APS - Who is running for School Board?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m looking for tips on how to rank my choices to prevent Cristina or Terron from winning. They’ve both irked me in ways I can’t look beyond, but I don’t have a good sense for how to rank competitors in a way that edges them out.

Following this, except I want to try to block Priddy and Krieger

I'm a Cristina supporter. She seems to be the only progressive who knows anything about education. Who should be my second choice? I'm leaning towards Terron because of his support for apprenticeship programs with unions.

I'm voting 1)Terron 2)Christina 3)Priddy. I don't love David but appreciate his perspective as a parent of biracial children. APS must do more to support brown and black students and esl students.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m looking for tips on how to rank my choices to prevent Cristina or Terron from winning. They’ve both irked me in ways I can’t look beyond, but I don’t have a good sense for how to rank competitors in a way that edges them out.

Following this, except I want to try to block Priddy and Krieger

I'm a Cristina supporter. She seems to be the only progressive who knows anything about education. Who should be my second choice? I'm leaning towards Terron because of his support for apprenticeship programs with unions.

I'm voting 1)Terron 2)Christina 3)Priddy. I don't love David but appreciate his perspective as a parent of biracial children. APS must do more to support brown and black students and esl students.

Diversity matters but I think Sandy's experience in APS will help everyone. She knows what's not working and wants to fix it. She could have retired but is running for school board instead!

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Anonymous wrote:I’m looking for tips on how to rank my choices to prevent Cristina or Terron from winning. They’ve both irked me in ways I can’t look beyond, but I don’t have a good sense for how to rank competitors in a way that edges them out.

Following this, except I want to try to block Priddy and Krieger

1. Sandy
2. Whoever you can hold your nose and vote for out of the remaining candidates. For me that’s Priddy.

I'm doing something similar. Voting 1. Sandy but haven't decided if I'll do a #2 yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m looking for tips on how to rank my choices to prevent Cristina or Terron from winning. They’ve both irked me in ways I can’t look beyond, but I don’t have a good sense for how to rank competitors in a way that edges them out.

Don't rank them at all. You don't have to rank all 5.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m looking for tips on how to rank my choices to prevent Cristina or Terron from winning. They’ve both irked me in ways I can’t look beyond, but I don’t have a good sense for how to rank competitors in a way that edges them out.

Following this, except I want to try to block Priddy and Krieger

I'm a Cristina supporter. She seems to be the only progressive who knows anything about education. Who should be my second choice? I'm leaning towards Terron because of his support for apprenticeship programs with unions.

Any board member would be willing to support that. The new requirements for graduation don't leave us any choice.
And that is the ONLY thing Terron brings. He doesn't know anything about anything else and offers nothing else. Any of the others with the exception of Krieger would do just as well as your #2.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m looking for tips on how to rank my choices to prevent Cristina or Terron from winning. They’ve both irked me in ways I can’t look beyond, but I don’t have a good sense for how to rank competitors in a way that edges them out.

Following this, except I want to try to block Priddy and Krieger

I'm a Cristina supporter. She seems to be the only progressive who knows anything about education. Who should be my second choice? I'm leaning towards Terron because of his support for apprenticeship programs with unions.

Any board member would be willing to support that. The new requirements for graduation don't leave us any choice.
And that is the ONLY thing Terron brings. He doesn't know anything about anything else and offers nothing else. Any of the others with the exception of Krieger would do just as well as your #2.

Really? Ok, obviously you're not a Terron fan, but you weaken and cheapen your argument against him with such broad, overreaching statements. Of course he has experience and knows stuff about SOMETHING. Would he really have been able to get the endorsements of current and former elected officials plus a lot of prominent local Dems if he was a complete know nothing?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m looking for tips on how to rank my choices to prevent Cristina or Terron from winning. They’ve both irked me in ways I can’t look beyond, but I don’t have a good sense for how to rank competitors in a way that edges them out.

Following this, except I want to try to block Priddy and Krieger

1. Sandy
2. Whoever you can hold your nose and vote for out of the remaining candidates. For me that’s Priddy.

I'm doing something similar. Voting 1. Sandy but haven't decided if I'll do a #2 yet.

I still haven't received my ballot. Let's hope ACDC didn't screw up the process. My plan is to vote for Cristina and Sandy. Both have education experience. Sandy knows a lot about APS while Cristina knows a lot about education policy. Together, they'll make one acceptable school board member! I might rank Steven as my third choice to have another younger person's perspective on the board.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the support for Sandy. We need school board members who will stand up to APS administration. This has been our biggest problem for years! With budgets being cut, I'm sure this is why AEA didn't endorse her. They don't trust her to have a mind of her own.

I feel the same way about Priddy. Someone as uninformed as him will not stand up to administrative staff.

I disagree. I think he's learning how to get stuff done behind the scenes. Before all this mess broke, he was part of an effort to fix ADA stuff at Fleet. And also was working on making the TJ/Fleet parking mess better. He's been making connections and leveraging them since he ran last year.

And say what you will about NVD, but I think she's the most analytical of our current members. He won her over, so I assume there's a reason.

Yeah, all it takes to "win over" NVD is to agree with her and tout the things she believes in.
I don't think David is a dynamic leader. I think he goes with the wind; but at least he asks questions and listens. I disagree that he is uninformed.

Everyone asks questions and listens!

Actually, no. There's "listening" and then there's "maybe waiting for you to stop speaking so I can tell you the right opinion and perspective" and then there's "hearing you so I can say I've listened before I utterly dismiss your opinion and experience."

Agreed. Many, many people don't listen. They are quiet while someone else is talking, so then they can say what they think. That's not listening. These same people also don't usually ask questions, because they think they know everything and asking a question seems like admitting there's something they don't know.

[Anonymous]

Apologies if someone has already made this point. I am opposed to Cristina for many reasons, but perhaps most of all BECAUSE she was TFA. If she really wanted to be a teacher, she could have earned a degree in education and done the hard work and study to become a teacher. Instead, she is arrogant enough to think that her NYU degree in Economic Theory and History is enough to make her a good HS math teacher. Even worse to think she can teach it to English language learners in an impoverished community. I suspect she thinks that her spunk and positive attitude were enough for those students to hunker down and learn statistics.

She's all talk and no action. All theory and no substance or solutions. That's what consultants do -- they "identify the problem" then pack up and leave, patting themselves on the back for their dedication to the cause, and move on to the next big thing.

APS needs someone who is willing to implement the solution and I don't think that's her.

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Anonymous wrote:David has an impressive list of endorsements. Both Nancy and Tannia have endorsed him. He must have earned their trust.

He's terrible at self-promotion and not great in the debates, but he's a good listener and will make thoughtful decisions. He's still got my vote.

Cristina has more depth than I was expecting, but I'm turned off by the degree to which she does self-promote.

I don't really get why Terron is running other than that he appears to really want to hold public office. He's run for both school board (2008) and county board before (2012), which makes me think he really just wants to be an elected official.

I think Sandy is my #2.

I definitely like David more than Terron and Steven. If he knew more, I'd mark him my number 2, but because only Cristina and Sandy seem to know anything about education policy, I voted 1 Cristina 2 Sandy 3 David 4 Terron. I left Steven off because of all the emails.

Nearly this. If I ever get my ballot, I'm marking 1) Sandy 2) Cristina 3) David. I know not everyone agrees, but how he treated Symone bothers me more than Steven's emails.

Why don't any of you want your kids to learn new content this year? Steven is my first choice.

I saw what he said and did last fall. Hard pass.

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And pushing for new content this school year completely contradicts his previous stance.

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Anonymous wrote:Apologies if someone has already made this point. I am opposed to Cristina for many reasons, but perhaps most of all BECAUSE she was TFA. If she really wanted to be a teacher, she could have earned a degree in education and done the hard work and study to become a teacher. Instead, she is arrogant enough to think that her NYU degree in Economic Theory and History is enough to make her a good HS math teacher. Even worse to think she can teach it to English language learners in an impoverished community. I suspect she thinks that her spunk and positive attitude were enough for those students to hunker down and learn statistics.

She's all talk and no action. All theory and no substance or solutions. That's what consultants do -- they "identify the problem" then pack up and leave, patting themselves on the back for their dedication to the cause, and move on to the next big thing.

APS needs someone who is willing to implement the solution and I don't think that's her.

People who use english language learners or disadvantaged students to undercut women of color like Cristina and Symone are the biggest reason why inequity exists in APS. You talk about equity like you understand it. If you did, you wouldn't lie about Cristina's background. Have you not seen her speak or been to her website? She has a master's degree and was an English language learner. Maybe she didn't earn her degree in the same way you did, but that's the point. Language learners don't have the same experience others do. Spunk and empathy aren't the same. Maybe you should give positivity a try. One woman of color being bullied out of the caucus...by Democrats...is enough.

Thanks for this post. It helped me make up my mind.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Apologies if someone has already made this point. I am opposed to Cristina for many reasons, but perhaps most of all BECAUSE she was TFA. If she really wanted to be a teacher, she could have earned a degree in education and done the hard work and study to become a teacher. Instead, she is arrogant enough to think that her NYU degree in Economic Theory and History is enough to make her a good HS math teacher. Even worse to think she can teach it to English language learners in an impoverished community. I suspect she thinks that her spunk and positive attitude were enough for those students to hunker down and learn statistics.

She's all talk and no action. All theory and no substance or solutions. That's what consultants do -- they "identify the problem" then pack up and leave, patting themselves on the back for their dedication to the cause, and move on to the next big thing.

APS needs someone who is willing to implement the solution and I don't think that's her.

People who use english language learners or disadvantaged students to undercut women of color like Cristina and Symone are the biggest reason why inequity exists in APS. You talk about equity like you understand it. If you did, you wouldn't lie about Cristina's background. Have you not seen her speak or been to her website? She has a master's degree and was an English language learner. Maybe she didn't earn her degree in the same way you did, but that's the point. Language learners don't have the same experience others do. Spunk and empathy aren't the same. Maybe you should give positivity a try. One woman of color being bullied out of the caucus...by Democrats...is enough.

Thanks for this post. It helped me make up my mind.

+50 Thanks for calling out the hate. I didn't know she was an English language learner.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Apologies if someone has already made this point. I am opposed to Cristina for many reasons, but perhaps most of all BECAUSE she was TFA. If she really wanted to be a teacher, she could have earned a degree in education and done the hard work and study to become a teacher. Instead, she is arrogant enough to think that her NYU degree in Economic Theory and History is enough to make her a good HS math teacher. Even worse to think she can teach it to English language learners in an impoverished community. I suspect she thinks that her spunk and positive attitude were enough for those students to hunker down and learn statistics.

She's all talk and no action. All theory and no substance or solutions. That's what consultants do -- they "identify the problem" then pack up and leave, patting themselves on the back for their dedication to the cause, and move on to the next big thing.

APS needs someone who is willing to implement the solution and I don't think that's her.

People who use english language learners or disadvantaged students to undercut women of color like Cristina and Symone are the biggest reason why inequity exists in APS. You talk about equity like you understand it. If you did, you wouldn't lie about Cristina's background. Have you not seen her speak or been to her website? She has a master's degree and was an English language learner. Maybe she didn't earn her degree in the same way you did, but that's the point. Language learners don't have the same experience others do. Spunk and empathy aren't the same. Maybe you should give positivity a try. One woman of color being bullied out of the caucus...by Democrats...is enough.

Thanks for this post. It helped me make up my mind.

+50 Thanks for calling out the hate. I didn't know she was an English language learner.

Symone got herself into trouble. She should have followed the rules.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Apologies if someone has already made this point. I am opposed to Cristina for many reasons, but perhaps most of all BECAUSE she was TFA. If she really wanted to be a teacher, she could have earned a degree in education and done the hard work and study to become a teacher. Instead, she is arrogant enough to think that her NYU degree in Economic Theory and History is enough to make her a good HS math teacher. Even worse to think she can teach it to English language learners in an impoverished community. I suspect she thinks that her spunk and positive attitude were enough for those students to hunker down and learn statistics.

She's all talk and no action. All theory and no substance or solutions. That's what consultants do -- they "identify the problem" then pack up and leave, patting themselves on the back for their dedication to the cause, and move on to the next big thing.

APS needs someone who is willing to implement the solution and I don't think that's her.

People who use english language learners or disadvantaged students to undercut women of color like Cristina and Symone are the biggest reason why inequity exists in APS. You talk about equity like you understand it. If you did, you wouldn't lie about Cristina's background. Have you not seen her speak or been to her website? She has a master's degree and was an English language learner. Maybe she didn't earn her degree in the same way you did, but that's the point. Language learners don't have the same experience others do. Spunk and empathy aren't the same. Maybe you should give positivity a try. One woman of color being bullied out of the caucus...by Democrats...is enough.

Thanks for this post. It helped me make up my mind.

+50 Thanks for calling out the hate. I didn't know she was an English language learner.

She spoke in Spanish at the Key-ATS forum. I think only Steven was really against the moves, but I think she understands the value programs like ours provide the community. I'm supporting Steven, Cristina, and David.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Apologies if someone has already made this point. I am opposed to Cristina for many reasons, but perhaps most of all BECAUSE she was TFA. If she really wanted to be a teacher, she could have earned a degree in education and done the hard work and study to become a teacher. Instead, she is arrogant enough to think that her NYU degree in Economic Theory and History is enough to make her a good HS math teacher. Even worse to think she can teach it to English language learners in an impoverished community. I suspect she thinks that her spunk and positive attitude were enough for those students to hunker down and learn statistics.

She's all talk and no action. All theory and no substance or solutions. That's what consultants do -- they "identify the problem" then pack up and leave, patting themselves on the back for their dedication to the cause, and move on to the next big thing.

APS needs someone who is willing to implement the solution and I don't think that's her.

People who use english language learners or disadvantaged students to undercut women of color like Cristina and Symone are the biggest reason why inequity exists in APS. You talk about equity like you understand it. If you did, you wouldn't lie about Cristina's background. Have you not seen her speak or been to her website? She has a master's degree and was an English language learner. Maybe she didn't earn her degree in the same way you did, but that's the point. Language learners don't have the same experience others do. Spunk and empathy aren't the same. Maybe you should give positivity a try. One woman of color being bullied out of the caucus...by Democrats...is enough.

Thanks for this post. It helped me make up my mind.

+50 Thanks for calling out the hate. I didn't know she was an English language learner.

Where do you see on Cristina's site that she says she was an English language learner? Her bio says that she was born in Massachusetts and her family moved to San Juan when she was a teenager.