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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not in AEM, so can't respond to what's going on there. I like Mary. She's a great school board member and usually responds when I write her. No other board member does so. But now I'm wondering wtf she did to piss off so many of her colleagues that they would actually try to keep her from the chair position. I can't believe it's because 3-4 people don't like that she works harder than them. [/quote]

Coincidence that Barbara tried to pull this same petty crap with EV-S?

Mary crossed Cristina and David by dissenting from the vote to enter the design phase for the Career Center project back in 2022. The rumors about not making Mary chair started swirling before the recent vote to approve the Career Center construction contract. I wouldn’t be surprised if Mary voted yes on that, despite her misgivings, because voting no would have prompted retaliation from Cristina and David. I wouldn’t be surprised either if Mary’s yes vote wasn’t enough because Cristina and David still don’t trust Mary to be a steward of the project.[/quote]

Yep. CDT and DP see this project as their legacy.

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Bingo. This is about the career center. She was the sole dissenting vote to advance it in 2022, and immediately afterward Barbara Kanninen flew off the handle and excoriated her.

It’s not enough that those 3 and the central office staff got their way. They demand total unanimity, because when things go wrong they want the CYA that comes from saying “no one warned us”. And if everyone always agrees then voters don’t have records to compare come election season.

MK is not a bomb-thrower, she doesn’t insult people or attack their motives. If thinking for herself and occasionally coming to a different conclusion is enough to cause two lame ducks to try to sabotage her, throw a ton of precedent out the window, and damage the SB as an institution, that tells me the SB is in a pretty bad place, and needs independent thinkers more than ever. [/quote][/quote]

Who cares. The Career Center has been voted on. And I don't think there's enough votes even with the new SB members to derail it. Both Kathleen and especially Zuraya are company people. I don't think Mary is the type of person to relegislate an issue again. It's done.

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