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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I still can't believe so many people support Cristina when she clearly launched her campaign on an over-inflated resume, claiming a decade plus experience, when she's barely been out of a high school for a decade.

[b]Then she touted her legislative experience when she just worked on the Hill for a year as a junior staffer.[/b]

And she constantly refers to herself as an "educator" and makes it sound like her job is a big-deal. Think about the 20-something junior consultants in your office: That's her.

This has nothing to do with her being a woman of color. It has to do with her misrepresenting herself. [/quote]

This. This. This. Exactly on point.[/quote]

Correct except the bolded. She wasn’t a junior staffer, she was in fact an intern. [/quote]

You just don't seem to understand how hateful you sound. Also, you read her website and then lied about her educational background. We do not need this type of campaigning in school board elections. I don't allow my children to lie. I encourage you to grow up. [/quote]

The one that exaggerates her experience is Cristina. I’ve read her webpage and LinkedIn. If she would just be honest about her inexperience she could use it to her advantage, but instead she’s pretending to have experience she doesn’t have. Please teach your children to not lie on their resumes, everyone gets caught.[/quote]

Then, why did you lie about her? [/quote]

Please point out the lie? [/quote]

"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." - She has a master's of education in curriculum and instruction. [/quote]

Cristina has a BA from NYU (2009)- she double-majored in Economic Theory and History. That's from her LinkedIn profile. https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristina-diaz-torres-87a52548/

She entered Teach for America in June 2013. The majority of TFA corps members do not have education degrees. TFA puts them through an extensive summer boot camp program and then they are assigned to the classroom with a provisional teaching certification. TFA has partnerships with local colleges to allow corps members to take the additional classes that they need for a permanent teaching certificate and some are able to take extra classes to get a master's degree out of that process. An M.Ed is a 1 year program if you go full-time, so it is pretty easy to spread it out over three years of taking night classes 1-2 nights a week over 3 years. I assume this is what Cristina did, since she taught in Las Vegas and her masters is from University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

She taught with TFA for the minimum 3 year commitment. Then she became an intern on the Hill for 1 year. Then she became a junior marketing analyst at a for-profit education consulting firm. That's all accurate and supported by her LinkedIn profile.

FWIW, I have two siblings who did TFA and got a master's degree that way. Unlike Cristina, both are still teaching more than a decade later. Neither would have held themselves out as an "education policy expert" based on the resume that Cristina has right now.   
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I think she actually graduated in 2013 unless she hung around for 4 years to be a Research Assistant at NYU. Sounds like a part time job to me, though. [/quote]

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