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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know her, although not well.  I have mixed feelings on her.  Her kids are nice, which in general speaks highly of a parent.  She is a solid Key volunteer.   [b]She is EXTREMELY committed to the 'keep Key on Key' movement, anyone who feels differently must have nefarious motives or be stupid.[/b]  She can be kind of standoffish.  I don't know who the other candidates are.[/quote]

That's the way Mary Kadera was about McKinley disappearing.  Didn't stop her from getting on the Board.[/quote]

That is true up to a point.  Mary K was McKinley PTA president at the time- and she represented the McKinley viewpoint- Mckinley was more caught of guard then Key, and there were other options- moving ats to mcKinley was not the only viable option.
In contrast- Erin was part of the keep key on key movement for years.  My memory on this issue goes back a long time- multiple times aps planning staff tried to engage the Key community about the need to move and get them to work collaboratively on a location.  It was very clear for a long time that they needed the Key building as a neighborhood school.  Erin was part of, if not the leader of, a group of parents who treated the staff with contempt and mocked them for even trying to raise the idea of a move.  She absolutely refused to consider the validity of any of the data the staff presented about the need for a neighborhood school at the Key site, and she was extremely dismissive of any Key parent trying to suggest that we should be open to a new location.  She was absolutely caught up in groupthink about it- talking to that group of parents was like talking to a buzz saw.  [/quote]

It’s fun to revisit some of that rhetoric about how a move would destroy the program. As far as I know everything move related has actually been totally fine and the effed up thing we should have been worried about (Covid) was a total surprise. [/quote]

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