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I think you have touched on something, your older kids went through a different school system than your younger one is in. Education has changed a lot in a decade. [/quote]

Yup.  ACPS has never been spectacular, but (1) some of the individual Elementaries were very good, and (2) a student with strong support could go through the ACPS system and do very well.  That's simply no longer the case.  There is not a single good Elementary in Alexandria, and the Middles are in horribly rough shape.  The former TC is mismanaged and the two-campus system doesn't;t work in the slightest.  But if ACPS sets up two fully separate high schools, only one will have all the academic sweeteners (full roster of AP courses, an active HS newspaper, etc) - the School Board has indicated as much for years.

ACPS is completely busted.  Nothing will bring it back.  Literally no one with any authority cares.  That's all.  
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Would you say even schools like Lyles-Crouch and Brooks aren’t good? They seem to be more highly regarded and even got good scores from the accountability system.[/quote]

I'd say they are OK but not good.  They're both failing with comments, BTW.  Neither had a good score.  And they feed into ACPS middles, which are disasters.  
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In the latest they did, Lyles was Distinguished and Brooks was On Track. The accreditation is separate and all of ACPS got tanked because they didn’t fill it out correctly (which is telling).[/quote]

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