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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Extricate most of the teachers (not all), administrators (not all) and support staff (not all) currently working in ACPS to another more homogeneous city and no, the school system wouldn't be "that bad".

There is no end to discussion of Alexandria City itself, which is truly unique in Northern Virginia.[/quote]

To the Students in ACPS and their parents, as our Nation celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, never forget the below great address either. Allow yourself to substitute "Negro" for any of the 70 some ethnicities in ACPS as you read these sage words.

To my fellow Alexandrians, Spanish, African-American, Caucasian, Equadorian, Mexican, and all ethnicity's in ACPS, this rings as true today as then. Address the children's culture of poverty, lack of hope for jobs and future, address living status and hunger, the drugs, depression, suicidal ideation and you will see our schools improve.

[i]To our ACPS School Board: tap the mind of a Hispanic or African American great educator/leader for Superintendent as to know is to understand, to identify with kids' struggles is to lead them forward, faster and more intimately. To our City Council: don't through low income and affordable housing out with the bath water as you densify Alexandria.[/i]

[b][quote]Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.[/quote][/b]

I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King, Jr.
delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C
http://www.archives.gov/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf
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