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I’m generally a supporter of APS, but this article caught my attention:

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/11/17/aps-suspensions-drop-but-big-demographic-disparities-persist/

We had a situation with one of our kids in middle school where a grade-level principal kept trying to push for disciplinary action over things that were either minor or simply didn’t happen. It reached the point where it felt like she was looking for reasons to suspend white and Asian students to “balance” the numbers. Suspension was never appropriate for any of the incidents, yet the pressure was constant.

It makes me think someone should file a FOIA request to pull the record of disciplinary complaints at the middle schools—especially any showing patterns of overreach tied to closing demographic “gaps.” A friend went through something similar, and shared with me their whole email saga, which told the same story: the middle school principal didn’t have the ability to remove the grade-level principal, and the grade-level principal was essentially acting on her own in how she handled discipline.

Fortunately, in our case, the principal ultimately stepped in and shut it down.[/quote]

so do it[/quote]

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