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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problems with ACHS all stem from one problem: It's too big. 4,200 high school students is too many to effectively teach, let alone build a functioning school community around. Not enough space, teams, clubs, college counselors - nothing! The only way to make ACHS a significantly better place to learn is to open a new school.[/quote]

I actually went to a 6000 person high school that had similar demographics to ACHS. My senior class had 1500 kids in it. The difference is that we were all kept on a very short leash. We had a campus with multiple buildings that we went between but caught outside between classes and punishment was dealt out. Of course we hated it and felt we were in a “prison” where no one trusted us. We had two credible bomb threats while I was there and the students who called them in were prosecuted.

It’s time to start following through with discipline. [/quote]

Following through on discipline? What is this.... the 90's??[/quote]

I think what the PP meant is it’s time to institute discipline. Why can’t we get back to punishing students? Heck I’m not that old (Graduated high school in 2008) and I had a minor infraction and I had to write a paper and present it to a subset of the admin. They were going to not let me walk at graduation. [/quote]

Do you think that the kids who are stabbing others in the face at dismissal, raping, shooting fellow students in the chest and stabbing and murdering others are really going to care if they have to write a paper or not walk at graduation?

ACPS lost control a long time ago and they don't seem interested in getting it back.  [/quote]

And those are obviously not minor infractions. I think all those kids should be removed from their current educational environment. Does ACHS not do that? [/quote]

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