APS School Board race

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are the races this nutty everywhere??? Is it common for a political party to endorse school board candidates? We are just starting to pay attention to the APS stuff bc our kids will be going soon. I’m kinda scared!

Miranda founded an organization whose members have stated that teachers are "groomers" and children are "being indoctrinated with CRT". She has to toe the line with these crazies because they made her. APE tries to make themselves look presentable, but still can't be transparent with the public.

The other one is a kid whose only connection to Arlington/APS is that he moved here just over a year ago? He has no investment in APS otherwise. But since he's a candidate, I'll see what he has to say too, bot because I like him but because I have to.

Lousy candidates. I'm just sorry for our kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are the races this nutty everywhere??? Is it common for a political party to endorse school board candidates? We are just starting to pay attention to the APS stuff bc our kids will be going soon. I’m kinda scared!

Parents have always been very engaged and active in APS. We’ve had intense debates over APS decisions in the past.

However, the pandemic triggered some bullies in our community (many who weren’t active before) and the discourse deeply fractured our community. It got really ugly for a while. Republicans took advantage of the situation and rode the wave of discourse straight to the governor’s mansion.

[Anonymous]

The best argument for getting ACDC out of the SB elections is Miranda Turner. They're running a DINO because she said she's a Dem. She's going to have to prove that to me.

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Anonymous wrote:Y’all are delusional. APE has never waded into culture war issues. They have a Facebook group and newsletter subscribers that reach over a 1000+ people according to their website. A member (supposedly as I still have no idea who you’re talking about) in the Facebook forum also belong to PDE (is that right?) which has anti trans views. Anyone can join the Facebook group. But because the website references their reach therefore MT = anti trans. Posters here okay to leap to transphobic assumptions while simultaneously taking pains to explain why MT’s supportive tweet of a picture of the APS trans student asking a tough question at the townhall somehow means the opposite of what any reasonable person would interpret. The posters here need to step back and let the forums play out. Given MT’s tweet and other comments I’ve seen her post and link to, I have zero doubt she’s a trans-ally. Is that her top issue on campaign? No and I hope not given that APS policy is supportive of trans kids and it would be pure virtue signaling. I’m sure she will be asked a pointed question on this and she will answer and until then you’re all just massively speculating and spreading lies on the internet.

Yikes, my man. Rewriting history here. I was here in 2020-21 too, and APE members definitely waded into the culture wars. Your big tent has trash people. Deal with them.

Really? Which issue? Because I’ve also been in the Facebook group and have been very impressed that they rise above all that nonsense. And they put out a regular newsletter, have all their issues on their website, and disclose who their speakers are at meetings. I’ve NEVER seen them touch a culture war issue. They’re hyper local issues about budget, curriculum, small class sizes, and teacher pay. You probably saw a stray comment on some Facebook post and have run with it being their platform. For the lurkers out there: this thread has gone off the rails, suggest you check out for yourself these assertions and leaps of imagination to see how off base they are. I look forward to you all looking like fools when MT affirms her support for trans students in a forum. I’m sure you’ll all be twisting in knots on how to spin it to mean the opposite of whatever she says.

I agree. Miranda should weigh on this. Right now. Disavow herself of Youngkin's Transgender Model Policies and say on the record that trans boys are boys and trans girls are girls, and they absolutely should use the same bathrooms as their gender and play sports with people of their same gender. It's not that hard.

Honestly, Miranda's supporters here are making it worse for her by insulting and calling out "mental health" every time someone poses a thought different from theirs.

It's just like what they did in the last campaign. Last time they labeled everyone who didn't agree 100 with them as a closed schooler.

I think this comment is the heart of the issue with this thread. These posters associate every comment made by someone as being what a candidate or group believes. I remember the obnoxious poster who called everyone a closed schooler and ventilation queen. They were annoying but to hold that against the candidate or APE is just dumb. People are obnoxious on the internet. Just like it’s really defying common sense to characterize ape as anti trans because some transphobe happens to join the Facebook group and to twist a trans-supportive tweet to have the opposite meaning. APS thankfully has very supportive trans policies and these are not pressing issues in our community even with the current governor. I also don’t recall ever seeing explicit trans policies on other candidate’s website (although I’m sure the kid has something given all that he really has going for him is virtue signaling with the best of them).

Human rights is always a pressing issue and the fact that you used the term “virtue signaling” tells me exactly what you are. Only one side uses that terminology. These issues may not be important to you, but they are to me. And I can’t I’m good conscience vote for someone who can’t say that trans people deserve to feel safe in schools and have the same rights as heteronormative kids. She and Antonio needs to denounce Youngkin’s divisive rhetoric.

Miranda needs to go on the record to unequivocally say her stances not just on trans issues, but CRT, library book banning, SROs, and the like. I feel like Antonio will be more forthcoming, but we will see.

If Miranda is truly a Democrat, she will have no problem denouncing Youngkin and his attacks on public schools. But... maybe she just said that she was just to get the ACDC to stand behind her.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are the races this nutty everywhere??? Is it common for a political party to endorse school board candidates? We are just starting to pay attention to the APS stuff bc our kids will be going soon. I’m kinda scared!

Parents have always been very engaged and active in APS. We’ve had intense debates over APS decisions in the past.

However, the pandemic triggered some bullies in our community (many who weren’t active before) and the discourse deeply fractured our community. It got really ugly for a while. Republicans took advantage of the situation and rode the wave of discourse straight to the governor’s mansion.

A certain group of parents became very, very angry at APE during the pandemic because they wanted full time school before vaccines. They formed a group called Arlington Parents for Education. Their behavior was something else. Miranda was a founder and until recently led the group. She may ride their anger to a school board seat, I guess we will see. It's happened in a lot of other places.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are the races this nutty everywhere??? Is it common for a political party to endorse school board candidates? We are just starting to pay attention to the APS stuff bc our kids will be going soon. I’m kinda scared!

Parents have always been very engaged and active in APS. We’ve had intense debates over APS decisions in the past.

However, the pandemic triggered some bullies in our community (many who weren’t active before) and the discourse deeply fractured our community. It got really ugly for a while. Republicans took advantage of the situation and rode the wave of discourse straight to the governor’s mansion.

A certain group of parents became very, very angry at APE during the pandemic because they wanted full time school before vaccines. They formed a group called Arlington Parents for Education. Their behavior was something else. Miranda was a founder and until recently led the group. She may ride their anger to a school board seat, I guess we will see. It's happened in a lot of other places.

sorry, angry at APS! not APE.

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Anonymous wrote:Are the races this nutty everywhere??? Is it common for a political party to endorse school board candidates? We are just starting to pay attention to the APS stuff bc our kids will be going soon. I’m kinda scared!

Parents have always been very engaged and active in APS. We’ve had intense debates over APS decisions in the past.

However, the pandemic triggered some bullies in our community (many who weren’t active before) and the discourse deeply fractured our community. It got really ugly for a while. Republicans took advantage of the situation and rode the wave of discourse straight to the governor’s mansion.

A certain group of parents became very, very angry at APE during the pandemic because they wanted full time school before vaccines. They formed a group called Arlington Parents for Education. Their behavior was something else. Miranda was a founder and until recently led the group. She may ride their anger to a school board seat, I guess we will see. It's happened in a lot of other places.

sorry, angry at APS! not APE.

Will APE be funding Miranda's campaign? We still don't know where its funding comes from, do we?

https://www.wbez.org/stories/conservative-groups-back-candidates-as-school-board-races-become-ideological-battlegrounds/e0eb12f3-734a-437c-9591-c3db4146e796

[Anonymous]

I just caught up in this thread. Whew. I guess with APE present we're going to have another nasty race.

Too lazy to backtrack to quote previous postings but I agree that endorsements may not be handed out so freely this election. Both candidates are problematic for different reasons. I don't think Miranda had any real endorsements the last time she ran. I expect more of the same. There's very few Dems that want to be associated with perceived dark money and vouchers for schools coming from the right. Like it or not, APE is lumped together with all of those groups because they represent them in their "big tent."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are the races this nutty everywhere??? Is it common for a political party to endorse school board candidates? We are just starting to pay attention to the APS stuff bc our kids will be going soon. I’m kinda scared!

I have no idea how the SB races are elsewhere, but I'm scared this time, like you. We've never had such a race before; a "normal" candidate is missing. Miranda Turner seems to have a lot of devoted fans and a lot of abject haters. I don't know what to believe.
Antonio is barely a college graduate with no family here, nor any ties to APS or Arlington at all. He's from California - no experience, but high political ambitions, likely also no intention of staying here.

[Anonymous]

Go to threads from 2020-21 when Miranda ran the first time. That will really tell you who she is. Maybe her and Mary K's debate at the NAACP candidate forums are still up? Boy. That was something. So tone deaf and frankly racist-lite.

I can't believe she's cleaned up her act 3 years later. It's bad. Two bad candidates.

[Anonymous]

OMG the NAACP debate. It's so infamous. I don't even know how those moderators kept a straight face.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go to threads from 2020-21 when Miranda ran the first time. That will really tell you who she is. Maybe her and Mary K's debate at the NAACP candidate forums are still up? Boy. That was something. So tone deaf and frankly racist-lite.

I can't believe she's cleaned up her act 3 years later. It's bad. Two bad candidates.

She’s hoping people will forget.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go to threads from 2020-21 when Miranda ran the first time. That will really tell you who she is. Maybe her and Mary K's debate at the NAACP candidate forums are still up? Boy. That was something. So tone deaf and frankly racist-lite.

I can't believe she's cleaned up her act 3 years later. It's bad. Two bad candidates.

Naw. It was full on racist. And I'll say it over and over again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG the NAACP debate. It's so infamous. I don't even know how those moderators kept a straight face.

Here was one debate:

https://arlingtondemocrats.org/event/school-board-candidate-debate/?instance_id=1051

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are the races this nutty everywhere??? Is it common for a political party to endorse school board candidates? We are just starting to pay attention to the APS stuff bc our kids will be going soon. I’m kinda scared!

Miranda founded an organization whose members have stated that teachers are "groomers" and children are "being indoctrinated with CRT". She has to toe the line with these crazies because they made her. APE tries to make themselves look presentable, but still can't be transparent with the public.

The other one is a kid whose only connection to Arlington/APS is that he moved here just over a year ago? He has no investment in APS otherwise. But since he's a candidate, I'll see what he has to say too, bot because I like him but because I have to.

Lousy candidates. I'm just sorry for our kids.

He does not have any connection at all to APS. If he moved here, he only just did so for this race.

But I agree with you. Arlington needed a strong candidate with broad appeal. This is such a rich and large school district, it's a shame we don't have any additional candidates.