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As a person who studies disinformation campaign and dark money tactics - APE's board members are Republican. There is likely some dark money funding them. The goal is to slowly radicalize moderates within Arlington to more extreme right wing views on schools over the course of years. They are very very good at that job.

They have identified an issue - open schools - that impacts everyone in Arlington and presented themselves as an organic group developing out of that desire. This is not accurate. But people who want schools open and just heard about them on facebook or whatever don't realize its part of a political strategy or the money and structure behind its development.

Right now they are building a presence and presenting themselves as "moderate" to build good faith. Thats why they produce a monthly newsletter and encourage members to share the newsletters all over parent groups every month with a "look at all this useful info."  What they are also doing is identifying wedge issues that can be utilized later to radicalize. And developing a reputation for being well researched and neutral so that they can benefit off that reputation later when they start to push narratives more heavily.  They do alot of asserting that the "research says..."  Much of that research they link to is right wing education consultant and think tanks. But they create a narrative that their view is backed up by science - which people in Arlington love to hear.

The goal is to build enough distrust and animosity towards the public schools that more and more people will decamp for private and demand choice schools or vouchers. Arlington's a great target for that because its a very rich population with money to go private, that also complains alot about its publics.  Lots of gaps for exploitation.[/quote]

Wow.  How sinister. At least they are providing a good deal of pretty reliable information and detail in the absence of any from APS or other politically-inclined groups. I'm happy to continue using that information when I see it and agree with the group's position when I agree with it, as well as disagree when our perspectives diverge.  I'm pretty confident I'm intelligent enough to be able to see when they're going too far.[/quote]

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