ACPS Secret Clique

[Anonymous]

When was this? My son graduated from Maury in 2020. There were definitely some moms who stayed at home and spent a lot of time volunteering. It felt mildly cliquish, but I think that was just because they spent time together on the playground after school and at volunteer stuff. No one was mean, or having keggers or playing beer pong. TBH, the group of moms I was referring to seemed really overinvolved in their kids' stuff, and a little boring, but not like bad or awful people.


You'd be dead wrong, Tons of keggers, back to school blow outs, end of year bashes, corn hole tournaments where streets got closed and people got wasted, ping pong table literally in a front yard with wasted adults playing beer pong. I saw it all.

Okay. Even if that's true, why do you care? It's not something I'd do with my time as a grown adult, but I'm not looking to make BFFs with parents from my kids' school in the first place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:wait let me get this straight - there's a secret rosemont beer pong clique?

So I send my kids to private, but I once was invited to a beer bong party off of W Masonic View across the street from the playground. But those people have moved. They were nice.

[Anonymous]

wait let me get this straight - there's a secret rosemont beer pong clique?


So I send my kids to private, but I once was invited to a beer bong party off of W Masonic View across the street from the playground. But those people have moved. They were nice.

I wonder if they are the same people I am thinking of. Beer pong parties are not my thing, but those people are nice. If they had invited me, I might have gone but not played any beer pong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

wait let me get this straight - there's a secret rosemont beer pong clique?


So I send my kids to private, but I once was invited to a beer bong party off of W Masonic View across the street from the playground. But those people have moved. They were nice.

I wonder if they are the same people I am thinking of. Beer pong parties are not my thing, but those people are nice. If they had invited me, I might have gone but not played any beer pong.

Maybe. I can’t say anything bad about them. But they moved during covid. They even had personalized cups made for the party and I still have mine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

wait let me get this straight - there's a secret rosemont beer pong clique?


So I send my kids to private, but I once was invited to a beer bong party off of W Masonic View across the street from the playground. But those people have moved. They were nice.

I wonder if they are the same people I am thinking of. Beer pong parties are not my thing, but those people are nice. If they had invited me, I might have gone but not played any beer pong.

They're nice if you live on the right street or know the right people or went to one of the two right pre-schools or are in lockstep with them about PTA events. Otherwise they'll talk about how other parents "just don't understand the way we do things at Maury" or how other kids "just aren't the right fit for our (supposedly public) activity." Those are both actual quotes from women I know who are in the clique. They would never think of themselves as exclusionary, they just don't see the world outside of their bubble.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if they are the same people I am thinking of. Beer pong parties are not my thing, but those people are nice. If they had invited me, I might have gone but not played any beer pong.


They're nice if you live on the right street or know the right people or went to one of the two right pre-schools or are in lockstep with them about PTA events. Otherwise they'll talk about how other parents "just don't understand the way we do things at Maury" or how other kids "just aren't the right fit for our (supposedly public) activity." Those are both actual quotes from women I know who are in the clique. They would never think of themselves as exclusionary, they just don't see the world outside of their bubble.

No, the people I am thinking of are not cliquish at all, so maybe different people. My kid has a disability and can be really frustrating. They always bent over backwards to be nice to him and to me.

[Anonymous]

Are you talking about the people who are involved in Alexandria Democratic politics? I'm a Democrat and joined the local party but found the people to be popularity seeking so I volunteer through other Democratic organizations. There are people who post on social media constantly fawning over city council, school board, and ACPS leadership. I don't know them personally, so they seem nice enough, but I really don't get the fan girl/guy posturing.

Or are you talking about the same group of parents who run what I thought were official ACPS Facebook groups?

Or is it the PTAC parents who are in leadership positions? I'm not involved in PTA (I pay dues and volunteer occasionally but I am not involved). I don't understand PTAC except the letters they sometimes write in the local Alexandria projects.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

wait let me get this straight - there's a secret rosemont beer pong clique?


So I send my kids to private, but I once was invited to a beer bong party off of W Masonic View across the street from the playground. But those people have moved. They were nice.

I wonder if they are the same people I am thinking of. Beer pong parties are not my thing, but those people are nice. If they had invited me, I might have gone but not played any beer pong.

Maybe. I can’t say anything bad about them. But they moved during covid. They even had personalized cups made for the party and I still have mine.

I was there and still have my orange cup too! If you stayed late enough you know what happened

[Anonymous]

During the pandemic, some parents told me there is a clique of ACPS moms that works to get certain elected officials in ofice. They are not PTAC moms from what I can tell and an ecclectic bunch. I think they were behind "outing" that one candidate who was anti mask. From what I can tell, they have HS or college aged kids or no kids at all. They are not my cup of tea, and one even seems to be unwell.

[Anonymous]

Is this clique of moms the moms that got Ignacio elected?

[Anonymous]

From what I can tell, Baird was elected by a base of parents who are mainly private school parents and no longer in ACPS. She seems like she is very in the establishment of ACPS right now, which seems contrary to that group. Who knows anything about her consulting firm?

I saw Alderton driving at Bradlee center yesterday with an ACPS track and field sticker and a Blessed Sacrament sticker. It made me sick. I am sickened that our chair of our school board is a private school parent. Why doesn't anyone else think that there are so many things wrong with this picture?

[Anonymous]

What is the deal with Kelly Booz? She seemed to have a lot of support, but I hear from other parents that she doesn't respond to their emails. Does Tammy Ignacio respond to emails? I don't hear much from her. She seems to be in all the Democratic fundraiser photos with Greene, Alderton, Rief.

[Anonymous]

Are we talking about the PTAC people who got certain people elected?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are we talking about the PTAC people who got certain people elected?

And did they keep certain people from being elected? To me, I didn’t understand how District B turned out they way it did with Ignacio winning and Johnson almost winning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From what I can tell, Baird was elected by a base of parents who are mainly private school parents and no longer in ACPS. She seems like she is very in the establishment of ACPS right now, which seems contrary to that group. Who knows anything about her consulting firm?

I saw Alderton driving at Bradlee center yesterday with an ACPS track and field sticker and a Blessed Sacrament sticker. It made me sick. I am sickened that our chair of our school board is a private school parent. Why doesn't anyone else think that there are so many things wrong with this picture?

What makes you say this? Do you mean funding or that was the group that was really pushing her?

I agree that she's very firmly entrenched with the ACPS establishment (after she was elected she scrubbed her website really quickly of anything that was critical of ACPS). Why is that contrary to the private school parents views? What did they expect from her?

I always think it's to everyones benefit to have a great school system regardless of if you have kids or not or if you send them to private or not. Home values are home values.