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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve heard Cristina talk a few times, and it never gets better. She only speaks in political jargon and has no clue what it is like to be a parent in APS. She talks a lot about equity, but with no specifics. I think having her on the board will be really scary.[/quote]

Well, she's not a parent. So she totally lacks that perspective. To me, that, combined with her age, makes her a non-starter.

Now that I've had kids at all levels in APS, I see that so much changes from elem to middle to high school (and there are problems everywhere). That's why I like the candidates with older kids and some perspective. Also why Kreiger's "my kids are young" appeal does nothing for me. All that means is he has no clue what happens in most of APS.[/quote]

Ditto to the earlier posts about hateful people. I have young kids. My vote is as important as every other person's vote. [/quote]

+1[/quote]

NP here, so I hope you don't think I'm one of the hateful people. I agree with the PP, though, that one of his campaign selling points is that he has the youngest kids in the system and I don't find that a necessarily compelling argument for me to vote for him. I absolutely think that everyone should vote, no matter the ages of your kids or whether you even have them! But when I see a FB ad from his campaign and the headline is "I have the youngest kids of any candidate or any current School Board member," that really doesn't sell me on him. So what does that really matter? All of the candidates bring a different perspective: Krieger has the youngest kids; Priddy is the only Dem candidate with children of color and with kids in ES and MS; Cristina is the only one without kids; Sandy is the only one with grandkids; Terron seems to be the only one with stepkids, the only one with a kid currently in HS, and possibly the only one with an LGBTQ kid.

While interesting, I don't think any candidate should use those bits of personal data as a primary argument for motivation to elect her or him to SB. [/quote]

To be clear, I'm not supporting Steven because he has young kids like me. I just thought the previous poster was more interested in negatives than policy. I'd like our SB elections to be less political and demographics based. [/quote]

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