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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay, I don't want to discredit anyone's experience with school violence, but that is a known issue that ACPS needs to address. I want to talk about the school culture and academics at J-H.[/quote]

There are serious issues are JH, that due to its size, are more amplified than you would find at GW. 1) the overwhelming majority of the students come from very low income households and due to no fault of their own bring with them the stress and issues that are related to living in Section 8 in that neighborhood. Even making a completely funky Brooks district where kids from the Madison Street section 8 are somehow included in Brooks when they should be going to JH doesn't alleviate the issues. Instead of addressing the issues related to such a large number of children coming from very low income households, it is swept under the rug and bringing it to light is called racist. But we need to help these children and these families, because the odds are stacked against them that someone is reading to them at home, that there is someone to help with homework, that they get adequate sleep, that they are not affected by the safety issues (I get the police alerts, I know), that they may need intervention like a tutor but can't pay for it, etc.  THEN combine that with 2) there are major administrative issues at JH. Recently a large teachers quit or didn't renew their contracts leaving to teach somewhere else. There is extremely high turnover in leadership. Honestly they should have brought the magic from the LCTA principal over to JH instead of hiring new people over and over.

JH looks all shiny and somewhat new, but it was rebuilt several years ago because the state threatened to take it over. JH when it only went to 5th grade, had failed the SOLs for so many years in a row that it qualified to be taken over by the Virginia Department of Education and one way to prevent that was by building a new building, which apparently technically meant it was a new school with a clean slate and no longer was a 5+ year failing SOL school.

So instead of trying to tackle the problems, ACPS literally built a new school where the old playground used to be. That was their answer.  That's Jeff Houston.[/quote]

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