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Anonymous wrote:Who won?

Has anyone seen results? Wondering how Miranda did compared to the real Dems.

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Anonymous wrote:"Exactly. I wouldn't care where she lives except she's trying to use it to score points to show how enlightened she is. If she's going to do that, then people are certainly going to wonder why she won't send her kids to the neighborhood school. With the blacks."


OMG. You b---- about her not sending her kids to the school. You b---- that she served on the school's PTA. You b---- because she was one of the founding members of an organization, some members of which were a-holes and who BTW were members of your school communities in NORTH Arlington.

We get it: you despise her and you're going to criticize and b---- about everything she does and does not do. Every friggin' chance you can absolutely get. Just keep directing all those hours of advocacy you selflessly put in to better our entire school system to the other 4 clowns on the Board. MT's one vote won't make one bit of difference.

APE likes to portray itself as advocating selflessly to better the school system. But everyone else sees through this. APS advocates in their OWN self interest to better the experience of their OWN children. They do like to claim they are advocating on behalf of black and brown children or any other marginalized groups. But then APE shouts down the actual voices from those groups when they don't align with APE's narrative. APE even did this publicly in a School Board meeting which is recorded.

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Anonymous wrote:"Exactly. I wouldn't care where she lives except she's trying to use it to score points to show how enlightened she is. If she's going to do that, then people are certainly going to wonder why she won't send her kids to the neighborhood school. With the blacks."


OMG. You b---- about her not sending her kids to the school. You b---- that she served on the school's PTA. You b---- because she was one of the founding members of an organization, some members of which were a-holes and who BTW were members of your school communities in NORTH Arlington.

We get it: you despise her and you're going to criticize and b---- about everything she does and does not do. Every friggin' chance you can absolutely get. Just keep directing all those hours of advocacy you selflessly put in to better our entire school system to the other 4 clowns on the Board. MT's one vote won't make one bit of difference.

APE likes to portray itself as advocating selflessly to better the school system. But everyone else sees through this. APS advocates in their OWN self interest to better the experience of their OWN children. They do like to claim they are advocating on behalf of black and brown children or any other marginalized groups. But then APE shouts down the actual voices from those groups when they don't align with APE's narrative. APE even did this publicly in a School Board meeting which is recorded.

that should have read APE not APS

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Anonymous wrote:"Exactly. I wouldn't care where she lives except she's trying to use it to score points to show how enlightened she is. If she's going to do that, then people are certainly going to wonder why she won't send her kids to the neighborhood school. With the blacks."


OMG. You b---- about her not sending her kids to the school. You b---- that she served on the school's PTA. You b---- because she was one of the founding members of an organization, some members of which were a-holes and who BTW were members of your school communities in NORTH Arlington.

We get it: you despise her and you're going to criticize and b---- about everything she does and does not do. Every friggin' chance you can absolutely get. Just keep directing all those hours of advocacy you selflessly put in to better our entire school system to the other 4 clowns on the Board. MT's one vote won't make one bit of difference.

APE likes to portray itself as advocating selflessly to better the school system. But everyone else sees through this. APE advocates in their OWN self interest to better the experience of their OWN children. They do like to claim they are advocating on behalf of black and brown children or any other marginalized groups. But then APE shouts down the actual voices from those groups when they don't align with APE's narrative. APE even did this publicly in a School Board meeting which is recorded.

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It’s so transparent.

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Anonymous wrote:Who won?

Has anyone seen results? Wondering how Miranda did compared to the real Dems.

She got 80% of the vote. More votes than either of the County board members who won. So pretty well.

https://enr.elections.virginia.gov/results/public/Virginia/elections/2023-Nov-Gen

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Anonymous wrote:Who won?

Has anyone seen results? Wondering how Miranda did compared to the real Dems.

She got 80% of the vote. More votes than either of the County board members who won. So pretty well.

https://enr.elections.virginia.gov/results/public/Virginia/elections/2023-Nov-Gen

I will be honest, her "competition" was terrible. He is basically transphobic and I could not in good conscience vote for him. It was a lesser of two evils for me, even though I really disliked what APE did for our community. If there was a write in campaign I would have voted that way.

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Anonymous wrote:"Exactly. I wouldn't care where she lives except she's trying to use it to score points to show how enlightened she is. If she's going to do that, then people are certainly going to wonder why she won't send her kids to the neighborhood school. With the blacks."


OMG. You b---- about her not sending her kids to the school. You b---- that she served on the school's PTA. You b---- because she was one of the founding members of an organization, some members of which were a-holes and who BTW were members of your school communities in NORTH Arlington.

We get it: you despise her and you're going to criticize and b---- about everything she does and does not do. Every friggin' chance you can absolutely get. Just keep directing all those hours of advocacy you selflessly put in to better our entire school system to the other 4 clowns on the Board. MT's one vote won't make one bit of difference.

Miranda engendered a lot of badwill in the community by founding an organization that was so divisive and attacked teachers, leaders and community members. This is on her. What has SHE done to try to fix this? NADA.

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Anonymous wrote:ATS isn’t in hot demand though. Lots of elementary parents (and research) don’t want the homework every day model, and are perfectly happy sending their kids to their neighborhood school.

But for those Type A parents, ATS’s lottery is there for you. There is value to having other learning models available to your kids. APE’s going to have a really hard time convincing the community otherwise.

It actually is in hot demand. There were 320 applicants for kindergarten out of 1973 total kindergartners in the district. There are 25 elementary schools in APS and 16% of the incoming K kids were in the lottery for this one.

We didn't apply to the lottery for ATS because I'm not committing to being at the bus stop at 7:10am and traveling across the county to pick up for aftercare, but I certainly wouldn't mind if we implemented homework and other ATS-like elements in our school.

https://www.apsva.us/school-transfer-data/

A whole 16%? Where are my fainting salts??

Please tell me also how many of the same parents entered other K lotteries and selected those schools instead.

16% is a lot to choose a school that is in most cases much more inconvenient. It's 3.5 times the number that actually got in. Clearly there's something people like about it, probably should replicate that.

320 total applicants less 91 seats offered less 170 waitlisted students = about 59 students pulled from the waitlist for whatever reason.

Oh gawd stop. This is terrible data analysis. Embarrassing. But APE keeps on trying to stay relevant.

I'm not in APE. Could you tell me where my numbers are wrong?

I also don't understand the APE accusations. How would someone know that an "APE" is replying? Are option schools a big part of their platform? I'm confused as I don't see anything about option schools on their website. I also can't tell whether the PP is claiming APE is pro option school (because MT sends her kids to one) or against option schools (because there was an opinion piece in the APE newsletter criticizing HBW inequity).

They "know" it's an APE person when they express a different opinion.

You know it's an APE when they cherry pick their data to suit their narrative.

Such as? If you’re going to argue someone’s analysis is wrong you need to explain why and offer better context and data.

Check out their so-called data analysis for HB Woodlawn. They pick one class to make their point. And they’re ignorant of the staffing model there.

It sounds like someone in APE is upset that their kid didn't win the lottery. They had the same shot at HB as everyone else and they can't lobby their way in. So now they want to shut down the opportunity for other kids. Classic APE opportunity hoarding.