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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Alexandria needs more highschools! This is all so awful. A hard working teen was murdered in the needle is the school day by another student. There's no evidence of gangs. So I wish everyone would quit using that line as a scapegoat. They school in is chaotic because it's too large and has students running around town unsupervised to other campuses. This shopping center is right in the middle.  ACPS is now turning Alexandria's one high school into basically a jail with all these security or measures. Really if you were unsure about the high school before now how could you fathom sending your kid there if you had options and that is why people move out of the city. Alexandria has thier priorities so wrong.[/quote]

Alexandrians find the idea of a second high school to be racist so would rather have a prison high school than build another [/quote]

The concern is that two high schools with the student populations determined using on geographic boundaries, like the school system's current two largest middle schools are, will result in one school that is predominately middle class and white, and a second school that is poor and people of color.  This doesn't seem to worry you, PP, but I find it concerning.[/quote]

Not the PP but this segregated structure apparently already exists at ACHS. I routinely hear from white UMC parents that their kids are in a separate part of the building and therefore never see (or rarely see) the violence. I find this concerning and problematic.

And there are solutions - creative districting, busing come to mind. The current system of one high school isn't working but you can't just say solutions will be racist and throw up your hands. Especially when the current system is segregated and racist too.

What are your solutions? [/quote]

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