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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Am I the only one who doesn’t think Old Town is so great?  Being genuine.  Tourist trap.  Bad restaurants.  Avoid.[/quote]

No, you’re not the only one.  I’m completely flabbergasted by all the “we can’t imagine living anywhere else in the US, or world, but Old Town!” posts.[/quote]

I am not sure there have been I can’t imagine living anywhere but Old Town posts.  I think there have been posts defending Old Town as a place to live despite ACPS being a poorly functioning school system.  [/quote]

Clarification that no one in Old Town are the ACPS apologists and deniers.

That’s elsewhere in the city like Del Ray. Also on council, school board, the police chief.[/quote]

Actually plenty of Old Town residents are apologists and deniers. There is a substantial portion of UMC white Lyles Crouch parents that are gun ho on ACPS and, believe me, will pull out the racism card if you dare to suggest alternatives to the failing GWMS. [/quote]

Maybe at one time but that has not been our experience in the last several years. Lyles Crouch lost something like 100 students during the pandemic. It has rebounded somewhat but not fully to where it was pre-pandemic. Many of my kids' classmates went private/parochial and did not return, and there is even more attrition from ACPS going from 5th grade at LC to middle school. [/quote]

It's my experience that many of the ones who stayed are the apologists we speak of. There are many UMC white parents (as described by another PP) who feel morally superior for keeping their kids at LCTA. These are the ones that are the problem. [/quote]

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