Thoughts on Fort Hunt Virginia?
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Anonymous
Do your kids go to Sanburg or West Potomac? |
Anonymous
I wonder if you'd win your bet. Many families in Alexandria City and in the Langley pyramid in FCPS send their kids to privates, although perhaps for different reasons. |
Anonymous
| Vienna or West Springfield have better schools and SFHs in the $800 range. |
Anonymous
So your point/argument is that while the schools aren't great and most of the good kids aren't shipped away to be isolated form the Rt1 kids, even if yours arent they will be fine? There is a reason there is a life boat for 20% of the kids. Why do you think they ship 20% of the kids away? Why do you think they make the standards for AAP basically = middle class. There rarely life boats on ships that aren't sinking. The 20% life raft for the middle class has nothing to do with enrichment other than the official reason to keep it legal. I am not saying a middle class kid can't come out of all of that. All I am saying is most parents with 2 brain cells to rub together know they can do better elsewhere. |
Anonymous
If you’re not so subtly referring to race, all of the schools in the area are more than 20% white |
Anonymous
Same with Burke |
Anonymous
The ship wouldn’t be sinking but for the fact that they are sinking it, and it is primarily socioeconomic/race-based. All the faux liberal upper middle class white families bend over backwards to game the system to get their slightly above average kids in AAP so they can brag about living in a diverse area without their kids actually having to be exposed to a diverse group of people. |
Anonymous
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I think this neighborhood is a great value given the size/quality of homes, lovely old growth trees, and proximity to DC. Schools combine this neighborhood (which is definitely not diverse) with Route 1 (which is very diverse). Lots of people who live here and like their homes etc
can afford to send their kids to private/catholic and do. I can't comment on the AAP thing but did find it interesting that Stratford Landing has more AAP classes than not. |
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We're one of the families moving away from Ft Hunt area despite the fact that we love it here. For commuting to DC on GW Parkway, yes despite Oldtown traffic, proximity to the Potomac, the trail, and Oldtown, gorgeous trees, and family-friendly neighborhood are all amazing. MS and HS-not so much.
We are committed to keeping our kids in public schools, and the clash of two Socioeconomic classes here creates a much less than ideal environment imho. I hear the calls of racism, but disagree. We'd love our kids to go to a diverse school: W Springfield for example, one of the pyramids we're looking into, has 54% white, and thriving Black and Hispanic student populations: College readiness for those kids are at par with their white classmates. At WestPo, white kids get rated at 10/10, Hispanic kids 1/10, and blacks 5/10. I do not think this kind of "diversity" is the answer to our problem of racism, in an environment where these groups of kids don't even interact much, let alone learn to appreciate each other. Is leaving the answer? Not necessarily. But that's a different conversation to have. We're in a similar price bracket, looking into Burke, W. Springfield, Eastern parts of Fairfax. |
Anonymous
Poe in Annandale is the only Title 1 middle school in the county. FX and FCPS fund the Lee and Mount Vernon districts as if it was 1985 concentration of poverty and ESL. Since then others Mason, Dranesville [Herndon] have had big changes in demographics. West Potomac addition is just bizarre. Walkers to whitman are bused to Sandburg - not just AAP. So corrupt. |
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It’s just crazy to pay Fairfax County prices, and to live in Fairfax County at all when you could live closer in, and have to send your kids to private school. I get doing that in DC but at least in most places where you’re paying a premium for a suburban location, part of the deal is high achieving schools.
For those concerned of diversity, there are diverse Fairfax County middle schools and high schools that are high achieving. |
Anonymous
You can look at it differently. We knew we were going to send our kids to Catholic schools no matter where we lived. So buying in 22308/22309 made perfect sense for us (lower prices, bigger house and yard, easy Old Town and river access). Many of our neighbors moved out here for the same reason. |
Anonymous
You are not paying a premium when buying in that area. You are getting a discount versus almost all other areas of FFC County. |
Anonymous
this. People live there because you can still be relatively close in (depending on where you work) and get a SFH with a decent yard in a kid friendly neighborhood for under 700k, under 600k before the recent run up. |
Anonymous
Hi Arlington poster. Hope you are enjoying your easy commute to your job in DC (where nobody is actually working) and your distance learning in Arlington public school. I've been out here in 22309 on my 1 acre lot and 5500 square foot house that cost me less than you paid for your .25 acres and 3000 sq foot house. My kids are attending Catholic school everyday, and my boat is ready to get back out on the River when the weather warms up again. You might want to try it before you knock it. |