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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know why people make such a big deal over whether people have kids or not to serve on school board.  Does it matter if teachers and principals send their kids to ACPS, or even have their own kids?  Since when is that a job qualification for public service?  Plenty of people care about education and are invested in our schools whether they have kids in those same school systems or not.[/quote]

It definitely made a difference during the school shut down. Hopefully that never happens again but there was a huge difference between the school board members who had kids in the schools (Reif, Nolan) and the ones who didn't (Lorber, Alderton, Greene, Suarez). And of course having a super who pulled a kid from the public schools (he said in a school board meeting that she was getting D and had "learned to exploit the system) and sent her to private should have made him sympathetic to parents who kept their kids in ACPS but it did the opposite. Hutchings doubled down on his distain for parents and was happily followed in that distain by Anderson, Lorber etc.

So yes, it makes a difference. But I don't think not having kids should preclude people from running from school board. [/quote]

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