Should we leave Alexandria?

[Anonymous]

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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.

I mean, this is the dilemma parents have been struggling with for at least the entire 30 years I have lived here. We lived Alexandria for North Arlington. And then Arlington for Loudoun, which has far better schools. Don't regret it. Added bonus is it was easier to get into UVA and VT as top students from those schools than it might have been from Yorktown. There are some cynics who say if you can thrive at Alexandria City High School (previously TC Williams) that can help your college admissions because you will have seemed to have survived a bad school. But IMO, schools shouldn't be something one has to "survive."

*left

We went MacArthur ES in Alexandria to Jamestown ES in Arlington/Williambsurg MS to Loudoun Valley in Loudoun. No regrets.

Can you elaborate on what made Loudoun schools so much better than Arlington in your view?

Smaller, more opportunities to get involved with extracurricular, less intense (not a pressure cooker), better to be big fish in smaller pond. They had great teachers, AP, DE opportunities. House twice the size at half the cost on three acres of land.

Mind you I worked from home since before Covid so commute wasn’t a concern.

This is just... horseshit trolling. Assuming a 1900 sqf house n Del Ray goes for 1.2, please tell us where you got a 4000sqf house on three acres in Loudon for 600,000.

We'll wait!

What is it about ACPS that brings out the trolls? Is it jealousy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, we've been in Del Ray since 2001 and have three kids. My oldest is still asleep upstairs while home on break from UVA. My middle kid is a senior this year and they will be attending Georgetown next year. My youngest is, surprisingly, a very talented athlete getting D1 recruiting looks as a Freshman, but they are also a 4.0 GPA honors track kid.

We were Maury- GW, then ACHS. We are white with a HHI of 280k.

The thought of leaving never even crossed our minds. But then again, we aren't xenophobic racists.

FWIW- I know plenty of people like you that moved or went private and still ended up with a kid at JMU.

Best of luck!

This almost reads like satire.
✔️Silly reference to xenophobia
✔️Smug about luck with real estate (or did your parents fund your home!)
✔️Namedropping schools
✔️Virtue-signaling (who’re family living in Del Ray deserves…accolades)?

If Del Ray living means a virtuous lifestyle, then you’d have to praise the Vance’s.

[Anonymous]

*white family not “who’re family”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, we've been in Del Ray since 2001 and have three kids. My oldest is still asleep upstairs while home on break from UVA. My middle kid is a senior this year and they will be attending Georgetown next year. My youngest is, surprisingly, a very talented athlete getting D1 recruiting looks as a Freshman, but they are also a 4.0 GPA honors track kid.

We were Maury- GW, then ACHS. We are white with a HHI of 280k.

The thought of leaving never even crossed our minds. But then again, we aren't xenophobic racists.

FWIW- I know plenty of people like you that moved or went private and still ended up with a kid at JMU.

Best of luck!

This almost reads like satire.
✔️Silly reference to xenophobia
✔️Smug about luck with real estate (or did your parents fund your home!)
✔️Namedropping schools
✔️Virtue-signaling (who’re family living in Del Ray deserves…accolades)?

If Del Ray living means a virtuous lifestyle, then you’d have to praise the Vance’s.

They bought in 2001, dumbass. Real estate was dirt cheap then. Sorry you missed out, I guess. So sensitive about naming schools in a thread.... about education. Odd. Super defensive.

I guess you ended up with a crappy mcmansion and a kid at ODU. Literally no one wants that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, we've been in Del Ray since 2001 and have three kids. My oldest is still asleep upstairs while home on break from UVA. My middle kid is a senior this year and they will be attending Georgetown next year. My youngest is, surprisingly, a very talented athlete getting D1 recruiting looks as a Freshman, but they are also a 4.0 GPA honors track kid.

We were Maury- GW, then ACHS. We are white with a HHI of 280k.

The thought of leaving never even crossed our minds. But then again, we aren't xenophobic racists.

FWIW- I know plenty of people like you that moved or went private and still ended up with a kid at JMU.

Best of luck!

They probably moved because you let them live in your head rent free instead.

I live in Del Ray too and I cannot imagine caring that anyone stays or leaves, nor would it bother me in the slightest.

Also lol at calling people xenophobic racists for moving. Both because of the complete illogic of the statement and because you live in one of the whitest and most upper class parts of Alexandria and sent your kids to what was one of the whitest and most upper class elementary schools in the whole system at the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, we've been in Del Ray since 2001 and have three kids. My oldest is still asleep upstairs while home on break from UVA. My middle kid is a senior this year and they will be attending Georgetown next year. My youngest is, surprisingly, a very talented athlete getting D1 recruiting looks as a Freshman, but they are also a 4.0 GPA honors track kid.

We were Maury- GW, then ACHS. We are white with a HHI of 280k.

The thought of leaving never even crossed our minds. But then again, we aren't xenophobic racists.

FWIW- I know plenty of people like you that moved or went private and still ended up with a kid at JMU.

Best of luck!

They probably moved because you let them live in your head rent free instead.

I live in Del Ray too and I cannot imagine caring that anyone stays or leaves, nor would it bother me in the slightest.

Also lol at calling people xenophobic racists for moving. Both because of the complete illogic of the statement and because you live in one of the whitest and most upper class parts of Alexandria and sent your kids to what was one of the whitest and most upper class elementary schools in the whole system at the time.

You don't live in Del Ray. But you wish you could. Sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, we've been in Del Ray since 2001 and have three kids. My oldest is still asleep upstairs while home on break from UVA. My middle kid is a senior this year and they will be attending Georgetown next year. My youngest is, surprisingly, a very talented athlete getting D1 recruiting looks as a Freshman, but they are also a 4.0 GPA honors track kid.

We were Maury- GW, then ACHS. We are white with a HHI of 280k.

The thought of leaving never even crossed our minds. But then again, we aren't xenophobic racists.

FWIW- I know plenty of people like you that moved or went private and still ended up with a kid at JMU.

Best of luck!

They probably moved because you let them live in your head rent free instead.

I live in Del Ray too and I cannot imagine caring that anyone stays or leaves, nor would it bother me in the slightest.

Also lol at calling people xenophobic racists for moving. Both because of the complete illogic of the statement and because you live in one of the whitest and most upper class parts of Alexandria and sent your kids to what was one of the whitest and most upper class elementary schools in the whole system at the time.

You don't live in Del Ray. But you wish you could. Sad.

Oh, it’s you. The same person who repeats this line on every ACPS thread, even though it makes no sense. Glad you found us, I thought we had gone too many comments without you making an appearance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, we've been in Del Ray since 2001 and have three kids. My oldest is still asleep upstairs while home on break from UVA. My middle kid is a senior this year and they will be attending Georgetown next year. My youngest is, surprisingly, a very talented athlete getting D1 recruiting looks as a Freshman, but they are also a 4.0 GPA honors track kid.

We were Maury- GW, then ACHS. We are white with a HHI of 280k.

The thought of leaving never even crossed our minds. But then again, we aren't xenophobic racists.

FWIW- I know plenty of people like you that moved or went private and still ended up with a kid at JMU.

Best of luck!

They probably moved because you let them live in your head rent free instead.

I live in Del Ray too and I cannot imagine caring that anyone stays or leaves, nor would it bother me in the slightest.

Also lol at calling people xenophobic racists for moving. Both because of the complete illogic of the statement and because you live in one of the whitest and most upper class parts of Alexandria and sent your kids to what was one of the whitest and most upper class elementary schools in the whole system at the time.

You don't live in Del Ray. But you wish you could. Sad.

Oh, it’s you. The same person who repeats this line on every ACPS thread, even though it makes no sense. Glad you found us, I thought we had gone too many comments without you making an appearance.

Talk about living in someone's head rent free.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, we've been in Del Ray since 2001 and have three kids. My oldest is still asleep upstairs while home on break from UVA. My middle kid is a senior this year and they will be attending Georgetown next year. My youngest is, surprisingly, a very talented athlete getting D1 recruiting looks as a Freshman, but they are also a 4.0 GPA honors track kid.

We were Maury- GW, then ACHS. We are white with a HHI of 280k.

The thought of leaving never even crossed our minds. But then again, we aren't xenophobic racists.

FWIW- I know plenty of people like you that moved or went private and still ended up with a kid at JMU.

Best of luck!

This almost reads like satire.
✔️Silly reference to xenophobia
✔️Smug about luck with real estate (or did your parents fund your home!)
✔️Namedropping schools
✔️Virtue-signaling (who’re family living in Del Ray deserves…accolades)?

If Del Ray living means a virtuous lifestyle, then you’d have to praise the Vance’s.

“We’re not xenophobic”
*lives in the white part of Alexandria
Go live in Parker gray and send your kids to Jefferson Houston.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, we've been in Del Ray since 2001 and have three kids. My oldest is still asleep upstairs while home on break from UVA. My middle kid is a senior this year and they will be attending Georgetown next year. My youngest is, surprisingly, a very talented athlete getting D1 recruiting looks as a Freshman, but they are also a 4.0 GPA honors track kid.

We were Maury- GW, then ACHS. We are white with a HHI of 280k.

The thought of leaving never even crossed our minds. But then again, we aren't xenophobic racists.

FWIW- I know plenty of people like you that moved or went private and still ended up with a kid at JMU.

Best of luck!

This almost reads like satire.
✔️Silly reference to xenophobia
✔️Smug about luck with real estate (or did your parents fund your home!)
✔️Namedropping schools
✔️Virtue-signaling (who’re family living in Del Ray deserves…accolades)?

If Del Ray living means a virtuous lifestyle, then you’d have to praise the Vance’s.

“We’re not xenophobic”
*lives in the white part of Alexandria
Go live in Parker gray and send your kids to Jefferson Houston.

Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I mean, this is the dilemma parents have been struggling with for at least the entire 30 years I have lived here. We lived Alexandria for North Arlington. And then Arlington for Loudoun, which has far better schools. Don't regret it. Added bonus is it was easier to get into UVA and VT as top students from those schools than it might have been from Yorktown. There are some cynics who say if you can thrive at Alexandria City High School (previously TC Williams) that can help your college admissions because you will have seemed to have survived a bad school. But IMO, schools shouldn't be something one has to "survive."

*left

We went MacArthur ES in Alexandria to Jamestown ES in Arlington/Williambsurg MS to Loudoun Valley in Loudoun. No regrets.

Can you elaborate on what made Loudoun schools so much better than Arlington in your view?

Smaller, more opportunities to get involved with extracurricular, less intense (not a pressure cooker), better to be big fish in smaller pond. They had great teachers, AP, DE opportunities. House twice the size at half the cost on three acres of land.

Mind you I worked from home since before Covid so commute wasn’t a concern.

This is just... horseshit trolling. Assuming a 1900 sqf house n Del Ray goes for 1.2, please tell us where you got a 4000sqf house on three acres in Loudon for 600,000.

We'll wait!

What is it about ACPS that brings out the trolls? Is it jealousy?

Whether you like ACPS or not, no one is jealous of it except the handful of PG county families that lie about their address so they can attend.

OP’s question is valid, let’s stick to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I mean, this is the dilemma parents have been struggling with for at least the entire 30 years I have lived here. We lived Alexandria for North Arlington. And then Arlington for Loudoun, which has far better schools. Don't regret it. Added bonus is it was easier to get into UVA and VT as top students from those schools than it might have been from Yorktown. There are some cynics who say if you can thrive at Alexandria City High School (previously TC Williams) that can help your college admissions because you will have seemed to have survived a bad school. But IMO, schools shouldn't be something one has to "survive."

*left

We went MacArthur ES in Alexandria to Jamestown ES in Arlington/Williambsurg MS to Loudoun Valley in Loudoun. No regrets.

Can you elaborate on what made Loudoun schools so much better than Arlington in your view?

Smaller, more opportunities to get involved with extracurricular, less intense (not a pressure cooker), better to be big fish in smaller pond. They had great teachers, AP, DE opportunities. House twice the size at half the cost on three acres of land.

Mind you I worked from home since before Covid so commute wasn’t a concern.

This is just... horseshit trolling. Assuming a 1900 sqf house n Del Ray goes for 1.2, please tell us where you got a 4000sqf house on three acres in Loudon for 600,000.

We'll wait!

What is it about ACPS that brings out the trolls? Is it jealousy?

Whether you like ACPS or not, no one is jealous of it except the handful of PG county families that lie about their address so they can attend.

OP’s question is valid, let’s stick to it.

I don’t have a problem admitting that Delray, old town and other parts of Alexandria are nicer than where I live in South Arlington, but no one could argue that the schools are better in Alexandria with a straight face. I’m glad we left Alexandria for Arlington. Now my kid has many more options, including TJ for high school. We were able to get a spot in the ATS lottery and it was a fantastic experience. The middle school experience has been good as well. I have friends who sent their kids to ACPS including some who had to pull out in middle school or high school due to their experiences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I mean, this is the dilemma parents have been struggling with for at least the entire 30 years I have lived here. We lived Alexandria for North Arlington. And then Arlington for Loudoun, which has far better schools. Don't regret it. Added bonus is it was easier to get into UVA and VT as top students from those schools than it might have been from Yorktown. There are some cynics who say if you can thrive at Alexandria City High School (previously TC Williams) that can help your college admissions because you will have seemed to have survived a bad school. But IMO, schools shouldn't be something one has to "survive."

*left

We went MacArthur ES in Alexandria to Jamestown ES in Arlington/Williambsurg MS to Loudoun Valley in Loudoun. No regrets.

Can you elaborate on what made Loudoun schools so much better than Arlington in your view?

Smaller, more opportunities to get involved with extracurricular, less intense (not a pressure cooker), better to be big fish in smaller pond. They had great teachers, AP, DE opportunities. House twice the size at half the cost on three acres of land.

Mind you I worked from home since before Covid so commute wasn’t a concern.

This is just... horseshit trolling. Assuming a 1900 sqf house n Del Ray goes for 1.2, please tell us where you got a 4000sqf house on three acres in Loudon for 600,000.

We'll wait!

What is it about ACPS that brings out the trolls? Is it jealousy?

We moved in 2017. We sold our 3,000 square foot house in 22207 on a fifth of an acre for $1.1 million and bought a 5,700 square foot home on a 3.5 acre lot in Oak Knoll Farms in 20132 for $750,000. So, maybe exaggerated slightly and it wasn’t precisely half the price and twice the house but it was damn close.

Kids matriculated to UVA and Brown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, we've been in Del Ray since 2001 and have three kids. My oldest is still asleep upstairs while home on break from UVA. My middle kid is a senior this year and they will be attending Georgetown next year. My youngest is, surprisingly, a very talented athlete getting D1 recruiting looks as a Freshman, but they are also a 4.0 GPA honors track kid.

We were Maury- GW, then ACHS. We are white with a HHI of 280k.

The thought of leaving never even crossed our minds. But then again, we aren't xenophobic racists.

FWIW- I know plenty of people like you that moved or went private and still ended up with a kid at JMU.

Best of luck!

Yeah you are. Hypocritical too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I mean, this is the dilemma parents have been struggling with for at least the entire 30 years I have lived here. We lived Alexandria for North Arlington. And then Arlington for Loudoun, which has far better schools. Don't regret it. Added bonus is it was easier to get into UVA and VT as top students from those schools than it might have been from Yorktown. There are some cynics who say if you can thrive at Alexandria City High School (previously TC Williams) that can help your college admissions because you will have seemed to have survived a bad school. But IMO, schools shouldn't be something one has to "survive."

*left

We went MacArthur ES in Alexandria to Jamestown ES in Arlington/Williambsurg MS to Loudoun Valley in Loudoun. No regrets.

Can you elaborate on what made Loudoun schools so much better than Arlington in your view?

Smaller, more opportunities to get involved with extracurricular, less intense (not a pressure cooker), better to be big fish in smaller pond. They had great teachers, AP, DE opportunities. House twice the size at half the cost on three acres of land.

Mind you I worked from home since before Covid so commute wasn’t a concern.

Loudoun schools are not better than Arlington and Loudoun is a snore.

Pp here.

In some ways they are, in some ways they are not. Arlington has musical instrument instruction in elementary and science fairs that go to VJAS, which Loudoun does not have. Loudoun has the academies and higher achievement in general. It also has fewer FARMS and the disruption that goes along with that.