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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what Alexandrians voted for. This is what the city wants.

I don't understand the problem. [/quote]

Exactly, and no elections have even been close.  Everything is great except for a few people on these forums.[/quote]

Yup. This is what your all voted for over years and years.  Why are you complaining now?

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I hear you PPs but this is an oversimplification. Did "we" (Democrats) of Alexandria technically vote for "this?" I guess so yes, in that we voted D. But what was the alternative? Vote R and end up with a government that cares even less about public schools? Many liberals are mad as hell at our city government and school board. We want safety and accountability, too, you know.[/quote]

School board elections are non-partisan. There is no primary. The school board has changed over many times since I moved here and nothing really changes. I just don't think an independent school board made up of volunteers (it is an unpaid position that requires enormous time commitment) is a successful model. There are never enough candidates, so really the voters don't have any choice.[/quote]

For background, I have a 6th grader at GWMS. She has enjoyed her year there, but almost every day there is a fight in the cafeteria. She and a couple of her friends are afraid to go into the bathrooms because older kids will frequently skip class to hang out there. There has been a student she knows beaten up at least three times over the course of the year.
 
Previously, she had been at JH, where there were class disruptions every single day. Her teachers spent a majority of time trying to rein in the students; very little learning was going on. When there was an outcry regarding these disruptions one year, Hutchings did nothing. There was a lot of lip service from the school board, but essentially, nothing happened. Parents I knew either moved out of the neighborhood or requested transfers out.

Any alternative is better than continuing to vote 'D' and seeing nothing change and the complaints growing louder. And hearing your excuse that voting 'R' would be worse is infuriating. Nothing is worse than what we have now.[/quote]

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