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[quote=Anonymous]Bethany seems to think everything is just fine in APS.  We've had way too many of those folks on the SB the last few years. RG and MK are good. NVD was last really good one.  I think BS will be a MOG who seemed nice but didn't seem to do much. Better than DP or CDT I guess. But APS needs someone who's willing to ask harder questions.

The sun gazette summed it up pretty well:

There have been a precious few School Board members in recent years able to provide such direction and leadership. Abby Raphael was one. Nancy Van Doren another. Sometimes Kanninen could rise to the occasion, and relative newcomer Cristina Diaz-Torres now and again fills us with hope that she might slip into that role, as well.

We’re not necessarily seeing that in likely winner Sutton, who seems already falling into the paralysis-by-analysis trap of seeking to have brought to the table more and more statistical data for decision-making purposes.

That in and of itself is not a bad thing, but reminds us of the caution from Mark Twain (is that rascal even taught in schools any more?) to be eternally wary of three things: “lies, damned lies and statistics.”

After all, data can be used by those in power to prove anything, disprove anything and, as often is the case in APS, simply avoid doing anything. That kick-the-can-down-the-road, talk-issues-to-death mentality has plagued an often rudderless School Board in recent years.

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