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Pennington Traditional School
Pennington Traditional School
Location
	Manassas, Virginia
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Type	Traditional School
Motto	Exceeding Expectations to Achieve Excellence
Established	2000
President	John Stansbury
Color(s)	Blue and Green
Website	https://pennington.pwcs.edu/

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Pennington Traditional School is a public school located in Manassas, Virginia. It is one of the three traditional schools of Prince William County Public Schools. The facility enrolls students from grade 1-8, and serves the communities of Manassas, Haymarket, Bristow, Bull Run, Gainesville, and Nokesville. The school is named after Philip Michael Pennington, a Prince William County police officer who was killed in the line of duty in 1990.^[2]

In September 2000, Pennington became the first traditional school of Prince William County. Since then, only two more (Porter Traditional School and the Nokesville School) has been constructed.

Students must wear uniforms and follow a strict behavioral code, and both parents and students alike are required to get an amount of validated community service hours.

Pennington has won a number of awards and recognition due to its academic achievements over the years, including a School-to-Watch designation. Pennington has also received the "School of Excellence Award" almost annually since 2001.

Pennington accepts students based on a lottery. About 200 students apply every year, and about 120 are admitted. Most recruits are accepted through the first grade, where 75 openings are available. ^[3]

Despite lacking an athletic program, Pennington provides clubs such as Intramural and the Running Club to students who want to be involved in extracurricular physical activities, and a vast selection of other clubs such as Chess, Creative Writing, Foreign Language, Girl Scouts,Robotics Clubs (Kreators and Mindstorms), Muslim Student Association, Stitching Club and Yearbook among others.

Public Opinion

The school has gotten fairly positive reviews on Facebook (4/5)^[4] and Great Schools (5/5)^[5] from parents of Pennington students, while former students blast Pennington via Google (2/5).

Quotes from Disgruntled Former Students

Mr. Dicky Cockings said: This school is a jail. The teachers don't give one doodles about the kids. I just graduated from that hell hole. There are so many fights, but not between students, between teachers. Everywhere you go you will find a teacher hollering at a student and the student yelling back. There's so much distractions, we can't even learn. In the math classes we couldn't move away from probability because the teachers just doddle around. They sit around and drink Starbucks all day and leave us to learn by yourself. Getting all As was hard without a teacher. Spoiler alert, the teachers want us to pee our pants because after the bell rings, we are not aloud to use the restrooms NO MATTER WHAT. So if your looking to send your child to a prison cell without a bathroom, and no interesting things to do, this is the school for you. If not, save yourself from the worst years of your life.

Hyunna Abu said:This school is a jail. The teachers don't give one doodles about the kids. I just graduated from that hell hole. There are so many fights, but not between students, between teachers. Everywhere you go you will find a teacher hollering at a student and the student yelling back. There's so much distractions, we can't even learn. In the math classes we couldn't move away from probability because the teachers just doddle around. They sit around and drink Starbucks all day and leave us to learn by yourself. Getting all As was hard without a teacher. Spoiler alert, the teachers want us to pee our pants because after the bell rings, we are not aloud to use the restrooms NO MATTER WHAT. So if your looking to send your child to a prison cell without a bathroom, and no interesting things to do, this is the school for you. If not, save yourself from the worst years of your life.

:0 :0:0 said:The worst and most traumatic years of my life, to this day I still have PTSD. Let me tell you why it's so bad... 1. Uniforms! Who has uniforms for MIDDLE SCHOOL!? 2. Mean teachers who call out random kids for no reason in order to advance their "position" in the team (more detentions= better position) 3. Teachers who treat 8TH GRADERS like their in kindergarten with arts and crafts added to the grade on projects! 4. All teachers are COMPLETELY unprepared to teach! And the worst two teachers of all Senora [expletive], and Mrs. [expletive]! Senora [expletive] makes us do work just for the sake of it! She is incredibly boring and expects us to remain quiet like little robots! Mrs. [expletive] is 10 times worse! She does everything Senora [expletive] does, but she doesn't teach us anything (except for probability! We played cards for a whole month while she lounged around, drinking coffee!) We learned the hardest unit in a day, which she assured wouldn't be on the test. It was. 20 questions. One day to learn. You make the call!

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References

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[1] ttps://pennington.pwcs.edu/home

[2] ttps://pennington.pwcs.edu/about_us/fast_facts_about_our_school

[3] ttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022703661.html?tid=a_inl

[4] ttps://www.facebook.com/philipmichaelpennington/

[5] ttp://www.greatschools.org/virginia/manassas/3033-Pennington-School/

[6] ttps://www.google.com/#q=Pennington+Traditional+School&lrd=0x89b65c6de364e0a5:0xa1b79af33eddf3e,1,

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-'''Pennington Traditional School''' is a traditional school located in [[Manassas, Virginia]]. It is one of the three traditional schools of [[Prince William County Public Schools]]. The facility enrolls students from grade 1-8, and serves the communities of Manassas, Haymarket, Bristow, Bull Run, Gainesville, and Nokesville. The school is named after Philip Michael Pennington, a [[Prince William County]] police officer who was killed in the line of duty in 1990.<ref>https://pennington.pwcs.edu/about_us/fast_facts_about_our_school</ref>
+'''Pennington Traditional School''' is a public school located in [[Manassas, Virginia]]. It is one of the three traditional schools of [[Prince William County Public Schools]]. The facility enrolls students from grade 1-8, and serves the communities of Manassas, Haymarket, Bristow, Bull Run, Gainesville, and Nokesville. The school is named after Philip Michael Pennington, a [[Prince William County]] police officer who was killed in the line of duty in 1990.<ref>https://pennington.pwcs.edu/about_us/fast_facts_about_our_school</ref>
 In September 2000, Pennington became the first traditional school of Prince William County. Since then, only two more (Porter Traditional School and the Nokesville School) has been constructed.