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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Shutdown, not the pandemic. Normal places didn’t close schools for years.[/quote]

True. ACPS was far behind even Fairfax, Arlington and Loudon. It was the one school board meeting where one school board member (Ramee Gentry) said Hutchings and the consultant's work was unacceptable. Her voice was shaking and she was obviously scared to go up against him but she did it.

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It’s even more damning when you consider the amount of time, attention, and performance by everyone on renaming the high school compared to, you know, actually reopening it.[/quote]

Alexandria City government cares far more about virtue signaling than about actually making things better. [/quote]

And same with the citizens who elect them. [/quote]

I voted against all these people. Unfortunately most city residents will just vote for anyone who has a D next to their name, even if their policies are driving the city into the ground. [/quote]

It’s so unipolar the primaries in supposedly non partisan offices are the election.

Or they don’t bother to hold an election because no one else is running. Or like for mayor that wasn’t really a an election.

(D)emocracy.[/quote]

Lol, then take your whiny GOP butt and run for office! Since Alexandria is obviously a secret right-wing city being held hostage by Dems, you should EASILY win every election you enter!

Anyway, cry harder.[/quote]

No, not like that. Just more complaining and more of the same. [/quote]

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