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Old 02-19-2013, 03:17 PM
 
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Anyone have an update on Jackson Middle School? As recently as 2009, the school had been infiltrated by Latino gangs.
The infiltration only got worse after 2009. By early 2010 the principal was replaced with a prominent Latin King. By 2011 the entire school had been lowered and equipped with 24" Dynasty wheels. It has been cruising the streets ever since, and it's doubtful that much learning is going on inside.
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Old 02-19-2013, 03:56 PM
 
Location: New-Dentist Colony
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Do you realize how old the posts are that you are responding to?
Crap!

Hopefully he's cleaned up his grammatical booboos by now.
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Old 02-20-2013, 03:25 AM
 
Location: Virginia-Shenandoah Valley
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Poop happens.
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Old 02-20-2013, 04:08 AM
 
Location: Rosslyn, VA
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LOL just provide the kids with the love and care they need and they wont join gangs or move to a rich caucasian/asian neighborhood so your kids interact with no other races and grow up spoiled/snobby, try to get them into a charter or private school if you can afford it. Northern VA public school system is the most diverse so just make best of it as a parent. If anything, all schools should have metal detectors and tighter security to prevent the likes of any crazy person with mommy issues.
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The infiltration only got worse after 2009. By early 2010 the principal was replaced with a prominent Latin King. By 2011 the entire school had been lowered and equipped with 24" Dynasty wheels. It has been cruising the streets ever since, and it's doubtful that much learning is going on inside.
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Old 02-20-2013, 09:11 PM
 
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Both TCW and WP do have crew. WP has a good shooting program. I think Woodson and Robinson are the only other two public schools in NoVA with one. It also has a golf team coached by a PGA pro.
The local high schools with rifle teams are Woodson, Robinson, West Springfield, West Potomac, Washington-Lee, and Yorktown. They also compete with DC and Maryland privates. TC's rowing program is one of the oldest. It inherited the program from GW HS when it closed.
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Old 02-21-2013, 08:54 PM
 
Location: Fairfax County, VA
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Who are the SSL and SUR13?
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Old 02-21-2013, 09:10 PM
 
Location: Brambleton, VA
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Who are the SSL and SUR13?
http://gangs.umd.edu/GangLibrary.aspx

Southside Locos and Surenos
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Old 05-05-2013, 05:04 PM
 
Location: Alexandria, VA
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I am really tired of this assumption that a school is dangerous because a school is in a rough part of town that it's more "dangerous" than more affluent schools. Recent history has proven this theory wrong time and time again. Columbine is in a nice part of Denver, and Newtown is in a nice area of CT.

I've worked in urban, suburban, and rural schools, and I'll take the urban schools any day of the week. Sure there are a lot of fights, but they only occur because two students are shooting their mouths off to each other, and they usually do it when adults are present so the fight can quickly be broken up. Gang activity goes on in every school in America, so I don't care if your kid goes to Hayfield or Westfield, there is gang activity afoot. The only way your child is going to run the risk of harm or losing his life is if he actually joins a gang.
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Old 05-05-2013, 05:18 PM
 
Location: Alexandria, VA
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http://gangs.umd.edu/GangLibrary.aspx

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Thank you! I did 22015, which I thought was a nice, quiet area, and it has way more gangs near the inner-city school in Richmond where I teach.
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