Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I actually think one of the biggest mistakes the school board made in recent years was voting to keep one high school rather than opening a second. ACHS is already busting at the seams with over 4,000 students enrolled and projected to grow more in the next decade, leading to major overcrowding. Having two schools with 2,000 students at each would fix a lot of issues in the long-run.

This! My kids were in 1st and 4th when I supported maintaining the one HS. Now that they are older, I think that it was a mistake. I guess the only area for a second HS would be Eisenhower Avenue area or over by Landmark? I think having a HS that is as big as ACHS creates a lot of issues. It is the size of a small city.

just curious - when your kids were younger - why did you support only one high school?

Because I wasn't aware of how crowded the HS was and the issues at the HS level due to overcrowding and managing a student population the size of a college or small city.

Anonymous wrote:I actually think one of the biggest mistakes the school board made in recent years was voting to keep one high school rather than opening a second. ACHS is already busting at the seams with over 4,000 students enrolled and projected to grow more in the next decade, leading to major overcrowding. Having two schools with 2,000 students at each would fix a lot of issues in the long-run.

Agreed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I actually think one of the biggest mistakes the school board made in recent years was voting to keep one high school rather than opening a second. ACHS is already busting at the seams with over 4,000 students enrolled and projected to grow more in the next decade, leading to major overcrowding. Having two schools with 2,000 students at each would fix a lot of issues in the long-run.

This! My kids were in 1st and 4th when I supported maintaining the one HS. Now that they are older, I think that it was a mistake. I guess the only area for a second HS would be Eisenhower Avenue area or over by Landmark? I think having a HS that is as big as ACHS creates a lot of issues. It is the size of a small city.

just curious - when your kids were younger - why did you support only one high school?

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Who in the school is supposed to physically step in to break up physical attacks, possibly involving weapons?

Have there be any fights in the schools involving weapons, since SROs left? I'm not aware of any. How about unarmed security guards, in that case, just like my public high school in Brooklyn had.

Ok so you are suggesting they wait until someone brings a weapon to school and uses it? Is that about the time you would care? White parents don't care about fighting and this shooting because they think their kids are "too smart" and know better to stay away from "those kind" of kids. Really this is what I have had parents tell me. So I guess until it impacts them, they will just keep downplaying the issue. But as soon as it impacts them omg, watch out....

Anonymous wrote:1) Hutchings MUST go.

2) SROs MUST return.

3) Focus must return to education NOT equity.

4) To educate, schools must be safe from physical violence and open.

The mayor and council are worse than Hutchings. And he’s terrible.

I think it's cute that people think that a fight only happens when there are no SROs.

No one ever breaks the law because police departments exist.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Who in the school is supposed to physically step in to break up physical attacks, possibly involving weapons?

Have there be any fights in the schools involving weapons, since SROs left? I'm not aware of any. How about unarmed security guards, in that case, just like my public high school in Brooklyn had.

Which ACHS school and other ACPS schools do have (including elementary schools that never had SROs)

Exactly, there are already security guards, which people seem to conveniently forget in their persistent push for SROs.

There is an entire ACPS Office of Safety and Security.

Hell of a job they're doing!