Who sends their kid to Wakefield HS? Is it really that bad?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The dearth of high achievers at Wakefield dispels your hypothesis.

I mean, you can keep posting this stuff to try and convince people to move to South Arlington, but the vast majority of those who care about education will pick Langley HS or something closer to Langley than Wakefield every time.

+1

People do LIE. It's like everyone was saying that Clinton is going to win the 2016 election and now Trump is in the White House.

As the PP stated, the VAST majority of South Arlington will send their kids to Langley/Mclean HS in a heart beat, if given a choice. You're only kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Glad this post has everything

1) racism

2) the notion that if you care about education you will live in the best school districts regardless of whether you can afford those school district or not. Better for your kid to live in a box and starve and go to Langley than a house and go to Wakefield.

3) the vast majority of posters being those who do not have kids in Wakefield and therefore have no idea what the school is really like

4) the idea that quality of education/teachers can really be measured by achievement scores and college rates instead of acknowledging that it only truly measures the socio economic and racial makeup of the school.

5) posters who think that only people who go to the best of the best schools are of value.


I am sure I missed something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Glad this post has everything

1) racism

2) the notion that if you care about education you will live in the best school districts regardless of whether you can afford those school district or not. Better for your kid to live in a box and starve and go to Langley than a house and go to Wakefield.

3) the vast majority of posters being those who do not have kids in Wakefield and therefore have no idea what the school is really like

4) the idea that quality of education/teachers can really be measured by achievement scores and college rates instead of acknowledging that it only truly measures the socio economic and racial makeup of the school.

5) posters who think that only people who go to the best of the best schools are of value.


I am sure I missed something.

You missed:

1) If someone from South Arlington is a super athlete or ultra smart, they get to go to Sidwell or Potomac for FREE. That's even better than Langley,

2) Quote from Jerry Seinfeld show: Jerry responds to Elaine comment that it's "racist" Jerry said he likes Asian women "If I like their race, how can that be racist?" People in the Langley doen't care about race. It's all about high achievers. If racism is an issue, there wouldn't be many Asians in Langley, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Glad this post has everything

1) racism

2) the notion that if you care about education you will live in the best school districts regardless of whether you can afford those school district or not. Better for your kid to live in a box and starve and go to Langley than a house and go to Wakefield.

3) the vast majority of posters being those who do not have kids in Wakefield and therefore have no idea what the school is really like

4) the idea that quality of education/teachers can really be measured by achievement scores and college rates instead of acknowledging that it only truly measures the socio economic and racial makeup of the school.

5) posters who think that only people who go to the best of the best schools are of value.


I am sure I missed something.

You missed:

1) If someone from South Arlington is a super athlete or ultra smart, they get to go to Sidwell or Potomac for FREE. That's even better than Langley,

2) Quote from Jerry Seinfeld show: Jerry responds to Elaine comment that it's "racist" Jerry said he likes Asian women "If I like their race, how can that be racist?" People in the Langley doen't care about race. It's all about high achievers. If racism is an issue, there wouldn't be many Asians in Langley, right?

Ah yes, those are good additions to the list.

[Anonymous]

Seinfeld ran for nine seasons and frequently was on top of the ratings. Wakefield has been open for over 65 years and continues to be at the bottom of the ratings. Don’t expect people to want to send their kids there just because you moved to S. Arl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The dearth of high achievers at Wakefield dispels your hypothesis.

I mean, you can keep posting this stuff to try and convince people to move to South Arlington, but the vast majority of those who care about education will pick Langley HS or something closer to Langley than Wakefield every time.

+1

People do LIE. It's like everyone was saying that Clinton is going to win the 2016 election and now Trump is in the White House.

As the PP stated, the VAST majority of South Arlington will send their kids to Langley/Mclean HS in a heart beat, if given a choice. You're only kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

WTF are you even talking about? I never said that families will send their kids to Wakefield. I don't know whether they will or not. Certainly, historically, they have not. That's easy enough to see. I simply refuted your idiotic assertion that just going to Langley/McLean will result in an UMC child getting higher test scores WITHOUT all the tutoring/prep that IS NOT INCLUDED IN A HOME PURCHASE in those zones, and that a student whose family can afford all the extra tutoring and sends a child to Wakefield isn't dooming them to a couple hundred fewer points on the SAT.

Also, I can assure you that while people ultimately may not send their kids to Wakefield, they're not going to move all the way out to Langley/McLean just for the schools. If they have chosen Arlington, it's likely for the commute. They might move within Arlington, or just transfer. Or go private. It's easy enough to do if you haven't wasted all your money on a gaudy house to announce to the world that you're new money.

You are astonishingly insecure.

[Anonymous]

The single biggest indicator of student performance is the education level of the parents. This debate of Langley vs Wakefield is in the weeds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The dearth of high achievers at Wakefield dispels your hypothesis.

I mean, you can keep posting this stuff to try and convince people to move to South Arlington, but the vast majority of those who care about education will pick Langley HS or something closer to Langley than Wakefield every time.

+1

People do LIE. It's like everyone was saying that Clinton is going to win the 2016 election and now Trump is in the White House.

As the PP stated, the VAST majority of South Arlington will send their kids to Langley/Mclean HS in a heart beat, if given a choice. You're only kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

WTF are you even talking about? I never said that families will send their kids to Wakefield. I don't know whether they will or not. Certainly, historically, they have not. That's easy enough to see. I simply refuted your idiotic assertion that just going to Langley/McLean will result in an UMC child getting higher test scores WITHOUT all the tutoring/prep that IS NOT INCLUDED IN A HOME PURCHASE in those zones, and that a student whose family can afford all the extra tutoring and sends a child to Wakefield isn't dooming them to a couple hundred fewer points on the SAT.

Also, I can assure you that while people ultimately may not send their kids to Wakefield, they're not going to move all the way out to Langley/McLean just for the schools. If they have chosen Arlington, it's likely for the commute. They might move within Arlington, or just transfer. Or go private. It's easy enough to do if you haven't wasted all your money on a gaudy house to announce to the world that you're new money.

You are astonishingly insecure.

DP. You disputed the claim that going to a school like Langley or McLean will lead to a UMC child getting higher test scores. You didn't refute it. And if you had any clue about where and why people move, you'd know that more people from Arlington to Fairfax than vice versa; schools often play a significant role in their decision; and that the "way out" Langley/McLean districts are literally next door to Arlington.

No wonder Wakefield scores are so bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The single biggest indicator of student performance is the education level of the parents[i][u]. This debate of Langley vs Wakefield is in the weeds.

That's 100% accurate. You definitely have more doctors, lawyers, engineers, CEOs, CIOs, COOs, and politicians in Langley/Mclean than say S. Arlington. yes, the teacher and school are pretty the same at Wakefield and Langley BUT the people in Langley just simply have more resources than the people in S. Arlington to invest in the kids and involve with the school. The "tiger" parents at Langley are probably outnumbered Wakefield by 10:1 ratio.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The dearth of high achievers at Wakefield dispels your hypothesis.

I mean, you can keep posting this stuff to try and convince people to move to South Arlington, but the vast majority of those who care about education will pick Langley HS or something closer to Langley than Wakefield every time.

+1

People do LIE. It's like everyone was saying that Clinton is going to win the 2016 election and now Trump is in the White House.

As the PP stated, the VAST majority of South Arlington will send their kids to Langley/Mclean HS in a heart beat, if given a choice. You're only kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

WTF are you even talking about? I never said that families will send their kids to Wakefield. I don't know whether they will or not. Certainly, historically, they have not. That's easy enough to see. I simply refuted your idiotic assertion that just going to Langley/McLean will result in an UMC child getting higher test scores WITHOUT all the tutoring/prep that IS NOT INCLUDED IN A HOME PURCHASE in those zones, and that a student whose family can afford all the extra tutoring and sends a child to Wakefield isn't dooming them to a couple hundred fewer points on the SAT.

Also, I can assure you that while people ultimately may not send their kids to Wakefield, they're not going to move all the way out to Langley/McLean just for the schools. If they have chosen Arlington, it's likely for the commute. They might move within Arlington, or just transfer. Or go private. It's easy enough to do if you haven't wasted all your money on a gaudy house to announce to the world that you're new money.

You are astonishingly insecure.

DP. You disputed the claim that going to a school like Langley or McLean will lead to a UMC child getting higher test scores. You didn't refute it. And if you had any clue about where and why people move, you'd know that more people from Arlington to Fairfax than vice versa; schools often play a significant role in their decision; and that the "way out" Langley/McLean districts are literally next door to Arlington.

No wonder Wakefield scores are so bad.

Are you the person APS has employed to project student capacity? Are your incorrect assumptions the reason we have the overcrowding crisis?

I know where the FFX schools are located. Like pretty much everyone else I know who has at least one parent working in DC, we are not willing to move any further west from DC, even right "next door" to McLean. Langley would be even further away for us. We're not alone in this, and all the UMC families I know who've left "because of the schools" HAVE moved within Arlington, or to FCC. Not out to McLean or Langley, unless there has been a job change, too. Most haven't moved at all and have gone private or sought a transfer if they weren't happy with their zoned school.

But whatever you need to tell yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you the person APS has employed to project student capacity? Are your incorrect assumptions the reason we have the overcrowding crisis?

I know where the FFX schools are located. Like pretty much everyone else I know who has at least one parent working in DC, we are not willing to move any further west from DC, even right "next door" to McLean. Langley would be even further away for us. We're not alone in this, and all the UMC families I know who've left "because of the schools" HAVE moved within Arlington, or to FCC. Not out to McLean or Langley, unless there has been a job change, too. Most haven't moved at all and have gone private or sought a transfer if they weren't happy with their zoned school[i].

But whatever you need to tell yourself.

Those that live in Arlington County who has at least one parent working in DC don't move but then send their kids to Sidwell or National Cathedral School (NCS) because they are, you guess it, DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The dearth of high achievers at Wakefield dispels your hypothesis.

I mean, you can keep posting this stuff to try and convince people to move to South Arlington, but the vast majority of those who care about education will pick Langley HS or something closer to Langley than Wakefield every time.

+1

People do LIE. It's like everyone was saying that Clinton is going to win the 2016 election and now Trump is in the White House.

As the PP stated, the VAST majority of South Arlington will send their kids to Langley/Mclean HS in a heart beat, if given a choice. You're only kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

WTF are you even talking about? I never said that families will send their kids to Wakefield. I don't know whether they will or not. Certainly, historically, they have not. That's easy enough to see. I simply refuted your idiotic assertion that just going to Langley/McLean will result in an UMC child getting higher test scores WITHOUT all the tutoring/prep that IS NOT INCLUDED IN A HOME PURCHASE in those zones, and that a student whose family can afford all the extra tutoring and sends a child to Wakefield isn't dooming them to a couple hundred fewer points on the SAT.

Also, I can assure you that while people ultimately may not send their kids to Wakefield, they're not going to move all the way out to Langley/McLean just for the schools. If they have chosen Arlington, it's likely for the commute. They might move within Arlington, or just transfer. Or go private. It's easy enough to do if you haven't wasted all your money on a gaudy house to announce to the world that you're new money.

You are astonishingly insecure.

DP. You disputed the claim that going to a school like Langley or McLean will lead to a UMC child getting higher test scores. You didn't refute it. And if you had any clue about where and why people move, you'd know that more people from Arlington to Fairfax than vice versa; schools often play a significant role in their decision; and that the "way out" Langley/McLean districts are literally next door to Arlington.

No wonder Wakefield scores are so bad.

Are you the person APS has employed to project student capacity? Are your incorrect assumptions the reason we have the overcrowding crisis?

I know where the FFX schools are located. Like pretty much everyone else I know who has at least one parent working in DC, we are not willing to move any further west from DC, even right "next door" to McLean. Langley would be even further away for us. We're not alone in this, and all the UMC families I know who've left "because of the schools" HAVE moved within Arlington, or to FCC. Not out to McLean or Langley, unless there has been a job change, too. Most haven't moved at all and have gone private or sought a transfer if they weren't happy with their zoned school.

But whatever you need to tell yourself.

Now you're just babbling. LOL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Glad this post has everything

1) racism

2) the notion that if you care about education you will live in the best school districts regardless of whether you can afford those school district or not. Better for your kid to live in a box and starve and go to Langley than a house and go to Wakefield.

3) the vast majority of posters being those who do not have kids in Wakefield and therefore have no idea what the school is really like

4) the idea that quality of education/teachers can really be measured by achievement scores and college rates instead of acknowledging that it only truly measures the socio economic and racial makeup of the school.

5) posters who think that only people who go to the best of the best schools are of value.


I am sure I missed something.

You missed:

1) If someone from South Arlington is a super athlete or ultra smart, they get to go to Sidwell or Potomac for FREE. That's even better than Langley,

2) Quote from Jerry Seinfeld show: Jerry responds to Elaine comment that it's "racist" Jerry said he likes Asian women "If I like their race, how can that be racist?" People in the Langley doen't care about race. It's all about high achievers. If racism is an issue, there wouldn't be many Asians in Langley, right?

Asians don't like other minorities either.

[Anonymous]

I would wager that 90% of the posters slamming Wakefield have never set foot in the school. Probably don't even have many personal friends that send their kids there. And I'd say the same thing about the folks criticizing McLean or Langley as well. It's just shouting out various statistics above a whole lot of screaming...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Glad this post has everything

1) racism

2) the notion that if you care about education you will live in the best school districts regardless of whether you can afford those school district or not. Better for your kid to live in a box and starve and go to Langley than a house and go to Wakefield.

3) the vast majority of posters being those who do not have kids in Wakefield and therefore have no idea what the school is really like

4) the idea that quality of education/teachers can really be measured by achievement scores and college rates instead of acknowledging that it only truly measures the socio economic and racial makeup of the school.

5) posters who think that only people who go to the best of the best schools are of value.


I am sure I missed something.

+1 and thank you for laying it out there. The elitist attitudes on this forum are absolutely disgusting. You are no better than anyone else if you can afford to live in North Arlington or Mclean. As a matter of fact, all the money in the world I would rather keep my kids away from the deplorable snobs who think a school with brown children of hardworking parents are inferior to them. Not that the dispute seems is about teacher quality, but let's also not forget the 2018 Teacher of the Year for the state of Virginia teaches at Wakefield.