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[quote=Anonymous]JH parent here. Everyone that makes assumptions about public housing, if you aren’t at the school and don’t know the families, you don’t have credibility. Yes, ACPS - not just JH has families with tremendous challenges. However there are underserved families who care deeply about their children’s education. The people on this forum who keep painting this picture of JH from how it was a decade ago or even 5 years ago are no longer informed and have not seen its transformation and evolution. JH is a vibrant, wonderful community of families. The parents are all so active and we have awesome events and opportunities for the community to come together. Test scores are reflective of ACPS demographics generally and not a metric to measure broad opinion.  Test scores are also something the district is focusing on across all schools.

There is a lot of misinformation in many of these posts about transfers.  Admin transfers are not allowed and are no longer granted. For a long time, district allowed principals to transfer kids to JH from all over the city. That too has stopped. JH is no only serving the kids who are zoned for JH - Potomac Yard, Old Town North, and Half of Del Ray. Many of the comments about public housing is also incorrect, as much of the public housing has been rebuilt or will be rebuilt into mixed income high rises.

There is a difference between pushing racial tropes and stereotypes and criticizing a school on approach to education. The people that do the first are indeed racist. That’s a fact. Everyone on this forum who, when they visualize or think about people from public housing at an elementary school, if you feel scared or shudder or feel anger, should read How to be an Anti-Racist. If you don’t want to be in a school district thats 50% FARM, fine don’t be, but the fact that you come onto a anonymous public site and fear monger, say things like Run, or speak ill of underserved children of color and their families, that’s what makes you racist, whether you want to see and accept that or not.

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