+1 and inside the beltway so good commute |
| Fox Mill ES is the best |
DP. No one can even take you seriously anymore. The far left pushes this junk at your own peril. See November 2024. |
Many people don't work in DC anymore. Reston, Tysons, McLean, Chantilly, etc. - that's where the jobs are. |
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I would check your neighbors' advice.
They publish every high school's college admissions every year -- we used to live in WestPo area. I was shocked at college report -- very few Ivies in that massive graduating class, no Northwestern, Duke, Georgetown, yes a few UVA and VA Tech etc but overall not many top tier schools. |
Maybe slow down on the alcohol before posting. 👀 |
If you can’t attack the message, attack the messenger, right? |
Because they have their whole lives ahead of them to be stuck at a desk in front of a screen. Why the hurry? |
Herndon High. Steady stream of Hornets to UVA every year. They don’t usually have a lot of IVy+ kids, but I think few apply to those due to tuition prices. Admittance to UVA may be looked down upon by some parents on this forum as a “safety school”, but we are happy our DC is thriving there. My DC knows some WestPo grads, and says the experiences and opportunities at both high schools are similar. |
No, they wouldn’t. You want a strong peer group, not for your kid to be surrounded by kids who need oodles of remedial help and leave your kid largely to fend on their own. |
How do you figure that they would preform the same if the class had to move at a crawl? |
You do realize that even in a Title I they would generally be pursuing coursework and grouped with peers at their own ability level? Who they are "surrounded by" in other classrooms is largely irrelevant. It's just that their school would only have 1 section of Calc instead of 5 sections that a high-SES HS might have. Maybe mildly more challenging scheduling-wise but the admins aren't idiots and if they only have one section each of say AP US History, AP Calc, and AP Physics they know there's going to be a lot of overlap amongst the students taking those courses and won't schedule them into the same block. |
| ^^ sorry was meant to reply to 10:19 not 10:47 but the sentiment is the same for both posts |
The thread is about elementary schools. Start out with low performing ES peers in an environment that isn't very challenging and you're less likely even to take AP (or IB) courses later. |
How many section of second grade language arts do you think most elementary schools classes have? |