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Anonymous wrote:So sports are mostly unremarkable and education is dismal. But keep doing the same things over and over expecting something different.

Alexandrians don't actually care about the public school system. The extremist UMC families that stick it out are incredibly rare but polite society just talks up the public schools however they can. I guess like Cleveland Browns fans.

It’s the other way around. ACPS, the school board, and city council (since they have an opinion about select “school” issues) don’t care about Alexandrians. Not all/most of us anyway.

I agree. The mayor said a few years ago that he cares more about future residents than current ones.

What does it say that Alexandrians keep electing the mayor and his cronies to the city council, the same types to the school board that allows central office at ACPS to fail year after year?

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Anonymous wrote:So sports are mostly unremarkable and education is dismal. But keep doing the same things over and over expecting something different.

Alexandrians don't actually care about the public school system. The extremist UMC families that stick it out are incredibly rare but polite society just talks up the public schools however they can. I guess like Cleveland Browns fans.

It’s the other way around. ACPS, the school board, and city council (since they have an opinion about select “school” issues) don’t care about Alexandrians. Not all/most of us anyway.

Maybe. But there won't be an improvement in academics or safety. That's for sure.

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Anonymous wrote:I genuinely think that one reason the city & SB want to keep one single HS is for athletics. With a school twice (?) the size of others in NoVa, they’ve got a nice deep bench to pull from.

And yet Alexandria City teams don’t dominate any sports.

If we could get the gang-bangers to play soccer and football, we might be better at those two sports.

Girls volleyball and that one season about 12 years ago when the boys basketball won states.

TC won the state championship in boys soccer in 2014. Girls made the final a few years ago.

They were a boys basketball power for years, IDK why that fell apart.

The pandemic didn’t help. Unlike neighboring Arlington and Fairfax Counties, ACPS did not allow winter sports during the 2020-21 school year. Then the following year, unlike in neighboring Arlington and Fairfax Counties, fans were not permitted to the games during that winter’s covid wave. Arlington allowed fans after parent and student outcry. The superintendent then overruled the consultants.

Also there was some physical altercation in the stands between the coach and parents at an ACHS boys basketball game that resulted in the coach resigning. That was back in Dec 2021.

Hopefully the sports program will get stronger with the investment in new facilities like the new state-of-the-art regulation size natatorium. ACHS is the largest school in the state so there should be more state championships in the coming years.

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Anonymous wrote:I genuinely think that one reason the city & SB want to keep one single HS is for athletics. With a school twice (?) the size of others in NoVa, they’ve got a nice deep bench to pull from.

And yet Alexandria City teams don’t dominate any sports.

If we could get the gang-bangers to play soccer and football, we might be better at those two sports.

Girls volleyball and that one season about 12 years ago when the boys basketball won states.

TC won the state championship in boys soccer in 2014. Girls made the final a few years ago.

They were a boys basketball power for years, IDK why that fell apart.

Some are "polite" but many are also mean and obnoxious about it. When the "good" elementary schools were exposed as awful, if not worse than the middle and high schools, many of the ones who stay - like the PTA and PTAC crowd - are embarrassed that they have their kids in ACPS. And they lash out in hateful ways. Even worse than they were before the school shutdowns.

Anonymous wrote:So sports are mostly unremarkable and education is dismal. But keep doing the same things over and over expecting something different.

Alexandrians don't actually care about the public school system. The extremist UMC families that stick it out are incredibly rare but polite society just talks up the public schools however they can. I guess like Cleveland Browns fans.

So sports are mostly unremarkable and education is dismal. But keep doing the same things over and over expecting something different.

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Anonymous wrote:I genuinely think that one reason the city & SB want to keep one single HS is for athletics. With a school twice (?) the size of others in NoVa, they’ve got a nice deep bench to pull from.

And yet Alexandria City teams don’t dominate any sports.

If we could get the gang-bangers to play soccer and football, we might be better at those two sports.

Girls volleyball and that one season about 12 years ago when the boys basketball won states.

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Anonymous wrote:The giy who pulled his kid out of public and sent to private when he kept public schools closed still works there? He should have been shamed out of publuc education. That was racist. No school was required due to
Covid for black kids but white kids got to go to
School? Gross!

No he doesn't work there anymore, but his hand-picked successor does, and, of course, the school board members who send their children to private/parochial. That's been discussed to death in other threads.

You don't think he's working there anymore? There is no way he doesn't have a nice big consulting contract.

Anonymous wrote:So those of you who want two high schools, why exactly? Do you really think that a 2500 student high school is necessarily better than a 5000 student one?

The neighboring school districts (Arlington and Fairfax) with their many neighborhood high schools have in fact become highly segregated. It’s not like the concern is entirely made up.

Yes. ACPS could bus and/or do the districting properly. ACHS is already highly segregated. It's a school within a school.

Every year, the ACHS student reps to the School Board say that the students don't feel safe when they do fire and safety drills because there are simply too many people. This goes back at least seven years. Why are you dismissing these kids who are actually in the building?

I'm curious what flavor is the ACPS kool aid?

Anonymous wrote:The giy who pulled his kid out of public and sent to private when he kept public schools closed still works there? He should have been shamed out of publuc education. That was racist. No school was required due to
Covid for black kids but white kids got to go to
School? Gross!

No he doesn't work there anymore, but his hand-picked successor does, and, of course, the school board members who send their children to private/parochial. That's been discussed to death in other threads.

The giy who pulled his kid out of public and sent to private when he kept public schools closed still works there? He should have been shamed out of publuc education. That was racist. No school was required due to
Covid for black kids but white kids got to go to
School? Gross!

Anonymous wrote:Racing to the bottom is the answer. Equity is forged when all are failed. ACOS will lead the way and meet its goal of Equity for All (in unaccredited schools).

Exactly how communism actually worked. Instead of bringing everyone up, bring everyone down. Equality (no mental gymnastic semantics on BS concepts).

Except for the loyal elite. Some people are more equal than others and are rewarded accordingly.

In this system, people like former Superintendent Hutchings keep your school closed, but then sends his daughter to private school because it’s open, and then calls it black excellence.

That’s literally what happened.

Anonymous wrote:So those of you who want two high schools, why exactly? Do you really think that a 2500 student high school is necessarily better than a 5000 student one?

The neighboring school districts (Arlington and Fairfax) with their many neighborhood high schools have in fact become highly segregated. It’s not like the concern is entirely made up.

Because half or whatever of the ACPS student population refuses to even try.

The drop off isn’t even in high school, it’s when they drag down the middle schools (that feed into the high school), and force any sane families to move or go private.

Yes that will look like segregation. The current situation is also a form of segregation and not doing anyone any favors.

The current high school is in effect two high schools, but grouped the same for statistical purposes. Who is that helping?

How is the current nominally single high school (with two campuses) helping with after school stabbings or repeated fights?