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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pretty much all schools everywhere went down under the new formula Great Schools is using.  Not an ACPS-specific issue.[/quote]

ACPS is at the very bottom as it is. Beg to differ with you. We need to do better.

ACPS parent.[/quote]

You're entitled to think that ACPS needs to do better, but that has no bearing on the fact that many schools in every jurisdiction took a hit in Great Schools' new ratings.  [/quote]

Indeed many schools did. But for a City as affluent as ACPS, our ACPS rankings in SAT, SOL, GS are abysmal. Don't you have a problem with that?

Many of us here in Alexandria City do![/quote]

The problem is not with the schools - it's with GS rankings and all that they represent.  Racially segregated housing, poverty, and so on.  [/quote]

Please. Do you think we Alexandria City residents are so stupid/non-caring to think our ACPS' chronically low ratings on all merits (SOL, SAT, DVOE and GS) are acceptable? They are not. The Great School rating is actually correct on our low performance/social ratings in our schools, just like the Virginia Department of Education is correct that our Virginia state ranking is very bottom tier.

The incorrect people are our Alexandria City Council like Tim Lovain who say we should be "happy" at ACPS growth when we can't even manage current student academic education improvement, and our ACPS School Board who denies and defies discussion of our perpetual low Northern Virginia standing. This isn't about feeling good; it's about fixing what is broken so Alexandria City can be proud, just like  Arlington and Fairfax County are proud of their schools.

As an Alexandria resident, one of many disgusted with our ongoing poor academics, I certainly won't blame this on Great Schools. It's us and our low expectations and standards.[/quote]

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