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[quote=Anonymous][/quote]NP here. I don't think anyone is ranking the PTAC president as the #1 problem facing ACPS and I think we can all agree (or at least I hope we would) that what is going on inside the walls of GW, MH, ACHS, etc for years now is very troubling and concerning. It goes way further back than last years stabbing and shooting. Way further back.

However, I agree with posters that point out in the hypocrisy and just outright insanity of illogical proportions of how ACPS is run, the thought process behind most of their decisions, that is just fitting that a school system (located in one of the richest jurisdictions of Virginia) that has historically been failing FOR DECADES has such poor leadership all the way down to their beloved PTAC. That from the bottom to the top, it's all a facade, it's all for show. There is one unified message, only one, and if you are not in lock step with that message, every single person on the ACPS rung of "power" comes after you, including the PTAC president. So it is telling that a woman who publicly praised her son for punching another kid in the face on the playground during school, and thereafter was banned from further volunteering and interacting with the students at Brooks somehow is chosen and elected to be the president of all the PTA presidents. She's the "Face" of the parent population of ACPS. This should tell you all you need to know about the disfunction of ACPS.

And in any normal jurisdiction, when parents are fed up with the ways schools are run, or are upset about violence or something else happening at their school, they would organize and show up at school board and PTA meetings, they would call on their parent representation in PTAC to amplify their voice. They would demand change, they wold be vocal about that. Just look at LCPS (whether you like what happened there or not, those parents got together and did not back down). But you try ANY of those tactics in Alexandria, you have a concerns, a complaint, want to have a demonstration, speak at a meeting, get your PTA or PTAC involved, or even better you want to walk the walk and actually run for school board yourself, then forget it. You will not only get zero support, you will also be socially ostracized and harrassed. IT. IS. INSANE.
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I agree that the PTAC is very disappointing in terms of representing the interests and concerns of parents - no dispute there.  I don't agree that I have experienced social ostracization for speaking out, but then again, my friendships are based around work and my own activities, so people associated with my kids' schools are fairly tangential to me anyway.

I don't think that the amount of attention this woman gets here for pettiness and stupidity, vs. the amount of concern about real issues, makes any sense or is helpful.

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