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Anonymous wrote:Yes. It's time to abandon Alexandria. People complain but they all vote for the same people over and over again.

We don't have many choices. Only those on public assistance or government jobs have the time to run/serve. I'd start with the mayor, who has not said a word about opening schools. Then any school board candidate who pledges to move on from Hutchings.

I don't care about anything else but moving on for the all words no action mayor and the showboating superintendent. An it takes money, which I'd be willing to give if any viable candidates emerge.

It's true, we don't. At this point, I'd love for Wilson to just be handed his dream job in Congress to get him out of our town. But that would mean he'd have to leave his pretend job at Amtrak, he couldn't help the wealthy women in my neighborhood get their house remodeling permits quickly anymore or create sweet deals for his developer friends (like dropping housing on top of schools and playing fields).

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. It's time to abandon Alexandria. People complain but they all vote for the same people over and over again.

I definitely voted against Suarez. If I get one more stupid mlm invitation from his wife I'm going to actively campaign for the challenger in the next election.

Anyone dumb enough to marry someone dumb enough to get sucked into a pyramid scheme should not be running a school system.

Anonymous wrote:As far as the soccer staff from ASA, could it be they were prioritized because that program is providing childcare/virtual learning support to students at ACPS school facilities?

Highly likely. Hilarious that ASA and Campanga are doing what ACPS says is impossible. On ACPS sites. In ACPS classrooms. But parents who can pay $$$ in ACPS partner child care programs will (and good for them) while ACPS keeps bleating on about how "equity is at the heart of everything we do." No. No, it's not.

As far as the soccer staff from ASA, could it be they were prioritized because that program is providing childcare/virtual learning support to students at ACPS school facilities?

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Anonymous wrote:My parents are in their mid 70s with underlying health conditions and have lived in the City of Alexandria for 40 years. They have not been able to get an appointment with the City to be vaccinated. Neither have some of their friends who are in their 80s.

It's infuriating that the elderly were not immediately prioritized after health-care workers. The city allowed teachers to be vaccinated before them...including teachers at private schools in the city, and even including people who WORK at private schools but who never see the inside of a classroom.

The city also prioritized the soccer coaches at alexandria soccer association over the elderly. The coaches and club were tweeting out their pictures with their personal vaccination cards. It makes me sick to see a bunch of people in their 20s and 30s bragging about getting a vaccine, when my elderly neighbors have been forced to become shut-ins.

Wow! I didn't know that! That says a lot about Alexandria, doesn't it?

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Anonymous wrote:My parents are in their mid 70s with underlying health conditions and have lived in the City of Alexandria for 40 years. They have not been able to get an appointment with the City to be vaccinated. Neither have some of their friends who are in their 80s.

It's infuriating that the elderly were not immediately prioritized after health-care workers. The city allowed teachers to be vaccinated before them...including teachers at private schools in the city, and even including people who WORK at private schools but who never see the inside of a classroom.

The city also prioritized the soccer coaches at alexandria soccer association over the elderly. The coaches and club were tweeting out their pictures with their personal vaccination cards. It makes me sick to see a bunch of people in their 20s and 30s bragging about getting a vaccine, when my elderly neighbors have been forced to become shut-ins.

Anonymous wrote:Yes. It's time to abandon Alexandria. People complain but they all vote for the same people over and over again.

I definitely voted against Suarez. If I get one more stupid mlm invitation from his wife I'm going to actively campaign for the challenger in the next election.

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Yes - ACPS is completely unresponsive to parent concerns. For example, while I disagree with the position of Open ACPS but ACPS’s attack on the members’ right to question and express concern is appalling.

Agreed. I don't agree with Open ACPS either, and think that some of their members' comments elsewhere are out there, but totally agree on the attack on the rights of any parents (not just Open ACPS members) to question and express concerns is inappropriate.

I'm not on Facebook so don't really follow Open ACPS. What are the "out there comments" and things not agree with? And is there another way to join or monitor not using Facebook?

Anonymous wrote:Yes. It's time to abandon Alexandria. People complain but they all vote for the same people over and over again.

We don't have many choices. Only those on public assistance or government jobs have the time to run/serve. I'd start with the mayor, who has not said a word about opening schools. Then any school board candidate who pledges to move on from Hutchings.

I don't care about anything else but moving on for the all words no action mayor and the showboating superintendent. An it takes money, which I'd be willing to give if any viable candidates emerge.

Yes. It's time to abandon Alexandria. People complain but they all vote for the same people over and over again.

Vote with your feet. ACPS is a terrible system run by people who view the schools as a stepping stone in their political careers, not a system badly in need of repair. They will never change. Alexandria is a great place to live if you can afford private or don't have school-age children. That's about it.

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Yes - ACPS is completely unresponsive to parent concerns. For example, while I disagree with the position of Open ACPS but ACPS’s attack on the members’ right to question and express concern is appalling.

Agreed. I don't agree with Open ACPS either, and think that some of their members' comments elsewhere are out there, but totally agree on the attack on the rights of any parents (not just Open ACPS members) to question and express concerns is inappropriate.

Piling on with agreement here. ACPS and the School Board are entirely dismissive of parent concerns. And it's nothing new. Parents have a right to "question and express concern". But that isn't the prevailing opinion in Alexandria. I don't really follow Open ACPS because I've given up. But any parent should be able to say what they think without being vilified by ACPS, the School Board, the PTAs, PTAC (could there be a more useless group?) and other parents.

I'm (thankfully) in my last few months of having a kid in the school system. Thankfully I only wasted the elementary years of one kid in this broken and failed school system.

I've been that parent who has been very involved, who engages and speaks out. And I've been viciously attacked for it.

I have great sympathy for the OpenACPS crowd. It's endearing that they think they can change things or will be listened to.

Yes - ACPS is completely unresponsive to parent concerns. For example, while I disagree with the position of Open ACPS but ACPS’s attack on the members’ right to question and express concern is appalling.

Agreed. I don't agree with Open ACPS either, and think that some of their members' comments elsewhere are out there, but totally agree on the attack on the rights of any parents (not just Open ACPS members) to question and express concerns is inappropriate.

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I mean, if they are not going to send the kids back, they could at least make virtual better. My son is in sixth grade and has had 10-15 minutes of homework total, for all classes, so far this year. It is ridiculous.


I don't mean to be snarky but have you tried addressing this with the principal at your son's school? Posting here doesn't seem like the appropriate venue if your goal is to get this situation addressed and rectified. You haven't even named the school.


There are only three schools with sixth grades in Alexandria. He goes to one of the two big ones. The principal is not going to change anything. It would have to be addressed separately with each of my son's six teachers.


It is the principal’s job to address your concerns with your son’s six teachers.

I am guessing that your kids are younger and that you do not have kids at a large ACPS middle school. I can't even get his 504 plan implemented, but luckily, since there is currently so little substantive work, it does not matter.

This. Well except we are in a small ACPS elementary school and it all falls on deaf ears. Nothing changes no matter who you talk to (we've been thru the teachers, principal, and central office).

Yes - ACPS is completely unresponsive to parent concerns. For example, while I disagree with the position of Open ACPS but ACPS’s attack on the members’ right to question and express concern is appalling.

Anonymous wrote:My parents are in their mid 70s with underlying health conditions and have lived in the City of Alexandria for 40 years. They have not been able to get an appointment with the City to be vaccinated. Neither have some of their friends who are in their 80s.

It's infuriating that the elderly were not immediately prioritized after health-care workers. The city allowed teachers to be vaccinated before them...including teachers at private schools in the city, and even including people who WORK at private schools but who never see the inside of a classroom.