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Anonymous wrote:You think kids are going to get punished because of something a parent says at an outreach meeting? Really? Pretty big risk they would be taking, to discsourage speech they would be ignoring any way.

Kids may or may not, but faculty absolutely will. If they say anything even quasi-publicly that doesn't agree with The Way, they'll get called into a meeting with that certain central office HR person (if that HR person can find time in between applying to be on reality TV shows, that is) and made to kiss the ring. I've seen it happen many times over.

If I had a conspiratorial mind, I'd wonder if that was related to the earlier post about the number of ACPS teachers who are moving to Fairfax, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence. Nothing to see here, now move along.

Funnily enough, that particular HR person appeared in a rather embarrassing Steve Harvey segment this week in which her personal $600k+ debt and poor financial skills were highlighted. Within hours, the uploaded video segment was gone, as was that person's social media presence.

It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad.

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Anonymous wrote:It will take a year or two for those new people to even get up to speed with the current issues and understand how the school board works so I don't have much confidence.

The school board currently DOESN'T work, so it's not like that's much of a handicap.

But you're right: new people can't change everything in the first 2 weeks, so we may as well change nothing.

After the utter sh*tshow, clusterf*ck, absolute clown circus that was redistricting, I'm voting out every single incumbent except for Nolan.

That school board member is no different from the others. All of the incumbents need to go, NOW, including the District B buddy-block who are all in lock-step.

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Anonymous wrote:"If they were smart, they would have got a temporary set of the lights to try out."

Totally agree with this ^^. Can you imagine having 80 foot poles of bright LED lights on until 10:30 pm every night of the week within 26 plus feet in YOUR backyard? Think about the noise too.

This is beyond a bummer for the families living close by: the prohibition of lights was to avoid just this. The City will have to re-imburse these neighborhoods for decades of taxes as well as loss of property values. What a double whammy!

Actually the City gave some of those homes to the owners way back when because they forced them out of their homes at the time. And I doubt the property value will sink very much at all.
In terms of noise, they already have that going on. it remains to be seen what the light issue will be like.

Wrong. The games weren't being played because there aren't lights. So, no noise at 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 oclock...

They knew where they were buying.....

That'a a lame overused excuse. The local homeowners were explicitly told again and again there would be no lights at TCWHS. In fact for the new TCWHS to be built, ALL PARTIES AGREED no lights due to proximity of neighbors to Parker Gray.

Not really though....they all bought near the one high school willingly. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to know that in the future things would/can change. Think of all the possibilities of your adjacent neighbor before purchasing. My husband and I considered buying near a cemetery and though we didn't end up buying, a few years down the road a crematorium was built...that would have been a huge blow to us but not a complete surprise.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"If they were smart, they would have got a temporary set of the lights to try out."

Totally agree with this ^^. Can you imagine having 80 foot poles of bright LED lights on until 10:30 pm every night of the week within 26 plus feet in YOUR backyard? Think about the noise too.

This is beyond a bummer for the families living close by: the prohibition of lights was to avoid just this. The City will have to re-imburse these neighborhoods for decades of taxes as well as loss of property values. What a double whammy!

Actually the City gave some of those homes to the owners way back when because they forced them out of their homes at the time. And I doubt the property value will sink very much at all.
In terms of noise, they already have that going on. it remains to be seen what the light issue will be like.

Wrong. The games weren't being played because there aren't lights. So, no noise at 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 oclock...

They knew where they were buying.....

That'a a lame overused excuse. The local homeowners were explicitly told again and again there would be no lights at TCWHS. In fact for the new TCWHS to be built, ALL PARTIES AGREED no lights due to proximity of neighbors to Parker Gray.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"If they were smart, they would have got a temporary set of the lights to try out."

Totally agree with this ^^. Can you imagine having 80 foot poles of bright LED lights on until 10:30 pm every night of the week within 26 plus feet in YOUR backyard? Think about the noise too.

This is beyond a bummer for the families living close by: the prohibition of lights was to avoid just this. The City will have to re-imburse these neighborhoods for decades of taxes as well as loss of property values. What a double whammy!

Actually the City gave some of those homes to the owners way back when because they forced them out of their homes at the time. And I doubt the property value will sink very much at all.
In terms of noise, they already have that going on. it remains to be seen what the light issue will be like.

Wrong. The games weren't being played because there aren't lights. So, no noise at 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 oclock...

They knew where they were buying.....

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"If they were smart, they would have got a temporary set of the lights to try out."

Totally agree with this ^^. Can you imagine having 80 foot poles of bright LED lights on until 10:30 pm every night of the week within 26 plus feet in YOUR backyard? Think about the noise too.

This is beyond a bummer for the families living close by: the prohibition of lights was to avoid just this. The City will have to re-imburse these neighborhoods for decades of taxes as well as loss of property values. What a double whammy!

Actually the City gave some of those homes to the owners way back when because they forced them out of their homes at the time. And I doubt the property value will sink very much at all.
In terms of noise, they already have that going on. it remains to be seen what the light issue will be like.

Wrong. The games weren't being played because there aren't lights. So, no noise at 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 oclock...

Anonymous wrote:"If they were smart, they would have got a temporary set of the lights to try out."

Totally agree with this ^^. Can you imagine having 80 foot poles of bright LED lights on until 10:30 pm every night of the week within 26 plus feet in YOUR backyard? Think about the noise too.

This is beyond a bummer for the families living close by: the prohibition of lights was to avoid just this. The City will have to re-imburse these neighborhoods for decades of taxes as well as loss of property values. What a double whammy!

Actually the City gave some of those homes to the owners way back when because they forced them out of their homes at the time. And I doubt the property value will sink very much at all.
In terms of noise, they already have that going on. it remains to be seen what the light issue will be like.

Wow, provisional accreditation for TC and JH! That's impressive. I'm going to run for school board and setup a New Orleans style street parade right down Mt Vernon Ave in celebration. That will produce more results than the incumbents.

"If they were smart, they would have got a temporary set of the lights to try out."

Totally agree with this ^^. Can you imagine having 80 foot poles of bright LED lights on until 10:30 pm every night of the week within 26 plus feet in YOUR backyard? Think about the noise too.

This is beyond a bummer for the families living close by: the prohibition of lights was to avoid just this. The City will have to re-imburse these neighborhoods for decades of taxes as well as loss of property values. What a double whammy!

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Anonymous wrote:It will take a year or two for those new people to even get up to speed with the current issues and understand how the school board works so I don't have much confidence.

The school board currently DOESN'T work, so it's not like that's much of a handicap.

But you're right: new people can't change everything in the first 2 weeks, so we may as well change nothing.

After the utter sh*tshow, clusterf*ck, absolute clown circus that was redistricting, I'm voting out every single incumbent except for Nolan.

Anonymous wrote:It will take a year or two for those new people to even get up to speed with the current issues and understand how the school board works so I don't have much confidence.

The school board currently DOESN'T work, so it's not like that's much of a handicap.

But you're right: new people can't change everything in the first 2 weeks, so we may as well change nothing.

Anonymous wrote:Over these passing days/months, Jefferson Houston and TCW have reached "provisional accreditation" per VDOE. I welcome this news.

Meanwhile the City is struggling. Dominion has declined $15M for Potomac Metro which lacks coherence on where is it's main door? TCW "lights" are now viewed as a major "revenue maker" for Alexandria by allowing even "outside sports to play until 10 am on weekends", by imposing ACPS and Zoning/Planning will in spite of prior agreements with now no less than " 80 foot" poll lights on the proximate neighborhoods who contribute big money to City real estate taxes. A conundrum for sure.How would you all like that in your back yard, huh?

The Old Town Sewer cost and rehabilitation for sure will surface soon: you haven't forgot it during this "wet" summer have you Alexandrian's?

All is well in Alexandria City and with ACPS. Or really is it?

Not sure about the Dominion issue. Did they decline to take money from the City?

On the lights, it was so foolish to put in a clause that says they would never do something. The high school was going to end up in someone's back yard at some point because there just isn't that much available land. In terms of the lights, I think they are just throwing in the thing about revenue as an added justification not that they are really expecting a lot of funding. I do think it's possible that the lights will shine down onto the field in a way that not to disturb the neighbors. If they were smart, they would have got a temporary set of the lights to try out.

I know lots of people are thinking that voting in a new school board is going to make all kinds of difference but it's not. It will take a year or two for those new people to even get up to speed with the current issues and understand how the school board works so I don't have much confidence.

Over these passing days/months, Jefferson Houston and TCW have reached "provisional accreditation" per VDOE. I welcome this news.

Meanwhile the City is struggling. Dominion has declined $15M for Potomac Metro which lacks coherence on where is it's main door? TCW "lights" are now viewed as a major "revenue maker" for Alexandria by allowing even "outside sports to play until 10 am on weekends", by imposing ACPS and Zoning/Planning will in spite of prior agreements with now no less than " 80 foot" poll lights on the proximate neighborhoods who contribute big money to City real estate taxes. A conundrum for sure.How would you all like that in your back yard, huh?

The Old Town Sewer cost and rehabilitation for sure will surface soon: you haven't forgot it during this "wet" summer have you Alexandrian's?

All is well in Alexandria City and with ACPS. Or really is it?

Anonymous wrote:If you look through that twitter handle feed there are some terrible videos from the school. Are these just random spats or are they gang related, I wonder?

Neighborhood beefs maybe but this ain't gang stuff.

Anonymous wrote:If you look through that twitter handle feed there are some terrible videos from the school. Are these just random spats or are they gang related, I wonder?

Disturbing, whatever they are.