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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with the advice of talking with current parents but I would suggest making sure to talk to parents beyond the J-H/ACPS cheerleaders.

My special needs child had two stints at J-H (last ending in 2020) and J-H allowed my child to be bullied and exacerbated my child’s difficulties.  I cannot speak about the current principal from first hand knowledge.  Plenty of the concern expressed in posts here about J-H are consistent with our lived experience.[/quote]

I believe you when you say you had a difficult experience four years ago. The timeline was pre pandemic under the previous principal who was let go for that reason. So your experience is outdated and perhaps if you were there now, the administration would handle it differently. The current principal has been the head of school for four years now. The AP has been there for 6.  So while as with all schools with ACPS, there are always parents who didn’t or aren’t having the perfect experience, this is not specific to JH and the point most are making is speak to current and recent parents.  And talk to people who are not anonymous. DCUM is truly the worst place to get constructive feedback on school systems, ACPS or otherwise. You need to know who you’re speaking to and whether that opinion is credible in order to make an informed decision about your child’s education.

To the parent who has issues with sending your child to a school that’s 50% FARM, you’re right, ACPS is not for you. It’s good you chose private, I don’t think we would want you in our community looking down on our underserved families. [/quote]

Do you really think ACPS is doing a good job?  If your DC received a full scholarship to BI, SSSAS, Sidwell, etc. would you keep your child in ACPS (from an adult parent best education perspective)?  I have multiple kids in ACPS, and if we were given the opportunity I would absolutely choose it for my non-HS child.  (HS child is near graduating and immune to the arrests).  If the OP can move somewhere other than their house zoned for JH, I would recommend it for every single FCPS, APS, LCPS school.  Staying within ACPS would be a cost-benefit of the finances.
How are families underserved by ACPS and the City?  What is not being served to those families?  Poverty is horrible.  Children in poverty is even more horrible, but exposure of my kids to poverty and juvenile delinquency is not a requirement to raising them.  They are not better off because they went to an underperforming school that spent most its resources on a population other than my kids - just look at the absolute mess that TAG has become.  ACPS's strategy for equity for all is an unapologetic race to the bottom to equitably fail all students.  [/quote]

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