Anonymous wrote:Would a grand jury look at a group like PTAC that aids and abets the district to silence parents?

Oh, come on, get a grip! You may not like them but those people volunteer their time to help other PTAs. To suggest they should face criminal investigation or prosecution is really outrageous and beyond the pale.

Would a grand jury look at a group like PTAC that aids and abets the district to silence parents?

Anonymous wrote:Miyares visited ACHS in November. The SB and central office would be beyond foolish to believe ACPS is not on his radar and the district is immune from an investigation from the AG’s office.

I can't say what, but..... it's coming. And it's going to be awesome. Hold tight.

Miyares visited ACHS in November. The SB and central office would be beyond foolish to believe ACPS is not on his radar and the district is immune from an investigation from the AG’s office.

There is currently a survey open to the community asking for public comment on what you want in the new superintendent. Now's your chance to be heard.

Yes to the PP it's a fight. My bigger concern is the lack of communication. The idea that the superintendent doesn't speak to the press and the school board doesn't either. It didn't sit well with me. I appreciated Booz and El Noubi speaking up to Hutchings about not being censored. I wish people would notice that super volunteer Willie Bailey, who I'm sure is a wonderful community leader, tried to silence these board members. To me silence is not okay. I don't need to know about minors, but I expect a bauds level of communication about how violence is addressed. There should be a zero tolerance policy. These students need to be engaged in violence intervention programs similar to a batterers intervention program. They need wrap around services and tgr school working with their families. They need to be in an alternative education setting. There is no ever else to place kids like in FCPS or APS where there are multiple HS to break up the interpersonal and group conflicts.

I saw the video of the incident. In and of itself, it was a fight at a high school, and in isolation, I would not feel that strongly about it. However, in the context of other events at ACHS and Minnie Howard, is is just another reason to be concerned about student safety.

https://www.crowdcast.io/c/elevateconference2022

This is Alderton's work conference. Alderton thought supported by the teacher's union and Alex Democrats works for charter schools which threaten public education funding. Look at her nonprofit's Tweets today and Dr. Greg Hutchings' Tweets today. It has the appearance of a conflict of interest. How many family members does she have working in ACPS? At one point it was three. Her kids go to Catholic schools and she works for a charter network and her she is contracting with the former superintendent. This is where her loyalty lies! And I'm the parent of Black ACPS students and a Dem. Why isn't anyone else seeing this?!?!?

We need people to replace Alderton. Get someone to run against her. Start working now. Her job is having Dr. Hutchings as the key note speaker: https://twitter.com/SpecialEdCoop

This is where Alderton works! She is promoting Dr. Hutchings as an expert. https://specialedcoop.org/about/staff/

Alderton is the program quality specialist

Anonymous wrote:What has been encouraging to me this year is the West End PTA presidents speaking up and the West End parents coming to the meetings. There was the mom from Maury who was on WJLA. That took guts. The mom and dad from Patrick Henry and dad from Samuel Tucker, they had courage too. Their emotions got to me. These are the people we need to elect to the PTAC and school board.

I continuously ask our PTA president to speak up. It is obvious to me they are scared and do not speak up. But they want other parents to do so. I am tired. I am tired of the work. ACPS is exhausting. It could be great but we let politcal correctness get in the way of greatness. We have a lack of accountability. There is a total lack of transparency and communication. So many school board members ran on this platform, but where are they speaking up now? Only El Noubi. He is the only one who has spoken up in meetings and now he is pretty quiet.

Could not agree more with this post. You are absolutely right about PTA Presidents who won't speak up but want other parents to. It's gross. And why nothing changes.

What has been encouraging to me this year is the West End PTA presidents speaking up and the West End parents coming to the meetings. There was the mom from Maury who was on WJLA. That took guts. The mom and dad from Patrick Henry and dad from Samuel Tucker, they had courage too. Their emotions got to me. These are the people we need to elect to the PTAC and school board.

I continuously ask our PTA president to speak up. It is obvious to me they are scared and do not speak up. But they want other parents to do so. I am tired. I am tired of the work. ACPS is exhausting. It could be great but we let politcal correctness get in the way of greatness. We have a lack of accountability. There is a total lack of transparency and communication. So many school board members ran on this platform, but where are they speaking up now? Only El Noubi. He is the only one who has spoken up in meetings and now he is pretty quiet.

Anonymous wrote:We need to find someone to replace Kay-Wyatt. Clearly she is Hutchings 2.0

Be realistic. This board LOVES Hutchings. Two of them (alderton and green) helped/are helping him promote his book and business.

They LOVE his hand picked replacement. She will be the new super. That's not a fight you can win with this board because they support hutchings. Even people like Baird - who was OpenACPS' candidate of choice quickly succumbed to the ACHS prom king's charms, word salad and deep intellect.

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This is what it is like at our City’s one high school. I care about our kids. I care that they go to a “school” like this. I care that there is no talk of change. I care that the SB epitomizes cowardice. But, for those who want to act like this doesn’t exist or it’s all made-up, you may just care when you can’t sell your house because no reasonable person would send their kids into this environment.

I am disgusted. The radio dispatch sounds horrible. I can’t imagine how scared so many kids are.

It's not just the school board. It's the parents and voters. All cowards. I'm so tired of the pearl clutching from parents who get intimidated by the PTAC crew and then settle down and follow directions from the people they think are their betters. This is a city of followers and cowards.

It is true but to be fair, it can be hard if you are a federal government employee to speak up because the PTAC mob will attack you personally if you speak up and may even highlight your federal employment and suggest you are misusing your position by trying to advocate for your child and your child’s peers.

Maybe with more numbers the risks of speaking up would lessen but I think the experience with Open ACPS (regardless if you agreed with that group’s position) shows even numbers does not reduce the risk of public shaming from the Alexandria establishment.

And no one can figure out that is a joke of an argument? No one can go to HR at their agency and office and ask, get a letter signing off on advocating for your kids? By this "logic" Wilson and McPike shouldn't be on the council and shouldn't be able to say anything either. No one can go to a Denise Dunbar at the Alex Times and tell her this, show her the texts, tweets and posts?

No, it's an excuse to keep quiet. A kid has been murdered, a kid has been raped and untold beatings are happening everyday. What's it going to take for parents to stop making excuses?

It is not a joke of an argument if you work in a sensitive non political position. McPike is a political hack and Wilson works for Amtrak, not a federal agency.

Westfall ran for school board with her work as a federal employee as one of her campaign points. She hangs out with the president of PTAC. Ask her why her campaign was OK but a parent who is a federal employee saying violence is bad is not.

Silence is violence.

Bridget Westfall is not friends with the president of PTAC. They both live in the same neighborhood and their kids attend/attended the same school. Bridget has gone to the board meetings and spoke about the violence. You are insane if you think she is not okay. Bridget is also a very ethical person. She got everything cleared with her agency. People attacked her family, doxxed her kids. They literally posted photos of her husband and children biking, on the playground at Maury, at George Mason. She did not like when people started threatening her family. She also has a busy job and she couldn't really campaign. Her husband is a fed too and he is further prohibited. Her husband is on the Maury PTA, not her.

Yep - that all sounds right for the Alexandria establishment. They are ok with federal employees being politically active if they agree with the PTAC crowd. If the federal employees disagree with the PTAC crowd then they must be intimidated and destroyed. But there are other options - the Alex Times reporter who clearly protects sources is one of them. Sad that people don't see what they COULD do & just want someone else to solve the problem.

Had I known that they were doing this to her...I would have voted for her. Wish she would have gone public with it.

We need to find someone to replace Kay-Wyatt. Clearly she is Hutchings 2.0

Let's stop naming people and talking about Westfall. Let's get back to the article in the Alexandria Times. How is ACPS and APD going to say nothing happened with direct quotes from the police scanner?