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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ACPS really need to reconsider this “connected high school” thing and look at a two school model (divided by grades or education tracks/programs). Shuttling that many kids on a daily basis is a wild approach and this appears to be a failed experiment! They are contorting themselves by insisting on one high school. Nowhere else in the country have I heard of a school board refusing to add additional high schools when the need so clearly arises ([b]it should have been done decades ago[/b] in Alexandria City).[/quote]

“Decades ago” Alexandria had three high schools: GW, Hammond, and TC. The consolidation of the schools (then segregated along neighborhood and thus racial lines) into one high school with both Black and White students was memorialized in the blockbuster movie Remember the Titan some 25 years ago.

Sports are still big in Alexandria and the city probably wanted to honor the legacy of the movie, hence the one high school approach going forward. [/quote]

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