Another busy week in Alexandria, this one with a clash between Alexandria City High School’s Theogony student newspaper and school administration at the forefront.
The opening of the Minnie Howard campus as a second location for Alexandria City High School created a situation where, between classes, students may have to take a bus to get from one campus to the other. After weeks of reporting on transportation frustrations of students struggling to get between the new Alexandria City High School campuses, the Theogony editors wrote a scathing condemnation of the current transportation setup:
By far the biggest story of the year has been the opening of the new Minnie Howard campus and the transportation fiasco that has subsequently ensued. As we reported in Julia Gwin’s article, “ Transportation Issues Plague School Year ,” roughly 1,600 students transport between campuses. With a limited number of buses, our analysis found that several hundred students typically take the 0.6 mile walk between campuses, crossing — oftentimes into oncoming traffic — one of Alexandria’s most dangerous intersections.