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When I vote for a school board member, I think about what would happen if I have a problem and need to go to office hours. Who is going to listen, care about the problem and want to help?

Based on what I've seen, Symone is NOT this person. She would probably just call me a racist or privileged.[/quote]

+1  I'd never expect to get help from her for my affluent white kid.[/quote]

I would feel fine asking her for help with my affluent white kids, assuming I wasn't bringing her an affluent white kid problem. I wouldn't go to her to complain about cutbacks to the lacrosse program, but trouble getting support for a kid with mental health issues? I think she'd be all over that.

I don't think she suffers fools (or racists) gladly, but I think she can see beyond her own privileges to help those without (as opposed to Twin Fancier NVD). No, she's not always tactful about calling people out on their BS, but she reminds me of the SNL bit with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler: Bitches get things done.

I shall now wait for people to complain that if you can't get along with others, you can't get anything done. I agree, but I don't think marginalized people are required to be endlessly patient with whiners (eg people in the school year start debate who want breaks to allow them to go on nice vacations at bargain prices)[/quote]

I agree, although you have to be open to hearing real issues the whiners bring up -- yeah, I don't have a lot of patience with the "my vacation!!" whiners but there is also a bigger issue of equity when you consider that people have to figure out how to plan for/pay for summer breaks and APS seems completely blind to the fact that camp registrations start in Dec.  This is complicated even further this year with the elimination of Global Village/Summer Laureate.  Fortunately, mine have aged out of camp but when they were, key to making our summer camp budget work was that they did several weeks at Camp Kids Place, a great and really low-cost camp which fills in December.  APS's inability to make a decision is limiting availability of camps later in Aug since those camps that register early aren't planning on the later weeks -- I know Kids Place is ending a week earlier than last year.[/quote]

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