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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an ACPS parent, I try to be supportive, but I'm sick of the school leaders trying to blow smoke up the community's arse.

The press releases claims 331 students from TC Williams are college bound, then offers a list that purports to show where kids will be going to college.   Add up all those numbers and it would total +770 kids...

Either the 331 number is wrong, or this list shows college acceptances, not college attendance.  Which would mean that a small number of impressive kids are being counted multiple times for every place where they were accepted.

VDOE's data from Fall showed a senior class of 753 at TC Williams.  If only 331 of those seniors are going on to pursue any post-HS education at either a 2 or 4 year college, then TC Williams deserves every bit of its poor reputation.   What about the other 422 seniors?  Dropouts?  Flipping burgers next year?  
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I am ashamed at the poor results my school district achieves, despite the ridiculously high levels of spending.  Yet all our leadership seems to care about is tearing down school buildings to build shiny brand new ones, without addressing the continuing failures to actually educate kids.[/i]

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+100. ACPS and City Council must think Alexandrian's are easily fooled but vast numbers of City residents see through their smoke screen that ACPS is a good school system by any accounting. For decades, Alexandria City School Board and City Council powers that be said they'd get it together and look were they left we residents: with a 1.5 Billion ACPS Capitol Improvement Program for build and repair of many schools and objectivity, with one of the lowest quality public school systems in Virginia (see VDOE, the objective Virginia agency responsible for school assessments and ratings so folks can judge for their children).

We need an independent audit to find out just where our Alexandria taxpayer money went over the last 20 years in ACPS. The Council and ACPS have a fiduciary duty to we taxpayers. We're not talking peanuts here.

Thank you for your post pp. Truth reigns eternal to most of us and the truth is clear about ACPS. Let's see if our ethical City Council and ACPS school board start anew by putting a greater proportion of money to academics and modest buildings rather than to all the great numbers of sponsored peripheral activities the ACPS School Board and Superintendent insists are needed for "whole student education". Athletics, drama, bands, etc, while popular, isn't their job. Education of math, reading, writing, science, history is so these kids can go out and make something of themselves.

Money doesn't grow on Trees, City Council and Alexandria City School Board. Be more fiduciary responsible! The U.S. economy, state and local economy is fragile.[/quote]

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