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Anonymous wrote:I genuinely think that one reason the city & SB want to keep one single HS is for athletics. With a school twice (?) the size of others in NoVa, they’ve got a nice deep bench to pull from.

And yet Alexandria City teams don’t dominate any sports.

Volleyball state champions 2020, 2022. That’s it as far as team sports recently I think.

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Anonymous wrote:Press release all about the new high school by the architect perkins eastman: https://www.perkinseastman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Perkins-Eastman-Press-Release_Alexandria-City-High-School-tops-out.pdf

Why will the highschool have an early childhood center?

its a career thing and also so the moms who are in high school have on site childcare. With teen pregnancy rates dropping - oh its VA so that might change with overturn of R v. W- I dont see why that would be a significant need. I guess they assume the teen pregnancy rates will shoot up again, how sad.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Press release all about the new high school by the architect perkins eastman: https://www.perkinseastman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Perkins-Eastman-Press-Release_Alexandria-City-High-School-tops-out.pdf

Why will the highschool have an early childhood center?

So the girls who have babies can get free childcare and actually finish school and students who won’t go on to college can have career options when they graduate.

Ignorant bigotry.

Early childhood education is also a college degree program.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ironic thing is that Alexandria actually has two public high schools 9-10th and 11-12th.

It’s a failed social experiment that the bleeding hearts don’t want to admit that it didn’t work, but also don’t want to improve the schools or even acknowledge the problem either.

Aren’t the two schools 9th and 10-12?

Yes, that’s what I meant. Although even more confusingly ACPS is doing some reorganization to have both sites support 9-12…so two schools but not really.

I suspect they’ll just codify the internal segregation the school(s) already has/have.

Keeping the same overarching name allows liberals to save face, have their cake, and eat it too.

Yes. Per the CHSN, both sites will be 9-12 and all students will have some classes in the new building.

Anonymous wrote:According to ACPS, the “Connected High School Network or CHSN” and the adopted “Pinwheel Concept” will make the one-high-school-two-campuses work for the benefit of the city.

The majority voted for that so that’s how it’s going to be.

Did the majority of Alexandria actually vote on this? I don't remember seeing this on any sort of referendum. Surely you're not referencing some sort of BS ACPS survey?

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Anonymous wrote:The ironic thing is that Alexandria actually has two public high schools 9-10th and 11-12th.

It’s a failed social experiment that the bleeding hearts don’t want to admit that it didn’t work, but also don’t want to improve the schools or even acknowledge the problem either.

Aren’t the two schools 9th and 10-12?

Yes, that’s what I meant. Although even more confusingly ACPS is doing some reorganization to have both sites support 9-12…so two schools but not really.

I suspect they’ll just codify the internal segregation the school(s) already has/have.

Keeping the same overarching name allows liberals to save face, have their cake, and eat it too.

Anonymous wrote:The ironic thing is that Alexandria actually has two public high schools 9-10th and 11-12th.

It’s a failed social experiment that the bleeding hearts don’t want to admit that it didn’t work, but also don’t want to improve the schools or even acknowledge the problem either.

Aren’t the two schools 9th and 10-12?

The ironic thing is that Alexandria actually has two public high schools 9-10th and 11-12th.

It’s a failed social experiment that the bleeding hearts don’t want to admit that it didn’t work, but also don’t want to improve the schools or even acknowledge the problem either.

Umm also, if they only have one highschool they don't need to have more feilds for kids to play sports on and that fits perfectly with the city council and Wilson's plan to sell all green space to developers.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I genuinely think that one reason the city & SB want to keep one single HS is for athletics. With a school twice (?) the size of others in NoVa, they’ve got a nice deep bench to pull from.

It sure is easier to win state championships competing against schools with a talent pool one third smaller. For many families and politicians in Alexandria that may very well be a valid reason and there’s no shame in admitting to it. It’s one way to burnish the Titan Hollywood legacy and state championships are a source of city pride.

Uhhh, have you seen the baseball program? It sucks.

I don’t follow Titan athletics but surely they must be winning state titles in crew, soccer, basketball, lacrosse, ice hockey, gymnastics, etc. Anecdotally most people know those sports are strong there or were strong recently.

Anonymous wrote:I genuinely think that one reason the city & SB want to keep one single HS is for athletics. With a school twice (?) the size of others in NoVa, they’ve got a nice deep bench to pull from.

And yet Alexandria City teams don’t dominate any sports.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I genuinely think that one reason the city & SB want to keep one single HS is for athletics. With a school twice (?) the size of others in NoVa, they’ve got a nice deep bench to pull from.

It sure is easier to win state championships competing against schools with a talent pool one third smaller. For many families and politicians in Alexandria that may very well be a valid reason and there’s no shame in admitting to it. It’s one way to burnish the Titan Hollywood legacy and state championships are a source of city pride.

Plan doesn’t seem to be working. The one sport that does win, 80% of the players live within 1/2 mile of each other.

Anonymous wrote:If you remember correctly the majority did not vote in favor. Parents overwhelming supported two highschools.

How did parents make this known? I don't recall PTAC or any PTA getting involved, making a statement or organizing parents. When Hutchings came to speak about this at our PTA meeting, the one parent who asked a question was easily rebuffed by his word salad and accusations of racism.

Posting on closed Facebook pages run by PTAC lackeys doesn't count.

Anonymous wrote:According to ACPS, the “Connected High School Network or CHSN” and the adopted “Pinwheel Concept” will make the one-high-school-two-campuses work for the benefit of the city.

The majority voted for that so that’s how it’s going to be.

The idea in and of itself is not the issue. It’s that ACPS already faces challenges it cannot manage, and it’s answer has often been experimentation that has been not only unsuccessful but also detrimental to students. There are any number of examples, but the 4x4 schedule ACHS implemented after Covid comes to mind. Truly one of the most poorly thought out ideas that, of course, was abandoned after one year. Same goes for “lunch and learn,” ask abandoned after a year or so. Instead of embracing tried and true solutions that have shown results, such as smaller schools and classrooms, they’re constantly looking to “innovate.” And it’s the kids, and the teachers, who suffer.

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Anonymous wrote:Press release all about the new high school by the architect perkins eastman: https://www.perkinseastman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Perkins-Eastman-Press-Release_Alexandria-City-High-School-tops-out.pdf

Why will the highschool have an early childhood center?

It already (and has always had) a daycare for students who have children. I would much rather a girl that gets pregnant stay in school vs having to drop out. It's better for her, her baby and society as a whole.