Just saw this announcement; good chance for people to get first-hand experience.

The Del Ray Citizens Association invites Del Ray (and other local) parents to meet the principal and PTA of Jefferson-Houston and to learn more about the school. The DRCA has scheduled a meet-and-greet with Principal Berkowitz and the PTA for 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 23. This event will be held at Jefferson-Houston (1501 Cameron Street), and will be a great introduction to the school and its leadership. Snacks, beverages, and child supervision will be provided by the DRCA.

Please RSVP here, and thanks!: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRsu7r-MJKSRZZJsBGezbPkyk5lFxFYNn0_NtpXkJAffFUcg/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Anonymous wrote:TC is expected to grow to 5000. That's three times larger than your average Virginia high school. How is that fair to students that want to participate in sports/clubs? You're still only going to have one varsity team for each sport.

At least everybody will be able to try. The new high school won’t even have an athletic field. ACPS said so in the Alexandria Times on April 13.

Odd, as the Times published on the 12th, not the 13th. If you can't manage to provide an actual link, can you at least tell us the correct date, what page and provide a quote?

Anonymous wrote:TC is expected to grow to 5000. That's three times larger than your average Virginia high school. How is that fair to students that want to participate in sports/clubs? You're still only going to have one varsity team for each sport.

At least everybody will be able to try. The new high school won’t even have an athletic field. ACPS said so in the Alexandria Times on April 13.

TC is expected to grow to 5000. That's three times larger than your average Virginia high school. How is that fair to students that want to participate in sports/clubs? You're still only going to have one varsity team for each sport.

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Anonymous wrote:The current plan to remove the poors from TC is linked below. Note the "site selection" specification, which wouldn't be there unless school board has already decided to divide the school.

https://esbpublic.acps.k12.va.us/attachments/e9d068b9-eeae-41c7-8e17-ef35e25f632b.pdf

Ugh. It’s you again. Will you ever stop making false claims?

So the report doesn’t say what the report literally says?

No, the report literally says nothing about removing “the poors” from T.C.

No, just the real estate and siting work on the milestones, for the new split high school that you deny has already been planned. There's no split high school, just idle real estate acquisition. And the division (that won't happen) using the real estate that is being procured will be by random lottery, and the new high school will have a planetarium and will be exactly equal, but it just won't be for the kids on the east side. It will be separate. But equal. Got it. Do you work for the White House?

Please cite language in specific slides of the presentation you posted to support your claims.

So does "site options" mean something other than looking at options for a site? You must work for the White House press office.

Does "site options" mean "remove the poors?"

Slide 31 says ACPS must expand high school capacity, and on slide 32 there's a list of three ways to do so:

1. Expand the Existing High School Campus
2. Add Additional Comprehensive High School(s)
3. Create Off-site Specialty Programs

You do recognize that there's a major capacity issue at T.C., right?

Nope. TC has plenty of space. TC could lengthen between-class periods by a few minutes each,and staff and utilize the vacant classrooms (there are vacant classrooms throughout the day). TC is a scalable facility and that was a design feature. This is just the school board building the empire and making sure that only their preferred neighborhoods get the good building. That’s why they’re rushing the vote.

TC is the biggest school in the area (state?). The graduation has to be held at GMU because TC's auditorium isn't big enough. Hell, the entire 9th grade has to attend class in a separate facility. TC is too big. Period.

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Anonymous wrote:The mayor lives in del Ray? Do his kids go to J-H?

You’re funny. The last school board chair wouldn’t send her own kids to her regular zoned (non JH) school. The top people get to self-transfer.

They go to MVCS, that's where most of Del Ray is zoned. I'm not sure why this thread is mostly about JH.

Because there are one or more people here who for whatever reason, are on the warpath about Alexandria schools, and don't want to discuss a rising school likve MVCS. All they want to talk about is JH (which has had recent improvements, but clearly huge challenges still) and about the alleged plot to create two comprehensive HS's and dump the poor (despite no evidence at all, just a creative misreading of one document). Since JH actually does include a part of Del Ray, this was a golden opportunity to focus on that and ignore MVCS.

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Anonymous wrote:The current plan to remove the poors from TC is linked below. Note the "site selection" specification, which wouldn't be there unless school board has already decided to divide the school.

https://esbpublic.acps.k12.va.us/attachments/e9d068b9-eeae-41c7-8e17-ef35e25f632b.pdf

Ugh. It’s you again. Will you ever stop making false claims?

So the report doesn’t say what the report literally says?

No, the report literally says nothing about removing “the poors” from T.C.

No, just the real estate and siting work on the milestones, for the new split high school that you deny has already been planned. There's no split high school, just idle real estate acquisition. And the division (that won't happen) using the real estate that is being procured will be by random lottery, and the new high school will have a planetarium and will be exactly equal, but it just won't be for the kids on the east side. It will be separate. But equal. Got it. Do you work for the White House?

Please cite language in specific slides of the presentation you posted to support your claims.

So does "site options" mean something other than looking at options for a site? You must work for the White House press office.

Does "site options" mean "remove the poors?"

Slide 31 says ACPS must expand high school capacity, and on slide 32 there's a list of three ways to do so:

1. Expand the Existing High School Campus
2. Add Additional Comprehensive High School(s)
3. Create Off-site Specialty Programs

You do recognize that there's a major capacity issue at T.C., right?

My strong impression from listening to an influential official recently, is that they are more excited about option 3. The feeling being that 1 and 2 are mostly about the traditional HS experience, which is outdated and does not integrate well with the future work force.

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Anonymous wrote:The current plan to remove the poors from TC is linked below. Note the "site selection" specification, which wouldn't be there unless school board has already decided to divide the school.

https://esbpublic.acps.k12.va.us/attachments/e9d068b9-eeae-41c7-8e17-ef35e25f632b.pdf

Ugh. It’s you again. Will you ever stop making false claims?

So the report doesn’t say what the report literally says?

No, the report literally says nothing about removing “the poors” from T.C.

No, just the real estate and siting work on the milestones, for the new split high school that you deny has already been planned. There's no split high school, just idle real estate acquisition. And the division (that won't happen) using the real estate that is being procured will be by random lottery, and the new high school will have a planetarium and will be exactly equal, but it just won't be for the kids on the east side. It will be separate. But equal. Got it. Do you work for the White House?

Please cite language in specific slides of the presentation you posted to support your claims.

So does "site options" mean something other than looking at options for a site? You must work for the White House press office.

Does "site options" mean "remove the poors?"

Slide 31 says ACPS must expand high school capacity, and on slide 32 there's a list of three ways to do so:

1. Expand the Existing High School Campus
2. Add Additional Comprehensive High School(s)
3. Create Off-site Specialty Programs

You do recognize that there's a major capacity issue at T.C., right?

Nope. TC has plenty of space. TC could lengthen between-class periods by a few minutes each,and staff and utilize the vacant classrooms (there are vacant classrooms throughout the day). TC is a scalable facility and that was a design feature. This is just the school board building the empire and making sure that only their preferred neighborhoods get the good building. That’s why they’re rushing the vote.

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Anonymous wrote:The current plan to remove the poors from TC is linked below. Note the "site selection" specification, which wouldn't be there unless school board has already decided to divide the school.

https://esbpublic.acps.k12.va.us/attachments/e9d068b9-eeae-41c7-8e17-ef35e25f632b.pdf

Ugh. It’s you again. Will you ever stop making false claims?

So the report doesn’t say what the report literally says?

No, the report literally says nothing about removing “the poors” from T.C.

No, just the real estate and siting work on the milestones, for the new split high school that you deny has already been planned. There's no split high school, just idle real estate acquisition. And the division (that won't happen) using the real estate that is being procured will be by random lottery, and the new high school will have a planetarium and will be exactly equal, but it just won't be for the kids on the east side. It will be separate. But equal. Got it. Do you work for the White House?

Please cite language in specific slides of the presentation you posted to support your claims.

So does "site options" mean something other than looking at options for a site? You must work for the White House press office.

Does "site options" mean "remove the poors?"

Slide 31 says ACPS must expand high school capacity, and on slide 32 there's a list of three ways to do so:

1. Expand the Existing High School Campus
2. Add Additional Comprehensive High School(s)
3. Create Off-site Specialty Programs

You do recognize that there's a major capacity issue at T.C., right?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The current plan to remove the poors from TC is linked below. Note the "site selection" specification, which wouldn't be there unless school board has already decided to divide the school.

https://esbpublic.acps.k12.va.us/attachments/e9d068b9-eeae-41c7-8e17-ef35e25f632b.pdf

Ugh. It’s you again. Will you ever stop making false claims?

So the report doesn’t say what the report literally says?

No, the report literally says nothing about removing “the poors” from T.C.

No, just the real estate and siting work on the milestones, for the new split high school that you deny has already been planned. There's no split high school, just idle real estate acquisition. And the division (that won't happen) using the real estate that is being procured will be by random lottery, and the new high school will have a planetarium and will be exactly equal, but it just won't be for the kids on the east side. It will be separate. But equal. Got it. Do you work for the White House?

Please cite language in specific slides of the presentation you posted to support your claims.

So does "site options" mean something other than looking at options for a site? You must work for the White House press office.

Meh, I'd welcome moving 'the poors'.

Crucify me all you want.

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Anonymous wrote:The current plan to remove the poors from TC is linked below. Note the "site selection" specification, which wouldn't be there unless school board has already decided to divide the school.

https://esbpublic.acps.k12.va.us/attachments/e9d068b9-eeae-41c7-8e17-ef35e25f632b.pdf

Ugh. It’s you again. Will you ever stop making false claims?

So the report doesn’t say what the report literally says?

No, the report literally says nothing about removing “the poors” from T.C.

No, just the real estate and siting work on the milestones, for the new split high school that you deny has already been planned. There's no split high school, just idle real estate acquisition. And the division (that won't happen) using the real estate that is being procured will be by random lottery, and the new high school will have a planetarium and will be exactly equal, but it just won't be for the kids on the east side. It will be separate. But equal. Got it. Do you work for the White House?

Please cite language in specific slides of the presentation you posted to support your claims.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The current plan to remove the poors from TC is linked below. Note the "site selection" specification, which wouldn't be there unless school board has already decided to divide the school.

https://esbpublic.acps.k12.va.us/attachments/e9d068b9-eeae-41c7-8e17-ef35e25f632b.pdf

Ugh. It’s you again. Will you ever stop making false claims?

So the report doesn’t say what the report literally says?

No, the report literally says nothing about removing “the poors” from T.C.

No, just the real estate and siting work on the milestones, for the new split high school that you deny has already been planned. There's no split high school, just idle real estate acquisition. And the division (that won't happen) using the real estate that is being procured will be by random lottery, and the new high school will have a planetarium and will be exactly equal, but it just won't be for the kids on the east side. It will be separate. But equal. Got it. Do you work for the White House?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The current plan to remove the poors from TC is linked below. Note the "site selection" specification, which wouldn't be there unless school board has already decided to divide the school.

https://esbpublic.acps.k12.va.us/attachments/e9d068b9-eeae-41c7-8e17-ef35e25f632b.pdf

Ugh. It’s you again. Will you ever stop making false claims?

So the report doesn’t say what the report literally says?

No, the report literally says nothing about removing “the poors” from T.C.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The current plan to remove the poors from TC is linked below. Note the "site selection" specification, which wouldn't be there unless school board has already decided to divide the school.

https://esbpublic.acps.k12.va.us/attachments/e9d068b9-eeae-41c7-8e17-ef35e25f632b.pdf

Ugh. It’s you again. Will you ever stop making false claims?

So the report doesn’t say what the report literally says?