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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If kids in the Bronx or South Central can walk between campuses or from neighborhoods to/from schools, I find it shocking that Alexandrians can’t. DCPS even has open campus at the high schools and while there are occasional incidents, you never hear about them.

Perhaps ACPS should’ve just built another separate high school with a 3,000 student max capacity if a substantial minority of the students are so violent and unruly, as reported by other commenters here. I’m sure that’s been talked about ad nauseum.

Or maybe the new building could become a lower school campus for grades 9-10. (Of course that would likely waste the money and effort put into the current model.)[/quote]

I'm not sure how facetious your comments are and for which of your statements. Did you ever visit the Bradlee McDonald's before or after the stabbing? I was there regularly with my kids until we stopped going. Some days it was similar to the opening scene of the movie "Lean on Me" when "Welcome to the Jungle" is playing. Literally people cursing and shouting the n-word across the restaurant, which was standing room only with dozens of kids. Some pushing and groveling going on as well. And it seemed like a fair number of kids were just hanging out and not ordering anything. Management is surely some of the blame for the brawl because customers did complain about the loitering and general chaos. Now it's 100x better with the visible police presence but kids are still getting in trouble in the Bradlee parking lot occasionally. And kids are loitering in the Safeway parking lot now and their management isn't doing anything. [/quote]

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