Anonymous
Post 11/05/2014 18:34     Subject: Re:Ruth Wattenberg for Ward 3 Board of Education
At least one progressive candidate has been elected to the board. It will balance out the privatization candidate in Ward 1.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2014 18:24     Subject: Ruth Wattenberg for Ward 3 Board of Education
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The previous rep was elected before her child attended DCPS. So by your reasoning she was unqualified.


Entirely possible she was not.


She is an education policy expert who devotes her life to trying to increase educational opportunities for disadvantaged kids. But she isn't a WTU shrill lucky enough to live IB for Deal, so she must be unqualified.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2014 18:16     Subject: Re:Ruth Wattenberg for Ward 3 Board of Education

Anonymous wrote:


School Board is a paid position.

You're joking! The board has no authority whatsoever. Typical DC, to throw money at something with no clearly defined governance role.


It only pays a modest stipend of $15,000.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2014 17:09     Subject: Ruth Wattenberg for Ward 3 Board of Education
Anonymous wrote:The previous rep was elected before her child attended DCPS. So by your reasoning she was unqualified.


Entirely possible she was not.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2014 17:03     Subject: Ruth Wattenberg for Ward 3 Board of Education
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ruth W certainly out-hustled the other candidates in the campaign, which may bode well for the energy she will bring to her new volunteer job.


School Board is a paid position.


You're joking! The board has no authority whatsoever. Typical DC, to throw money at something with no clearly defined governance role.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2014 15:50     Subject: Ruth Wattenberg for Ward 3 Board of Education
The previous rep was elected before her child attended DCPS. So by your reasoning she was unqualified.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2014 15:45     Subject: Ruth Wattenberg for Ward 3 Board of Education
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Tricia Braun's biggest problem was that she only knew two things about DCPS:

1. She knew about Key Elementary
2. She knew about sending her kids to private school after Key.

I voted for Ruth because I appreciated her broader perspective on DCPS, and I'm glad she won.



The race is over, and your preferred candidate won, so perhaps you can stop attacking the other candidates now. Besides, making the choice to send your child to Deal and Wilson is a very different decision than choosing to send your children to other DCPS schools that don't offer remotely the same programs or classes. If you don't understand that, then you have far too narrow a view of DC schools.


I'm not attacking Tricia, I'm explaining why I voted for Ruth.

Sending your child to Deal or Wilson may be a different decision than sending them elsewhere; that's not relevant to the fact that a parent whose only experience with DCPS is sending kids to Key and private schools may lack the experience with the DCPS system to be an effective BOE member.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2014 14:32     Subject: Ruth Wattenberg for Ward 3 Board of Education
Anonymous wrote:Ruth W certainly out-hustled the other candidates in the campaign, which may bode well for the energy she will bring to her new volunteer job.


School Board is a paid position.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2014 13:25     Subject: Ruth Wattenberg for Ward 3 Board of Education
Anonymous wrote:Tricia Braun's biggest problem was that she only knew two things about DCPS:

1. She knew about Key Elementary
2. She knew about sending her kids to private school after Key.

I voted for Ruth because I appreciated her broader perspective on DCPS, and I'm glad she won.



The race is over, and your preferred candidate won, so perhaps you can stop attacking the other candidates now. Besides, making the choice to send your child to Deal and Wilson is a very different decision than choosing to send your children to other DCPS schools that don't offer remotely the same programs or classes. If you don't understand that, then you have far too narrow a view of DC schools.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2014 13:17     Subject: Ruth Wattenberg for Ward 3 Board of Education
Ruth W certainly out-hustled the other candidates in the campaign, which may bode well for the energy she will bring to her new volunteer job.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2014 13:08     Subject: Ruth Wattenberg for Ward 3 Board of Education
Tricia Braun's biggest problem was that she only knew two things about DCPS:

1. She knew about Key Elementary
2. She knew about sending her kids to private school after Key.

I voted for Ruth because I appreciated her broader perspective on DCPS, and I'm glad she won.

Anonymous
Post 11/05/2014 12:38     Subject: Ruth Wattenberg for Ward 3 Board of Education
Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't say duplicity. I think she's a nice, well-meaning person, but she was tainted by touting her role in the boundary process. There were many people at Eaton yesterday who simply would not consider her for that reason. I have to believe it was the same at Oyster. An overreaction? Perhaps. But think about how the Janney or Lafayette folks would react if those neighborhoods had been redistricted from Deal to Hardy.


They woukd have been waving their pitchforks and out for blood.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2014 09:28     Subject: Ruth Wattenberg for Ward 3 Board of Education
Anonymous wrote:Braun should continue working to turn Hardy around and then send her younger kids there. If that happens, she will really have something to run on.


She should. She's actually a more appealing candidate than Wattenburg, but she got tainted this year.
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2014 09:20     Subject: Ruth Wattenberg for Ward 3 Board of Education
True!
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2014 09:18     Subject: Ruth Wattenberg for Ward 3 Board of Education
Braun should continue working to turn Hardy around and then send her younger kids there. If that happens, she will really have something to run on.