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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please don’t put our children’s future at the hands of a TFA (nontrained) teacher who left the classroom after two years, who has no connection to our schools and community, and who’s only using this to expand her personal career and not our children. Vote no to Cristina.[/quote]

She has more classroom experience than most of the candidates.  Regardless, at least her work has been in education policy.  Maybe her familiarity with what other districts are doing across the country could offer APS something.[/quote]

But the other candidates know Arlington and have spent time in our community. Her “education” work is doing sales for a consultant firm and as an intern (per LinkedIn), not that impressive. The problem is she enhances her resume to make it sound like she has experience she doesn’t actually have.[/quote]

THIS. I don't understand how anyone is buying that she is bringing so much experience to the School Board. She spent 3 years doing TFA, 1 year interning on the Hill, and she's been working as an entry-level marketing analyst for a very small for-profit education consulting firm. I also really question her ability to stand up to the County Board when Katie Cristol works in a senior-level position at the same education consulting firm-- which is absolutely not a coincidence. Katie practically hand-picked her to run. She's going to be Katie's puppet, and anyone who has watched Arlington politics for the past few years should know that Katie has not exactly been a champion for APS's budget and capacity needs at the County Board level. [/quote]

I find it very difficult to disagree with any of this! 😊[/quote]

I'm so surprised by all of the nativism. Most of my friends in Arlington are not from Arlington. I've never encountered this us vs them dynamic before. We must be much younger than most people commenting here because it feels like some bizarro world. I'm still unsure how I'm going to rank my vote, but I think it would be a helpful for APS to have a younger voice contributing to the discussion.[/quote]

It’s not nativism if you expect someone running for an important local office to be familiar with the entity they are hoping to run. Did Cristina have any documented involvement with APS before the year she announced her candidacy? The Katie connection also makes me uneasy since I have personally been condescended to by that woman. I am the same age as her, btw so it’s not generational. [/quote]

Did you just ask for documentation? [/quote]

If you have it, yes. But an answer to my question whether she had any involvement with APS before she decided to run is really what I want.[/quote]

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