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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One problem I have with Priddy running now is where he lives. We already have an Arlington Heights resident on the SB. Since we don’t have district representatives, I would prefer there be only one rep on the SB or the CB from any one neighborhood at a time. It would be too unbalanced and one small area would have outsized influence. [/quote]

I would agree with you if MO cared about anything other than Montessori.  That’s her base, not the area. [/quote]

Plus Reid lives in Douglas Park! That's under a mile away. I don't see how this matters.

What matters is that our current SB is awful. All of them. Seeing any of them get primaried only encourages more people to run in the future. If Priddy loses, that's a huge vote for status quo and means no one else is likely to attempt it again. If Priddy wins, you could get a lot more candidates trying their luck, especially people with young kids. I see that as a great thing.[/quote]

Douglas Park is a different neighborhood. Doesn’t have to be a different zip code, but I have concerns about two candidates from the exact same civic association. Really, I don’t think Priddy is a bad guy, but I don’t think he’s a candidate for change if he’s not running against someone else. It’s cool if he’s just trying to get his name out there for next time. But I won’t vote for him this year. You need 3 people for a voting bloc. Makes no sense to pick off one of the people in that bloc if what you want is new leadership at the top.

Also, I don’t agree that the SB is entirely awful. Most of them inherited a s*** sandwich. Whenever they try to address the s*** sandwich, some parent group screams bloody murder or threatens a lawsuit. No big surprise that all the major initiatives are punted or watered down to be ineffective. If we want better from them, we have to better ourselves. [/quote]

+100

Everyone angry about one or another issue with APS should really try to take a clear-eyed look at things. Priddy is running b/c the entire Henry community is mad about the elementary boundary process. I'd really like to know what exactly their preferred outcome was that didn't totally shaft another school full (or half full, ha) of APS students who are just as entitled to a good education as theirs, or how is it that a "promise" made to a small subset of the community 3 years ago under different circumstances should trump what is best for the entire community, but I digress. The point is that within the process that was set, and yes, yes, maybe Drew shouldn't have been a neighborhood school at all but that ship had sailed, the outcome was simply not that bad.

I completely disagree that re-electing Reid is a vote for the status quo. Reid openly talks about the segregation in our schools [b]and would like to do something about it.[/b] He's only one vote, though, and if you vote him out he will be zero votes. IMO voting out Lander was a message and it would be great if that message could be furthered by voting out NVD or Talento, though frankly neither of them is my least favorite at this point. BK has that crown with all her pandering b.s., putting up motions she knows there's no support for just so she can say she was in favor of some niche issue. [/quote]

Like sending his own kids to school in North Arlington rather than their neighborhood schools?[/quote]

LOL.  Yup, Reid is a limousine liberal like the rest of ‘em.  As long as HIS kids aren’t affected.....[/quote]

He sent his kids to Randolph. Where’d you send yours, hypocrite?[/quote]

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