Fourth Shooting Andrew Adkins Public Housing (Alexandria)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole thing is sad. The guy who was shot attended the same high school my child attends. Of course, no one can tell the future, but their experiences seem so far apart based on the photo of the guy holding a gun. I don't know what can be done to change things.

Step one is to stop the segregation at the middle schools and the high school. I'm tired of hearing UMC parents say "oh my kids never see anything" and ignoring the problems and just focusing on special treatment for their kids. If everyone would be thrown together, change would happen fast. Right now the high school basically has a publicly funded private school in the middle of the high school. That's not equitable.

okay privileged white lady, bet you've never been to those projects but you defintiely know whats best for them

Why are you bring up race????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole thing is sad. The guy who was shot attended the same high school my child attends. Of course, no one can tell the future, but their experiences seem so far apart based on the photo of the guy holding a gun. I don't know what can be done to change things.

Step one is to stop the segregation at the middle schools and the high school. I'm tired of hearing UMC parents say "oh my kids never see anything" and ignoring the problems and just focusing on special treatment for their kids. If everyone would be thrown together, change would happen fast. Right now the high school basically has a publicly funded private school in the middle of the high school. That's not equitable.

okay privileged white lady, bet you've never been to those projects but you defintiely know whats best for them

Why are you bring up race????

Why are you bringing it up???

[Anonymous]

Right now the high school basically has a publicly funded private school in the middle of the high school. That's not equitable.

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[Anonymous]

^^^ The TAG program is full of while kids from wealthy UMC families.

[Anonymous]

^^^ The TAG program is full of while kids from wealthy UMC families.

I agree with that, and that is very problematic and needs to be addressed by ACPS.

However, there are not separate TAG classes in high school (you and your child get to pick honors or not, or in some cases, AP or not), nor is the program a "publicly funded private school in the middle of the high school." So I don't think that poster was referring to TAG. If there is in fact a publicly funded private school in the middle of the high school, I'm genuinely curious what it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

^^^ The TAG program is full of while kids from wealthy UMC families.

I agree with that, and that is very problematic and needs to be addressed by ACPS.

However, there are not separate TAG classes in high school (you and your child get to pick honors or not, or in some cases, AP or not), nor is the program a "publicly funded private school in the middle of the high school." So I don't think that poster was referring to TAG. If there is in fact a publicly funded private school in the middle of the high school, I'm genuinely curious what it is.

There clearly is not a publicly funded private school at ACHS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

^^^ The TAG program is full of while kids from wealthy UMC families.

I agree with that, and that is very problematic and needs to be addressed by ACPS.

However, there are not separate TAG classes in high school (you and your child get to pick honors or not, or in some cases, AP or not), nor is the program a "publicly funded private school in the middle of the high school." So I don't think that poster was referring to TAG. If there is in fact a publicly funded private school in the middle of the high school, I'm genuinely curious what it is.

Stop being so rigid. NP here: it obviously was a play on works to emphasis that there basically is a self-segregated portion of the student population that self selects honors classes and “never see any fights or have any problems”. And most, if not all, of those kids are white with college educated parents who are UMC or higher. I know you get that so stop being difficult.

[Anonymous]

Stop being so rigid. NP here: it obviously was a play on works to emphasis that there basically is a self-segregated portion of the student population that self selects honors classes and “never see any fights or have any problems”. And most, if not all, of those kids are white with college educated parents who are UMC or higher. I know you get that so stop being difficult.

If you had actually paid over 50K per year for a private school (which I have for my son), you would realize that, while being in honors or AP classes in a large disorganized public school is a nice thing, relative to not being in them, it is by no means a private school experience. It's a stupid thing to say.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole thing is sad. The guy who was shot attended the same high school my child attends. Of course, no one can tell the future, but their experiences seem so far apart based on the photo of the guy holding a gun. I don't know what can be done to change things.

Step one is to stop the segregation at the middle schools and the high school. I'm tired of hearing UMC parents say "oh my kids never see anything" and ignoring the problems and just focusing on special treatment for their kids. If everyone would be thrown together, change would happen fast. Right now the high school basically has a publicly funded private school in the middle of the high school. That's not equitable.

okay privileged white lady, bet you've never been to those projects but you defintiely know whats best for them

nothing works. so I'm in favor of privileged white lady's plan. tired of my kids dealing with these brazen and scary kids in school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole thing is sad. The guy who was shot attended the same high school my child attends. Of course, no one can tell the future, but their experiences seem so far apart based on the photo of the guy holding a gun. I don't know what can be done to change things.

Step one is to stop the segregation at the middle schools and the high school. I'm tired of hearing UMC parents say "oh my kids never see anything" and ignoring the problems and just focusing on special treatment for their kids. If everyone would be thrown together, change would happen fast. Right now the high school basically has a publicly funded private school in the middle of the high school. That's not equitable.

okay privileged white lady, bet you've never been to those projects but you defintiely know whats best for them

Why are you bring up race????

Why are you bringing it up???

You can't possible be THAT stupid! YOU brought it up.
Wow, just wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^^ The TAG program is full of while kids from wealthy UMC families.

It is. And 8 or 9 years ago, ACPS did a presentation at our elementary school about that. I asked them how they intended to make sure the program got diversified. ACPS claimed "we have a plan and that will change". It never changed.

The TAG Director for ACPS doesn't even send her kids to ACPS schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

^^^ The TAG program is full of while kids from wealthy UMC families.

I agree with that, and that is very problematic and needs to be addressed by ACPS.

However, there are not separate TAG classes in high school (you and your child get to pick honors or not, or in some cases, AP or not), nor is the program a "publicly funded private school in the middle of the high school." So I don't think that poster was referring to TAG. If there is in fact a publicly funded private school in the middle of the high school, I'm genuinely curious what it is.

Stop being so rigid. NP here: it obviously was a play on works to emphasis that there basically is a self-segregated portion of the student population that self selects honors classes and “never see any fights or have any problems”. And most, if not all, of those kids are white with college educated parents who are UMC or higher. I know you get that so stop being difficult.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Stop being so rigid. NP here: it obviously was a play on works to emphasis that there basically is a self-segregated portion of the student population that self selects honors classes and “never see any fights or have any problems”. And most, if not all, of those kids are white with college educated parents who are UMC or higher. I know you get that so stop being difficult.

If you had actually paid over 50K per year for a private school (which I have for my son), you would realize that, while being in honors or AP classes in a large disorganized public school is a nice thing, relative to not being in them, it is by no means a private school experience. It's a stupid thing to say.

Actually my kids go to private, but I understood the point of calling it private inside a public. Sounds like it triggered something in you. Maybe ask yourself why? Because the analogy actually made some sense. But keep acting like there are no problems, because that's what these people do. "My kids never see it!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Stop being so rigid. NP here: it obviously was a play on works to emphasis that there basically is a self-segregated portion of the student population that self selects honors classes and “never see any fights or have any problems”. And most, if not all, of those kids are white with college educated parents who are UMC or higher. I know you get that so stop being difficult.

If you had actually paid over 50K per year for a private school (which I have for my son), you would realize that, while being in honors or AP classes in a large disorganized public school is a nice thing, relative to not being in them, it is by no means a private school experience. It's a stupid thing to say.

Wait, so your kid didn't even go to ACHS but you KNOW that this "private within a public" isn't true. Amazing. You're so smart, private school parent.