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[b]ACPS is not going to improve just because you decided to move to Alexandria City from Arlington or Fairfax[/b].  The schools will continue to discourage many people from living or staying here.

But it does seem you've gone full circle, from criticizing a poster for referring to low-income students to the "masses" to predicting the displacement of those in below market-rate units with barely disguised glee.   Not surprised.     [/quote]

I do not expect ACPS to improve because I moved here, and I never said so. I believe the CITY will improve over time as many people move here.   ACPS may improve if the city makes wise use of the (eventually) growing resources it has.   I do not have enough familiarity the school board etc to say if it will manage things wisely. I am not willing to judge it by a Superintendant who was fired.   Nor am I convinced by people who claim the problem is focus on the poor - especiually when they try to conflate this with the issue of the profoundly gifted.

Also a prediction is just that, a prediction. I predict that people will day of Ebola in African tomorrow. That does not mean I approve.   There ARE going to be fewer poor people in the Beauregard corridor.    That will have advantages and disadvantages for both the City, and the poor people who leave.  I personally do not think it is feasible or wise for  Alexandria to attempt to use public policy to preserve 100% of the affordable house (guaranteed and market rate) that now exists. I do think they should do as they are doing, which is to attempt to retain some affordable housing in the face of market forces that make that difficult.

Which of course does not at all contradict that I find it troubling when people evince an opposition to using resources to improve education to the poor/.  As for the term"the masses" I think it is an attempt to conflate the SES issue, with the giftedness issue.   Once again, not all high SES children are gifted.  Not all above average performers are gifted.  Giftedness is a different way of learning, that needs a different way of teaching.  In Fairfax far too many people DO think of giftedness as equal to above average performance.   I think that can be as harmful to the genuinely gifted as the neglect it is claimed the gifted get in Alexandria.  [/quote]

Either you're kidding or you just like to hear yourself talk.  [/quote]

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