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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not a defender of ACPS or APS.  My kids go to FCPS.  I don't understand why people feel the need to bash any system or any particular school.  [/quote]

I'm not a basher, but I understand it.  Alexandria is not cheap place to live.  I moved to Alexandria 10 years ago and thought it was a fun, convenient place to live.  I paid much more because I wanted to be in close proximity to my job in DC.  But because of some weird issues that are totally unrelated to most of the current residents, the demographics of some the public schools have a high number of at risk students that are comparable to inner city schools in poor neighborhoods.

I know it is what it is and there are a lot of issues that aren't easily resolved that causes these unique issues.  So instead of a nice, high ranking suburban school with a decent amount of diversity like say Bethesda Chevy Chase High School or Washington-Lee, we have the lowest ranked high school in Northern Virginia with no other options.  Jefferson Houston in Parker Gray/North Old Town is probably the worst elementary school in the Nova and is comparable to those in SE DC.

Honestly, if I was making $30K a year and living in a $800 per month apartment, I'd think the education at TC Williams and ACPS is pretty darn good.  But we all know the complainers here are paying way more and are shocked that the ACPS has way more issues than other systems.

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