We can’t figure out where Jill Geary’s bizarro accent is from—Australian with a splash of Canadian?—but we liked what we heard. Geary spoke passionately about closing the school-to-prison pipeline for students of color, supporting teacher and student boycotts of excessive standardized testing, and proactively pushing the district to put in place a curriculum that respects and sheds light on the real history of Native Americans. Click like! Go team! Expect Geary, an attorney from the same law firm that spawned Council Member Mike O’Brien and former mayor Mike McGinn, to join the school board’s progressive bloc.
Her main competitor, Lauren McGuire, didn’t offend us, but she didn’t give off Geary’s laser-intense vibes. Geary seems ready to bully her more reticent colleagues on the board into exerting meaningful oversight over the school district’s administrators, whose record is one of attracting the attention of federal investigators over allegations of institutional racism and sexism and lots of other terrible crap. Vote for Geary so she can get in there and fix things.
Ha! Did you see what we did there? We pretended for two whole paragraphs that putting a passionate progressive on the school board will “fix things.” Ha-ha-ha! That’s never worked before—why would it work now? Still: Vote Geary.
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