Alexandria HSs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Everyone I know has a similar story: school admin and/or central office was unsupportive at best or outright hostile at worst.

That would certainly be my story if I were let go.

I've worked for both FCPS and ACPS and have had a wonderful experience at ACPS. I'd have to be offered an extremely enticing position to leave my current ACPS school.

That works both ways, y'know. Like, for instance, the person who was let go from FCPS for hitting a student and was promptly hired for a school leadership position in an ACPS school.

[Anonymous]

Since when do high school students who are our City Youth and who don't pay real estate taxes to Alexandria City have a (per Floyd) starting say?

All of them have parents who pay RE taxes, directly or (if they are renters) indirectly. Anyway, they are not asking the HS students to set the budget. They are asking them what works in a HS. If you are going to spend $$ to add capacity it makes sense to do it right, and people who are actually high school students in Alexandria might be a source of good ideas. It does not mean that they will increase the HS capacity budget by 10% to accommodate some expensive idea.

And the fact that the City is addressing, as they have long needed to, the combined sewer outflows does not strike me a reason not to get some input from students.

[Anonymous]

Would you move here home buyers? Just look at DCUM Real Estate entries for an answer to the question.

People move to the City every day.

DCUM real estate is a bunch of boosters and trolls. If you look at, say Fairlington, where identical homes in the same community sit across the street from each other, some in Alexandria and others (most) in Arlington, you will see that the Arlington homes command a premium of roughly 10% or so. But that is Abingdon ES vs John Adams ES, so an ES in Alexandria with relatively "weak demographics". And even so, the difference is not huge.

[Anonymous]

Holding off adding HS capacity until Jefferson Houston has reached full accreditation does not strike me as a logical course of action.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Holding off adding HS capacity until Jefferson Houston has reached full accreditation does not strike me as a logical course of action.

Lol. What was suggested is that ACPS maximize Jefferson Houston capacity since it is built, new and has more capacity available. What about adding in a 9th grade so as to lower crowding at Minnie Howard?

No one suggested holding off addressing TCWHS capacity. In the interim, TCWHS itself should consider alternating the times of class release so that the halls aren't so crowded. Many have called on TCW to do that. Seems pretty simple, yes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Holding off adding HS capacity until Jefferson Houston has reached full accreditation does not strike me as a logical course of action.

Lol. What was suggested is that ACPS maximize Jefferson Houston capacity since it is built, new and has more capacity available. What about adding in a 9th grade so as to lower crowding at Minnie Howard?

No one suggested holding off addressing TCWHS capacity. In the interim, TCWHS itself should consider alternating the times of class release so that the halls aren't so crowded. Many have called on TCW to do that. Seems pretty simple, yes?

The only specific complaint raised about TC capacity is crowding during class-change slots. Easy. Lengthen the school day by 15 minutes and make each class-change 3 minutes longer.

[Anonymous]

A highly respected longtime ACPS teacher moved from another school to TC for this school year and has already quit due to abuse from the usual suspects in TC administration.

Like sands through the hourglass...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A highly respected longtime ACPS teacher moved from another school to TC for this school year and has already quit due to abuse from the usual suspects in TC administration.

Like sands through the hourglass...

We will need more than a simple baseless claim.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Holding off adding HS capacity until Jefferson Houston has reached full accreditation does not strike me as a logical course of action.

Lol. What was suggested is that ACPS maximize Jefferson Houston capacity since it is built, new and has more capacity available.

What about adding in a 9th grade

so as to lower crowding at Minnie Howard?

No one suggested holding off addressing TCWHS capacity. In the interim, TCWHS itself should consider alternating the times of class release so that the halls aren't so crowded. Many have called on TCW to do that. Seems pretty simple, yes?

Are there any K-9 (or beyond) public schools in the region? Even private schools with that wide a span usually have seperate campuses.

[Anonymous]

I would consider moving to Old Town or Del Ray if west Alexandria got its own high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would consider moving to Old Town or Del Ray if west Alexandria got its own high school.

That’s the school board’s intention. Their desire is to stick the West end kids into a separate high school, which is assured to be not full-service.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would consider moving to Old Town or Del Ray if west Alexandria got its own high school.

That’s the school board’s intention. Their desire is to stick the West end kids into a separate high school, which is assured to be not full-service.

And there is no evidence of this except for a couple of people who keep tendentiously misinterpreting one spec document. And whose principle motivation appears to be to throw a monkey wrench into any plan to add more HS seats, because they don't want to pay more taxes for schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would consider moving to Old Town or Del Ray if west Alexandria got its own high school.

That’s the school board’s intention. Their desire is to stick the West end kids into a separate high school, which is assured to be not full-service.

And there is no evidence of this except for a couple of people who keep tendentiously misinterpreting one spec document. And whose principle motivation appears to be to throw a monkey wrench into any plan to add more HS seats, because they don't want to pay more taxes for schools.

There’s no evidence at all, except for the school board’s unanimous votes adopting a split of TC Williams high school into two or more 9-12 high schools, each serving different neighborhoods. It’s in writing. The vote was taken four times. Now they’re just implementing their plan.

[Anonymous]

That’s the school board’s intention. Their desire is to stick the West end kids into a separate high school, which is assured to be not full-service.

Where is the evidence that a West end high school would "not be full-service"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

That’s the school board’s intention. Their desire is to stick the West end kids into a separate high school, which is assured to be not full-service.

Where is the evidence that a West end high school would "not be full-service"?

School board has already indicated that there will be no athletic fields except at TC. That was covered by the Alexandria Times as recently as April. The school board's ed-spec regulation doesn't include numerous features of TC in the new high school final design (so much won't be at the new high school that it's impossible to fully list - no planetarium, no full-time scholarship fund college assistance office, etc). The school board's current gimmick is conducting a "high school experience" survey; the results will be presented in late September as evidence of the minimum goals and features.