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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]If you don’t like the podcast, feel free to host your own.[/b] I’ve found them to be a good, easy way to hear about various candidates for local office. I don’t see any other groups or parties providing that type of opportunity for civic engagement and dissemination of public information. Not sure why you are so hateful towards them. They do this in their spare time and have a little fun with it. The candidates always seem very engaged too!

Also, who in your mind would have been a better alternative candidates for this recent school board position? I appreciate that two people took the time to put their names in and were willing to campaign for local office with very little lead time.[/quote]

This is always such a silly argument - if you don't like the mayor, feel free to run for mayor. If you don't like the President, feel free to run for President.

No dissent or criticism is ever allowed in Alexandria, is it?

This is why logic should be taught in all schools. [/quote]

Encouraging participation in the democratic process is silly?  I don’t understand complaining, but not seeking some alternative solution.  I’m all for dissent, however, the solution for bad governance is to roll up our sleeves![/quote]

Nice straw man. But it's also amusing you think 1) a little local podcast is part of the "democratic process" 2) that there even is a "democratic process" in Alexandria. [/quote]

Again, what are you proposing as a solution? I have yet to see an actual suggestion.[/quote]

That's because there are no solutions for ACPS. This is exactly what the voters want. I spent years thinking if one there was one person on the board who was good on education for just a little bit of the time there could be incremental improvement.

Nolan? Awful. Cindy Anderson? Hated parents and pretended she didn't know about housing on school grounds. Margaret Lorber was barely coherent most of the time and also hated parents. Ramee Gentry? Ha! Said that some parents' views were more important than others. Campbell? Believed the well paid consultants and would tell anyone who would listen that there wouldn't be any increases in the number of school children.

And they all hired, kept, and handsomely rewarded that disaster Hutchings.

Alderton was Chair and she never sent her kids to ACPS. And was barely criticized for it. Reif has some bizarre conspiracy theories that she pedals to donors.

Elnoubi talked a good game but he just wanted to run for city council. Baird is a Hutchings fangirl who flails about. Booz has a massive conflict of interest and never did anything the last time on the SB. She spent at least the last year trying to change the SB elections. And failed spectacularly.  Changing the SB elections was her (and Baird's) priority. Not education. Green pretends that she hasn't been on the school board for years when she calls the curriculum racist. And is now running for city council.

And they all hired the current superintendent who has no experience and was handpicked by Hutchings.  All of them follow orders from a bloated central office.

At this point, why does Alexandria even have a school board? Really? So maybe that's my solution - dissolve the school board.

Senior staff at central office don't send their kids to ACPS - they've gone private. Follow their examples and go private too.

The reality is that this failing school system is what the voters want. You're wasting your time (just like I did for years). This is what Alexandria wants. And why?

Because this absolute disaster benefits UMC kids who get to claim that they go to an urban school on college applications but who are in fact segregated from the kids who are trapped in this system. It's absolutely systemically racist and classist and Alexandrians love it. So just exploit the system, quietly get your kids tutors, join PTAC, and scream at people who criticize ACPS. Or go private. [/quote]

You make it sound like you think the UMC white families have an obligation to remedy the problems endemic to black families. They don't.[/quote]

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