Anonymous wrote:Why hasn't Alexandria gentrified?

It has-but mostly with DINKS or couples with no school age kids.

Why hasn't Alexandria gentrified?

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Anonymous wrote:This post is hilarious in regards to ACPS. Jefferson Houston was literally the lowest performing school *in the entire state* .

What did the Ds do to 'improve it? They redistricted the boundaries to flood it with wealthy white kids to boost scores and give the appearance of high performing and they lowered the metrics for accreditation.

Who would willfully send their kid to a school like that?

The Jefferson-Houston school zone boundaries have not changed in over 20 years. I'm not sure where you're getting your information. They did lower the metrics for accreditation statewide.

They did slightly alter the boundary to much complaint AND they removed the ability for parents to opt out. So the PP is correct in the goal was to bring in more kids who could boost scores. It's not a secret.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure he’d love any mechanism for a state takeover of ACPS schools.

Youngkin is not interesting in a state takeover of schools. He wants to implement for-profit private/charter schools and implement a voucher program to fund them with public money. His plan to accomplish this is to drive public schools so far into the ground (or at least make people believe they are absolutely terrible) so he can build public support for an alternative program that ultimately will benefit the wealthy at the expense of low-income students.

And middle class students.
Now there are no more neighborhood schools.
Costs to middle class skyrocket
You all are headed for the Betsey DeVos branding with Youngkin pocketing all the profit.

Great job VA you destroyed your public school system. IDIOTS.

I think charters would be a good experiment in Alexandria because even the wealthy neighborhood schools are bottom tier. Fairfax and Loudoun certainly don't need charters since there are decent schools in those jurisdictions.

The only thing it will accomplish is to pull money and resources away from the schools. It will only hurt, not help ACPS.

Anonymous wrote:This post is hilarious in regards to ACPS. Jefferson Houston was literally the lowest performing school *in the entire state* .

What did the Ds do to 'improve it? They redistricted the boundaries to flood it with wealthy white kids to boost scores and give the appearance of high performing and they lowered the metrics for accreditation.

Who would willfully send their kid to a school like that?

The Jefferson-Houston school zone boundaries have not changed in over 20 years. I'm not sure where you're getting your information. They did lower the metrics for accreditation statewide.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure he’d love any mechanism for a state takeover of ACPS schools.

Youngkin is not interesting in a state takeover of schools. He wants to implement for-profit private/charter schools and implement a voucher program to fund them with public money. His plan to accomplish this is to drive public schools so far into the ground (or at least make people believe they are absolutely terrible) so he can build public support for an alternative program that ultimately will benefit the wealthy at the expense of low-income students.

And middle class students.
Now there are no more neighborhood schools.
Costs to middle class skyrocket
You all are headed for the Betsey DeVos branding with Youngkin pocketing all the profit.

Great job VA you destroyed your public school system. IDIOTS.

I think charters would be a good experiment in Alexandria because even the wealthy neighborhood schools are bottom tier. Fairfax and Loudoun certainly don't need charters since there are decent schools in those jurisdictions.

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin is attacking the accreditation standards as too lenient and not reflective of current school academic performance (https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/23/youngkin-school-ratings/). With ACPS’s poor academic performance on the most recent SOLs, could some ACPS schools be at risk of losing accreditation if the standards are tightened and then Youngkin could use non-accreditation to exercise more control…..

Thats funny. But not haha funny

Seriously though yes, the schools are accredited bc a couple years pre covid they lowered the standards for accreditation. And the threat of the state taking over? That’s an oldie but goodie! Now you know why Jefferson-Houston is a K-8 school. Funny story before it was K-8 , J-H was an option school for the Arts 😂 Of course no one in the right mind opted in and they could never explain exactly what that Arts program was. Anyway, the school had failed to be accredited for 5 yrs straight, it was one step away from state control, if they didn’t come up with a turn around plan. Viola! Let’s spend millions of dollars to renovate and make it a K-8 school. Oh and no one in boundary can opt out anymore

My other favorite school is Cora Kelly which is a supposed focus school for Math and Science. They have some of the lowest SOL scores for Math and Science in the City. A smarter school board would have dropped the math and science thing from the name to spare the school ridicule.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure he’d love any mechanism for a state takeover of ACPS schools.

Youngkin is not interesting in a state takeover of schools. He wants to implement for-profit private/charter schools and implement a voucher program to fund them with public money. His plan to accomplish this is to drive public schools so far into the ground (or at least make people believe they are absolutely terrible) so he can build public support for an alternative program that ultimately will benefit the wealthy at the expense of low-income students.

And middle class students.
Now there are no more neighborhood schools.
Costs to middle class skyrocket
You all are headed for the Betsey DeVos branding with Youngkin pocketing all the profit.

Great job VA you destroyed your public school system. IDIOTS.

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Anonymous wrote:They SHOULD tighten standards. I hate Youngkin and I think his policies are awful, but our children deserve a better education.

You don’t get it. No one is arguing against better standards in itself. The problem is when schools don’t meet them, it impacts funding which makes the issue worse. And then charters and vouchers come in to save the day! He wants to undermine public education. He could give two poops about poor kids’ education.

Neither do you.

Great, then explain it.

Explain that you don’t give two poops about poor kids’ education? You explain that.

Troll.

Youngkin is MAGA trash trying to hurt our schools.

You’re trash trying to hurt everyone.

More like a mooch stealing our money while claiming discrimination.

Oh look. Trump and Youngkin have emboldened the VA racist trash.

Then try to stop being a racist.

I’m not. PP is clearly a racist though.

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Anonymous wrote:They SHOULD tighten standards. I hate Youngkin and I think his policies are awful, but our children deserve a better education.

You don’t get it. No one is arguing against better standards in itself. The problem is when schools don’t meet them, it impacts funding which makes the issue worse. And then charters and vouchers come in to save the day! He wants to undermine public education. He could give two poops about poor kids’ education.

Neither do you.

Great, then explain it.

Explain that you don’t give two poops about poor kids’ education? You explain that.

Troll.

Youngkin is MAGA trash trying to hurt our schools.

You’re trash trying to hurt everyone.

More like a mooch stealing our money while claiming discrimination.

Oh look. Trump and Youngkin have emboldened the VA racist trash.

Then try to stop being a racist.

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Anonymous wrote:They SHOULD tighten standards. I hate Youngkin and I think his policies are awful, but our children deserve a better education.

You don’t get it. No one is arguing against better standards in itself. The problem is when schools don’t meet them, it impacts funding which makes the issue worse. And then charters and vouchers come in to save the day! He wants to undermine public education. He could give two poops about poor kids’ education.

Neither do you.

Great, then explain it.

Explain that you don’t give two poops about poor kids’ education? You explain that.

Troll.

Youngkin is MAGA trash trying to hurt our schools.

You’re trash trying to hurt everyone.

More like a mooch stealing our money while claiming discrimination.

Oh look. Trump and Youngkin have emboldened the VA racist trash.

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Anonymous wrote:They SHOULD tighten standards. I hate Youngkin and I think his policies are awful, but our children deserve a better education.

You don’t get it. No one is arguing against better standards in itself. The problem is when schools don’t meet them, it impacts funding which makes the issue worse. And then charters and vouchers come in to save the day! He wants to undermine public education. He could give two poops about poor kids’ education.

Neither do you.

Great, then explain it.

Explain that you don’t give two poops about poor kids’ education? You explain that.

Troll.

Youngkin is MAGA trash trying to hurt our schools.

You’re trash trying to hurt everyone.

More like a mooch stealing our money while claiming discrimination.

Stealing money? I almost certainly pay more in taxes than you do.

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Anonymous wrote:They SHOULD tighten standards. I hate Youngkin and I think his policies are awful, but our children deserve a better education.

You don’t get it. No one is arguing against better standards in itself. The problem is when schools don’t meet them, it impacts funding which makes the issue worse. And then charters and vouchers come in to save the day! He wants to undermine public education. He could give two poops about poor kids’ education.

Neither do you.

Great, then explain it.

Explain that you don’t give two poops about poor kids’ education? You explain that.

Troll.

Youngkin is MAGA trash trying to hurt our schools.

You’re trash trying to hurt everyone.

I’m not trying to hurt anyone.

Youngkin will hurt our kids.

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Anonymous wrote:They SHOULD tighten standards. I hate Youngkin and I think his policies are awful, but our children deserve a better education.

You don’t get it. No one is arguing against better standards in itself. The problem is when schools don’t meet them, it impacts funding which makes the issue worse. And then charters and vouchers come in to save the day! He wants to undermine public education. He could give two poops about poor kids’ education.

Neither do you.

Great, then explain it.

Explain that you don’t give two poops about poor kids’ education? You explain that.

Troll.

Youngkin is MAGA trash trying to hurt our schools.

You’re trash trying to hurt everyone.

More like a mooch stealing our money while claiming discrimination.

Anonymous wrote:This should have nothing to do with Youngkin or politics - ACPS is incapable of educating children, but would rather focus on Equity for All. Every person in this community should demand so much more for the $350 million it spends every year. The PP is correct about data and charter schools for the most part, but the few studies on where they are successful would lend to them being a possible solution in Alexandria, as ACPS cannot, despite funding, educate underprivileged and minority students. Charter schools could give that population a chance.

Charter schools make their parent organizations a lot of money and little else. It’s the worst elements of public and private schools mashed together at higher costs, but considering the number of consultants and thinktank weirdos around here, it’s no wonder people think it’s a viable option.