Quincy Quarry School Committee Election Eve Overview

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Quincy Quarry School Committee Election overview.

After procrastinating as if it was facing a due date on a term paper, Quincy Quarry has finally gotten around to covering what has been the biggest snooze of a local election campaign in years.

Key to this year’s election quietude is that the pygmy elephant in the room is not running for reelection this year given the extension of the local mayoral term in office from two years to four years two years ago.

That and how the pygmy elephant is surely seeking to encourage the least possible number of unhappy voters as possible from heading to the polls and so making his vassals’ votes thus also have more weight than they should.

And they now they are racing towards the finish line!
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Regardless, the School Committee race features six candidates who are striving to win one of the three School Committee seats up for election this year and only one incumbent is running in this year’s race.

Ms. Emily Lebo is a retired public school teacher and administrator as well as is the incumbent on School Committee in what is her second term on the School Committee.  She has variously proven herself capable, although she has not been one to push back against the parsimonious only on school operations funding but otherwise free-spending School Committee Chair and Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch.

An out of touch and declassé mascot?
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Anthony Andronico is well-spoken and somewhat recent college graduate who works for an international research.  By all accounts gathered up by Quincy Quarry, it would appear that Mr. Andronico will probably push back against School Committee Chair and Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch and so instead seek the truly best interests of local public school students.

Douglas Gutro has both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s as well as is an adjunct professor at Suffolk University in additional to his day job as the Public Affairs Director for the Environmental Protection Agency’s New England office.  Mr. Gutro has previously served seven terms on the Quincy City Council. 

Given that Mr. Gutro has pushed back against School Committee Chair and Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch in the past when he was a City Councillor, one can only assume that he will continue to do so if elected to the School Committee.

Pressing the scales of justice
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Mark Sauter is an attorney who works for the US Department of Homeland Security and is President of the Merrymount Neighborhood Association. 

Quincy Quarry has never known of a competent attorney who doesn’t push back.

David Jacobs is a Special Education teacher with but four years of teaching experience within the Boston Public School District as well as would appear to perhaps show signs of flat affect. 

Regardless, it would appear that Mr. Jacobs will likely to abide by the wishes of the School Committee Chair unquestioningly if elected.

Finally, Geraldine Manning, PhD is a retired sociology professor who does not appear to appreciate the profound differences in the assessment capabilities of a standards-based test as compared to mere normative tests.

Quincy Quarry would like to assume that its growing legions of loyal readers can figure out which candidates need to elected to do the job that needs to be done upon the School Committee Chair.

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