More Out of Control Behavior from ACHS students at Bradlee Shopping

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Anonymous wrote:How much truth is there to the rumor that ACHS students have an hour and a half to goof off unsupervised everyday at lunch time. If this is true there is no wonder there is so much violence with 4,000+ students!

Titan Lunch was not re-established for the new year and about a thousand students protested earlier this week because of it.

Yeah. They left and sat in the bleachers for a while. I’m not sure what impact that will make. Central office will do what it’s gonna do, regardless.

Is Titan Lunch the same as the open campus lunch back in the olden days at the old TC campus. The old TC had a very small cafeteria which is why students were allowed to eat off campus.

No. Its an extended lunch period (on campus) in which students can go for extra help and participate in club activities. Its not a bad idea in and of itself—eg, it opens open clubs to kids who have after-school jobs and allows kids who are challenging themselves in difficult classes extra time to consult with teachers—but, as with all things, the size of the school makes it more difficult than it needs to be. What it seems like is that central office is being ultra conservative about it bc of all of the violence last year. So the majority of kids who behave and benefit are being penalized because of the actions of some students. Unfortunate.

If ACHS is already too large to control, maybe the facilities planners should just make the new Minnie Howard a junior high school (grades 7-9). And revert either GW or Hammond back to a senior high school (grades 10-12). Then the city would have two high schools and two junior high schools. (With the new housing developments at Landmark, the city's population will surely increase further.)

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Anonymous wrote:How much truth is there to the rumor that ACHS students have an hour and a half to goof off unsupervised everyday at lunch time. If this is true there is no wonder there is so much violence with 4,000+ students!

Titan Lunch was not re-established for the new year and about a thousand students protested earlier this week because of it.

Yeah. They left and sat in the bleachers for a while. I’m not sure what impact that will make. Central office will do what it’s gonna do, regardless.

Is Titan Lunch the same as the open campus lunch back in the olden days at the old TC campus. The old TC had a very small cafeteria which is why students were allowed to eat off campus.

No. Its an extended lunch period (on campus) in which students can go for extra help and participate in club activities. Its not a bad idea in and of itself—eg, it opens open clubs to kids who have after-school jobs and allows kids who are challenging themselves in difficult classes extra time to consult with teachers—but, as with all things, the size of the school makes it more difficult than it needs to be. What it seems like is that central office is being ultra conservative about it bc of all of the violence last year. So the majority of kids who behave and benefit are being penalized because of the actions of some students. Unfortunate.

If ACHS is already too large to control, maybe the facilities planners should just make the new Minnie Howard a junior high school (grades 7-9). And revert either GW or Hammond back to a senior high school (grades 10-12). Then the city would have two high schools and two junior high schools. (With the new housing developments at Landmark, the city's population will surely increase further.)

the city is never going to build another high school because it allows politics to influence their decisions and its leadership has taken the position that anything more than 1 high school is racist and they're willing to die on this hill, even if students have died because of it.

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Anonymous wrote:How much truth is there to the rumor that ACHS students have an hour and a half to goof off unsupervised everyday at lunch time. If this is true there is no wonder there is so much violence with 4,000+ students!

Titan Lunch was not re-established for the new year and about a thousand students protested earlier this week because of it.

Yeah. They left and sat in the bleachers for a while. I’m not sure what impact that will make. Central office will do what it’s gonna do, regardless.

Is Titan Lunch the same as the open campus lunch back in the olden days at the old TC campus. The old TC had a very small cafeteria which is why students were allowed to eat off campus.

No. Its an extended lunch period (on campus) in which students can go for extra help and participate in club activities. Its not a bad idea in and of itself—eg, it opens open clubs to kids who have after-school jobs and allows kids who are challenging themselves in difficult classes extra time to consult with teachers—but, as with all things, the size of the school makes it more difficult than it needs to be. What it seems like is that central office is being ultra conservative about it bc of all of the violence last year. So the majority of kids who behave and benefit are being penalized because of the actions of some students. Unfortunate.

If ACHS is already too large to control, maybe the facilities planners should just make the new Minnie Howard a junior high school (grades 7-9). And revert either GW or Hammond back to a senior high school (grades 10-12). Then the city would have two high schools and two junior high schools. (With the new housing developments at Landmark, the city's population will surely increase further.)

There are so many creative alternatives and yet here we still are stuck with a huge overcrowded single high school that can’t even manage a lunch period for its students. It’s really shameful.

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Anonymous wrote:How much truth is there to the rumor that ACHS students have an hour and a half to goof off unsupervised everyday at lunch time. If this is true there is no wonder there is so much violence with 4,000+ students!

Titan Lunch was not re-established for the new year and about a thousand students protested earlier this week because of it.

Yeah. They left and sat in the bleachers for a while. I’m not sure what impact that will make. Central office will do what it’s gonna do, regardless.

Is Titan Lunch the same as the open campus lunch back in the olden days at the old TC campus. The old TC had a very small cafeteria which is why students were allowed to eat off campus.

No. Its an extended lunch period (on campus) in which students can go for extra help and participate in club activities. Its not a bad idea in and of itself—eg, it opens open clubs to kids who have after-school jobs and allows kids who are challenging themselves in difficult classes extra time to consult with teachers—but, as with all things, the size of the school makes it more difficult than it needs to be. What it seems like is that central office is being ultra conservative about it bc of all of the violence last year. So the majority of kids who behave and benefit are being penalized because of the actions of some students. Unfortunate.

If ACHS is already too large to control, maybe the facilities planners should just make the new Minnie Howard a junior high school (grades 7-9). And revert either GW or Hammond back to a senior high school (grades 10-12). Then the city would have two high schools and two junior high schools. (With the new housing developments at Landmark, the city's population will surely increase further.)

There are so many creative alternatives and yet here we still are stuck with a huge overcrowded single high school that can’t even manage a lunch period for its students. It’s really shameful.

FWIW the incident the other day was after school not during lunch. (I’m not arguing that we don’t need two OR THREE high schools, just stating that it wasn’t related to lunch)

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Anonymous wrote:How much truth is there to the rumor that ACHS students have an hour and a half to goof off unsupervised everyday at lunch time. If this is true there is no wonder there is so much violence with 4,000+ students!

Titan Lunch was not re-established for the new year and about a thousand students protested earlier this week because of it.

Yeah. They left and sat in the bleachers for a while. I’m not sure what impact that will make. Central office will do what it’s gonna do, regardless.

Is Titan Lunch the same as the open campus lunch back in the olden days at the old TC campus. The old TC had a very small cafeteria which is why students were allowed to eat off campus.

No. Its an extended lunch period (on campus) in which students can go for extra help and participate in club activities. Its not a bad idea in and of itself—eg, it opens open clubs to kids who have after-school jobs and allows kids who are challenging themselves in difficult classes extra time to consult with teachers—but, as with all things, the size of the school makes it more difficult than it needs to be. What it seems like is that central office is being ultra conservative about it bc of all of the violence last year. So the majority of kids who behave and benefit are being penalized because of the actions of some students. Unfortunate.

If ACHS is already too large to control, maybe the facilities planners should just make the new Minnie Howard a junior high school (grades 7-9). And revert either GW or Hammond back to a senior high school (grades 10-12). Then the city would have two high schools and two junior high schools. (With the new housing developments at Landmark, the city's population will surely increase further.)

the city is never going to build another high school because it allows politics to influence their decisions and its leadership has taken the position that anything more than 1 high school is racist and they're willing to die on this hill, even if students have died because of it.

That's the irony. The students most harmed by one HS are students of color.

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Anonymous wrote:How much truth is there to the rumor that ACHS students have an hour and a half to goof off unsupervised everyday at lunch time. If this is true there is no wonder there is so much violence with 4,000+ students!

Titan Lunch was not re-established for the new year and about a thousand students protested earlier this week because of it.

Yeah. They left and sat in the bleachers for a while. I’m not sure what impact that will make. Central office will do what it’s gonna do, regardless.

Is Titan Lunch the same as the open campus lunch back in the olden days at the old TC campus. The old TC had a very small cafeteria which is why students were allowed to eat off campus.

No. Its an extended lunch period (on campus) in which students can go for extra help and participate in club activities. Its not a bad idea in and of itself—eg, it opens open clubs to kids who have after-school jobs and allows kids who are challenging themselves in difficult classes extra time to consult with teachers—but, as with all things, the size of the school makes it more difficult than it needs to be. What it seems like is that central office is being ultra conservative about it bc of all of the violence last year. So the majority of kids who behave and benefit are being penalized because of the actions of some students. Unfortunate.

If ACHS is already too large to control, maybe the facilities planners should just make the new Minnie Howard a junior high school (grades 7-9). And revert either GW or Hammond back to a senior high school (grades 10-12). Then the city would have two high schools and two junior high schools. (With the new housing developments at Landmark, the city's population will surely increase further.)

the city is never going to build another high school because it allows politics to influence their decisions and its leadership has taken the position that anything more than 1 high school is racist and they're willing to die on this hill, even if students have died because of it.

That's the irony. The students most harmed by one HS are students of color.

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Anonymous wrote:How much truth is there to the rumor that ACHS students have an hour and a half to goof off unsupervised everyday at lunch time. If this is true there is no wonder there is so much violence with 4,000+ students!

Titan Lunch was not re-established for the new year and about a thousand students protested earlier this week because of it.

Yeah. They left and sat in the bleachers for a while. I’m not sure what impact that will make. Central office will do what it’s gonna do, regardless.

Is Titan Lunch the same as the open campus lunch back in the olden days at the old TC campus. The old TC had a very small cafeteria which is why students were allowed to eat off campus.

No. Its an extended lunch period (on campus) in which students can go for extra help and participate in club activities. Its not a bad idea in and of itself—eg, it opens open clubs to kids who have after-school jobs and allows kids who are challenging themselves in difficult classes extra time to consult with teachers—but, as with all things, the size of the school makes it more difficult than it needs to be. What it seems like is that central office is being ultra conservative about it bc of all of the violence last year. So the majority of kids who behave and benefit are being penalized because of the actions of some students. Unfortunate.

If ACHS is already too large to control, maybe the facilities planners should just make the new Minnie Howard a junior high school (grades 7-9). And revert either GW or Hammond back to a senior high school (grades 10-12). Then the city would have two high schools and two junior high schools. (With the new housing developments at Landmark, the city's population will surely increase further.)

the city is never going to build another high school because it allows politics to influence their decisions and its leadership has taken the position that anything more than 1 high school is racist and they're willing to die on this hill, even if students have died because of it.

That's the irony. The students most harmed by one HS are students of color.

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And recall that the people of color on the school board at the time were the ones that voted for a second high school. It was the white people who voted against it under the guise of anti-racist unity. SMH

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Anonymous wrote:How much truth is there to the rumor that ACHS students have an hour and a half to goof off unsupervised everyday at lunch time. If this is true there is no wonder there is so much violence with 4,000+ students!

Titan Lunch was not re-established for the new year and about a thousand students protested earlier this week because of it.

Yeah. They left and sat in the bleachers for a while. I’m not sure what impact that will make. Central office will do what it’s gonna do, regardless.

Is Titan Lunch the same as the open campus lunch back in the olden days at the old TC campus. The old TC had a very small cafeteria which is why students were allowed to eat off campus.

No. Its an extended lunch period (on campus) in which students can go for extra help and participate in club activities. Its not a bad idea in and of itself—eg, it opens open clubs to kids who have after-school jobs and allows kids who are challenging themselves in difficult classes extra time to consult with teachers—but, as with all things, the size of the school makes it more difficult than it needs to be. What it seems like is that central office is being ultra conservative about it bc of all of the violence last year. So the majority of kids who behave and benefit are being penalized because of the actions of some students. Unfortunate.

If ACHS is already too large to control, maybe the facilities planners should just make the new Minnie Howard a junior high school (grades 7-9). And revert either GW or Hammond back to a senior high school (grades 10-12). Then the city would have two high schools and two junior high schools. (With the new housing developments at Landmark, the city's population will surely increase further.)

the city is never going to build another high school because it allows politics to influence their decisions and its leadership has taken the position that anything more than 1 high school is racist and they're willing to die on this hill, even if students have died because of it.

That's the irony. The students most harmed by one HS are students of color.

+1

And recall that the people of color on the school board at the time were the ones that voted for a second high school. It was the white people who voted against it under the guise of anti-racist unity. SMH

SMH at your lack of knowledge. Black Superintendent Hutchings advocated for one high school. Black school board member Jacinta Greene voted for one high school. Hispanic (are they still people of color in your world?) school board member Chris Suarez voted for one high school. 2 of the 3 dissenters were black. But by my private school math, that's three People of Color voting to keep one high school and two people of color voting for more than one high school. Which public school did you go to?

https://thezebra.org/2019/09/27/alexandria-city-school-board-votes-for-one-connected-high-school/

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Anonymous wrote:How much truth is there to the rumor that ACHS students have an hour and a half to goof off unsupervised everyday at lunch time. If this is true there is no wonder there is so much violence with 4,000+ students!

Titan Lunch was not re-established for the new year and about a thousand students protested earlier this week because of it.

Yeah. They left and sat in the bleachers for a while. I’m not sure what impact that will make. Central office will do what it’s gonna do, regardless.

Is Titan Lunch the same as the open campus lunch back in the olden days at the old TC campus. The old TC had a very small cafeteria which is why students were allowed to eat off campus.

No. Its an extended lunch period (on campus) in which students can go for extra help and participate in club activities. Its not a bad idea in and of itself—eg, it opens open clubs to kids who have after-school jobs and allows kids who are challenging themselves in difficult classes extra time to consult with teachers—but, as with all things, the size of the school makes it more difficult than it needs to be. What it seems like is that central office is being ultra conservative about it bc of all of the violence last year. So the majority of kids who behave and benefit are being penalized because of the actions of some students. Unfortunate.

If ACHS is already too large to control, maybe the facilities planners should just make the new Minnie Howard a junior high school (grades 7-9). And revert either GW or Hammond back to a senior high school (grades 10-12). Then the city would have two high schools and two junior high schools. (With the new housing developments at Landmark, the city's population will surely increase further.)

the city is never going to build another high school because it allows politics to influence their decisions and its leadership has taken the position that anything more than 1 high school is racist and they're willing to die on this hill, even if students have died because of it.

That's the irony. The students most harmed by one HS are students of color.

+1

And recall that the people of color on the school board at the time were the ones that voted for a second high school. It was the white people who voted against it under the guise of anti-racist unity. SMH

SMH at your lack of knowledge. Black Superintendent Hutchings advocated for one high school. Black school board member Jacinta Greene voted for one high school. Hispanic (are they still people of color in your world?) school board member Chris Suarez voted for one high school. 2 of the 3 dissenters were black. But by my private school math, that's three People of Color voting to keep one high school and two people of color voting for more than one high school. Which public school did you go to?

https://thezebra.org/2019/09/27/alexandria-city-school-board-votes-for-one-connected-high-school/

I do recall Heather Thornton and Meagan Alderton speaking at length about their dissent votes.

I’m Latina but did not realize Chris Suarez’s identified as POC.

The Superintendent is not a member of the elected school board and does not vote. The fact is, the majority of the six people who voted for one high school were white.

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Anonymous wrote:How much truth is there to the rumor that ACHS students have an hour and a half to goof off unsupervised everyday at lunch time. If this is true there is no wonder there is so much violence with 4,000+ students!

Titan Lunch was not re-established for the new year and about a thousand students protested earlier this week because of it.

Yeah. They left and sat in the bleachers for a while. I’m not sure what impact that will make. Central office will do what it’s gonna do, regardless.

Is Titan Lunch the same as the open campus lunch back in the olden days at the old TC campus. The old TC had a very small cafeteria which is why students were allowed to eat off campus.

No. Its an extended lunch period (on campus) in which students can go for extra help and participate in club activities. Its not a bad idea in and of itself—eg, it opens open clubs to kids who have after-school jobs and allows kids who are challenging themselves in difficult classes extra time to consult with teachers—but, as with all things, the size of the school makes it more difficult than it needs to be. What it seems like is that central office is being ultra conservative about it bc of all of the violence last year. So the majority of kids who behave and benefit are being penalized because of the actions of some students. Unfortunate.

If ACHS is already too large to control, maybe the facilities planners should just make the new Minnie Howard a junior high school (grades 7-9). And revert either GW or Hammond back to a senior high school (grades 10-12). Then the city would have two high schools and two junior high schools. (With the new housing developments at Landmark, the city's population will surely increase further.)

the city is never going to build another high school because it allows politics to influence their decisions and its leadership has taken the position that anything more than 1 high school is racist and they're willing to die on this hill, even if students have died because of it.

That's the irony. The students most harmed by one HS are students of color.

+1

And recall that the people of color on the school board at the time were the ones that voted for a second high school. It was the white people who voted against it under the guise of anti-racist unity. SMH

SMH at your lack of knowledge. Black Superintendent Hutchings advocated for one high school. Black school board member Jacinta Greene voted for one high school. Hispanic (are they still people of color in your world?) school board member Chris Suarez voted for one high school. 2 of the 3 dissenters were black. But by my private school math, that's three People of Color voting to keep one high school and two people of color voting for more than one high school. Which public school did you go to?

https://thezebra.org/2019/09/27/alexandria-city-school-board-votes-for-one-connected-high-school/

I do recall Heather Thornton and Meagan Alderton speaking at length about their dissent votes.

I’m Latina but did not realize Chris Suarez’s identified as POC.

The Superintendent is not a member of the elected school board and does not vote. The fact is, the majority of the six people who voted for one high school were white.

I am AMAZED that Alderton, Thorton (did she ever speak at a SB meeting?) and Reif of all people withstood the laughable "a second high school is racist" rhetoric. Based on what they said about and to their constituents, I'm not surprised at all that Cindy Anderson, Veronica Nolan and Margaret Lorber (bless her heart) went the other way.

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to copy this thread and paste it to the site 10 years from now? It could the next generation the hassle of writing the same thing again, because I guarantee you that nothing will change and ACPS will still be a sh*tshow. Why anyone stays is beyond me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there a way to copy this thread and paste it to the site 10 years from now? It could the next generation the hassle of writing the same thing again, because I guarantee you that nothing will change and ACPS will still be a sh*tshow. Why anyone stays is beyond me.

Hope springs eternal.

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Anonymous wrote:How much truth is there to the rumor that ACHS students have an hour and a half to goof off unsupervised everyday at lunch time. If this is true there is no wonder there is so much violence with 4,000+ students!

Titan Lunch was not re-established for the new year and about a thousand students protested earlier this week because of it.

Yeah. They left and sat in the bleachers for a while. I’m not sure what impact that will make. Central office will do what it’s gonna do, regardless.

Is Titan Lunch the same as the open campus lunch back in the olden days at the old TC campus. The old TC had a very small cafeteria which is why students were allowed to eat off campus.

No. Its an extended lunch period (on campus) in which students can go for extra help and participate in club activities. Its not a bad idea in and of itself—eg, it opens open clubs to kids who have after-school jobs and allows kids who are challenging themselves in difficult classes extra time to consult with teachers—but, as with all things, the size of the school makes it more difficult than it needs to be. What it seems like is that central office is being ultra conservative about it bc of all of the violence last year. So the majority of kids who behave and benefit are being penalized because of the actions of some students. Unfortunate.

If ACHS is already too large to control, maybe the facilities planners should just make the new Minnie Howard a junior high school (grades 7-9). And revert either GW or Hammond back to a senior high school (grades 10-12). Then the city would have two high schools and two junior high schools. (With the new housing developments at Landmark, the city's population will surely increase further.)

the city is never going to build another high school because it allows politics to influence their decisions and its leadership has taken the position that anything more than 1 high school is racist and they're willing to die on this hill, even if students have died because of it.

That's the irony. The students most harmed by one HS are students of color.

+1

And recall that the people of color on the school board at the time were the ones that voted for a second high school. It was the white people who voted against it under the guise of anti-racist unity. SMH

SMH at your lack of knowledge. Black Superintendent Hutchings advocated for one high school. Black school board member Jacinta Greene voted for one high school. Hispanic (are they still people of color in your world?) school board member Chris Suarez voted for one high school. 2 of the 3 dissenters were black. But by my private school math, that's three People of Color voting to keep one high school and two people of color voting for more than one high school. Which public school did you go to?

https://thezebra.org/2019/09/27/alexandria-city-school-board-votes-for-one-connected-high-school/

Ah yes the school board members that don't have any children how could we forget.

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Anonymous wrote:How much truth is there to the rumor that ACHS students have an hour and a half to goof off unsupervised everyday at lunch time. If this is true there is no wonder there is so much violence with 4,000+ students!

Titan Lunch was not re-established for the new year and about a thousand students protested earlier this week because of it.

Yeah. They left and sat in the bleachers for a while. I’m not sure what impact that will make. Central office will do what it’s gonna do, regardless.

Is Titan Lunch the same as the open campus lunch back in the olden days at the old TC campus. The old TC had a very small cafeteria which is why students were allowed to eat off campus.

No. Its an extended lunch period (on campus) in which students can go for extra help and participate in club activities. Its not a bad idea in and of itself—eg, it opens open clubs to kids who have after-school jobs and allows kids who are challenging themselves in difficult classes extra time to consult with teachers—but, as with all things, the size of the school makes it more difficult than it needs to be. What it seems like is that central office is being ultra conservative about it bc of all of the violence last year. So the majority of kids who behave and benefit are being penalized because of the actions of some students. Unfortunate.

If ACHS is already too large to control, maybe the facilities planners should just make the new Minnie Howard a junior high school (grades 7-9). And revert either GW or Hammond back to a senior high school (grades 10-12). Then the city would have two high schools and two junior high schools. (With the new housing developments at Landmark, the city's population will surely increase further.)

There are so many creative alternatives and yet here we still are stuck with a huge overcrowded single high school that can’t even manage a lunch period for its students. It’s really shameful.

My family as well as most of my neighbors enroll our children in private school. Why are you still spinning your wheels trying to improve Alexandria public schools? Just let the board keep their one HS and we can all keep enjoying all the Alexandria undeveloped green space

[Anonymous]

I looked at a townhouse in Fairlington near Bradley shopping center and decided not to buy it because it was too close to Bradlee for comfort.