APS School Board Chair Drama

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Anonymous wrote:Bethany is fine. Everybody is just upset that she did not support Mary as vigorously as you would have expected. Again, I believe there’s more going on behind the scenes. They need to learn how to keep their drama behind closed doors like every other Board of Anything.

Bethany is "fine" but still disappointing. Expected more from her.
I don't know why people think it's more complicated and that there must be a lot of behind-the-scenes dirt. All it takes in Arlington is to question or not vote in block to put you out of step and out of favor.

Every Board has behind the scenes drama. Every 👏 single 👏 one. This one decided to air their dirty laundry in public. It’s not a great look.

There have been renegades on the sb before. Reid Goldstein voted against many Syphax-backed proposals. But nothing like putting a woman in her place.

It was gross. But I do think there’s more there. There has to be. Both CDT and DP wouldn’t have outted themselves to the community otherwise. They’re smarter than that. Even Bethany and Francisco childed her, but their words were more temperate.

ha ha ha!
"Francisco" should keep his mouth shut. He works for HER. SHE is part of the team that hires him/renews his contract. If the superintendent is chiding a school board member, that only reinforces the problem is the unwritten rule that all board members must align with what the superintendent says and Mary's "fault" is that she asks questions and doesn't follow lock-step. Quite bold for Duran to make negative comments about or insinuations targeting any board member. He needs to go.

You don't have to put his name in quotes. It's his name. Although I dare you to be so informal to his face.

I listened to the SB meeting online too. Bethany's and Dr Duran's speeches were more about "staying the course" and not calling out Mary personally. But the implication was there.

Dr Duran and the end of his speech did say something about "staying the course". I think he repeated himself twice. I didn't think twice about it at the time, but now I can see how people can interpret it to target Mary, asking her not to rock the boat. Particularly around the CIP decision.

Wait, now it all makes sense. She’s going to use her role as chair to change the CIP? What’s her plan?

That's the only reason why the rest of the board would deny her the chairpersonship right? Everyone's concerned that their legacy project can be altered. The chair does have a lot of power in agenda setting and what comes up for a vote.

I don't know if she even has a plan, I don't think she is actually that kind of person, but she has voted against the CIP citing numerous concerns.

I don’t think it’s the only reason but people are definitely reacting differently depending on who they support. Mary’s friends are going after everyone else. She has a lot of APE supporters and they’re slash and burners

I did catch how many APE people support her. I read the thread from the beginning again yesterday and it does feel that Mary supporters are overly aggressive. While I'm okay with her being chair and glad that CDT and DP didn't get their way, all of this fangirldom towards her is kind of suspect. She's doing her dog damn JOB. And she has voted with the others more than she has bucked the system. She's not your savior. Maybe she has too many "insiders" who think they will gain all of this access because of her. How ridiculous.

Have you ever engaged with the school board? Mary follows up with people who speak at school board meetings, she thanks them (even if she disagrees), she pays attention and makes eye contact. Other board members ignore speakers or emails, and are generally rude. I am not an insider or APE, but in my limited experience she’s just a better human.

I have engaged with all school board members. Mary is the most approachable for sure, but Bethany and Reid - I miss him- are quite engaging too. Cristina and David are nice in person, but yes, don’t respond to emails. Miranda just works for APE, so I pretty much ignore her. Her priorities don’t align with mine, and that’s fine.

I agree with this.

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I keep waiting for Miranda to do something after all her talk ... disappointing so far. Maybe she'll turn it around and deliver. We'll see. I guess she's still learning.

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Anonymous wrote:I keep waiting for Miranda to do something after all her talk ... disappointing so far. Maybe she'll turn it around and deliver. We'll see. I guess she's still learning.

I hope she remains ineffective and marginal. I don't want APE controlling the Board. They pretty much have taken over all of the advisory groups and outside organizations that advocate to APS.

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Anonymous wrote:I keep waiting for Miranda to do something after all her talk ... disappointing so far. Maybe she'll turn it around and deliver. We'll see. I guess she's still learning.

Miranda didn't even have remarks prepared for the organizational meeting because she said she didn't know it was a thing. So now she's just like David Priddy. So lame.

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Anonymous wrote:I keep waiting for Miranda to do something after all her talk ... disappointing so far. Maybe she'll turn it around and deliver. We'll see. I guess she's still learning.

Miranda didn't even have remarks prepared for the organizational meeting because she said she didn't know it was a thing. So now she's just like David Priddy. So lame.

Maybe she's still learning? It's only been 7ish months? I just thought she would hit the ground running because she seemed to know what she wanted to do. She had such strong feelings about how things were being handled. I guess there's still time. I'm hopeful but so far I haven't been impressed with her performance. Time will tell.

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Still learning? Hahahaha

Her whole campaign was how she was a lawyer, knows what to do, will hit the ground running.

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Anonymous wrote:Still learning? Hahahaha

Her whole campaign was how she was a lawyer, knows what to do, will hit the ground running.

I like that she stood up for Mary, but the rest is absolutely meh. A David Priddy in the making. A lot of APE people are against the CIP, but they just like causing chaos, so it checks.

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I voted for her because she seemed to really have a plan but I'm sad to say so far I've been kinda disappointed with Miranda. But I do like that she stood up for Mary.

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Anonymous wrote:I voted for her because she seemed to really have a plan but I'm sad to say so far I've been kinda disappointed with Miranda.

What was her plan?

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Anonymous wrote:I voted for her because she seemed to really have a plan but I'm sad to say so far I've been kinda disappointed with Miranda. But I do like that she stood up for Mary.

We did not have a real choice, so we all had to vote for Miranda. It was her or an actual child for the primaries. And then she coasted. Thanks a lot, ACDC.

A rubber plant could have beat her soundly.

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Anonymous wrote:Still learning? Hahahaha

Her whole campaign was how she was a lawyer, knows what to do, will hit the ground running.

I heard she was a struggling attorney at a third tier firm which explains a lot. Similar performance on the board from what I can tell. Hopefully, it’ll get better.

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Anonymous wrote:I keep waiting for Miranda to do something after all her talk ... disappointing so far. Maybe she'll turn it around and deliver. We'll see. I guess she's still learning.

I hope she remains ineffective and marginal. I don't want APE controlling the Board. They pretty much have taken over all of the advisory groups and outside organizations that advocate to APS.

True words.

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CDT & Priddy = low class, unqualified sacks of poop

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I see Miranda's supporters have shown up. Classy bunch.

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I dunno. I pretty much hate Miranda/APE, but I've grown to hate Cristina and David more. Their showing at the last SB meeting was childish and petty.