Arlington: school board/county board candidates

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm really worried Miranda is going to focus on keeping schools open. We can't have that kind of craziness in office.

She also seems obsessed with getting kids who are behind on track in math and reading. It's just insane.

And APE is still fighting issues from 3 years ago. Nobody’s going to “close down schools.”

And this obsession with test scores? Let me tell you a secret. Some kids know the content. They just don’t test well. Others are behind, but APE is too focused on accelerated/intensive classes. How does that help kids who will never qualify for these classes? Bc they are behind and actually need backfill/slowing down of content.

It’s almost like Miranda and APE care about THEIR kids more than others. Their disdain of equity makes my point for me.

I support equity, but not equity above all. *Of course* we need intensified classes for those who can handle it. Some kids show up ready and able to take on more challenging work. Should they really just sit in the background while others catch up?

Our grade level standards are so far behind other nations. Get a grip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm really worried Miranda is going to focus on keeping schools open. We can't have that kind of craziness in office.

She also seems obsessed with getting kids who are behind on track in math and reading. It's just insane.

And APE is still fighting issues from 3 years ago. Nobody’s going to “close down schools.”

And this obsession with test scores? Let me tell you a secret. Some kids know the content. They just don’t test well. Others are behind, but APE is too focused on accelerated/intensive classes. How does that help kids who will never qualify for these classes? Bc they are behind and actually need backfill/slowing down of content.

It’s almost like Miranda and APE care about THEIR kids more than others. Their disdain of equity makes my point for me.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Fighting issues from three years ago? Give me a break with that privilege. Massive achievement gaps remain. We aren’t doing a good job closing them. Maybe YOUR kid is fine north arlington, wealthy white parent who can pay for tutoring but a lot of kids are NOT OKAY and I’d like my district to care.

Talking about learning loss and context because our school board just tries to paint a rosy picture constantly is not bad. Take your privilege and shove it back to somewhere where those of us trying to help our kid read at grade level don’t have to see it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fighting issues from three years ago? Give me a break with that privilege. Massive achievement gaps remain. We aren’t doing a good job closing them. Maybe YOUR kid is fine north arlington, wealthy white parent who can pay for tutoring but a lot of kids are NOT OKAY and I’d like my district to care.

Talking about learning loss and context because our school board just tries to paint a rosy picture constantly is not bad. Take your privilege and shove it back to somewhere where those of us trying to help our kid read at grade level don’t have to see it.

Lort. APE and their co-opting and misappropriation of words like privilege and equity, not really understanding what either means but feeling free and mighty to throw them around like they care about minorities and real learning loss. It existed before the pandemic. Where was APE when Murphy wasn’t giving two ***** about Black, Brown or Sped kids. Anyone?

I see right through you.

And I am not white, rich, or live in N Arlington.

You sir, need to get a grip.

[Anonymous]

I think I’m going to write someone else in too. Probably won’t stop her from winning, but at least I didn’t put her in that chair. Thx for the suggestion, anon!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm really worried Miranda is going to focus on keeping schools open. We can't have that kind of craziness in office.

She also seems obsessed with getting kids who are behind on track in math and reading. It's just insane.

And APE is still fighting issues from 3 years ago. Nobody’s going to “close down schools.”

And this obsession with test scores? Let me tell you a secret. Some kids know the content. They just don’t test well. Others are behind, but APE is too focused on accelerated/intensive classes. How does that help kids who will never qualify for these classes? Bc they are behind and actually need backfill/slowing down of content.

It’s almost like Miranda and APE care about THEIR kids more than others. Their disdain of equity makes my point for me.

I support equity, but not equity above all. *Of course* we need intensified classes for those who can handle it. Some kids show up ready and able to take on more challenging work. Should they really just sit in the background while others catch up?

Our grade level standards are so far behind other nations. Get a grip.

?

APS has been adding intensified classes. No one said to get rid of them.

The point was that the kids who are NOT in intensified have more critical needs. So maybe Miranda/APE should focus on them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fighting issues from three years ago? Give me a break with that privilege. Massive achievement gaps remain. We aren’t doing a good job closing them. Maybe YOUR kid is fine north arlington, wealthy white parent who can pay for tutoring but a lot of kids are NOT OKAY and I’d like my district to care.

Talking about learning loss and context because our school board just tries to paint a rosy picture constantly is not bad. Take your privilege and shove it back to somewhere where those of us trying to help our kid read at grade level don’t have to see it.

Lort. APE and their co-opting and misappropriation of words like privilege and equity, not really understanding what either means but feeling free and mighty to throw them around like they care about minorities and real learning loss. It existed before the pandemic. Where was APE when Murphy wasn’t giving two ***** about Black, Brown or Sped kids. Anyone?

I see right through you.

And I am not white, rich, or live in N Arlington.

You sir, need to get a grip.

Exactly!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fighting issues from three years ago? Give me a break with that privilege. Massive achievement gaps remain. We aren’t doing a good job closing them. Maybe YOUR kid is fine north arlington, wealthy white parent who can pay for tutoring but a lot of kids are NOT OKAY and I’d like my district to care.

Talking about learning loss and context because our school board just tries to paint a rosy picture constantly is not bad. Take your privilege and shove it back to somewhere where those of us trying to help our kid read at grade level don’t have to see it.

Lort. APE and their co-opting and misappropriation of words like privilege and equity, not really understanding what either means but feeling free and mighty to throw them around like they care about minorities and real learning loss. It existed before the pandemic. Where was APE when Murphy wasn’t giving two ***** about Black, Brown or Sped kids. Anyone?

I see right through you.

And I am not white, rich, or live in N Arlington.

You sir, need to get a grip.

So, I wasn’t around three years ago, but at the last school board meeting APE was lobbying for Arlington spending more money on intensive tutoring, particularly for kids who need to catch up. Arlington apparently wants to dump a significant chunk of the state money in reserves, exclude kids who actually need help because they already have some help (??!), and “tutor” at a 10 to 1 ratio. Please tell me how this is a MaGA cause? Would you prefer APS dump it into more D&E coordinators who do nothing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm really worried Miranda is going to focus on keeping schools open. We can't have that kind of craziness in office.

She also seems obsessed with getting kids who are behind on track in math and reading. It's just insane.

And APE is still fighting issues from 3 years ago. Nobody’s going to “close down schools.”

And this obsession with test scores? Let me tell you a secret. Some kids know the content. They just don’t test well. Others are behind, but APE is too focused on accelerated/intensive classes. How does that help kids who will never qualify for these classes? Bc they are behind and actually need backfill/slowing down of content.

It’s almost like Miranda and APE care about THEIR kids more than others. Their disdain of equity makes my point for me.

I support equity, but not equity above all. *Of course* we need intensified classes for those who can handle it. Some kids show up ready and able to take on more challenging work. Should they really just sit in the background while others catch up?

Our grade level standards are so far behind other nations. Get a grip.

?

APS has been adding intensified classes. No one said to get rid of them.

The point was that the kids who are NOT in intensified have more critical needs. So maybe Miranda/APE should focus on them.

Huh? You were criticizing Miranda for being in support of accelerated/intensified classes.

Yes, there are many kids with critical needs — like parental GAF. There’s nothing APS can do to make up for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fighting issues from three years ago? Give me a break with that privilege. Massive achievement gaps remain. We aren’t doing a good job closing them. Maybe YOUR kid is fine north arlington, wealthy white parent who can pay for tutoring but a lot of kids are NOT OKAY and I’d like my district to care.

Talking about learning loss and context because our school board just tries to paint a rosy picture constantly is not bad. Take your privilege and shove it back to somewhere where those of us trying to help our kid read at grade level don’t have to see it.

Lort. APE and their co-opting and misappropriation of words like privilege and equity, not really understanding what either means but feeling free and mighty to throw them around like they care about minorities and real learning loss. It existed before the pandemic. Where was APE when Murphy wasn’t giving two ***** about Black, Brown or Sped kids. Anyone?

I see right through you.

And I am not white, rich, or live in N Arlington.

You sir, need to get a grip.

So, I wasn’t around three years ago, but at the last school board meeting APE was lobbying for Arlington spending more money on intensive tutoring, particularly for kids who need to catch up. Arlington apparently wants to dump a significant chunk of the state money in reserves, exclude kids who actually need help because they already have some help (??!), and “tutor” at a 10 to 1 ratio. Please tell me how this is a MaGA cause? Would you prefer APS dump it into more D&E coordinators who do nothing?

Let me.

Youngkin is slowly defunding public schools by giving mandates to divisions and then not giving enough money to fund them. APS will eventually have to dig through those reserves to pay for this tutoring and other VADOE priorities (now run by charter school nuts), possibly shortchanging other programs/teacher pay. And rinse, lather repeat public outrage.

Additionally, instead of giving money directly to schools to improve learning outcomes, the summer voucher program gave the money to outside contractors, and with the application being only in English, we all know which families applied. Maga!

You can denigrate DEI all you want, but they are actively involved, albeit in the background advising leadership and committees to center marginalized children throughout APS.

[Anonymous]

Oh goody! Another thread filled with Miranda derangement syndrome.

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm really worried Miranda is going to focus on keeping schools open. We can't have that kind of craziness in office.

She also seems obsessed with getting kids who are behind on track in math and reading. It's just insane.

And APE is still fighting issues from 3 years ago. Nobody’s going to “close down schools.”

And this obsession with test scores? Let me tell you a secret. Some kids know the content. They just don’t test well. Others are behind, but APE is too focused on accelerated/intensive classes. How does that help kids who will never qualify for these classes? Bc they are behind and actually need backfill/slowing down of content.

It’s almost like Miranda and APE care about THEIR kids more than others. Their disdain of equity makes my point for me.

I support equity, but not equity above all. *Of course* we need intensified classes for those who can handle it. Some kids show up ready and able to take on more challenging work. Should they really just sit in the background while others catch up?

Our grade level standards are so far behind other nations. Get a grip.

?

APS has been adding intensified classes. No one said to get rid of them.

The point was that the kids who are NOT in intensified have more critical needs. So maybe Miranda/APE should focus on them.

Huh? You were criticizing Miranda for being in support of accelerated/intensified classes.

Yes, there are many kids with critical needs — like parental GAF. There’s nothing APS can do to make up for that.

I am a DP. You misread what the PP wrote. They said Miranda/APE were ”too focused” on intensified, not that we shouldn’t have them. Kids in intensified classes are fine. The kids who aren’t need more support. They are the ones falling behind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fighting issues from three years ago? Give me a break with that privilege. Massive achievement gaps remain. We aren’t doing a good job closing them. Maybe YOUR kid is fine north arlington, wealthy white parent who can pay for tutoring but a lot of kids are NOT OKAY and I’d like my district to care.

Talking about learning loss and context because our school board just tries to paint a rosy picture constantly is not bad. Take your privilege and shove it back to somewhere where those of us trying to help our kid read at grade level don’t have to see it.

Except it's the wealthy white privileged Miranda supporters who are the ones crowing about learning loss, upset that they had to shell out a few of their own bucks for a tutor that they can totally afford. Watch them grab all the resources for their own kids when APS offers tutors. Just watch. This group just likes to use the brown poor kids as talking points to get what they want for their own privileged kids.

Think i'm wrong? Then try suggesting that only kids of a certain income level or in certain demographic groups (sped, minority, T1 etc) get the tutors, and watch the APE Miranda supporters go berserk! It's the same thing that happened during Covid. They resisted efforts to open up schools first to the most needy because that upset their narrative of using the most needy kids as a reason to get what they wanted for THEIR kids.

They showed us who they are. They are all about their OWN kids. I won't forget.

[Anonymous]

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.