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Anonymous wrote:We need school choice in Alexandria.

Hard when there’s only one high school.

By the way, the decision not to create a second high school will cause pain for years to come while TCW continues busting at the seams.

Did you know that there is a daycare at the school? For babies of students? And there s a waitlist to get in?

I'm glad we're supporting the teen parents. Otherwise they'd have to drop out if they didn't have someone who could watch their child.

+1 If there is a waitlist then that means the daycare needs to be expanded.

Yeah, let's continue to encourage impoverished 14 year old black girls from single parent, low education, low income, homes to have kids. Great idea. That will really help them out.

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Anonymous wrote:We need school choice in Alexandria.

Hard when there’s only one high school.

By the way, the decision not to create a second high school will cause pain for years to come while TCW continues busting at the seams.

Did you know that there is a daycare at the school? For babies of students? And there s a waitlist to get in?

One of the reasons they didn't need a second high school was because they had a plan to use virtual education and put students at different sites to access it. Hmmm, I can see how well that works....

They should have built the second high school years ago. They screamed about it being an equity issue except the parents on the West End asked for a second high school. I guess they can't possibly know what they need.

Choosing NOT to do the hard things is a recurring theme for the SB and ACPS central office. It's interesting to watch some people realize it this year but it's been going on for decades.

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Anonymous wrote:We need school choice in Alexandria.

Hard when there’s only one high school.

By the way, the decision not to create a second high school will cause pain for years to come while TCW continues busting at the seams.

Did you know that there is a daycare at the school? For babies of students? And there s a waitlist to get in?

I'm glad we're supporting the teen parents. Otherwise they'd have to drop out if they didn't have someone who could watch their child.

+1 If there is a waitlist then that means the daycare needs to be expanded.

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Anonymous wrote:We need school choice in Alexandria.

Hard when there’s only one high school.

By the way, the decision not to create a second high school will cause pain for years to come while TCW continues busting at the seams.

Did you know that there is a daycare at the school? For babies of students? And there s a waitlist to get in?

One of the reasons they didn't need a second high school was because they had a plan to use virtual education and put students at different sites to access it. Hmmm, I can see how well that works....

They should have built the second high school years ago. They screamed about it being an equity issue except the parents on the West End asked for a second high school. I guess they can't possibly know what they need.

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Anonymous wrote:We need school choice in Alexandria.

Hard when there’s only one high school.

By the way, the decision not to create a second high school will cause pain for years to come while TCW continues busting at the seams.

Did you know that there is a daycare at the school? For babies of students? And there s a waitlist to get in?

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Seriously? Ugh. I agree with their cause but stuff like that is why they can’t get more buy-in from folks like me.

Actually, I am 180 degrees on this. I have been generally ok with ACPS’s COVID decisions but I understand Open ACPS’s paranoia in light of stuff like Alderton’s post (although I presume they are vaccinated due to their jobs).

I'm not following you. What does paranoia have to do with it? I'm paranoid the superintendent and school board won't reopen the schools (even for this bogus virtual school in school) while the Alderton kids are in-person at school. That paranoia?

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Seriously? Ugh. I agree with their cause but stuff like that is why they can’t get more buy-in from folks like me.

Actually, I am 180 degrees on this. I have been generally ok with ACPS’s COVID decisions but I understand Open ACPS’s paranoia in light of stuff like Alderton’s post (although I presume they are vaccinated due to their jobs).

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the two PP. I haven't paid much attention to Suarez. I've been preoccupied with the car crash that is Nolan, Anderson, and Lorber.

That's also good to know about Reif too. I do have a favorable impression of her since she's living this with her kids and it shows. And I remember one time in the fall when Ramee Gentry criticized central office.

I think Reif and Alderton are the only ones with current ACPS students. Lorber got on a zoom with parents and said that she understood what we were going through because she was babysitting her daughter's newborn a few hours a day. And then she chastised us & told us we were wrong. So that's what our district has representing us. Anderson is definitely in the silent/never speaks category.

I've heard that there will be a retirement in B. I hope there are more.

Alderton's children do not attend ACPS schools. They attend Catholic schools. Nolan and Rief have children attending public schools in Alexandria.

FYI - School Board Chair Alderton confirmed that her kids are in private school.

And her husband, an ACPS teacher, posted a public photo of them out to lunch at Lena's to celebrate their anniversary (without masks!) with the caption "kids are at school." Wow, just wow. It seems to be taken down or made private now, but he has at least one other photo of them out eating in a restaurant. It's bad enough the school board chair doesn't have her children enrolled in ACPS but to then flaunt it with a caption like "kids are at school" is really indefensible.

The Open ACPS parents are all in a facebook page tizzy about this. Taking time to "mindfully unpack" their feelings, as one wrote.

Seriously? Ugh. I agree with their cause but stuff like that is why they can’t get more buy-in from folks like me.

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Anonymous wrote:We need school choice in Alexandria.

Hard when there’s only one high school.

By the way, the decision not to create a second high school will cause pain for years to come while TCW continues busting at the seams.

Did you know that there is a daycare at the school? For babies of students? And there s a waitlist to get in?

I'm glad we're supporting the teen parents. Otherwise they'd have to drop out if they didn't have someone who could watch their child.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We need school choice in Alexandria.

Hard when there’s only one high school.

By the way, the decision not to create a second high school will cause pain for years to come while TCW continues busting at the seams.

Did you know that there is a daycare at the school? For babies of students? And there s a waitlist to get in?

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the two PP. I haven't paid much attention to Suarez. I've been preoccupied with the car crash that is Nolan, Anderson, and Lorber.

That's also good to know about Reif too. I do have a favorable impression of her since she's living this with her kids and it shows. And I remember one time in the fall when Ramee Gentry criticized central office.

I think Reif and Alderton are the only ones with current ACPS students. Lorber got on a zoom with parents and said that she understood what we were going through because she was babysitting her daughter's newborn a few hours a day. And then she chastised us & told us we were wrong. So that's what our district has representing us. Anderson is definitely in the silent/never speaks category.

I've heard that there will be a retirement in B. I hope there are more.

Alderton's children do not attend ACPS schools. They attend Catholic schools. Nolan and Rief have children attending public schools in Alexandria.

FYI - School Board Chair Alderton confirmed that her kids are in private school.

And her husband, an ACPS teacher, posted a public photo of them out to lunch at Lena's to celebrate their anniversary (without masks!) with the caption "kids are at school." Wow, just wow. It seems to be taken down or made private now, but he has at least one other photo of them out eating in a restaurant. It's bad enough the school board chair doesn't have her children enrolled in ACPS but to then flaunt it with a caption like "kids are at school" is really indefensible.

The Open ACPS parents are all in a facebook page tizzy about this. Taking time to "mindfully unpack" their feelings, as one wrote.

Seriously? Ugh. I agree with their cause but stuff like that is why they can’t get more buy-in from folks like me.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We need school choice in Alexandria.

Hard when there’s only one high school.

By the way, the decision not to create a second high school will cause pain for years to come while TCW continues busting at the seams.

Did you know that there is a daycare at the school? For babies of students? And there s a waitlist to get in?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the two PP. I haven't paid much attention to Suarez. I've been preoccupied with the car crash that is Nolan, Anderson, and Lorber.

That's also good to know about Reif too. I do have a favorable impression of her since she's living this with her kids and it shows. And I remember one time in the fall when Ramee Gentry criticized central office.

I think Reif and Alderton are the only ones with current ACPS students. Lorber got on a zoom with parents and said that she understood what we were going through because she was babysitting her daughter's newborn a few hours a day. And then she chastised us & told us we were wrong. So that's what our district has representing us. Anderson is definitely in the silent/never speaks category.

I've heard that there will be a retirement in B. I hope there are more.

Alderton's children do not attend ACPS schools. They attend Catholic schools. Nolan and Rief have children attending public schools in Alexandria.

FYI - School Board Chair Alderton confirmed that her kids are in private school.

And her husband, an ACPS teacher, posted a public photo of them out to lunch at Lena's to celebrate their anniversary (without masks!) with the caption "kids are at school." Wow, just wow. It seems to be taken down or made private now, but he has at least one other photo of them out eating in a restaurant. It's bad enough the school board chair doesn't have her children enrolled in ACPS but to then flaunt it with a caption like "kids are at school" is really indefensible.

The Open ACPS parents are all in a facebook page tizzy about this. Taking time to "mindfully unpack" their feelings, as one wrote.

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Anonymous wrote:We need school choice in Alexandria.

Hard when there’s only one high school.

By the way, the decision not to create a second high school will cause pain for years to come while TCW continues busting at the seams.