Arl Dems Caucus Endorsement - School Board - In the Candidates' Words

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MT is the only grownup in this race and that is not a knock on her opponent’s age. You can dislike her and APE all you want but she is the only competent person in this race. Hope for Angelo and pray he drops out but that won’t happen. This is too important. Don’t be like the protest voter who voted for the libertarian or trump as a protest vote.

You mean don't be like the APEs who voted for Youngkin?

Sure okay. I really don’t care about APE. I like the info they put out and seem fine to me. I just don’t want another incompetent idiot on the board like CDT and Priddy. MT is smart and a hard worker and I’m okay not agreeing with someone on everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At this point in time whether it is school board elections or any election if you are a human and you vote Republican you are dumb zero brain cells

Not to mention a Traitor to the US

Yes this goes for s hood boards

VA will end up with school choice woo hoo padding republicans bank accounts

Fortunately for Arlington there aren’t any Republicans running in this school
Board race.

But we know who the Republicans/Trumpers are lining up to vote for.

[Anonymous]

Been telling neighbors about the kid and they can’t believe he’s 22. Maybe a couple of them make it out to vote.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Been telling neighbors about the kid and they can’t believe he’s 22. Maybe a couple of them make it out to vote.

So where do the candidates stand on standards based grading?

[Anonymous]

Thanks to the PP posting the crazy links. The claims are demonstrably false and I believe you are interfering in an election. And people say the Miranda's supporters are crazy.....you just proved the opposite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Been telling neighbors about the kid and they can’t believe he’s 22. Maybe a couple of them make it out to vote.

So where do the candidates stand on standards based grading?

APE asked about it in the candidate questionnaire: https://www.arlingtonparentsforeducation.org/school-board-2023. Only Miranda answered. Looks like Angelo didn't bother responding at all. Sounds par for the course. He's a no show at the advisory committee meetings, a no show at at least two forums, no show at his own election, and not bothering to engage with a community group. Whether you like APE or not, not responding is not the action of a community leader who wants to work with everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Been telling neighbors about the kid and they can’t believe he’s 22. Maybe a couple of them make it out to vote.

So where do the candidates stand on standards based grading?

APE asked about it in the candidate questionnaire: https://www.arlingtonparentsforeducation.org/school-board-2023. Only Miranda answered. Looks like Angelo didn't bother responding at all. Sounds par for the course. He's a no show at the advisory committee meetings, a no show at at least two forums, no show at his own election, and not bothering to engage with a community group. Whether you like APE or not, not responding is not the action of a community leader who wants to work with everyone.

Maybe that's because there is no separation between APE and MT's campaign? He might as well stop by the Turner family reunion to campaign. And APE has constantly criticized APS for standards-based grading. Just like the missing middle people, they always claim to be opposed to "the process" when anyone proposes something progressive. Frankly, I think it's principled to not respond to APE's questionnaire. I don't want a community leader that touches such a divisive group even with a 10-foot pole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Been telling neighbors about the kid and they can’t believe he’s 22. Maybe a couple of them make it out to vote.

So where do the candidates stand on standards based grading?

APE asked about it in the candidate questionnaire: https://www.arlingtonparentsforeducation.org/school-board-2023. Only Miranda answered. Looks like Angelo didn't bother responding at all. Sounds par for the course. He's a no show at the advisory committee meetings, a no show at at least two forums, no show at his own election, and not bothering to engage with a community group. Whether you like APE or not, not responding is not the action of a community leader who wants to work with everyone.

Eh. We all know APE are Miranda's lackeys. Maybe they didn't give him a fair chance to respond. Or maybe he didn't want to play their game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Been telling neighbors about the kid and they can’t believe he’s 22. Maybe a couple of them make it out to vote.

So where do the candidates stand on standards based grading?

APE asked about it in the candidate questionnaire: https://www.arlingtonparentsforeducation.org/school-board-2023. Only Miranda answered. Looks like Angelo didn't bother responding at all. Sounds par for the course. He's a no show at the advisory committee meetings, a no show at at least two forums, no show at his own election, and not bothering to engage with a community group. Whether you like APE or not, not responding is not the action of a community leader who wants to work with everyone.

Eh. We all know APE are Miranda's lackeys. Maybe they didn't give him a fair chance to respond. Or maybe he didn't want to play their game.

or maybe he just is a flake. He doesn't show up to advisory committee meetings and other forums as well.

[Anonymous]

So here is Turner's answer on this question, which strikes me as a reasonable one:

As a parent of an elementary student, I would like to know if you support standards-based grading. For my high school students, I would also like to know whether you support the recently adopted homework policy stating high school students cannot be given more than “a maximum of a total of 60 minutes per week per course.”

Turner: Certainly I support grading that is based on standards. However, as a parent of two APS students at a school that has adopted standards-based grading, I have concerns with the practice as it’s currently being implemented. First, the terminology is confusing and a student’s level is not easily intuited from the scale. “Approaching mastery,” for example, sounds in some ways like a higher ranking than “meets standard,” but it isn’t. “Insufficient evidence” makes it sound simply like a student hasn’t yet done any work that can be evaluated, but apparently it’s meant to be the lowest end of a four-tier scale. While there is no magic to a traditional “A through E” letter-grade scale, or a numeric scale, it is important that parents and students be able to derive some meaning from their grade, and SBG seems to lack that quality. In addition, while this is a problem for many parents, I have particularly heard some parents in the Hispanic community express confusion and concern that they are not able to tell how their children are doing in school. This is a barrier to full engagement with the education of one’s child, and seemingly a needless one.

Second, the scale lacks an option to reflect that a student may be exceeding whatever standard applies to a particular skill. It’s just as important for parents to understand areas in which their student excels as it is areas where their student may struggle, in order to appreciate a child’s talents and encourage them to thrive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So here is Turner's answer on this question, which strikes me as a reasonable one:

As a parent of an elementary student, I would like to know if you support standards-based grading. For my high school students, I would also like to know whether you support the recently adopted homework policy stating high school students cannot be given more than “a maximum of a total of 60 minutes per week per course.”

Turner: Certainly I support grading that is based on standards. However, as a parent of two APS students at a school that has adopted standards-based grading, I have concerns with the practice as it’s currently being implemented. First, the terminology is confusing and a student’s level is not easily intuited from the scale. “Approaching mastery,” for example, sounds in some ways like a higher ranking than “meets standard,” but it isn’t. “Insufficient evidence” makes it sound simply like a student hasn’t yet done any work that can be evaluated, but apparently it’s meant to be the lowest end of a four-tier scale. While there is no magic to a traditional “A through E” letter-grade scale, or a numeric scale, it is important that parents and students be able to derive some meaning from their grade, and SBG seems to lack that quality. In addition, while this is a problem for many parents, I have particularly heard some parents in the Hispanic community express confusion and concern that they are not able to tell how their children are doing in school. This is a barrier to full engagement with the education of one’s child, and seemingly a needless one.

Second, the scale lacks an option to reflect that a student may be exceeding whatever standard applies to a particular skill. It’s just as important for parents to understand areas in which their student excels as it is areas where their student may struggle, in order to appreciate a child’s talents and encourage them to thrive.

That’s a good answer and I didn’t understand “insufficient evidence” until just now. Sounds like this needs some work. Thanks for posting this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, AEA endorsed Angelo!!!

Wow is right.

I lost what tiny respect of shred I had for Arlington teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So here is Turner's answer on this question, which strikes me as a reasonable one:

As a parent of an elementary student, I would like to know if you support standards-based grading. For my high school students, I would also like to know whether you support the recently adopted homework policy stating high school students cannot be given more than “a maximum of a total of 60 minutes per week per course.”

Turner: Certainly I support grading that is based on standards. However, as a parent of two APS students at a school that has adopted standards-based grading, I have concerns with the practice as it’s currently being implemented. First, the terminology is confusing and a student’s level is not easily intuited from the scale. “Approaching mastery,” for example, sounds in some ways like a higher ranking than “meets standard,” but it isn’t. “Insufficient evidence” makes it sound simply like a student hasn’t yet done any work that can be evaluated, but apparently it’s meant to be the lowest end of a four-tier scale. While there is no magic to a traditional “A through E” letter-grade scale, or a numeric scale, it is important that parents and students be able to derive some meaning from their grade, and SBG seems to lack that quality. In addition, while this is a problem for many parents, I have particularly heard some parents in the Hispanic community express confusion and concern that they are not able to tell how their children are doing in school. This is a barrier to full engagement with the education of one’s child, and seemingly a needless one.

Second, the scale lacks an option to reflect that a student may be exceeding whatever standard applies to a particular skill. It’s just as important for parents to understand areas in which their student excels as it is areas where their student may struggle, in order to appreciate a child’s talents and encourage them to thrive.

That’s a good answer and I didn’t understand “insufficient evidence” until just now. Sounds like this needs some work. Thanks for posting this.

IMO, the SBG categories are just as useless as the current "comments" categories where teachers indicate "meets, exceeds" etc. in various categories such as responsibility (what does that mean?), etc. I really don't understand the point of SBG when the more detailed information about how a student is doing - their strengths and weaknesses - can just as easily be explained alongside an overall letter grade. It just seems to me, that in theory, SBG is the same as our current system only without the actual numerical system and letter grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, AEA endorsed Angelo!!!

Wow is right.

I lost what tiny respect of shred I had for Arlington teachers.

Wow. Why are you even here?

I personally blame the small panel of people who made a misguided recommendation for the PAC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, AEA endorsed Angelo!!!

Wow is right.

I lost what tiny respect of shred I had for Arlington teachers.

Wow. Why are you even here?

I personally blame the small panel of people who made a misguided recommendation for the PAC.

Talking to teachers, they’re as surprised by this endorsement as all the commenters on ArlNow. Whether he loses or he wins and steps down, this isn’t aging well.