I don't think they treat their teachers well, with what is happening with the encore teachers, and the past issue with pay freezes leading to lower salaries for veteran teachers.

The "all schools accredited" banners and celebration were so embarrassing. especially knowing that standards were dramatically dropped by Northam to get ACPS to make it .

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Anonymous wrote:A friend's child got an offer from ACPS for a teaching position. I told them everything and showed them the videos of the violent fights in the schools. They ran.

Thats really dumb of you - could be so much worse and they pay pretty well.

Who wants to work for a school system described as, "could be so much worse ."
Certainly not a highly qualified teacher.

The district motto “all schools accredited” describes the mediocrity and disingenuousness.

Jefferson-Houston was unaccredited for years, and would still be if the standards weren’t lowered.

Paradoxically ACHS would also probably lose accreditation, currently conditional because of racial performance gaps, if it weren’t the city’s only high school.

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Anonymous wrote:A friend's child got an offer from ACPS for a teaching position. I told them everything and showed them the videos of the violent fights in the schools. They ran.

Thats really dumb of you - could be so much worse and they pay pretty well.

Who wants to work for a school system described as, "could be so much worse ."
Certainly not a highly qualified teacher.

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Anonymous wrote:A friend's child got an offer from ACPS for a teaching position. I told them everything and showed them the videos of the violent fights in the schools. They ran.

Thats really dumb of you - could be so much worse and they pay pretty well.

Nah, didn't want to see them get stabbed by a gang member.

Approved by the Diversity (Segregation) and Inclusion (Exclusion) Commissar.

The strengths of Alexandria are it's old, accessible by public transit, and close to D.C.

It's not "diversity", or more "diversity", or something, something "diversity", which apart from colored faces, most of the businesses and neighborhood they showed were white or white owned.

Teach for America feeds into DCPS, PGCPS, and ACPS. That's the competition and target audience.

New recruits are young teachers (TFA or otherwise), trying to fill last minute shortfalls. They want to know they can drink themselves blind ("have fun"), on the cheap, hook up ("meet people") after school closes and take public transit home (probably not Alexandria though).

This video doesn't even just make up stuff you can't prove one way or the other, like how much Alexandria, the district, and school board "care" about its teachers. Or play up the "mission" of teaching at risk whoever and urban in a small town feel.

The video says they’re only 4 neighborhoods in Alexandria. So I stopped listening.

Anonymous wrote:All I can say is I wonder how much this cost? https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=2026738734352447

And ACPS needs to treat their actual employees better and focus on retention rather than churning through staff.

My first thought was wondering how much it cost, too. Those monthly supe's spotlight videos or whatever they're called cost way more than I ever would have thought.

Anonymous wrote:A friend's child got an offer from ACPS for a teaching position. I told them everything and showed them the videos of the violent fights in the schools. They ran.

Thats really dumb of you - could be so much worse and they pay pretty well.

A friend's child got an offer from ACPS for a teaching position. I told them everything and showed them the videos of the violent fights in the schools. They ran.

It’s not very good, so, hopefully, it didn’t cost much! Also, if any prospective teachers research ACPS and crime, or talk to parents, they’ll apply elsewhere instead!

All I can say is I wonder how much this cost? https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=2026738734352447

And ACPS needs to treat their actual employees better and focus on retention rather than churning through staff.