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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you explain why parents would be cancelled for advocating for thier children's safety? It sounds like everyone on this board wants more high schools and has good ideas. What would be wrong with getting some yard signs made and lobbying for these good ideas?

I for one do not want to have to move or find money for private school when my child reaches high school age. No parents should have to worry about thier child being in the wrong place at the wrong time in that giant high school. Not to mention how the students must be feeling  knowing that a classmate was murdered in the middle of the school day![/quote]

I've found that it's the Alexandria way. There are a lot of reasons. If you advocate or even gently criticize ACPS (or the Mayor/Council), parents will quickly turn on you. This is the culture.

There is a reason you don't see any parent engagement at school board meetings. People know that their kids will be bullied, or they won't get invited to the neighborhood BBQ, your kids won't get a spot on a sports team.

Part of this is because they are invested. They don't want their property values to decline so it's best to keep quiet and pretend that the school sysstem is fine. If you can get your kids out of ACHS unscathed, they have a better chance of getting into a "good college" than if they go to a private. While this benefits mostly white upper middle class families...everyone else gets screwed.

There is also a bizarre reverence for local government officials in this town. It's very very strange and the effects are sickening.

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