Has any aspect of ACPS improved under Hutchings leadership

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BS. We have been over this before. The kid was being bullied. He did the right thing as a parent. Hats off to him for doing that and taking the hits in his job because of it.

Why was his kid being bullied? Because the other kids are a-holes.

Eh...she was being "bullied" because she received special treatment after a situation that she was in with others. They got punished and she magically didn't.

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Rumor is both children are now at BI. GW MS is absolutely uncontrolled, violent chaos, so it would definitely be in the best interest of his kids to get them out of ACPS.

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Unlike most of this country, but acceptable to this region, ACPS was closed for a year.

Someone mentioned renaming. The Board and Superintendent spent more public time and held more meetings on that political theater, and chance to be on the record, than actually reopening them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unlike most of this country, but acceptable to this region, ACPS was closed for a year.

Someone mentioned renaming. The Board and Superintendent spent more public time and held more meetings on that political theater, and chance to be on the record, than actually reopening them.

It never ceases to amaze what Alexandria parents accept. Including a superintendent who was more concerned with writing a book (and using ACPS to lay the public ground work for it with his co-author via school renaming) than finding a way to get special ed kids or any kids back in schools.

I'm less concerned with the renaming (TC was LONG overdue - another thing Alexandria parents tolerated until it became unfashionable to defend using the bigot's name on the high school) than with the process of renaming. Hutchings and his co-author, Douglas Reed, held 10 events via ACPS to discuss the renaming. In the middle of the schools being shut down.

There are still unanswered questions about if Reed was paid for his considerable time at those events and what ACPS resources were used to produce his and Hutchings book.

And for the person defending Hutchings for putting his kid in a private school...I don't have a problem with a parent moving a struggling kid. I heard him mention her tanking grades at a school board meeting (as a parent I was shocked that he'd share this information publicly) and I've heard the bullying stories too. The reason doesn't matter to me.

What DOES matter is that Hutchings put his struggling kid in private school and then publicly shamed parents for keeping their kids IN the public schools but setting up learning pods. He said they were privileged and that they would be responsible for learning gaps. An apology for the hypocritical name calling would have been nice.

But he's still at ACPS and parents just elected a new slate of school board members who aren't willing to ask questions and demand transparency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BS. We have been over this before. The kid was being bullied. He did the right thing as a parent. Hats off to him for doing that and taking the hits in his job because of it.

Why was his kid being bullied? Because the other kids are a-holes.

Eh...she was being "bullied" because she received special treatment after a situation that she was in with others. They got punished and she magically didn't.

More special treatment when she got to go to school in person that year while normal children didn't.

Maybe the right decision for her and her family.

Not an option for the rest of us. Doesn't see to bother the Democrat elite though. Nothing about the past two years has applied to them, starting with their children going to school in person.

[Anonymous]

I'm curious to see what happens with the 2021-2022 school year SOLs. I chalk up the results from the 2020-2021 school year to being an anomaly. But if the achievement gaps don't move in the right direction, then the district is failing students. After a year of in-person school and an infusion of millions of CARES dollars, one can't continue to blame the gaps on "privileged" families who set up pods for their kids during virtual school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious to see what happens with the 2021-2022 school year SOLs. I chalk up the results from the 2020-2021 school year to being an anomaly. But if the achievement gaps don't move in the right direction, then the district is failing students. After a year of in-person school and an infusion of millions of CARES dollars, one can't continue to blame the gaps on "privileged" families who set up pods for their kids during virtual school.

The district has been failing students for a long time. The pre-covid numbers were not good at the elementary schools and likely why the post covid number were absolutely dismal.

For the 2018-19 year, only Lyles-Crouch had proficiency levels in reading and math that were higher than the division and state when it came to economically disadvantaged kids. Polk, John Adams and Cora Kelly were higher than division/state in math for economically disadvantaged kids.

All the others, including the schools I usually see cited here as the "good" schools like George Mason, Barrett and Brooks didn't even come close to hitting the division/state proficiency levels in reading OR math for economically disadvantaged students. These schools plummeted even more post covid. So with post covid numbers like 18% reading proficiency and 13% math proficiency at GM, 16% reading and 3% math at Brooks, and 33% reading and 13% math at Barrett, I suppose they can only go up.

[Anonymous]

So when does Hutchings' book come out? I'm looking forward to reviewing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BS. We have been over this before. The kid was being bullied. He did the right thing as a parent. Hats off to him for doing that and taking the hits in his job because of it.

Why was his kid being bullied? Because the other kids are a-holes.

Eh...she was being "bullied" because she received special treatment after a situation that she was in with others. They got punished and she magically didn't.

More special treatment when she got to go to school in person that year while normal children didn't.

Maybe the right decision for her and her family.

Not an option for the rest of us. Doesn't see to bother the Democrat elite though. Nothing about the past two years has applied to them, starting with their children going to school in person.

I know plenty of democrats who openly advocate for Hutchings to go on a regular basis.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious to see what happens with the 2021-2022 school year SOLs. I chalk up the results from the 2020-2021 school year to being an anomaly. But if the achievement gaps don't move in the right direction, then the district is failing students. After a year of in-person school and an infusion of millions of CARES dollars, one can't continue to blame the gaps on "privileged" families who set up pods for their kids during virtual school.

The district has been failing students for a long time. The pre-covid numbers were not good at the elementary schools and likely why the post covid number were absolutely dismal.

For the 2018-19 year, only Lyles-Crouch had proficiency levels in reading and math that were higher than the division and state when it came to economically disadvantaged kids. Polk, John Adams and Cora Kelly were higher than division/state in math for economically disadvantaged kids.

All the others, including the schools I usually see cited here as the "good" schools like George Mason, Barrett and Brooks didn't even come close to hitting the division/state proficiency levels in reading OR math for economically disadvantaged students. These schools plummeted even more post covid. So with post covid numbers like 18% reading proficiency and 13% math proficiency at GM, 16% reading and 3% math at Brooks, and 33% reading and 13% math at Barrett, I suppose they can only go up.

But the important question is: Did you vote on the new logo?

[Anonymous]

We openly advocate for Hutchings and we are definitely what you'd call Blue.

I wish those stupid, incompetent, jerks in City Hall and on City Council had paid attention to him when he and his principals told him that we need SROs in school. They were wrong and he was very right. A child is dead right now because of their incompetence and hubris. They should have listened to Hutchings and his principals. We need to kick them all out of office. Fools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BS. We have been over this before. The kid was being bullied. He did the right thing as a parent. Hats off to him for doing that and taking the hits in his job because of it.

Why was his kid being bullied? Because the other kids are a-holes.

Eh...she was being "bullied" because she received special treatment after a situation that she was in with others. They got punished and she magically didn't.

More special treatment when she got to go to school in person that year while normal children didn't.

Maybe the right decision for her and her family.

Not an option for the rest of us. Doesn't see to bother the Democrat elite though. Nothing about the past two years has applied to them, starting with their children going to school in person.

I know plenty of democrats who openly advocate for Hutchings to go on a regular basis.

Where? Have they been submitting comments to the SB? Showing up at school board meetings? Op-eds contradicting the ACPS apologists of PTAC? Were they asking questions PTAC's candidate forum? How about as Hutchings and SB members make their rounds at various churches?

I'm very curious where they are "openly advocating".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We openly advocate for Hutchings and we are definitely what you'd call Blue.

I wish those stupid, incompetent, jerks in City Hall and on City Council had paid attention to him when he and his principals told him that we need SROs in school. They were wrong and he was very right. A child is dead right now because of their incompetence and hubris. They should have listened to Hutchings and his principals. We need to kick them all out of office. Fools.

In Hutchings book he advocates for getting rid of SROs. He needs to pick a lane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious to see what happens with the 2021-2022 school year SOLs. I chalk up the results from the 2020-2021 school year to being an anomaly. But if the achievement gaps don't move in the right direction, then the district is failing students. After a year of in-person school and an infusion of millions of CARES dollars, one can't continue to blame the gaps on "privileged" families who set up pods for their kids during virtual school.

The district has been failing students for a long time. The pre-covid numbers were not good at the elementary schools and likely why the post covid number were absolutely dismal.

For the 2018-19 year, only Lyles-Crouch had proficiency levels in reading and math that were higher than the division and state when it came to economically disadvantaged kids. Polk, John Adams and Cora Kelly were higher than division/state in math for economically disadvantaged kids.

All the others, including the schools I usually see cited here as the "good" schools like George Mason, Barrett and Brooks didn't even come close to hitting the division/state proficiency levels in reading OR math for economically disadvantaged students. These schools plummeted even more post covid. So with post covid numbers like 18% reading proficiency and 13% math proficiency at GM, 16% reading and 3% math at Brooks, and 33% reading and 13% math at Barrett, I suppose they can only go up.

But the important question is: Did you vote on the new logo?

classic ACPS priorities. I've seen more communication around the new logo than the Minnie Howard rape. To be fair, there wasn't ANY communication about that. But parents were ok with that so ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We openly advocate for Hutchings and we are definitely what you'd call Blue.

I wish those stupid, incompetent, jerks in City Hall and on City Council had paid attention to him when he and his principals told him that we need SROs in school. They were wrong and he was very right. A child is dead right now because of their incompetence and hubris. They should have listened to Hutchings and his principals. We need to kick them all out of office. Fools.

? The murder happened off campus