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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But it's such a small population. That's what I don't understand about JH. If it was a "test only" honors school, people would flock. I don't understand why it doesn't do this sort of pilot program, like AAP.[/quote]

[b]Because that's not the population the school district believes it serves[/b].[/quote]

This is true. Unbelievable. I have heard one current ACPS school board member expound on this exact topic "whom we serve" for hours to his peers, always pulling the race demography card right before a pivotal vote! Never have I seen nor heard a public school board and [b]public school system short change vociferously the middle and upper middle kids like they do here in Alexandria City.[/b] No wonder so many kids here go to private here: who wants to go to ACPS where they embrace whom they will serve and not the others.
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No, they actually short change vociferously the lower income kids; thus, those kids never stand a real chance at getting a decent education. The low expectations and the presumption that non-white kids can not do advanced academic work and then worse imparting that to the kids directly is the biggest shame.

Several of the School Board members have no kids.  That's problem #1.  [/quote]

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