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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apologies if someone has already made this point.  I am opposed to Cristina for many reasons, but perhaps most of all BECAUSE she was TFA.  If she really wanted to be a teacher, she could have earned a degree in education and done the hard work and study to become a teacher.  Instead, she is arrogant enough to think that her NYU degree in Economic Theory and History is enough to make her a good HS math teacher.  Even worse to think she can teach it to English language learners in an impoverished community.  I suspect she thinks that her spunk and positive attitude were enough for those students to hunker down and learn statistics.

She's all talk and no action.  All theory and no substance or solutions.  That's what consultants do -- they "identify the problem" then pack up and leave, patting themselves on the back for their dedication to the cause, and move on to the next big thing.

APS needs someone who is willing to implement the solution and I don't think that's her.[/quote]

People who use english language learners or disadvantaged students to undercut women of color like Cristina and Symone are the biggest reason why inequity exists in APS. You talk about equity like you understand it. If you did, you wouldn't lie about Cristina's background. Have you not seen her speak or been to her website? She has a master's degree and was an English language learner. Maybe she didn't earn her degree in the same way you did, but that's the point. Language learners don't have the same experience others do. Spunk and empathy aren't the same. Maybe you should give positivity a try. One woman of color being bullied out of the caucus...by Democrats...is enough.

Thanks for this post. It helped me make up my mind.[/quote]

I may have been unclear.  I certainly didn't lie about anything.  I have read her website, her bio on her employer's website (which clearly states that her experience in education comes from her time as a student in public, charter, and parochial schools), and her Linkedin profile. She wants people to believe that she has deep experience as a teacher/educator.  I don't think that's accurate.  And your assertion that she didn't earn her degree in the same way I did makes no sense -- she went to a good (and expensive) four year college, seemed to flounder around for awhile, then went to TFA.  As soon as she completed the requirements to become a fully certified teacher in Nevada (by way of a reduced cost Masters Degree) she bailed on teaching and went to work in politics, then as a consultant for a for profit entity.

What I meant is that ELL students deserve real teachers who want to teach them and know how to do it, not plucky upstarts who couldn't find a job in their chosen field so decided to do TFA for a brief stint.  If those real teachers were also ELL students and can be empathetic/sympathetic/good role models, all the better.  All students deserve to be more than stepping stones in someone's path toward a higher paying consultant position at a for-profit company.

I don't think that only career teachers have good ideas about education.  But I also don't think that the fact that Cristina is a woman of color makes her a good candidate for school board.[/quote]

+100.

Cristina was not trained as a teacher, she did a 6 week summer prep class to become a TFA “teacher”
She received her Masters through a TFA program
She bailed on teaching as soon as her TFA commitment was up
Her “policy experience “ is as an intern in a senate office
She now does marketing for a for profit consulting firm.

Her “education experience “ is minimal at best. She’s only had 4-5 years of “professional experience” total.

When her family moved from their wealthy US suburb to PR she did not even attend PR public school. She went to a bougie private school.

She paints herself as something she is not and that is why I am not voting for her.[/quote]

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