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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an ACPS parent with kids at Brooks. I have friends that send their kids to Jefferson-Houston and friends that teach there. You will hear the same issues in all of ACPS. Frankly, the sad issue is that our city has a concentration of children in high poverty. Brooks has the same thing too, from the public housing. Jefferson-Houston's stats are pretty much the same. I know parents from all different backgrounds who go there and they have the same experience that we have in ACPS. It is really hard to judge on statistics for students whose basic needs like food, clothing, and shelter aren't being met. For what it's worth, three families in Rosemont that I am friends with personally send their kids to Jefferson-Houston over Brooks. There is a lot of turnover with principals in ACPS in general. Focus on the classroom teachers and the school communities. You sound like a person who values people from all different backgrounds. The hardest thing for me is explaining to my elementary aged students why we have so much and other classmates have so little. It is a hard lesson and something they are beginning to understand and see. It is sad to me that ACPS and the city cannot do more to help. Education is the great equalizer. My parents grew up in public housing. My grandparents worked in factories and dropped out in fifth grade. My mom and dad were the first in their family to graduate middle school, let alone HS and college. My mom has her PhD and my dad graduated from law school. In a city like Alexandria, I'd love to see the elected officials and central office staff put their money where their mouths are and invest more in out of school time and our public schools. I agree with the PTA poster to join the JH specific groups and remember that a lot of trolls on this thread only value diversity when it is diverse people from the same upper middle class or wealthy background.[/quote]

Thank you for speaking up on behalf against the racist people on this site, and on behalf of ACPS parents.  Another JH parent here, and I underscore the sentiment in this post.  Our school 50-60% underserved populations, 30% middle to upper income.  My child learns the world as it because he is in school with the children of our neighborhood.  What is so sad about this forum is so many people from outside Alexandria speak so ill of children, CHILDREN, at our schools in ACPS who need us to uplift communities, not bring it down.  It's the reason we have all left this site for honest, open, transparent discussion on ACPS and moved to the groups where the discussion is respectful and open.  [/quote]

I appreciate your support for this school. But, please be a bit more polite in your reports to me. I am not sure how you can complain that I "allow" certain posts while simultaneously asking me to "clean up" this thread. If I allow the posts, why would I clean them up? The expectation that I will clean up a thread implies that those posts are, in fact, not allowed. The reason you may be confused about this is that you don't seem to understand that neither I, nor anyone else, is capable of reading every post on this website. As such, I frequently have no idea what has been posted unless someone reports it to me. I appreciate your reporting and bringing inappropriate posts to my attention. The willingness of users to do that is extremely important and is greatly appreciated. However, as I said, I don't really need to be talked down to in the reports. 
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But you do have a problem with anti-Alexandria trolls, don't you? Nothing brings out trolling and thinly veiled racism than a post about Alexandria and ACPS in particular. [/quote]

Unless you are privy to Jeff's servers, you have not a clue who is 'troll' or who isn't from Alexandria. I am from Alexandria and I have 3 kids in ACPS. I know all about JH. Claiming that anyone not interested in sending their kid to an unacccredited (or jerry rigged accredited) school, or one with [b]astronomical FARMS rates[/b] is racist is simply..... BS. We all want what is best for our child and that includes [b]surrounding my kids with positive influences.[[/b][/quote]

Poor kids aren't positive influences? [/quote]

Not if they are borderline illiterate and threatening to "put a cap in yo ass", both of which are reality at JH. I have seen it first hand on the playground there and have heard reports from teachers in the building.[/quote]

You're conflating behavioral issues with poverty. And you're about over the line on racism with the way you're talking about it. [/quote]

I'm not conflating anything. I'm sharing first hand accounts that apparently upset you enough that you're resorting to name calling. [b]JH will never change so long as it pulls from the neighborhood with the shots fired calls.[/b][/quote]

Let's make this explicit: you're saying that poor black children in neighborhoods with crime shouldn't attend schools with UMC white children. [/quote]

That's not me you are quoting, but let me take this oppurtinity to be absolutely clear about how completely batsh*t crazy you are to have that takeaway. Than you for letting us all know to disreagrd your posts.[/quote]

PP literally said the school won't improve until it changes it's demographics to exclude a certain element. [/quote]

PP said it won't change until the school stops pulling kids from the neighborhood with the most shots fired calls.

Nary a demographic nor a race mentioned.

This just kills you, doesn't it. :lol:  :lol:  :lol: [/quote]

ACPS tried this to some extent when they districted the housing development across the street from the Braddock Metro that has so much gun violence they had those huge mobile cameras installed on 4 streets for Brooks instead of JH (which is much closer). It would just be too many kids from ARHA developments (and these are not one demographic). My son was good friends with a kid that lived over there and I hated whenever I had to drop him off at home knowing all the things he heard and saw there (he would tell us). And Brooks didn’t really help him either. He would tell me how much school he would skip (esp during zoom school) but they don’t fail kids there so he thought it was so funny how he kept passing each grade. Great, nice, funny kid in a real $hit situation. ACPS 101. [/quote]

When did this redistricting happen? I wish Alexandria city council would quit it with public housing.[/quote]

I believe that redistricting was at least 15 years ago.

I guess you don’t believe in the concept of ensuring everyone has decent housing.[/quote]

Not even half that. It was seven years ago (2017) and the process lingered for a year and a half. Essentially nothing changed except they drew more kids from the ARHA housing (projects) into Maury (now Brooks) and they publically proclaimed they would cease all admin transfers out of JH. But, privately, they granted every single one.[/quote]

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