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Anonymous wrote:Christina Diaz-Torres is clearly a candidate who sees the school board as a stepping stone to bigger things. That doesn't mean she wouldn't take it seriously, but she has no background with APS or Arlington County at this point. She has nothing to offer over the other candidates. I don't understand why ACDC is putting their forces behind her.

They’re blinded by the blue. As always.

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Terron has kids in APS. Yorktown and Swanson, per his website.

Meaning he was their parent when they attended APS elementary schools? Or are they his stepkids?

I'm not diminishing the value of a good stepparent, but if you acquire easy kids who are 3/4 done with their education, that's not the same experience as having a sobbing 7 year old who doesn't want to go to school and insists she's stupid.

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I'm also not sure I agree that one has to have an elementary parent perspective to be qualified

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Anonymous wrote:
Terron has kids in APS. Yorktown and Swanson, per his website.

Meaning he was their parent when they attended APS elementary schools? Or are they his stepkids?

I'm not diminishing the value of a good stepparent, but if you acquire easy kids who are 3/4 done with their education, that's not the same experience as having a sobbing 7 year old who doesn't want to go to school and insists she's stupid.

I don't know the details of his personal life. Is that the case that they're stepkids?

I'm also not sure I agree that one has to have an elementary parent perspective to be qualified, but for present purposes I'm just asking whether you know or are speculating.

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Anonymous wrote:
Terron has kids in APS. Yorktown and Swanson, per his website.

Meaning he was their parent when they attended APS elementary schools? Or are they his stepkids?

I'm not diminishing the value of a good stepparent, but if you acquire easy kids who are 3/4 done with their education, that's not the same experience as having a sobbing 7 year old who doesn't want to go to school and insists she's stupid.

Anonymous wrote:Christina Diaz-Torres is clearly a candidate who sees the school board as a stepping stone to bigger things. That doesn't mean she wouldn't take it seriously, but she has no background with APS or Arlington County at this point. She has nothing to offer over the other candidates. I don't understand why ACDC is putting their forces behind her.

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Terron has kids in APS. Yorktown and Swanson, per his website.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a student with a reading disability, I would be thrilled to have a school board member who has experienced that journey in APS and bring personal perspective to the issue. Symone has my vote. I’m also just generally glad to see the field has expanded beyond Cristina. She may have a promising future in politics and with the Democratic Party, but I’m very turned off by the fact that she doesn’t have kids in the system or a background of teaching in the system. Has she ever had to cry through an IEP meeting? Has she ever had to decide whether to move her child to a different school because of bullying or bad teaching? Until you’ve had to grapple with problems at your own child’s APS school, or had a career within APS, you’re not qualified to be making decisions about our schools on our behalf. I’m a democrat and I generally vote along party lines, but I think it was a blunder for the democrats to assume we wouldn’t notice that their proposed candidate lacks the basic life experience we should all require of our school board members.

Terron has been very involved as a volunteer, but otherwise is in the same boat. It's not the same when you haven't had to deal with the consequences of the eight million decisions the school board has to make or weigh in on. I don't even know if you have to have been an APS parent, but to have never had kids in public schools -- or in middle or high school -- is a weakness in any candidate. You don't know what you don't know.

Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a student with a reading disability, I would be thrilled to have a school board member who has experienced that journey in APS and bring personal perspective to the issue. Symone has my vote. I’m also just generally glad to see the field has expanded beyond Cristina. She may have a promising future in politics and with the Democratic Party, but I’m very turned off by the fact that she doesn’t have kids in the system or a background of teaching in the system. Has she ever had to cry through an IEP meeting? Has she ever had to decide whether to move her child to a different school because of bullying or bad teaching? Until you’ve had to grapple with problems at your own child’s APS school, or had a career within APS, you’re not qualified to be making decisions about our schools on our behalf. I’m a democrat and I generally vote along party lines, but I think it was a blunder for the democrats to assume we wouldn’t notice that their proposed candidate lacks the basic life experience we should all require of our school board members.

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously, though, what is ACDC thinking with this Christina nonsense? Short timers who blindly follow the sample ballot don't show up to the SB Caucus.

But ALL of her Arlington Young Democrat will show up.

Anonymous wrote:Seriously, though, what is ACDC thinking with this Christina nonsense? Short timers who blindly follow the sample ballot don't show up to the SB Caucus.

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously, though, what is ACDC thinking with this Christina nonsense? Short timers who blindly follow the sample ballot don't show up to the SB Caucus.

Was there some sort of rush to find a Latinx candidate when Tannia decided she wasn't going to run again? I can't believe this was the best they could do.

Anonymous wrote:Seriously, though, what is ACDC thinking with this Christina nonsense? Short timers who blindly follow the sample ballot don't show up to the SB Caucus.