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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The one and only high school makes no sense. Why can't there be two or three. Take the minnie Howard campus and make it it's own stand alone high school. That would make much more sense.[/quote]

Because having even a second high school would be racist. Equity trumps all. If we go down, we all go down together (except if you’re white with rich parents and you’re in honors classes which you only sign up for, you’re not placed in them). [/quote]

The argument that a second high school would be racist does not make sense. It's as if there is no control over districting or busing. And the current single high school and GW (I don't know about Hammond or Jeff Houston) are completely segregated because of honors classes...sure looks like racism to me.

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I agree it doesn't make sense, but for the same reason ACPS does not buy into TJ to allow City resident kids the opportunity to attend our regional governor's school, the argument is that if there is a second or third high school, it would cause a brain drain where by neighborhood it is assumed some schools would have richer kids, with more involved parents, and better test scores and better schools, vs other high schools so that's racist. I mean, you can make that argument for the elementary schools as well, but having districts for different high schools could result in one school having an abnormally large number of FARM kids (oh no, I'm not saying that is bad or good one way or another), like a Jeff Houston vs Lyles Crouch.

You must be new hear if this argument doesn't make sense to you or if you haven't heard it before. I have been living in Alexandria since the 90s, have been a parent since the 2000s. I have seen the city build an entirely new high school (among other things), talk a lot about a second high school, and they've done nothing. Not a damn thing. Population has exploded. If they claim there is no room, that's bologna. They could have built one at Landmark. But hey, what's not to love about having one high school, the largest in the entire state, where someone died last year and the year before a senior was arrested for murdering two people, among other things.[/quote]

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