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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not denying generational poverty in Alexandria City Public Schools, a school district with all of 14,500 kids in it. I'm calling out adults for blaming the kids, and labeling them by the color of their skin.

Our City is not that big that the failure of Jefferson Houston should not have been dealt with in a more effective manner.

-Why did the School Board wait so long from 1999 to embrace redistricting when it would help a school like JH and PH? 
-Why did the highly paid school administrators not do better, truly earn those $250K salaries plus third again plus in benefits? 
-Why has it taken our City Council so long to work on integrating affordable housing around the City? 
-And why turn down VDOE help with Jefferson Houston? Will ACPS turn VDOE down again if JH is not accredited in 2015 (which will be known by Fall, 2015)?

It's not the black kids from nearby projects who have failed. I have lived here 30 years. It's us, me and you and our elected leaders who have failed. ACPS is small by most standards: 14,500 students.[b] Not 70K something of Fairfax County [/b]nor 122K or more in Maryland. Let's get real.[/quote]

Fairfax County Public Schools have 180K students (not 70K)[/quote]

Thank you for that correction. Montgomery County, MD correct number is 154,000 students enrolled. So 14,500 ACPS students is not even 1/10th then total student enrollment number of these two local school systems. Yet we do struggle.[/quote]

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