All the reasons you are frustrated by, or dislike ACPS

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Anonymous wrote:We'll never know the actual reason, but I suspect it is something along the lines of it's too much work to think about, much less do. Too much red tape.

The majority of the populace living in Old Town are Democrats, so even if a Republican came up with a good idea to solve the high school issue, he or she would never get voted in. The city stays blue every fall, y'all.

It's not just old town. I don't live there but if you look at the numbers from the last election, OT was the area with the least support for Wilson and his acolytes.

Alexandria is the one (if not the only) city in VA to have at-large elections. And talk about a systemically racist election system, at-large is it. Literally designed and instituted to keep black people from voting and having a voice. This is how you can tell that no Alexandria elected official is serious about systemic racism. If they were, they'd advocate to get rid of the at large system (the council can do it) and stand for ward elections even if it hurt them politically.

I never thought about it that way but it makes perfect sense. It probably was initially put in place to keep certain areas from having a representative. You literally could have the entire city council comprised of members from 1 neighborhood.

There is no probably about it. At-large elections were put in place to keep blacks from voting. Full stop. Alexandria instituted theirs in 1950.

Of all the candidates for city council last year, only one lived outside of two of alexandria's 8 zip codes. While not every council member is from 1 neighborhood...we're awfully close.

I don't want to hear anyone in Alexandria decry systemic racism unless they support going back to a ward system.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My feelings are hurt because I’m left out of the secret moms clique.

Jk. I’m not an ACPS parent but dang if there aren’t a lot of people complaining instead of finding something productive to better the schools.

I have another one based on this comment - how because of the entrenched leadership (and the community’s fawning over it) it is impossible to do anything to improve ACPS meaningfully. Said as a former ACPS parent / current Alexandria resident

Run for a position on the school board. Everyone complains but no one is willing to run for office.

So unless you run for school board you can't complain. By this logic if you don't run for Governor or President you have no right to complain.

This is also an extremely privileged statement. If a economically disadvantaged parent complains, is this your response to them too? How about a parent who works an hourly job? Or two hourly jobs?

This is poor logic at best and disgustingly privileged at worst.

Oh, please. It’s not the “economically disadvantaged parents” who endlessly complain. It’s the spoiled wealthy parents (most of whom will claim they’re not actually wealthy) who throw the endless fits and try to use “poor parents” as wedges to get their own way. No one with a brain is buying it.

It's still exceptionally poor logic to say you can't complain unless you run for office.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not posting that information. I'm tired of being mocked and I don't believe that the question is being asked with honesty or integrity. I definitely don't want the school staff to be held up under such scrutiny from the likes of you people. They deserve better.

There is the poster. I have no problem with you not sharing personal information here. But I see you needed to take another pot shot at parents who have had experiences with ACPS differing from you.

DP.


Where is the "pot shot"? I don't see it.

“I definitely don't want the school staff to be held up under such scrutiny from the likes of you people. They deserve better.” - there it is .

DP again.


Aw, that's just the truth. I completely agree with her. You guys are being bullies. She called you on it. More power to her.

+1,000

Again, you are defending someone who is blaming parents of special needs students are just trying to make sure their children get a FAPE.

They are the same poster. Don't worry about it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We'll never know the actual reason, but I suspect it is something along the lines of it's too much work to think about, much less do. Too much red tape.

The majority of the populace living in Old Town are Democrats, so even if a Republican came up with a good idea to solve the high school issue, he or she would never get voted in. The city stays blue every fall, y'all.

It's not just old town. I don't live there but if you look at the numbers from the last election, OT was the area with the least support for Wilson and his acolytes.

Alexandria is the one (if not the only) city in VA to have at-large elections. And talk about a systemically racist election system, at-large is it. Literally designed and instituted to keep black people from voting and having a voice. This is how you can tell that no Alexandria elected official is serious about systemic racism. If they were, they'd advocate to get rid of the at large system (the council can do it) and stand for ward elections even if it hurt them politically.

I never thought about it that way but it makes perfect sense. It probably was initially put in place to keep certain areas from having a representative. You literally could have the entire city council comprised of members from 1 neighborhood.

There is no probably about it. At-large elections were put in place to keep blacks from voting. Full stop. Alexandria instituted theirs in 1950.

Of all the candidates for city council last year, only one lived outside of two of alexandria's 8 zip codes. While not every council member is from 1 neighborhood...we're awfully close.

I don't want to hear anyone in Alexandria decry systemic racism unless they support going back to a ward system.

How is it racist that the candidates live in similar zip codes? Anyone can run and be a candidate. Just like everyone can vote. I don't understand how this is an at- large election is stopping anyone from voting or running for office. Plus the real problem is that Alexandria is run by a city manager NOT elected officials.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not a fan of the front office woman at my child's elementary school who has major uncalled attitude.

LOL LCTA? She is so rude to us too.

Well I guess we can cross this one of our list. Is no registrar better than a rude registrar? Probably, right?

What is going on at LCTA? New asst principal, new school counselor, no registrar, no 2nd grade teacher, couldn't hire a 4th grade teacher, and new principal next year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We'll never know the actual reason, but I suspect it is something along the lines of it's too much work to think about, much less do. Too much red tape.

The majority of the populace living in Old Town are Democrats, so even if a Republican came up with a good idea to solve the high school issue, he or she would never get voted in. The city stays blue every fall, y'all.

It's not just old town. I don't live there but if you look at the numbers from the last election, OT was the area with the least support for Wilson and his acolytes.

Alexandria is the one (if not the only) city in VA to have at-large elections. And talk about a systemically racist election system, at-large is it. Literally designed and instituted to keep black people from voting and having a voice. This is how you can tell that no Alexandria elected official is serious about systemic racism. If they were, they'd advocate to get rid of the at large system (the council can do it) and stand for ward elections even if it hurt them politically.

I never thought about it that way but it makes perfect sense. It probably was initially put in place to keep certain areas from having a representative. You literally could have the entire city council comprised of members from 1 neighborhood.

There is no probably about it. At-large elections were put in place to keep blacks from voting. Full stop. Alexandria instituted theirs in 1950.

Of all the candidates for city council last year, only one lived outside of two of alexandria's 8 zip codes. While not every council member is from 1 neighborhood...we're awfully close.

I don't want to hear anyone in Alexandria decry systemic racism unless they support going back to a ward system.

How is it racist that the candidates live in similar zip codes? Anyone can run and be a candidate. Just like everyone can vote. I don't understand how this is an at- large election is stopping anyone from voting or running for office. Plus the real problem is that Alexandria is run by a city manager NOT elected officials.

You have got to be kidding me. Never change Alexandria with your insanely privileged bubble.

It is very expensive to run for public office, even city council. The time you must dedicate to campaigning and fundraising; you think just anyone can run? Of course removing wards and not requiring representation from certain neighborhoods has the direct effect to have only well educated and well off people on city council.

Face it, when this system was put in place it very well was likely with the intent from preventing poor and black people from having a representative on the city council. The refusal to require a ward system is indefensible. Period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We'll never know the actual reason, but I suspect it is something along the lines of it's too much work to think about, much less do. Too much red tape.

The majority of the populace living in Old Town are Democrats, so even if a Republican came up with a good idea to solve the high school issue, he or she would never get voted in. The city stays blue every fall, y'all.

It's not just old town. I don't live there but if you look at the numbers from the last election, OT was the area with the least support for Wilson and his acolytes.

Alexandria is the one (if not the only) city in VA to have at-large elections. And talk about a systemically racist election system, at-large is it. Literally designed and instituted to keep black people from voting and having a voice. This is how you can tell that no Alexandria elected official is serious about systemic racism. If they were, they'd advocate to get rid of the at large system (the council can do it) and stand for ward elections even if it hurt them politically.

I never thought about it that way but it makes perfect sense. It probably was initially put in place to keep certain areas from having a representative. You literally could have the entire city council comprised of members from 1 neighborhood.

There is no probably about it. At-large elections were put in place to keep blacks from voting. Full stop. Alexandria instituted theirs in 1950.

Of all the candidates for city council last year, only one lived outside of two of alexandria's 8 zip codes. While not every council member is from 1 neighborhood...we're awfully close.

I don't want to hear anyone in Alexandria decry systemic racism unless they support going back to a ward system.

How is it racist that the candidates live in similar zip codes? Anyone can run and be a candidate. Just like everyone can vote. I don't understand how this is an at- large election is stopping anyone from voting or running for office. Plus the real problem is that Alexandria is run by a city manager NOT elected officials.

You have got to be kidding me. Never change Alexandria with your insanely privileged bubble.

It is very expensive to run for public office, even city council. The time you must dedicate to campaigning and fundraising; you think just anyone can run? Of course removing wards and not requiring representation from certain neighborhoods has the direct effect to have only well educated and well off people on city council.

Face it, when this system was put in place it very well was likely with the intent from preventing poor and black people from having a representative on the city council. The refusal to require a ward system is indefensible. Period.

Again, your argument makes no sense. So if it so expensive to run for office why do you think it would be better if there were wards. There still wouldn't be people applying to run in certain zip codes. The same rules apply, all you'd be doing is further restricting who can run. To me it sounds like you're the one trying to restrict representation.

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And why do you want uneducated people making all the decisions? Personally I want educated people representing my interests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We'll never know the actual reason, but I suspect it is something along the lines of it's too much work to think about, much less do. Too much red tape.

The majority of the populace living in Old Town are Democrats, so even if a Republican came up with a good idea to solve the high school issue, he or she would never get voted in. The city stays blue every fall, y'all.

It's not just old town. I don't live there but if you look at the numbers from the last election, OT was the area with the least support for Wilson and his acolytes.

Alexandria is the one (if not the only) city in VA to have at-large elections. And talk about a systemically racist election system, at-large is it. Literally designed and instituted to keep black people from voting and having a voice. This is how you can tell that no Alexandria elected official is serious about systemic racism. If they were, they'd advocate to get rid of the at large system (the council can do it) and stand for ward elections even if it hurt them politically.

I never thought about it that way but it makes perfect sense. It probably was initially put in place to keep certain areas from having a representative. You literally could have the entire city council comprised of members from 1 neighborhood.

There is no probably about it. At-large elections were put in place to keep blacks from voting. Full stop. Alexandria instituted theirs in 1950.

Of all the candidates for city council last year, only one lived outside of two of alexandria's 8 zip codes. While not every council member is from 1 neighborhood...we're awfully close.

I don't want to hear anyone in Alexandria decry systemic racism unless they support going back to a ward system.

How is it racist that the candidates live in similar zip codes? Anyone can run and be a candidate. Just like everyone can vote. I don't understand how this is an at- large election is stopping anyone from voting or running for office. Plus the real problem is that Alexandria is run by a city manager NOT elected officials.

You have got to be kidding me. Never change Alexandria with your insanely privileged bubble.

It is very expensive to run for public office, even city council. The time you must dedicate to campaigning and fundraising; you think just anyone can run? Of course removing wards and not requiring representation from certain neighborhoods has the direct effect to have only well educated and well off people on city council.

Face it, when this system was put in place it very well was likely with the intent from preventing poor and black people from having a representative on the city council. The refusal to require a ward system is indefensible. Period.

Again, your argument makes no sense. So if it so expensive to run for office why do you think it would be better if there were wards. There still wouldn't be people applying to run in certain zip codes. The same rules apply, all you'd be doing is further restricting who can run. To me it sounds like you're the one trying to restrict representation.

Did you twist yourself into knots like a pretzel to come up with that argument? Bless your heart.

[Anonymous]

I find ACPS's argument that building a 2nd high school is "racist" to be utterly stupid. If this mattered so much, why do they permit 2 middle schools to exist ?

Do they genuinely believe that having 1 large HS of nearly 5k students has resulted in some form of utopian society ? This is so mind boggling.

The city desperately needs a new HS. Build a new one that feeds from Hammond, and have TC feed from GWMS. It simply does not matter if 1 side of the city has different socio-economics than the other side of the city. ACPS can work on ensuring that both high schools have the same resources provided to them.

Fwiw, I'm a non white person who graduated from TC (in the past decade) and from my experience there's not a significantly obvious achievement gap in students from 1 side of the city compared to the other. AP and Honor classes were around 50% white/ 50% non-white. The majority of the non-white students in these classes were from immigrant working class families on the west side; whereas the white students were from the typical UMC areas of the east side.

As someone who came in from Hammond, the one noticeable gap was between the White students and Black/Hispanic kids from GWMS. I learned throughout the years that most of these students grew up in rough areas such as the Berg, and perhaps explains their outcomes. Unfortunately, most of the school violence emanated from this population.

This may be a very controversial thing for many liberals, but the fact of the matter is that some communities, regardless of race or income level, have a higher regard for education than others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find ACPS's argument that building a 2nd high school is "racist" to be utterly stupid. If this mattered so much, why do they permit 2 middle schools to exist ?

Do they genuinely believe that having 1 large HS of nearly 5k students has resulted in some form of utopian society ? This is so mind boggling.

The city desperately needs a new HS. Build a new one that feeds from Hammond, and have TC feed from GWMS. It simply does not matter if 1 side of the city has different socio-economics than the other side of the city. ACPS can work on ensuring that both high schools have the same resources provided to them.

Agreed! There are lots of stupid things people do for the sake of "equality"