Should we leave Alexandria?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll take the top 10% of ACHS college placement ANYDAY over the top 10% of any other HS in Arlington. It's not even close.

If your kid is normal and from a decent family they will crush it at AC. If your kid is damaged and you don't have the funds to deal with it, well, youre screwed everywhere.

This part isn’t really true. Some years ACHS placement is great, other years middling.

The real difference is that it is much easier to be in the top 10% in ACHS versus Arlington high schools, which makes college acceptance easier (as colleges evaluate students against their peers at their school).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll take the top 10% of ACHS college placement ANYDAY over the top 10% of any other HS in Arlington. It's not even close.

If your kid is normal and from a decent family they will crush it at AC. If your kid is damaged and you don't have the funds to deal with it, well, youre screwed everywhere.

This part isn’t really true. Some years ACHS placement is great, other years middling.

The real difference is that it is much easier to be in the top 10% in ACHS versus Arlington high schools, which makes college acceptance easier (as colleges evaluate students against their peers at their school).

You didn't disprove my point. You just barfed out some tired claims that everyone knows are false. UMC white kids from Alexandria do far better than their peers in Arlington. End of.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'll take the top 10% of ACHS college placement ANYDAY over the top 10% of any other HS in Arlington. It's not even close.

If your kid is normal and from a decent family they will crush it at AC. If your kid is damaged and you don't have the funds to deal with it, well, youre screwed everywhere.

This part isn’t really true. Some years ACHS placement is great, other years middling.

The real difference is that it is much easier to be in the top 10% in ACHS versus Arlington high schools, which makes college acceptance easier (as colleges evaluate students against their peers at their school).

You didn't disprove my point. You just barfed out some tired claims that everyone knows are false. UMC white kids from Alexandria do far better than their peers in Arlington. End of.

This is the point I was making.

You, on the other hand, changed your point from saying the top 10% of college placements are better at ACHS than Arlington schools (probably true some years, but mostly not) to instead saying that UMC white kids place better coming out of Alexandria than Arlington (which is often true, because it is easier to be top at ACHS, whereas even the middle of the pack or lower at Arlington schools are still UMC white kids). If this is the point you wanted to make the first time, don’t get mad at anyone else because you failed to do so.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll take the top 10% of ACHS college placement ANYDAY over the top 10% of any other HS in Arlington. It's not even close.

If your kid is normal and from a decent family they will crush it at AC. If your kid is damaged and you don't have the funds to deal with it, well, youre screwed everywhere.

This part isn’t really true. Some years ACHS placement is great, other years middling.

The real difference is that it is much easier to be in the top 10% in ACHS versus Arlington high schools, which makes college acceptance easier (as colleges evaluate students against their peers at their school).

You didn't disprove my point. You just barfed out some tired claims that everyone knows are false. UMC white kids from Alexandria do far better than their peers in Arlington. End of.

This is the point I was making.

You, on the other hand, changed your point from saying the top 10% of college placements are better at ACHS than Arlington schools (probably true some years, but mostly not) to instead saying that UMC white kids place better coming out of Alexandria than Arlington (which is often true, because it is easier to be top at ACHS, whereas even the middle of the pack or lower at Arlington schools are still UMC white kids). If this is the point you wanted to make the first time, don’t get mad at anyone else because you failed to do so.

I didn't change the point. You just needed to hear it three times in two different ways. The top 10% of ACHS kids are UMC white kids and they do better than the top 10% from Arlington. Why that bothers you is a you issue, not a me issue.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll take the top 10% of ACHS college placement ANYDAY over the top 10% of any other HS in Arlington. It's not even close.

If your kid is normal and from a decent family they will crush it at AC. If your kid is damaged and you don't have the funds to deal with it, well, youre screwed everywhere.

This part isn’t really true. Some years ACHS placement is great, other years middling.

The real difference is that it is much easier to be in the top 10% in ACHS versus Arlington high schools, which makes college acceptance easier (as colleges evaluate students against their peers at their school).

You didn't disprove my point. You just barfed out some tired claims that everyone knows are false. UMC white kids from Alexandria do far better than their peers in Arlington. End of.

This is the point I was making.

You, on the other hand, changed your point from saying the top 10% of college placements are better at ACHS than Arlington schools (probably true some years, but mostly not) to instead saying that UMC white kids place better coming out of Alexandria than Arlington (which is often true, because it is easier to be top at ACHS, whereas even the middle of the pack or lower at Arlington schools are still UMC white kids). If this is the point you wanted to make the first time, don’t get mad at anyone else because you failed to do so.

I didn't change the point. You just needed to hear it three times in two different ways. The top 10% of ACHS kids are UMC white kids and they do better than the top 10% from Arlington. Why that bothers you is a you issue, not a me issue.

Because this part is not true, and the arguments are not the same.

The top 10% from ACHS do not do better than the top 10% from Arlington high schools. Some years it may be true, but it mostly isn’t.

On the other hand, it is easier to be in the top 10% at ACHS than at Arlington high schools, especially for UMC kids.

These two points are different. The top 10% of admittances at ACHS are often worse than the top 10% at Arlington high schools (but not bad by any means), but it’s easier to be in the top 10% at ACHS than at Arlington high schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our oldest daughter will enter kindergarten next year. We had planned to send her to the elementary we are zoned for, one of the ones that's supposed to be "better" - but the recent abysmal report card from the state is seriously disturbing. Not a single school fully accredited in ACPS, almost all elementaries (including ours) listed as off track. I've seen many defend clerical issues that led to the scores, but even if that's true - it's no prize. It's also bad and indicative of the kind of environment that's been allowed to continue in the system here it seems.

It would be a huge stretch to pay for private. We love living in ALX, but it seems like the families around us much be much much richer if they can afford to send multiple kids to private school and continue to live in the community.

Do we just leave Alexandria for Bethesda or somewhere else? Uprooting our lives to move? Do we plant a money tree and hope for the best? What are families here doing?

Thanks.

All these messages should tell you all you need to know about Alexandria.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll take the top 10% of ACHS college placement ANYDAY over the top 10% of any other HS in Arlington. It's not even close.

If your kid is normal and from a decent family they will crush it at AC. If your kid is damaged and you don't have the funds to deal with it, well, youre screwed everywhere.

is this what ACPS parents tell themselves to make you feel better? This is not true at all. Look at the instagram college feeds from APS high schools. Ivies, MIT, top SLACs - how can you do better than that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'll take the top 10% of ACHS college placement ANYDAY over the top 10% of any other HS in Arlington. It's not even close.

If your kid is normal and from a decent family they will crush it at AC. If your kid is damaged and you don't have the funds to deal with it, well, youre screwed everywhere.

is this what ACPS parents tell themselves to make you feel better? This is not true at all. Look at the instagram college feeds from APS high schools. Ivies, MIT, top SLACs - how can you do better than that?

ACHS grads crush Arlington grads and everyone knows this.That's the entire point that makes Arlington families so angry, that and their racist tendencies.

Go look at ACHSdecisions26 and try to claim it's worse than any of the WL, Yorktown feeds. Hint- it's not. It's leagues above.

Noe ask yourself why that bothers you so much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll take the top 10% of ACHS college placement ANYDAY over the top 10% of any other HS in Arlington. It's not even close.

If your kid is normal and from a decent family they will crush it at AC. If your kid is damaged and you don't have the funds to deal with it, well, youre screwed everywhere.

is this what ACPS parents tell themselves to make you feel better? This is not true at all. Look at the instagram college feeds from APS high schools. Ivies, MIT, top SLACs - how can you do better than that?

ACHS grads crush Arlington grads and everyone knows this.That's the entire point that makes Arlington families so angry, that and their racist tendencies.

Go look at ACHSdecisions26 and try to claim it's worse than any of the WL, Yorktown feeds. Hint- it's not. It's leagues above.

Noe ask yourself why that bothers you so much.

Not the PP. They don’t know the bolded because it isn’t true.

Here are the destinations for ACHS class of 25 (page 11): https://alextimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/5.29.25-Layout-C.pdf

Here is the same for Yorktown, though this looks like an incomplete list (there are some people on the Instagram page not included in this list at a quick glance): https://yorktownsentry.com/16953/galleries/the-senior-issue-graduation-2025/

ACHS had 984 total grads. Yorktown had 641. Of the top 20 colleges using USNWR, ACHS had kids going to 7 of them. Yorktown had kids going to 6 of them, despite the class being a third smaller and not even having the full list. ACHS is not “crushing” or being “leagues above” anything. And I say this as an Alexandria parent who really wishes it were true.

The one area it probably excels is as a feeder to UVA, as it is easier to be toward the top at ACHS and UVA seems to limit how many kids they take from each school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll take the top 10% of ACHS college placement ANYDAY over the top 10% of any other HS in Arlington. It's not even close.

If your kid is normal and from a decent family they will crush it at AC. If your kid is damaged and you don't have the funds to deal with it, well, youre screwed everywhere.

is this what ACPS parents tell themselves to make you feel better? This is not true at all. Look at the instagram college feeds from APS high schools. Ivies, MIT, top SLACs - how can you do better than that?

ACHS grads crush Arlington grads and everyone knows this.That's the entire point that makes Arlington families so angry, that and their racist tendencies.

Go look at ACHSdecisions26 and try to claim it's worse than any of the WL, Yorktown feeds. Hint- it's not. It's leagues above.

Noe ask yourself why that bothers you so much.

I just did. ACHS is far worse as compared to all the APS high schools. The question is why does this bother YOU so much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll take the top 10% of ACHS college placement ANYDAY over the top 10% of any other HS in Arlington. It's not even close.

If your kid is normal and from a decent family they will crush it at AC. If your kid is damaged and you don't have the funds to deal with it, well, youre screwed everywhere.

is this what ACPS parents tell themselves to make you feel better? This is not true at all. Look at the instagram college feeds from APS high schools. Ivies, MIT, top SLACs - how can you do better than that?

ACHS grads crush Arlington grads and everyone knows this.That's the entire point that makes Arlington families so angry, that and their racist tendencies.

Go look at ACHSdecisions26 and try to claim it's worse than any of the WL, Yorktown feeds. Hint- it's not. It's leagues above.

Noe ask yourself why that bothers you so much.

Not the PP. They don’t know the bolded because it isn’t true.

Here are the destinations for ACHS class of 25 (page 11): https://alextimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/5.29.25-Layout-C.pdf

Here is the same for Yorktown, though this looks like an incomplete list (there are some people on the Instagram page not included in this list at a quick glance): https://yorktownsentry.com/16953/galleries/the-senior-issue-graduation-2025/

ACHS had 984 total grads. Yorktown had 641. Of the top 20 colleges using USNWR, ACHS had kids going to 7 of them. Yorktown had kids going to 6 of them, despite the class being a third smaller and not even having the full list. ACHS is not “crushing” or being “leagues above” anything. And I say this as an Alexandria parent who really wishes it were true.

The one area it probably excels is as a feeder to UVA, as it is easier to be toward the top at ACHS and UVA seems to limit how many kids they take from each school.

Tell me you don't work in statistics without telling me you don't work in statistics. Please God don't tell me you work in polling..... or admit that you do and really work in proving bias.

"incomplete list"

"of the top 20 that use USNWR"

Butttttttt, you still want to use the data to claim that APS is better when the data you supplied showed the actual opposite. But there are reasons!!!

Look, lady, IDGAF at this stage in the game (in terms of a pissing match) because TC/AC put my two oldest in top 20 schools and my youngest just got ED to UVA, but if you see some utility in trying to convince me they would have done better at... Wakefield.... keep pissing in the wind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll take the top 10% of ACHS college placement ANYDAY over the top 10% of any other HS in Arlington. It's not even close.

If your kid is normal and from a decent family they will crush it at AC. If your kid is damaged and you don't have the funds to deal with it, well, youre screwed everywhere.

is this what ACPS parents tell themselves to make you feel better? This is not true at all. Look at the instagram college feeds from APS high schools. Ivies, MIT, top SLACs - how can you do better than that?

ACHS grads crush Arlington grads and everyone knows this.That's the entire point that makes Arlington families so angry, that and their racist tendencies.

Go look at ACHSdecisions26 and try to claim it's worse than any of the WL, Yorktown feeds. Hint- it's not. It's leagues above.

Noe ask yourself why that bothers you so much.

Not the PP. They don’t know the bolded because it isn’t true.

Here are the destinations for ACHS class of 25 (page 11): https://alextimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/5.29.25-Layout-C.pdf

Here is the same for Yorktown, though this looks like an incomplete list (there are some people on the Instagram page not included in this list at a quick glance): https://yorktownsentry.com/16953/galleries/the-senior-issue-graduation-2025/

ACHS had 984 total grads. Yorktown had 641. Of the top 20 colleges using USNWR, ACHS had kids going to 7 of them. Yorktown had kids going to 6 of them, despite the class being a third smaller and not even having the full list. ACHS is not “crushing” or being “leagues above” anything. And I say this as an Alexandria parent who really wishes it were true.

The one area it probably excels is as a feeder to UVA, as it is easier to be toward the top at ACHS and UVA seems to limit how many kids they take from each school.

Tell me you don't work in statistics without telling me you don't work in statistics. Please God don't tell me you work in polling..... or admit that you do and really work in proving bias.

"incomplete list"

"of the top 20 that use USNWR"

Butttttttt, you still want to use the data to claim that APS is better when the data you supplied showed the actual opposite. But there are reasons!!!

Look, lady, IDGAF at this stage in the game (in terms of a pissing match) because TC/AC put my two oldest in top 20 schools and my youngest just got ED to UVA, but if you see some utility in trying to convince me they would have done better at... Wakefield.... keep pissing in the wind.

NP what data are you using?

[Anonymous]

Omg, yes, get out now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll take the top 10% of ACHS college placement ANYDAY over the top 10% of any other HS in Arlington. It's not even close.

If your kid is normal and from a decent family they will crush it at AC. If your kid is damaged and you don't have the funds to deal with it, well, youre screwed everywhere.

is this what ACPS parents tell themselves to make you feel better? This is not true at all. Look at the instagram college feeds from APS high schools. Ivies, MIT, top SLACs - how can you do better than that?

ACHS grads crush Arlington grads and everyone knows this.That's the entire point that makes Arlington families so angry, that and their racist tendencies.

Go look at ACHSdecisions26 and try to claim it's worse than any of the WL, Yorktown feeds. Hint- it's not. It's leagues above.

Noe ask yourself why that bothers you so much.

Not the PP. They don’t know the bolded because it isn’t true.

Here are the destinations for ACHS class of 25 (page 11): https://alextimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/5.29.25-Layout-C.pdf

Here is the same for Yorktown, though this looks like an incomplete list (there are some people on the Instagram page not included in this list at a quick glance): https://yorktownsentry.com/16953/galleries/the-senior-issue-graduation-2025/

ACHS had 984 total grads. Yorktown had 641. Of the top 20 colleges using USNWR, ACHS had kids going to 7 of them. Yorktown had kids going to 6 of them, despite the class being a third smaller and not even having the full list. ACHS is not “crushing” or being “leagues above” anything. And I say this as an Alexandria parent who really wishes it were true.

The one area it probably excels is as a feeder to UVA, as it is easier to be toward the top at ACHS and UVA seems to limit how many kids they take from each school.

Tell me you don't work in statistics without telling me you don't work in statistics. Please God don't tell me you work in polling..... or admit that you do and really work in proving bias.

"incomplete list"

"of the top 20 that use USNWR"

Butttttttt, you still want to use the data to claim that APS is better when the data you supplied showed the actual opposite. But there are reasons!!!

Look, lady, IDGAF at this stage in the game (in terms of a pissing match) because TC/AC put my two oldest in top 20 schools and my youngest just got ED to UVA, but if you see some utility in trying to convince me they would have done better at... Wakefield.... keep pissing in the wind.

Lol you accuse people of not understanding statistics but you fail to see that the ACHS results are not better when adjusted for size or that the Yorktown list has acceptances missing. You also fail to see that your earlier argument was that ACHS results “crushed” Arlington schools and were “leagues above,” when they actually are worse (again, adjusted for size, which is likely a concept beyond your understanding).

More importantly, you sound completely crazy. OP, this is the fun you get to experience in Alexandria!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll take the top 10% of ACHS college placement ANYDAY over the top 10% of any other HS in Arlington. It's not even close.

If your kid is normal and from a decent family they will crush it at AC. If your kid is damaged and you don't have the funds to deal with it, well, youre screwed everywhere.

This part isn’t really true. Some years ACHS placement is great, other years middling.

The real difference is that it is much easier to be in the top 10% in ACHS versus Arlington high schools, which makes college acceptance easier (as colleges evaluate students against their peers at their school).

You didn't disprove my point. You just barfed out some tired claims that everyone knows are false. UMC white kids from Alexandria do far better than their peers in Arlington. End of.

This is the point I was making.

You, on the other hand, changed your point from saying the top 10% of college placements are better at ACHS than Arlington schools (probably true some years, but mostly not) to instead saying that UMC white kids place better coming out of Alexandria than Arlington (which is often true, because it is easier to be top at ACHS, whereas even the middle of the pack or lower at Arlington schools are still UMC white kids). If this is the point you wanted to make the first time, don’t get mad at anyone else because you failed to do so.

I didn't change the point. You just needed to hear it three times in two different ways. The top 10% of ACHS kids are UMC white kids and they do better than the top 10% from Arlington. Why that bothers you is a you issue, not a me issue.

You are a better person because you can use the underachievement of less-advantaged kids and less-advantaged nonwhite kids to make your own children shine by comparison.

You are truly superior for making sure that they don't have to compare with their peers in neighboring jurisdictions. LOL.