Do you think think Youngkin will use accreditation standards to come after ACPS

[Anonymous]

It feels like such a lost cause. The high school really needs to be broken up into smaller schools. This behemoth is so unmanageable and fraught with complex problems. Nobody seems up for the task to demand drastic changes to this broken school system.

https://www.alxnow.com/2022/09/27/police-chief-there-are-crews-of-violent-kids-within-alexandria-city-public-schools/?fbclid=IwAR2b3uk733vVVMmkg1HQwjRt1PPs6ODsuElIYni9_4CuWRMWhJEcx3koaR4

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It feels like such a lost cause. The high school really needs to be broken up into smaller schools. This behemoth is so unmanageable and fraught with complex problems. Nobody seems up for the task to demand drastic changes to this broken school system.

https://www.alxnow.com/2022/09/27/police-chief-there-are-crews-of-violent-kids-within-alexandria-city-public-schools/?fbclid=IwAR2b3uk733vVVMmkg1HQwjRt1PPs6ODsuElIYni9_4CuWRMWhJEcx3koaR4

+1

Whatever you think of Youngkin, if he's targeting ACPS as a failing school system, he's not wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It feels like such a lost cause. The high school really needs to be broken up into smaller schools. This behemoth is so unmanageable and fraught with complex problems. Nobody seems up for the task to demand drastic changes to this broken school system.

https://www.alxnow.com/2022/09/27/police-chief-there-are-crews-of-violent-kids-within-alexandria-city-public-schools/?fbclid=IwAR2b3uk733vVVMmkg1HQwjRt1PPs6ODsuElIYni9_4CuWRMWhJEcx3koaR4

+1

Whatever you think of Youngkin, if he's targeting ACPS as a failing school system, he's not wrong.

NO he's targeting all of Virginia's schools. and he is a liar, a criminal. and traitor

He has no business being in the education business. Don't worry given his Betsey DeVos contract Virginia is going to privatize schools and he will rake in the money and Virginia will end up like all the red states with crappy schools.

Wonderful option don't you think?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It feels like such a lost cause. The high school really needs to be broken up into smaller schools. This behemoth is so unmanageable and fraught with complex problems. Nobody seems up for the task to demand drastic changes to this broken school system.

https://www.alxnow.com/2022/09/27/police-chief-there-are-crews-of-violent-kids-within-alexandria-city-public-schools/?fbclid=IwAR2b3uk733vVVMmkg1HQwjRt1PPs6ODsuElIYni9_4CuWRMWhJEcx3koaR4

+1

Whatever you think of Youngkin, if he's targeting ACPS as a failing school system, he's not wrong.

So they need support. Not to be destroyed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It feels like such a lost cause. The high school really needs to be broken up into smaller schools. This behemoth is so unmanageable and fraught with complex problems. Nobody seems up for the task to demand drastic changes to this broken school system.

https://www.alxnow.com/2022/09/27/police-chief-there-are-crews-of-violent-kids-within-alexandria-city-public-schools/?fbclid=IwAR2b3uk733vVVMmkg1HQwjRt1PPs6ODsuElIYni9_4CuWRMWhJEcx3koaR4

Wow, the safety concerns must have been serious for the progressive Alexandria government to let the police back in the schools and also talk to the community. Gangs, crews, and opioids, yeesh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It feels like such a lost cause. The high school really needs to be broken up into smaller schools. This behemoth is so unmanageable and fraught with complex problems. Nobody seems up for the task to demand drastic changes to this broken school system.

https://www.alxnow.com/2022/09/27/police-chief-there-are-crews-of-violent-kids-within-alexandria-city-public-schools/?fbclid=IwAR2b3uk733vVVMmkg1HQwjRt1PPs6ODsuElIYni9_4CuWRMWhJEcx3koaR4

+1

Whatever you think of Youngkin, if he's targeting ACPS as a failing school system, he's not wrong.

So they need support. Not to be destroyed.

But it's good for rich people to destroy them.

[Anonymous]

Rich white democrats sure love telling poor black folks how to live

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rich white democrats sure love telling poor black folks how to live

“Rich, white Ds” don’t want funding for public schools to be cut.

[Anonymous]

If Youngkin actually wanted to help ACPS, and probably most failing schools, he'd mandate a science backed reading and math curriculum. And immediately mandate remedial reading and writing services for all of those kids "taught" to read with the terrible balanced literacy/Lucy Cawkins curriculum ACPS only recently, partially and reluctantly got rid of. But I seriously doubt he actually cares about the outcomes, so agree that he's just using this to push charters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Youngkin actually wanted to help ACPS, and probably most failing schools, he'd mandate a science backed reading and math curriculum. And immediately mandate remedial reading and writing services for all of those kids "taught" to read with the terrible balanced literacy/Lucy Cawkins curriculum ACPS only recently, partially and reluctantly got rid of. But I seriously doubt he actually cares about the outcomes, so agree that he's just using this to push charters.

I agree with your remedy and I do not see ACPS or Youngkin pushing for such curriculum changes. I think Youngkin also wants to push his political agenda (anti critical race theory etc) through the focus on schools as well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This post is hilarious in regards to ACPS. Jefferson Houston was literally the lowest performing school *in the entire state* .

What did the Ds do to 'improve it? They redistricted the boundaries to flood it with wealthy white kids to boost scores and give the appearance of high performing and they lowered the metrics for accreditation.

Who would willfully send their kid to a school like that?

The Jefferson-Houston school zone boundaries have not changed in over 20 years. I'm not sure where you're getting your information. They did lower the metrics for accreditation statewide.

They did slightly alter the boundary to much complaint AND they removed the ability for parents to opt out. So the PP is correct in the goal was to bring in more kids who could boost scores. It's not a secret.

We don't live in Del Rey any longer but when this was going on there was a 'South of Monroe' triangle group that was attempting to have their little chunk of Del Rey rezoned to Maury as it had been for something like the 50 previous years. Some parents that were already zoned for JH formed a secret group to infiltrate the triangle group and sabotage their plans. I guess their goal was to force the Del Rey kids to attend JH as a way of bettering the school for their own doomed kids. Misery loves company and all that.

Very DC back stabby stuff and totally off putting.

This was years and years ago and JH still sucks. And has had something like 5 principals in the interim.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This post is hilarious in regards to ACPS. Jefferson Houston was literally the lowest performing school *in the entire state* .

What did the Ds do to 'improve it? They redistricted the boundaries to flood it with wealthy white kids to boost scores and give the appearance of high performing and they lowered the metrics for accreditation.

Who would willfully send their kid to a school like that?

The Jefferson-Houston school zone boundaries have not changed in over 20 years. I'm not sure where you're getting your information. They did lower the metrics for accreditation statewide.

They did slightly alter the boundary to much complaint AND they removed the ability for parents to opt out. So the PP is correct in the goal was to bring in more kids who could boost scores. It's not a secret.

We don't live in Del Rey any longer but when this was going on there was a 'South of Monroe' triangle group that was attempting to have their little chunk of Del Rey rezoned to Maury as it had been for something like the 50 previous years. Some parents that were already zoned for JH formed a secret group to infiltrate the triangle group and sabotage their plans. I guess their goal was to force the Del Rey kids to attend JH as a way of bettering the school for their own doomed kids. Misery loves company and all that.

Very DC back stabby stuff and totally off putting.

This was years and years ago and JH still sucks. And has had something like 5 principals in the interim.

JH serves lots of public housing, and school with those boundaries will suck. The only thing the district can do is to decide which school gets to suck

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This post is hilarious in regards to ACPS. Jefferson Houston was literally the lowest performing school *in the entire state* .

What did the Ds do to 'improve it? They redistricted the boundaries to flood it with wealthy white kids to boost scores and give the appearance of high performing and they lowered the metrics for accreditation.

Who would willfully send their kid to a school like that?

The Jefferson-Houston school zone boundaries have not changed in over 20 years. I'm not sure where you're getting your information. They did lower the metrics for accreditation statewide.

They did slightly alter the boundary to much complaint AND they removed the ability for parents to opt out. So the PP is correct in the goal was to bring in more kids who could boost scores. It's not a secret.

The JH boundary did not change. The opt out policy is the same for all elementary schools in Alexandria, nothing specific to JH. They use to be required by federal law (No Child Left Behind) to allow families to opt out of JH because it was a failing school, but that lapsed years ago, so now they are supposed to apply the normal rules (although it is an opaque process, because many families still opt out successfully). You also fail to mention that for 20 years many other elementary schools (mostly Brooks/Maury) have transferred kids to JH "for a better learning environment" (kids with behavioral issues). Every new JH principal discovers this pattern after a year or two and tries to stop it, but then they change principals again and it starts anew.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This post is hilarious in regards to ACPS. Jefferson Houston was literally the lowest performing school *in the entire state* .

What did the Ds do to 'improve it? They redistricted the boundaries to flood it with wealthy white kids to boost scores and give the appearance of high performing and they lowered the metrics for accreditation.

Who would willfully send their kid to a school like that?

The Jefferson-Houston school zone boundaries have not changed in over 20 years. I'm not sure where you're getting your information. They did lower the metrics for accreditation statewide.

They did slightly alter the boundary to much complaint AND they removed the ability for parents to opt out. So the PP is correct in the goal was to bring in more kids who could boost scores. It's not a secret.

The JH boundary did not change. The opt out policy is the same for all elementary schools in Alexandria, nothing specific to JH. They use to be required by federal law (No Child Left Behind) to allow families to opt out of JH because it was a failing school, but that lapsed years ago, so now they are supposed to apply the normal rules (although it is an opaque process, because many families still opt out successfully). You also fail to mention that for 20 years many other elementary schools (mostly Brooks/Maury) have transferred kids to JH "for a better learning environment" (kids with behavioral issues). Every new JH principal discovers this pattern after a year or two and tries to stop it, but then they change principals again and it starts anew.

No there was some boundary shifts. Very, very minor but yes they happened. They were supposed to be bigger. PPs explains what happened.

Also something I find really funny is that apparently people from PG country register their kids in ACPS by using a relatives address. Makes you realize just how bad the PG county schools must be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Youngkin actually wanted to help ACPS, and probably most failing schools, he'd mandate a science backed reading and math curriculum. And immediately mandate remedial reading and writing services for all of those kids "taught" to read with the terrible balanced literacy/Lucy Cawkins curriculum ACPS only recently, partially and reluctantly got rid of. But I seriously doubt he actually cares about the outcomes, so agree that he's just using this to push charters.

OR ..

ACPS could decide to do it without a mandate and actually teach reading and math. But sure, make it all Youngkin's fault. The guy who showed up a few months ago and will be gone in 3 years vs. ACPS who has known for 20+ years that kids weren't learning reading or math.