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I read a lot of the stuff. I'm a white person.

I think most of what Symone posts is on-target and needs to be said. She's advocating for issues that matter, and that APS tends to do a bad job at.

That said, I think she associates herself with (and sometimes participates in) this negative groupthink that basically is telling everyone else to sit down and shut up and listen to POC.

I'm torn about that. I know I need to listen more personally, and I think most people do. But I also think we need community-level solutions.

[b]What that group said last year was that we need to do what Nauck wants for Drew because their voice counts most. [/b]And what the Key people are saying now is the same thing basically.

But we did open Drew several hundred seats under capacity, and that does matter. And if we don't move Key some kids are really far from a neighborhood school, and that includes low income kids who don't opt for immersion. These issues do effect the entire county. It's not just white people outside their lane.

I'm looking for ways to advocate for disadvantaged groups while also acknowledging the broader issues and keep everyone at the table.

That's what I want to know from Symone: Is she open to that? Does she want to hear these non-minority voices as well? Or does the reject all the UMC white people in Arlington as elites who need to STFU?[/quote]

NP. Really really important to clarify that the group said that we needed to do what the "Black and Brown people who live in Nauck" want.  All of Nauck was not 100% in favor of Drew become a high poverty neighborhood school. That was the specific view a neighborhood association run by older people with kids out of school. Parents in Nauck were ignored. And in various AEM posts they specifically said that non-brown people who were or could be zoned to Drew also had to sit down and shut up because their view didn't matter.

That is what concerns me about Symone's candidacy.  The willingness to make a political decision based on the perception of supporting an under-represented population that actually screws over the larger amount of students in APS while not truly benefiting the group that is being identified as needing help. [/quote]

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