Arlington schools- a lot of the BS sounds familiar
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| ^^ There's no inventory in that zip. You'd get luckier getting struck by lightening than finding a decent sized house that doesn't cost a gazillion dollars and still needs to be renovated. |
Anonymous
Speaking of bs.... |
Anonymous
My neighbors in 22207 went to Wakefield in the early 1960s. Parts of 22207 were zoned to Wakefield then. Don't count on 22207 being exempt from any redistricting. Unless you live a few blocks from a particular school, don't presume anything. |
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Please research Brown v. Board of Education and report back as to why that might have happened. I don't think it's likely we'll see forced busing again. |
Anonymous
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We lived in DC and sent our kids to DCPS for elementary school. We were very happy with that school, although there was plenty of DCPS-induced anxiety and I felt it necessary to be extremely involved in school fundraising efforts, PTA, etc. When it came to middle school, however, we weren't happy with the options for our eldest child. (We might have made a different calculus for our younger child, but the older one had to go to middle school first, lol.)
I was extremely unhappy about leaving DC and for commuting reasons I was unwilling to consider anything other than Arlington. So that's where we went. For our kids, we value diversity in education, so we wanted to live in either the W-L or Wakefield district. In the end, we chose W-L because we found a house that was within walking distance of both W-L and my husband's office. Honestly, I have ended up really liking it here. We can walk to grocery stores, coffee, library, bike path, schools, metro, work (for DH). I do drive to work because for me it is much quicker than public transit and cheaper, too. We have a big yard and much more space than we had in DC. My teenager walks or bikes everywhere and though he is old enough to get a driver's permit now, he hasn't even mentioned it. There is no need. 
As far as school anxiety, I have none. In fact, I have been able to sit back and think about schools very little and I feel fine about it, LOL. My eldest went to Swanson middle and is now at W-L; my youngest is at Glebe. We've been happy with all three schools. Glebe is supposedly very overcrowded (possibly the most overcrowded of all the elementary schools), but I have to tell you that other than the trailers behind the school building, I don't see it. Class sizes remain reasonable low, no one has to eat lunch at 10 am. My kid was in a trailer last year, and for the life of me I can't understand why people complain about them. From the inside, you would never know you weren't in a regular building. The rooms are big, the hallways wide, they have bathrooms and air conditioning and heat. To me, they seem a smart solution to the vagaries of school enrollment estimation. As far as the prospect of redistricting, I really couldn't care less. Given our location, we are prepared for the possibility of being switched from Swanson to Jefferson middle and/or from W-L to Wakefield. We are fine with either/both. YMMV. |
Anonymous
It wasn't forced busing. Yorktown hadn't opened yet for all four grades. Williamsburg was the feeder school for Wakefield. |
Anonymous
Hadn't opened for all three grades. The high schools were senior highs. |
Anonymous
| PP 21:17, what's your neighborhood? It sounds nice. |
Anonymous
There's been a lot of good information in this thread, but you can safely ignore anyone who suggests you consult greatschools.net. No one considers it a good source of information about school quality. |
Anonymous
Greatschools.org, on the other hand, has useful information, although some of it is inconvenient to those who claim "all the schools in Arlington are great." |
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s/he rears his/her ugly head. |
Anonymous
They're the same damn Web site, and it's a useless one. If has no value at all. Signed, parent with schools rated 9. |
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Having some anonymous poster on DCUM declare something useless does not make it so. The fact that your school is rated a 9 cuts both ways, dear. Funny you didn't end up with schools rated 3 or 4. Guess they are for other people? |
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My guess is it's Waverly Hills. 21:17 stated she'd be fine with her neighborhood being sent to Wakefield. But that makes no sense with both W-L and Yorktown within walking distance. I wouldn't be surprised if her neighborhood becomes rezoned to Yorktown. |