Alexandria HSs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The mayor and/or council can allocate all the money in the world but if the people in charge of using that money are corrupt and/or idiots, it doesn't really matter.

Thank you. Agreed 100%. The biggest problem facing education in Alexandria is the Alexandria School Board.

I guess I am now considered an "old timer" having moved to Alexandria City in 1992.

Still I can say without any blush, we (my spouse and I) have paid Mega Taxes to the City. Of course the City ignores the past as well as DSUP's promised by their very own beings, as well as ACPS ignores DSUPS.

My point is: Alexamdria City residents: please wake up!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The mayor and/or council can allocate all the money in the world but if the people in charge of using that money are corrupt and/or idiots, it doesn't really matter.

Thank you. Agreed 100%. The biggest problem facing education in Alexandria is the Alexandria School Board.

I guess I am now considered an "old timer" having moved to Alexandria City in 1992.

Still I can say without any blush, we (my spouse and I) have paid Mega Taxes to the City. Of course the City ignores the past as well as DSUP's promised by their very own beings, as well as ACPS ignores DSUPS.

My point is: Alexamdria City residents: please wake up!

Which DSUP has been ignored?

[Anonymous]

In the last 16 years we have paid the city over $150,000.

Think about that.

[Anonymous]

Since 2011 in Alexandria City, we've paid over $142,684.

We've lived here since 1995 so it's much much more but Alexandria City doesn't list them under address anymore. Wonder why?

Very upset with the City Fiscal Year '18 tax increase rate and fees of ~9cent/$100 assessed. It's nearing prohibitive to live here.

Wise up Alexandria, don't drive us out. Cut City services (separate wheat from chaff) and total number of City employees. The City shouldn't be the employer of last resort. Everyone gets a hair cut not a huge tax increase.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Since 2011 in Alexandria City, we've paid over $142,684.

We've lived here since 1995 so it's much much more but Alexandria City doesn't list them under address anymore. Wonder why?

Very upset with the City Fiscal Year '18 tax increase rate and fees of ~9cent/$100 assessed. It's nearing prohibitive to live here.

Wise up Alexandria, don't drive us out. Cut City services (separate wheat from chaff) and total number of City employees. The City shouldn't be the employer of last resort. Everyone gets a hair cut not a huge tax increase.

As long as the City services you propose cutting are the ones you use most frequently, then I agree with you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since 2011 in Alexandria City, we've paid over $142,684.

We've lived here since 1995 so it's much much more but Alexandria City doesn't list them under address anymore. Wonder why?

Very upset with the City Fiscal Year '18 tax increase rate and fees of ~9cent/$100 assessed. It's nearing prohibitive to live here.

Wise up Alexandria, don't drive us out. Cut City services (separate wheat from chaff) and total number of City employees. The City shouldn't be the employer of last resort. Everyone gets a hair cut not a huge tax increase.

As long as the City services you propose cutting are the ones you use most frequently, then I agree with you.

Someone living in a 2 million dollar home isn't sending their kids to ACPS. So what services are they using? The police who take 45 minutes to respond to a hit and run WITH WITNESSES or the Libraries that can't seem to be able to be open on a Sunday when, you know, the people with day jobs are most likely to be able to use them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since 2011 in Alexandria City, we've paid over $142,684.

We've lived here since 1995 so it's much much more but Alexandria City doesn't list them under address anymore. Wonder why?

Very upset with the City Fiscal Year '18 tax increase rate and fees of ~9cent/$100 assessed. It's nearing prohibitive to live here.

Wise up Alexandria, don't drive us out. Cut City services (separate wheat from chaff) and total number of City employees. The City shouldn't be the employer of last resort. Everyone gets a hair cut not a huge tax increase.

As long as the City services you propose cutting are the ones you use most frequently, then I agree with you.

Someone living in a 2 million dollar home isn't sending their kids to ACPS. So what services are they using? The police who take 45 minutes to respond to a hit and run WITH WITNESSES or the Libraries that can't seem to be able to be open on a Sunday when, you know, the people with day jobs are most likely to be able to use them?

You presume, PP. Our kids DID GO to ACPS, and our home isn't worth 2 million. Crappy land that the City over values.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since 2011 in Alexandria City, we've paid over $142,684.

We've lived here since 1995 so it's much much more but Alexandria City doesn't list them under address anymore. Wonder why?

Very upset with the City Fiscal Year '18 tax increase rate and fees of ~9cent/$100 assessed. It's nearing prohibitive to live here.

Wise up Alexandria, don't drive us out. Cut City services (separate wheat from chaff) and total number of City employees. The City shouldn't be the employer of last resort. Everyone gets a hair cut not a huge tax increase.

As long as the City services you propose cutting are the ones you use most frequently, then I agree with you.

Someone living in a 2 million dollar home isn't sending their kids to ACPS. So what services are they using? The police who take 45 minutes to respond to a hit and run WITH WITNESSES or the Libraries that can't seem to be able to be open on a Sunday when, you know, the people with day jobs are most likely to be able to use them?

You presume, PP. Our kids DID GO to ACPS, and our home isn't worth 2 million. Crappy land that the City over values.

Then your math is wrong. Twenty thousand dollars a year in taxes is an assessment of about 1.5-2.0

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since 2011 in Alexandria City, we've paid over $142,684.

We've lived here since 1995 so it's much much more but Alexandria City doesn't list them under address anymore. Wonder why?

Very upset with the City Fiscal Year '18 tax increase rate and fees of ~9cent/$100 assessed. It's nearing prohibitive to live here.

Wise up Alexandria, don't drive us out. Cut City services (separate wheat from chaff) and total number of City employees. The City shouldn't be the employer of last resort. Everyone gets a hair cut not a huge tax increase.

As long as the City services you propose cutting are the ones you use most frequently, then I agree with you.

Someone living in a 2 million dollar home isn't sending their kids to ACPS. So what services are they using? The police who take 45 minutes to respond to a hit and run WITH WITNESSES or the Libraries that can't seem to be able to be open on a Sunday when, you know, the people with day jobs are most likely to be able to use them?

You presume, PP. Our kids DID GO to ACPS, and our home isn't worth 2 million. Crappy land that the City over values.

Then your math is wrong. Twenty thousand dollars a year in taxes is an assessment of about 1.5-2.0

As I said: over valued and actively being depreciated by the City who can "do no wrong".

[Anonymous]

PP here. What does it take to wake Alexandria City residents up, such that they work together rather than attack one another!

I guess my revelations are more "fake news". What a joke Alexandria City is becoming!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP here. What does it take to wake Alexandria City residents up, such that they work together rather than attack one another!

I guess my revelations are more "fake news". What a joke Alexandria City is becoming!

A couple high schools might be the topper to this discussions. We need to force change not just wait for a proposition. This drives me crazy every time it happens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since 2011 in Alexandria City, we've paid over $142,684.

We've lived here since 1995 so it's much much more but Alexandria City doesn't list them under address anymore. Wonder why?

Very upset with the City Fiscal Year '18 tax increase rate and fees of ~9cent/$100 assessed. It's nearing prohibitive to live here.

Wise up Alexandria, don't drive us out. Cut City services (separate wheat from chaff) and total number of City employees. The City shouldn't be the employer of last resort. Everyone gets a hair cut not a huge tax increase.

As long as the City services you propose cutting are the ones you use most frequently, then I agree with you.

Someone living in a 2 million dollar home isn't sending their kids to ACPS. So what services are they using? The police who take 45 minutes to respond to a hit and run WITH WITNESSES or the Libraries that can't seem to be able to be open on a Sunday when, you know, the people with day jobs are most likely to be able to use them?

You presume, PP. Our kids DID GO to ACPS, and our home isn't worth 2 million. Crappy land that the City over values.

Then your math is wrong. Twenty thousand dollars a year in taxes is an assessment of about 1.5-2.0

As I said pp. Our land is being devalued by the City as we speak.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
A couple high schools might be the topper to this discussions.

If the current inmates continue to run the asylum, the number of high schools won't matter much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are at a turning point for ACPS and it looks like our turn is not for the better. The recent move to not allow teachers to earn their steps has caused an incredible amount of dissatisfaction that is compounded by lower increases and higher copays for health benefits. Effectively it is a deterrent for teachers to stay with the system and increases the churn in teacher staffing. With the teacher shortage now beginning to impact our area, the route taken by the current administrators and school board seems foolhardy and purposefully obstructive to improving school outcomes. The number of vacant core teaching slots is astounding for being in the middle of July. Regardless of our history we need to start looking at the future because it is looking grim unless there are some significant changes to make our schools someplace where teachers want to come and teach. We need to be able to offer an appealing package of pay, benefits and treatment! If we don't improve how we treat our teachers we will be stuck with all the teachers who don't go to FCPS, APS or LCPS. Is that what we want?

I read this, paused, and re-read this today as this is ACPS information not easily come by. As with our Alexandria First Responders, I support fair, progressive salaries for our ACPS teachers who are the key, imho, to advancement academically. Now it's fastly approaching August, with ACPS opening September 2, 2018. Hearing there are many teacher openings is not good at all.

I for one, support an increase in ACPS teacher salaries (as well as continued careful compromise on benefits such as health care and retirement). We all know where this is going in Alexandria: We are going to need to cut services to maintain salaries for our public City employees and I'm ready to suck it up on services.

Thank you for posting PP.

+1 I know school board and city officials are aware of this site. Pay to keep good teachers in ACPS, damn it!

It is not about pay - it is about *treatment* as a PP put it.

Teachers don't leave because of the pay. They leave because of things like not giving a step increase. While that looks like a payment issue, it is really just an extension of how little value ACPS places on their current staff, always looking for the next shiny thing instead of polishing up what you have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The number of posted open positions is staggering, and I know that there are a bunch more that are not yet on this list. Note how many just got posted in the last month- thank your broken system for that.

https://acps.tedk12.com/hire/index.aspx

~115 postions to fill by September 2, 2018.

That is probably undercounting it as if there are multiple openings - i.e. need 2 English teachers at the high school - ACPS will only put up one vacancy notice.