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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, not interested in moving. Our jobs are both DC based. We are not interested in private schools and I am not sure why that is always the "solution". [/quote]

Bless your heart.[/quote]

It's the solution because there is no alternative. Alexandrians would rather pretend the schools are good, than demand that the schools actually be good. Then it doesn't make their cocktail parties and scholarship fundraisers awkward.

I banged my head against the ACPS wall for years. Nothing changes. Save yourself the frustration and the trouble of your neighbors vilifying you and insulting responses from School Board members (if you get any response).

Stay but know that you'll have to teach the fundamentals at home or leave and get a proper education for your kid(s).

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I am PP you're replying to, and I agree 100% with what you said. I said bless your heart to the OP who thinks no one moves or that no one should go private. We were in Jeff Houston, then moved to Brooks/Maury and now are in private. I don't know anyone who sends their kids to Brooks anymore it's gone way downhill. My kids are now in HS. But I remember getting all that grief for going private, from certain ACPS cheerleaders and can do no wrong holier than thou people (including those who pushed for the lights at ACHS, which I agree is a good thing), and now those people even send their kids to private. How the mighty have fallen.

I've lived in Alexandria since the 90s, nothing has gotten better. People either move to Fairfax, Arlington, or out of state. They just do. I wish it wasn't the case.[/quote]

[b]Wow, if you sent your kids to Jeff Houston then you were really committed to public schools regardless of a school's rank.[/b] Very interesting to me how Alexandria could utilize these parents to create a world class school district but instead take the whole system in a.... completely different direction.[/quote]

The same can be said for people keeping their kids at Barrett, George Mason and MVCC. Those all perform lower than J-H when it comes to economically disadvantaged kids (the real mark of how a school is doing) and are often thought of as the "better" schools in ACPS.

Agree with you completely that Alexandria could be an amazing school district if parents stopped pretending and faced reality. It's small and well funded and is currently swimming in 54 million in COVID cash. If the parents and ACPS really believed in equity, they'd be demanding that all the schools move to the Lyles Crouch traditional model. Instead they accept failure, disgusting school buildings and a School Board that doesn't demand better of central office. People here talk a good game but they are so meek. [/quote]

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