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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Finally got around to watching some of the various forums and decided to vote for Miranda. I disagreed with some of her RTS views but overall find her to be smart, thoughtful and has proven this year to be willing to put her neck out there on controversial issues (even where I disagreed). The thing that bothers me most about APS school board is that they are basically lumps on a log that do nothing. I’d like at least one person there that holds loft’s feet to the fire. Mary seems just like more of the same. Nothing really differentiating about her. [/quote]

That's my perspective too! I think Dr. Duran seems like he could be great over the long term. I think the middle management (especially Loft) has failed on several key issues and Miranda would press them WAY WAY WAY more than the current SB. Frankly, a lot of my teacher friends agree about Loft. That's why I feel like it's even more dire to elect Miranda - I don't want to lose the amazing teachers and staff that APS has!!!!

APS's SB (and Arlington's County Board) would benefit from a reality check. Voting Miranda in would send a message that they (leadership) let our kids down this year.

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Exactly! All of the teachers I know are voting for Miranda. Their jobs would have been easier this spring to be back in school 4-5 days. Miranda fought for that, Mary didn’t. Mary said 2 days was fine. I was talking with friends yesterday about voting. One friend pulled one of her kids for private at the semester mark and two of her kids stayed in APS. Said, “Speaking as someone who has one child in school 5 days a week, it is glorious. Even if my older kids started 4-5 days a week now for a month, it would make a huge difference.” Everyone in the group I was chatting with had already voted for Miranda. [/quote]

The teacher I know who was screamed & cursed at by an angry APE dad on Teams - during class - probably would NOT vote for APE/Turner. But she doesn’t live in Arlington so she won’t get a voice. 
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Sounds like that dad was inappropriate, at the end of his rope or a combination of both. Miranda did not yell at teachers. She does not control what all members of APE do, just as Mary didn’t control the McKinley PTA mom that screamed at the school board.

The teachers I know that reside in Arlington and can vote are voting for Miranda.[/quote]

I’m an APS teacher and have a wide circle of APS teacher friends. No one I know is thinking about voting for Miranda. We think of her as one of the crazy APE people from the Facebook group and the ones screaming about lazy teachers and unions at the board meetings (APS does not have a majority union).[/quote]

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