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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]So, for those families who bought a home in-bounds for JH, your choice is clear. Pay for private, move, or work with parents already at JH to improve the school.[/quote]

JH has started offering some nice afterschool programs, which is a good thing.  But the reason JH isn't performing well is not that it has bad teachers, guidance counselors, or a bad facility - it's because many of its students have a lack of support at home, and are facing huge obstacles outside of school.  That's something that parents of other students can do some small amount to change (e.g., blessings in a backpack to send food home) but don't have that much control over.[/quote]

Actually the reason kids aren't preforming well is poor teaching methods and lack of any consistency in teaching core subject.

for example, last year they had outside consultants from UVA review their reading program and the report was terrible.  I mean really bad. It even said the school reading specialist didn't know exactly what their role was.  And decent reading instruction depended entirely on the teacher a kid got.

I believe they also had an audit for math a few years back.

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The good news is that the principal is leaving at the end of the year. Maybe, just maybe, ACPS can find an outstanding principal who the teachers don't despise, and who will stick around for the long term.[/quote]

We're also getting a new ACPS superintendent who has elementary-age children, and said he was hoping to live in Old Town. If his kids end up attending Jefferson-Houston it would send a powerful message to everyone to get their act together. [/quote]

You must be new. Old Town kids attend LC, unless, theyre black and from the 'scary' north end.[/quote]

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