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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We need city council members to have children in the schools as well. I actually think that's more important as they are the ones approving all the decisions (ex. land, sros) and the budget.[/quote]

We do have CC members with kids in the schools. It doesn't change their positions on these issues. They believe in no policing in the schools. And Chapman is a bio teacher in Fairfax...he is still against SROs and the weapons screening. This is what they believe is right.

Also - when are those weapons screeners going into place? I thought the timeline was early May. [/quote]

There are only 2 CC members with children in the schools. Chapman may be a teacher for a different district, but he doesn't have kids in the ACPS schools. 
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His child is too young for ACPS but I believe he intends to send him when he’s old enough [/quote]

I wouldn't bet on that. He attended a local private school as a kid. Also, he's not a teacher--he has an admin type job.[/quote]
He attended ACPS until upper school when he got a scholarship to a local k-12. He grew up in the berg in old town. He has said he intends to send his son to ACPS[/quote]

Interesting. Last weekend, he (and Wilson) were apparently confused that there needs to be another high school. Chapman apparently cited having two football teams as a major concern and barrier to having two high schools.[/quote]

Are these guys really that dense and clueless? Having a second high school would give so many more kids a chance to participate in sports, clubs, performing arts, and other extracurriculars.  Additional opportunities for involvement would likely alleviate at least some of the behavioral challenges of the one high school model.[/quote]

For YEARS all the supposedly left wing parents in my neighborhood ran around saying that you couldn't rename TC Willams because that name "really meant something" and the name of the football team was so important. Just a few years ago TC Williams' racist, bigoted past didn't matter to these people because...football. They said these things. And argued with me when I pointed out the TC Williams was a terrible racist.

And now the safety and well being of the ACHS students doesn't matter because...football.  Maybe Chapman will see the light in 10 years just like those people who all suddenly pushed for renaming the school when it became fashionable and so their little darlings had something to write about in their college essays.

Wilson isn't particularly bright but he isn't that dumb. That's just his standard default when challenged. "Huh?"

Chapman, who actually grew up here and owns a small business here, allows himself to carry Wilson's water. [/quote]

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