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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unlike most of this country, [b]but acceptable to this region[/b], ACPS was closed for a year.

Someone mentioned renaming. The Board and Superintendent spent more public time and held more meetings on that political theater, and chance to be on the record, than actually reopening them.[/quote]

It never ceases to amaze what Alexandria parents accept. Including a superintendent who was more concerned with writing a book (and using ACPS to lay the public ground work for it with his co-author via school renaming) than finding a way to get special ed kids or any kids back in schools.

I'm less concerned with the renaming (TC was LONG overdue - another thing Alexandria parents tolerated until it became unfashionable to defend using the bigot's name on the high school) than with the process of renaming. Hutchings and his co-author, Douglas Reed, held 10 events via ACPS to discuss the renaming. [b]In the middle of the schools being shut down. [/b]

There are still unanswered questions about if Reed was paid for his considerable time at those events and what ACPS resources were used to produce his and Hutchings book.

And for the person defending Hutchings for putting his kid in a private school...I don't have a problem with a parent moving a struggling kid. I heard him mention her tanking grades at a school board meeting (as a parent I was shocked that he'd share this information publicly) and I've heard the bullying stories too. The reason doesn't matter to me.

What DOES matter is that Hutchings put his struggling kid in private school and then publicly shamed parents for keeping their kids IN the public schools but setting up learning pods. He said they were privileged and that they would be responsible for learning gaps. An apology for the hypocritical name calling would have been nice.

But he's still at ACPS and parents just elected a new slate of school board members who aren't willing to ask questions and demand transparency.

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