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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, not interested in moving. Our jobs are both DC based. We are not interested in private schools and I am not sure why that is always the "solution". [/quote]

Bless your heart.[/quote]

It's the solution because there is no alternative. Alexandrians would rather pretend the schools are good, than demand that the schools actually be good. Then it doesn't make their cocktail parties and scholarship fundraisers awkward.

I banged my head against the ACPS wall for years. Nothing changes. Save yourself the frustration and the trouble of your neighbors vilifying you and insulting responses from School Board members (if you get any response).

Stay but know that you'll have to teach the fundamentals at home or leave and get a proper education for your kid(s).

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Just because some gifted privileged kids at the top of the ACHS class end up at top schools does not mean that ACPS does not fail hundreds of students.  This is demonstrated by the 2021-2022 SOL scores that indicate half of ACPS students failed in math.

I have two recent TC grads. One went to UVA and one went to UNC Chapel Hill. All my frinds who went to private schools went to way lesser schools and spent 160k per kid gettng them there. Yikes. Some people just aren't good at making decisions.[/quote]

"Lesser" schools? What does this even mean? The measure of a good education is not necessarily whether you wound up at a "top" school. Many kids will not thrive an an enormous, overpopulated school with the constellation of issues that have plagued the former TC. Perhaps the friends you turn your nose up at did the calculus of what would work best for their kids at the moment, and not whether at the end of it they could put a UVA sticker on their car. [/quote][/quote]

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