Anonymous
Post 01/10/2020 12:41     Subject: APS - Who is running for School Board?
Anonymous wrote:So, how do we stop people like my Dem. obsessed DINK friends who campaign any and all things blue from pushing Christina down our throats? Anyone who is a parent should vote against her.


You can’t. DINKs and Boomers are the core of the local Democratic Party. Parents of school age children are a distinct minority in Arlington County, and the local party doesn’t see this as a school board seat, they see it as a stepping stone and as another place to put policy priorities in action. One of those things is making sure that schools don’t interfere with their AH policy. For example, They just spent the whole 20m amazon wad on bringing more high needs children into APS, and set aside not a cent for schools or resources to serve them. That’s of course because AH is about an industry of players, not poor kids. But it’s also why the party wants someone like her. The other candidates owe the party nothing. She’d owe the party everything, and do whatever they told her to.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2020 11:45     Subject: APS - Who is running for School Board?
Anonymous wrote:
I agree, although you have to be open to hearing real issues the whiners bring up -- yeah, I don't have a lot of patience with the "my vacation!!" whiners but there is also a bigger issue of equity when you consider that people have to figure out how to plan for/pay for summer breaks and APS seems completely blind to the fact that camp registrations start in Dec. This is complicated even further this year with the elimination of Global Village/Summer Laureate. Fortunately, mine have aged out of camp but when they were, key to making our summer camp budget work was that they did several weeks at Camp Kids Place, a great and really low-cost camp which fills in December. APS's inability to make a decision is limiting availability of camps later in Aug since those camps that register early aren't planning on the later weeks -- I know Kids Place is ending a week earlier than last year.


I absolutely agree about the problems the delayed release of the schedule is causing. Like yours, my kids have aged out of needing camp, but this is a level of cluelessness that is causing real harm to a lot of families.

It would be nice if the people who are worried about their vacations would take a few seats and hush, or use their voices to amplify the concerns of people who are worried about paying the bills. But that is not the Arlington Way any longer (if it ever was)
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2020 11:10     Subject: APS - Who is running for School Board?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
I think my question for her would be, whose voices should be heard in a discussion of what to do with a school in a historically black neighborhood, white parents of school-aged kids who live in that neighborhood, or the older long-term black residents of that neighborhood and other black residents of Arlington who won't be sending kids there?

Or to freshen that question up for 2019, whose voices should be heard in a discussion of what to do with an immersion school in a historically Hispanic neighborhood that is underenrolled and where there is no room or budget to build another elementary school and where other parts of the county are overcrowded so moving schools is the only option go with me here--parents of kids who attend that school now, or other residents of Arlington who won't be sending kids there but say they speak for minorities?


I'm not her, but I would certainly want to be sure that people buying property understand that their kids are entitled to a suitable public education, and that some kids may need greater accommodations to success, so decisions will be made thinking about the good of the community as a whole.

Would that make you think I'm racist?


I would want to know what you mean by the good of the community. It is good for the community to have a neighborhood school in Nauck if that school has 50 percent of the kids on free lunch and another 10 percent on reduced lunch? Does that support the greater accommodations and suitable public education? Or would something else have been better for the community than a school with a tight neighborhood boundary?

Is renaming a school to take away the name of a Confederate general a good policy, or is action on equity what the Board should be spending its time on?

Are we making decisions that feel good right now, instead of stating hard truths and making decisions that are tough but in the long term strengthen our kids and our community?
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2020 11:08     Subject: APS - Who is running for School Board?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
When I vote for a school board member, I think about what would happen if I have a problem and need to go to office hours. Who is going to listen, care about the problem and want to help?

Based on what I've seen, Symone is NOT this person. She would probably just call me a racist or privileged.


+1 I'd never expect to get help from her for my affluent white kid.


I would feel fine asking her for help with my affluent white kids, assuming I wasn't bringing her an affluent white kid problem. I wouldn't go to her to complain about cutbacks to the lacrosse program, but trouble getting support for a kid with mental health issues? I think she'd be all over that.

I don't think she suffers fools (or racists) gladly, but I think she can see beyond her own privileges to help those without (as opposed to Twin Fancier NVD). No, she's not always tactful about calling people out on their BS, but she reminds me of the SNL bit with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler: Bitches get things done.

I shall now wait for people to complain that if you can't get along with others, you can't get anything done. I agree, but I don't think marginalized people are required to be endlessly patient with whiners (eg people in the school year start debate who want breaks to allow them to go on nice vacations at bargain prices)


I agree, although you have to be open to hearing real issues the whiners bring up -- yeah, I don't have a lot of patience with the "my vacation!!" whiners but there is also a bigger issue of equity when you consider that people have to figure out how to plan for/pay for summer breaks and APS seems completely blind to the fact that camp registrations start in Dec. This is complicated even further this year with the elimination of Global Village/Summer Laureate. Fortunately, mine have aged out of camp but when they were, key to making our summer camp budget work was that they did several weeks at Camp Kids Place, a great and really low-cost camp which fills in December. APS's inability to make a decision is limiting availability of camps later in Aug since those camps that register early aren't planning on the later weeks -- I know Kids Place is ending a week earlier than last year.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2020 10:59     Subject: APS - Who is running for School Board?
Anonymous wrote:
I think my question for her would be, whose voices should be heard in a discussion of what to do with a school in a historically black neighborhood, white parents of school-aged kids who live in that neighborhood, or the older long-term black residents of that neighborhood and other black residents of Arlington who won't be sending kids there?

Or to freshen that question up for 2019, whose voices should be heard in a discussion of what to do with an immersion school in a historically Hispanic neighborhood that is underenrolled and where there is no room or budget to build another elementary school and where other parts of the county are overcrowded so moving schools is the only option go with me here--parents of kids who attend that school now, or other residents of Arlington who won't be sending kids there but say they speak for minorities?


I'm not her, but I would certainly want to be sure that people buying property understand that their kids are entitled to a suitable public education, and that some kids may need greater accommodations to success, so decisions will be made thinking about the good of the community as a whole.

Would that make you think I'm racist?
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2020 10:55     Subject: APS - Who is running for School Board?
So, how do we stop people like my Dem. obsessed DINK friends who campaign any and all things blue from pushing Christina down our throats? Anyone who is a parent should vote against her.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2020 10:43     Subject: APS - Who is running for School Board?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
When I vote for a school board member, I think about what would happen if I have a problem and need to go to office hours. Who is going to listen, care about the problem and want to help?

Based on what I've seen, Symone is NOT this person. She would probably just call me a racist or privileged.


+1 I'd never expect to get help from her for my affluent white kid.


I would feel fine asking her for help with my affluent white kids, assuming I wasn't bringing her an affluent white kid problem. I wouldn't go to her to complain about cutbacks to the lacrosse program, but trouble getting support for a kid with mental health issues? I think she'd be all over that.

I don't think she suffers fools (or racists) gladly, but I think she can see beyond her own privileges to help those without (as opposed to Twin Fancier NVD). No, she's not always tactful about calling people out on their BS, but she reminds me of the SNL bit with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler: Bitches get things done.

I shall now wait for people to complain that if you can't get along with others, you can't get anything done. I agree, but I don't think marginalized people are required to be endlessly patient with whiners (eg people in the school year start debate who want breaks to allow them to go on nice vacations at bargain prices)


I think my question for her would be, whose voices should be heard in a discussion of what to do with a school in a historically black neighborhood, white parents of school-aged kids who live in that neighborhood, or the older long-term black residents of that neighborhood and other black residents of Arlington who won't be sending kids there?

Or to freshen that question up for 2019, whose voices should be heard in a discussion of what to do with an immersion school in a historically Hispanic neighborhood that is underenrolled and where there is no room or budget to build another elementary school and where other parts of the county are overcrowded so moving schools is the only option go with me here--parents of kids who attend that school now, or other residents of Arlington who won't be sending kids there but say they speak for minorities?
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2020 10:15     Subject: APS - Who is running for School Board?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
When I vote for a school board member, I think about what would happen if I have a problem and need to go to office hours. Who is going to listen, care about the problem and want to help?

Based on what I've seen, Symone is NOT this person. She would probably just call me a racist or privileged.


+1 I'd never expect to get help from her for my affluent white kid.


I would feel fine asking her for help with my affluent white kids, assuming I wasn't bringing her an affluent white kid problem. I wouldn't go to her to complain about cutbacks to the lacrosse program, but trouble getting support for a kid with mental health issues? I think she'd be all over that.

I don't think she suffers fools (or racists) gladly, but I think she can see beyond her own privileges to help those without (as opposed to Twin Fancier NVD). No, she's not always tactful about calling people out on their BS, but she reminds me of the SNL bit with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler: Bitches get things done.

I shall now wait for people to complain that if you can't get along with others, you can't get anything done. I agree, but I don't think marginalized people are required to be endlessly patient with whiners (eg people in the school year start debate who want breaks to allow them to go on nice vacations at bargain prices)
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2020 09:16     Subject: APS - Who is running for School Board?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:For me...

Sandy

Priddy





Terron (sat on committees with him- lots of talk but no action but a nice guy...)




Symone










Cristina






When I vote for a school board member, I think about what would happen if I have a problem and need to go to office hours. Who is going to listen, care about the problem and want to help?

Based on what I've seen, Symone is NOT this person. She would probably just call me a racist or privileged.


+1 I'd never expect to get help from her for my affluent white kid.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2020 09:14     Subject: Re:APS - Who is running for School Board?
I wish Maura would run again. Any chance of that?
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2020 08:44     Subject: APS - Who is running for School Board?
Anonymous wrote:For me...

Sandy

Priddy





Terron (sat on committees with him- lots of talk but no action but a nice guy...)




Symone










Cristina






When I vote for a school board member, I think about what would happen if I have a problem and need to go to office hours. Who is going to listen, care about the problem and want to help?

Based on what I've seen, Symone is NOT this person. She would probably just call me a racist or privileged.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2020 07:25     Subject: APS - Who is running for School Board?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

Tannia had kids in APS, had lived here for years. She didn't just parachute in and take over.


Tannia was the chair of ACI before she ran

But she was still hand-picked. It's the hand=picking of successors the PP was objecting to.


Having someone advocate for an established member of the community who has served on important committees is a level of political strategizing I can get behind. Having someone who seems to have made every move since college as part of the fast track to political power is cynical and entitled and I am appalled (but, I suppose, not surprised) that ACDC is enabling it.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2020 23:18     Subject: APS - Who is running for School Board?
For me...

Sandy

Priddy





Terron (sat on committees with him- lots of talk but no action but a nice guy...)




Symone










Cristina




Anonymous
Post 01/09/2020 22:47     Subject: APS - Who is running for School Board?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Also keep in mind that Cristina announced ON THE SAME DAY Tannia said she was not running *and* that she had a full website up and running on that day. Not a coincidence. A lot of people object to the notion that any board member gets to handpick their successor.


Well where was the outcry when Emma Violand-Ssanchez handpicked Tannia?


Tannia had kids in APS, had lived here for years. She didn't just parachute in and take over.


Tannia was the chair of ACI before she ran

But she was still hand-picked. It's the hand=picking of successors the PP was objecting to.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2020 20:42     Subject: APS - Who is running for School Board?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Symone and crew were big Parisa supporters. I think they’re feeling esp put out by her endorsement of Cristina.


Ooooo. This is the kind of stuff I come to DCUM to read. Didn’t think of that. Why would Parisa support the young political wannabe over her? I’m sure party machinery at work, which is exactly why Christina should not be on the SB.


Maybe because Symone is really divisive.