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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dorsey is from south arlington and his kids are or went to south arlington schools.

Cristol is totally fine with concentrating all the affordable housing on the pike. She also thinks it is perfectly fine to have schools with 70% farms. She does not think SOL scores mean much because each student is different and arlington has great teachers.

How do I know? I asked her at a meeting. There is. I question and her answer to me was very clear. She may try to soften it now that people like me have challenged her position. She talks the talk, but when asked specific questions she would not change the lack of diversity in our schools. She is very close to Mary Hynes and advised the board on what questions t ask the school board in that ridiculous affordablehousing housing plan. The questions were written to support the plan. Period.

If you want to continue shoving the poorer people in arlington in south Arlington, vote Cristol. If you don't, vote McMenamin and Dorsey. [/quote]

I find this hard to believe. I work at Randolph Elementary, where I know Katie as a volunteer. She also lives in South Arlington and has volunteered at an elementary school for years despite not having any kids there. I know that isn't what I was doing with my free time when I was 25.

I believe that Katie may have defended the quality of the school or the excellence of our students at Randolph and elsewhere in South Arlington, so maybe you misinterpreted her saying that she was proud of our school as saying that she doesn't care about the students there. And by the way, SOL scores do Not tel you everything about a student, and we Do have great teachers here.[/quote]

I too would have been volunteering and doing community service at 25 if I had aspirations of political office. Cynical yes, but likely.
She has been asked many questions involving AH and isn't willing to connect the dots between that and school performance. If she can't have an honest conversation of some basic truths, she can't have my vote. 
She has said SOL's aren't the best metric. Is that a common refrain at Randolph? I'm sure the teachers there are fantastic. No one on these threads have even implied this a teacher problem. I'm tired of the board using test scores when it's politically convenient. Either they matter or they don't.
She also needs to tone down the political jargon and give more specifics. 
Also, cool it with the micro units. 
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I want my candidates to take milquetoast positions.  I want vague talk of common ground, places at the table, collaboration, and the like.  I don't want specifics.  Will some leader appear on the scene who fits these criteria?[/quote]

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