Arlington Dems School Board Debate - go!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Four of whom have had kids go through the system. I’ll grant you the fifth is a carpetbagger.

Point still is Miranda’s family bailed on APS. This is a single issue candidate who does not have credentials trials or even a demonstrated commitment to the school system. If for some reason APS ends up not fully opening in the fall, will her kids both be in APS schools regardless of how it looks? Can she commit to reenrolling her kids no matter what?

Miranda should get get on the board or whatever of her kids' private school.

Leave APS to us poor public folks.

You all clearly did not watch the debate and just enjoy troll posting. She has a kid in MPSA and another that went to drew who will return in the fall. She has a kid in private and has been fighting for more days in school for all kids. This is not an Alexandria superintendent issue where he withdrew his kid and continues to keep other kids out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Four of whom have had kids go through the system. I’ll grant you the fifth is a carpetbagger.

Point still is Miranda’s family bailed on APS. This is a single issue candidate who does not have credentials trials or even a demonstrated commitment to the school system. If for some reason APS ends up not fully opening in the fall, will her kids both be in APS schools regardless of how it looks? Can she commit to reenrolling her kids no matter what?

Miranda should get get on the board or whatever of her kids' private school.

Leave APS to us poor public folks.

You all clearly did not watch the debate and just enjoy troll posting. She has a kid in MPSA and another that went to drew who will return in the fall. She has a kid in private and has been fighting for more days in school for all kids. This is not an Alexandria superintendent issue where he withdrew his kid and continues to keep other kids out.

I watched the debate. I thought she did a pretty sh!tty job in the debate, especially compared to Mary's cogent and knowledgeable answers on a range of topics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Four of whom have had kids go through the system. I’ll grant you the fifth is a carpetbagger.

Point still is Miranda’s family bailed on APS. This is a single issue candidate who does not have credentials trials or even a demonstrated commitment to the school system. If for some reason APS ends up not fully opening in the fall, will her kids both be in APS schools regardless of how it looks? Can she commit to reenrolling her kids no matter what?

Miranda should get get on the board or whatever of her kids' private school.

Leave APS to us poor public folks.

+ 1. Miranda is a Johnny come lately. She even admitted she hadn't heard of an issue until she did debate prep and watched a debate from the last race.

It's also clear that she has no ideas for anything after schools reopen. Schools are open now and will be fulltime in the fall, BEFORE the new member takes office. I want someone who can thing beyond that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Four of whom have had kids go through the system. I’ll grant you the fifth is a carpetbagger.

Point still is Miranda’s family bailed on APS. This is a single issue candidate who does not have credentials trials or even a demonstrated commitment to the school system. If for some reason APS ends up not fully opening in the fall, will her kids both be in APS schools regardless of how it looks? Can she commit to reenrolling her kids no matter what?

Miranda should get get on the board or whatever of her kids' private school.

Leave APS to us poor public folks.

+ 1. Miranda is a Johnny come lately. She even admitted she hadn't heard of an issue until she did debate prep and watched a debate from the last race.

It's also clear that she has no ideas for anything after schools reopen. Schools are open now and will be fulltime in the fall, BEFORE the new member takes office. I want someone who can thing beyond that.

I looked at her website and there is nothing about any other issues.

[Anonymous]

I watched and thought she did well. From MK all I heard was edu-babble. A vote for MK would be 1000% more of the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Four of whom have had kids go through the system. I’ll grant you the fifth is a carpetbagger.

Point still is Miranda’s family bailed on APS. This is a single issue candidate who does not have credentials trials or even a demonstrated commitment to the school system. If for some reason APS ends up not fully opening in the fall, will her kids both be in APS schools regardless of how it looks? Can she commit to reenrolling her kids no matter what?

Miranda should get get on the board or whatever of her kids' private school.

Leave APS to us poor public folks.

You all clearly did not watch the debate and just enjoy troll posting. She has a kid in MPSA and another that went to drew who will return in the fall. She has a kid in private and has been fighting for more days in school for all kids. This is not an Alexandria superintendent issue where he withdrew his kid and continues to keep other kids out.

Yeah. Tired of the reading the comments from the same 3 AEM posters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Four of whom have had kids go through the system. I’ll grant you the fifth is a carpetbagger.

Point still is Miranda’s family bailed on APS. This is a single issue candidate who does not have credentials trials or even a demonstrated commitment to the school system. If for some reason APS ends up not fully opening in the fall, will her kids both be in APS schools regardless of how it looks? Can she commit to reenrolling her kids no matter what?

Miranda should get get on the board or whatever of her kids' private school.

Leave APS to us poor public folks.

+ 1. Miranda is a Johnny come lately. She even admitted she hadn't heard of an issue until she did debate prep and watched a debate from the last race.

It's also clear that she has no ideas for anything after schools reopen. Schools are open now and will be fulltime in the fall, BEFORE the new member takes office. I want someone who can thing beyond that.

Oops.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mary actually has a clue for how to plan for Covid and post Covid. And she cares about all kids.

Miranda only cares about those who have been screaming for full time in person. That's it. That was made very clear by her campaign manager TT on AEM who was incredibly hostile to anyone who said that doesn't work for my family. The APS world is much wider than APE. Miranda, if elected, will advocate for those in APE and that's it. That is scary to me.

You are way off base. TT is not her campaign manager, he isn’t even affiliated with anyone in her campaign, he just posts about her all the time on AEM and I bet she wishes he wouldn’t! I could never ever vote for Mary after what she pulled as McKinley PTA President. When her kids school was put up as an option site, she put forth tons of maps screwing over every other school so her precious kids wouldn’t get bussed elsewhere. You think she gives a rats ass about anyone else?? Miranda moved into the Drew neighborhood and plans to send her kids to school there, even though she could afford to live elsewhere or send them to private school. She supports equity, and raises for teachers, and wants ALL kids to have the chance to go back to school. Mary just repeats the same talking points from every other school board member ever, and doesn’t seem to care at all about getting kids back in the classroom.

You're waaaaay off base here.

Miranda is a white gentrifier family who moved into Green Valley. Her kids do not attend Drew. She pulled one out into PRIVATE SCHOOL. The other is in Montessori. So much for equity if you won't even send your kids to the neighborhood school in the historically black neighborhood.

As for Mary, whatever she did at McK with the moves, she didn't do it for her own kids. Her kids were too old to be impacted.

Actually MT's kids have been in Drew for a long time, but she was forced to withdraw them due to school closures issues. I've heard her say publicly her kids want to go back once school is in person again.

"forced?" hahahaha

"forced to withdraw them" and send them to private school" is just hilarious. Talk about privilege and lack of self awareness. Do you know how many people can't afford private? Or could but stuck with the public schools?

I don't want someone representing me who just gives up on public school so quickly, and then wants to represent me and my kids who are STILL in public.

Oh you really made my night.

+1

“Forced”? WTH?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mary actually has a clue for how to plan for Covid and post Covid. And she cares about all kids.

Miranda only cares about those who have been screaming for full time in person. That's it. That was made very clear by her campaign manager TT on AEM who was incredibly hostile to anyone who said that doesn't work for my family. The APS world is much wider than APE. Miranda, if elected, will advocate for those in APE and that's it. That is scary to me.

You are way off base. TT is not her campaign manager, he isn’t even affiliated with anyone in her campaign, he just posts about her all the time on AEM and I bet she wishes he wouldn’t! I could never ever vote for Mary after what she pulled as McKinley PTA President. When her kids school was put up as an option site, she put forth tons of maps screwing over every other school so her precious kids wouldn’t get bussed elsewhere. You think she gives a rats ass about anyone else?? Miranda moved into the Drew neighborhood and plans to send her kids to school there, even though she could afford to live elsewhere or send them to private school. She supports equity, and raises for teachers, and wants ALL kids to have the chance to go back to school. Mary just repeats the same talking points from every other school board member ever, and doesn’t seem to care at all about getting kids back in the classroom.

You're waaaaay off base here.

Miranda is a white gentrifier family who moved into Green Valley. Her kids do not attend Drew. She pulled one out into PRIVATE SCHOOL. The other is in Montessori. So much for equity if you won't even send your kids to the neighborhood school in the historically black neighborhood.

As for Mary, whatever she did at McK with the moves, she didn't do it for her own kids. Her kids were too old to be impacted.

Please—that was all about property values (and I’m not a Miranda supporter).

Just curious how it could be about property values. We’re talking about a school that, with neighborhood boundaries, will serve very few students who qualify for fr/l. Moving from one GS 9/10 to another GS 9/10 has no effect on property values. If anything, a home zoned for the newly built school would be more valuable, I would think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I watched and thought she did well. From MK all I heard was edu-babble. A vote for MK would be 1000% more of the same.

Clearly what we need on the SB is an angry lawyer who was “forced” to withdraw her child to private school because APS didn’t meet her expectations during an unprecedented global crisis.



Mary was a teacher, but that’s probably a knock against her from all the teacher-haters who think highly qualified educators speak in “edu-babble.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I watched and thought she did well. From MK all I heard was edu-babble. A vote for MK would be 1000% more of the same.

Clearly what we need on the SB is an angry lawyer who was “forced” to withdraw her child to private school because APS didn’t meet her expectations during an unprecedented global crisis.



Mary was a teacher, but that’s probably a knock against her from all the teacher-haters who think highly qualified educators speak in “edu-babble.”

1000x this

[Anonymous]

Which ones are for full reopening and which ones are union lackies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Four of whom have had kids go through the system. I’ll grant you the fifth is a carpetbagger.

Point still is Miranda’s family bailed on APS. This is a single issue candidate who does not have credentials trials or even a demonstrated commitment to the school system. If for some reason APS ends up not fully opening in the fall, will her kids both be in APS schools regardless of how it looks? Can she commit to reenrolling her kids no matter what?

Miranda should get get on the board or whatever of her kids' private school.

Leave APS to us poor public folks.

+ 1. Miranda is a Johnny come lately. She even admitted she hadn't heard of an issue until she did debate prep and watched a debate from the last race.

It's also clear that she has no ideas for anything after schools reopen. Schools are open now and will be fulltime in the fall, BEFORE the new member takes office. I want someone who can thing beyond that.

Oops.

What issue?

[Anonymous]

I just watched the opening statements and the first question, but I thought both did well.

I'm voting for Miranda because I think she's right that return-to-school and COVID response is *the* issue of the day, and I concur that APS has failed wildly here. But Mary seems fully competent to me. She just seems more establishment, and I am looking for more change. But either way, I am happy to have either of these two on the board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which ones are for full reopening and which ones are union lackies?

Lolz.