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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APE is a good group.  Their heart is in the right place in wanting to keep schools open and keep Duran and the School Board accountable.  I know a bunch of people in the group and none are crazy or republican. [/quote]

If this is true, then APE should support masks. But APE does not support masks. We know that because they refused to offer support in their embarrassing statement.

APE can't and won't ever say they support masks because they have too many members who are anti-maskers.

At least we all now know who they really are and what they really stand for. [/quote]

Yup. Turner is pandering to the anti-science/anti-public health RWNJs. No backbone.

No way would I trust her in the future. 
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You obviously have never met her or bothered to engage in a conversation with her. She is extremely smart and articulate, but, go ahead and slander away. Ugh.

Sorry, OP, you got way more than your asked for with your question.

From my point of view, I'm a parent of a lower ed child--COVID has been a total nightmare. I'm a left leaning political person, but, part of the APE facebook group, because in my experience, they are advocating for a lot of what I need from my school district to support young learners. They are big tent--they allow all viewpoints to participate--so, yes, there will be extremism, but, that's part of being inclusive. It doesn't represent the whole of the group.

Not being a part of Smart Restart--they left a really bad impression with me with their zero covid approach and extreme tactics--as referenced upstream in this thread.

AEM is so bent on being PC that it breaks itself.

It has been an exhausting time to live in Arlington--all around. Everyone is exasperated. There are still good, thoughtful, caring, normal parents here, but, try to tune out the extremes online. [/quote]

I didn’t say anything about her intelligence.

I said she has no backbone and she’s pandering to anti-science RWNJs.

[b]If she can’t stand up for these obvious, easy things then why would I trust her in more complex, tough situations[/b]? 
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+1 million[/quote]

I don't disagree with that attitude when looking at it from this one specific issue.  However, on the other hand, it's reassuring to know that she would listen to what I have to say about something even if she doesn't agree with me.  That's a heckuva lot more than I can say for every single school board member except two over the past 12 years I've been actively involved, including talking one-on-one with each one of them.[/quote]

I’m not yet ready to  agree to that lowest of low bars. Masking right now should be a softball issue. If she cannot or will not commit to supporting them right now, I will never be able to vote for her.[/quote]

Well, I haven't heard whether she personally supports masks or not.  To me, that's a lower bar than expecting a SB member to listen to different perspectives and seriously take those perspectives into consideration in making a decision, even if it's a decision to do nothing.  I fully support the mask mandate and hope she would, too, as a Board member.  However, she's not a board member right now.  She is representing a different group and is making a deliberate decision in the interest of that group.  Maybe she wouldn't support a mask mandate if she were currently a member of the Board.  I don't know.  But her one dissenting voice (which represents a part of the school community) would still be in the minority.  If she runs again, then I would want/expect a clear answer as to what she would have supported, if she had been on the Board during this time.[/quote]

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