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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an ACPS parent with kids at Brooks. I have friends that send their kids to Jefferson-Houston and friends that teach there. You will hear the same issues in all of ACPS. Frankly, the sad issue is that our city has a concentration of children in high poverty. Brooks has the same thing too, from the public housing. Jefferson-Houston's stats are pretty much the same. I know parents from all different backgrounds who go there and they have the same experience that we have in ACPS. It is really hard to judge on statistics for students whose basic needs like food, clothing, and shelter aren't being met. For what it's worth, three families in Rosemont that I am friends with personally send their kids to Jefferson-Houston over Brooks. There is a lot of turnover with principals in ACPS in general. Focus on the classroom teachers and the school communities. You sound like a person who values people from all different backgrounds. The hardest thing for me is explaining to my elementary aged students why we have so much and other classmates have so little. It is a hard lesson and something they are beginning to understand and see. It is sad to me that ACPS and the city cannot do more to help. Education is the great equalizer. My parents grew up in public housing. My grandparents worked in factories and dropped out in fifth grade. My mom and dad were the first in their family to graduate middle school, let alone HS and college. My mom has her PhD and my dad graduated from law school. In a city like Alexandria, I'd love to see the elected officials and central office staff put their money where their mouths are and invest more in out of school time and our public schools. I agree with the PTA poster to join the JH specific groups and remember that a lot of trolls on this thread only value diversity when it is diverse people from the same upper middle class or wealthy background.[/quote]

Thank you for speaking up on behalf against the racist people on this site, and on behalf of ACPS parents.  Another JH parent here, and I underscore the sentiment in this post.  Our school 50-60% underserved populations, 30% middle to upper income.  My child learns the world as it because he is in school with the children of our neighborhood.  What is so sad about this forum is so many people from outside Alexandria speak so ill of children, CHILDREN, at our schools in ACPS who need us to uplift communities, not bring it down.  It's the reason we have all left this site for honest, open, transparent discussion on ACPS and moved to the groups where the discussion is respectful and open.  [/quote]

I appreciate your support for this school. But, please be a bit more polite in your reports to me. I am not sure how you can complain that I "allow" certain posts while simultaneously asking me to "clean up" this thread. If I allow the posts, why would I clean them up? The expectation that I will clean up a thread implies that those posts are, in fact, not allowed. The reason you may be confused about this is that you don't seem to understand that neither I, nor anyone else, is capable of reading every post on this website. As such, I frequently have no idea what has been posted unless someone reports it to me. I appreciate your reporting and bringing inappropriate posts to my attention. The willingness of users to do that is extremely important and is greatly appreciated. However, as I said, I don't really need to be talked down to in the reports. 
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But you do have a problem with anti-Alexandria trolls, don't you? Nothing brings out trolling and thinly veiled racism than a post about Alexandria and ACPS in particular. [/quote]

The biggest Alexandria-related troll is not exactly anti-Alexandria. He lives in Del Ray. He is one of the most racist posters on the site. I am constantly trying to block him and remove his posts.

Then there are a bunch of posters who seem to get angry about any post that criticizes Alexandria. But most areas seem to have such posters. There is a poster who is convinced that McLean is constantly being singled out for unfair treatment. DC itself is subject to lots of trolling. It just seems worse to you because it is your ox being gored. 
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I don't understand why so many posts here were removed. I am posting from 3 blocks from JH. I live here. I am posting from personal experience. I am not a racists (I don't post racist stuff). I don't get it. It's like we can't have a candid, real discussion about ACPS on this website. No one wins with that, especially the kids. [/quote]

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