If you could choose any pyramid…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Robinson, Lake Braddock or Hayfield.

Robinson and Lake Braddock are both filled with thugs, vaping, and fights. No discipline, terrible administrators.

I'd be happy with either pyramid (and have kids in one of them, and this take does not match their experience).

Would avoid Langley, contrary to many.

What's your beef with Langley?

Too many rich white kids. Those families are the worst.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Robinson, Lake Braddock or Hayfield.

Robinson and Lake Braddock are both filled with thugs, vaping, and fights. No discipline, terrible administrators.

I'd be happy with either pyramid (and have kids in one of them, and this take does not match their experience).

Would avoid Langley, contrary to many.

What's your beef with Langley?

Just the usual troll. Best to ignore.
DP

Not trolling, and I’ve never posted about Langley before. But based on my own experience in FCPS with friends who attended Langley, wealth brings a social environment I would not choose for my own kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Robinson, Lake Braddock or Hayfield.

Robinson and Lake Braddock are both filled with thugs, vaping, and fights. No discipline, terrible administrators.

I'd be happy with either pyramid (and have kids in one of them, and this take does not match their experience).

Would avoid Langley, contrary to many.

What's your beef with Langley?

Just the usual troll. Best to ignore.
DP

Not trolling, and I’ve never posted about Langley before. But based on my own experience in FCPS with friends who attended Langley, wealth brings a social environment I would not choose for my own kids.

Things may change now that a large number of condos and apartments have been rezoned to Langley. People can buy a $400-500K condo in Tysons and send their kids to Langley.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Daniels Run - Katherine Johnson - Fairfax High School

This pyramid has a great sense of community, especially as a Fairfax City resident. Daniels Run is 99% city residents (as opposed to Providence Elementary, which has a larger percentage of county kids). The city is able to supplement some of the offerings, like having a STEAM lab and Spanish class in elementary school. And, since all city residents go to city schools, we never have to worry about redistricting and boundary changes.

Ha. Without Willow Springs and Powell ES families in the county propping up Johnson MS and Fairfax HS, it would be a bottom tier pyramid.

I'm not familiar with Willow Springs or Powell. What is it about those kids?

[Anonymous]

DCs went to a pyramid that would be looked down upon by the typical DCUMer and thrived at very prestigious universities. One DC now pursuing a masters degree at the number one ranked school in the world for their major.

Both thrived at university and were very well prepared, but did not have to compete in high school with strivers for college admission as they would have needed to do in other pyramids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Daniels Run - Katherine Johnson - Fairfax High School

This pyramid has a great sense of community, especially as a Fairfax City resident. Daniels Run is 99% city residents (as opposed to Providence Elementary, which has a larger percentage of county kids). The city is able to supplement some of the offerings, like having a STEAM lab and Spanish class in elementary school. And, since all city residents go to city schools, we never have to worry about redistricting and boundary changes.

Ha. Without Willow Springs and Powell ES families in the county propping up Johnson MS and Fairfax HS, it would be a bottom tier pyramid.

I'm not familiar with Willow Springs or Powell. What is it about those kids?

The Fairfax kids from those schools are higher performing than the kids from Providence and Daniels Run living in Fairfax City.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCs went to a pyramid that would be looked down upon by the typical DCUMer and thrived at very prestigious universities. One DC now pursuing a masters degree at the number one ranked school in the world for their major.

Both thrived at university and were very well prepared, but did not have to compete in high school with strivers for college admission as they would have needed to do in other pyramids.

There's a difference between anecdotes and data, no matter how many times you trot out the same anecdote.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DCs went to a pyramid that would be looked down upon by the typical DCUMer and thrived at very prestigious universities. One DC now pursuing a masters degree at the number one ranked school in the world for their major.

Both thrived at university and were very well prepared, but did not have to compete in high school with strivers for college admission as they would have needed to do in other pyramids.

There's a difference between anecdotes and data, no matter how many times you trot out the same anecdote.

True, but it worked for 💯% of the data points that mattered to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCs went to a pyramid that would be looked down upon by the typical DCUMer and thrived at very prestigious universities. One DC now pursuing a masters degree at the number one ranked school in the world for their major.

Both thrived at university and were very well prepared, but did not have to compete in high school with strivers for college admission as they would have needed to do in other pyramids.

There's a difference between anecdotes and data, no matter how many times you trot out the same anecdote.

True, but it worked for 💯% of the data points that mattered to me.

Yet you're asking other people to extrapolate at their risk from your anecdotes. You can be congratulated without being emulated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Daniels Run - Katherine Johnson - Fairfax High School

This pyramid has a great sense of community, especially as a Fairfax City resident. Daniels Run is 99% city residents (as opposed to Providence Elementary, which has a larger percentage of county kids). The city is able to supplement some of the offerings, like having a STEAM lab and Spanish class in elementary school. And, since all city residents go to city schools, we never have to worry about redistricting and boundary changes.

Ha. Without Willow Springs and Powell ES families in the county propping up Johnson MS and Fairfax HS, it would be a bottom tier pyramid.

I'm not familiar with Willow Springs or Powell. What is it about those kids?

The Fairfax kids from those schools are higher performing than the kids from Providence and Daniels Run living in Fairfax City.

I really don't think that's true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCs went to a pyramid that would be looked down upon by the typical DCUMer and thrived at very prestigious universities. One DC now pursuing a masters degree at the number one ranked school in the world for their major.

Both thrived at university and were very well prepared, but did not have to compete in high school with strivers for college admission as they would have needed to do in other pyramids.

There's a difference between anecdotes and data, no matter how many times you trot out the same anecdote.

True, but it worked for 💯% of the data points that mattered to me.

Yet you're asking other people to extrapolate at their risk from your anecdotes. You can be congratulated without being emulated.

No I am pointing out there are multiple paths to “success”. In the end the quality of the kid is far more important than the path taken.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCs went to a pyramid that would be looked down upon by the typical DCUMer and thrived at very prestigious universities. One DC now pursuing a masters degree at the number one ranked school in the world for their major.

Both thrived at university and were very well prepared, but did not have to compete in high school with strivers for college admission as they would have needed to do in other pyramids.

There's a difference between anecdotes and data, no matter how many times you trot out the same anecdote.

True, but it worked for 💯% of the data points that mattered to me.

Yet you're asking other people to extrapolate at their risk from your anecdotes. You can be congratulated without being emulated.

No I am pointing out there are multiple paths to “success”. In the end the quality of the kid is far more important than the path taken.

Gibberish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Daniels Run - Katherine Johnson - Fairfax High School

This pyramid has a great sense of community, especially as a Fairfax City resident. Daniels Run is 99% city residents (as opposed to Providence Elementary, which has a larger percentage of county kids). The city is able to supplement some of the offerings, like having a STEAM lab and Spanish class in elementary school. And, since all city residents go to city schools, we never have to worry about redistricting and boundary changes.

Ha. Without Willow Springs and Powell ES families in the county propping up Johnson MS and Fairfax HS, it would be a bottom tier pyramid.

I'm not familiar with Willow Springs or Powell. What is it about those kids?

Willow Springs has a terrible problem with rich white kids making racist comments. We were not impressed with that school or it's admin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Daniels Run - Katherine Johnson - Fairfax High School

This pyramid has a great sense of community, especially as a Fairfax City resident. Daniels Run is 99% city residents (as opposed to Providence Elementary, which has a larger percentage of county kids). The city is able to supplement some of the offerings, like having a STEAM lab and Spanish class in elementary school. And, since all city residents go to city schools, we never have to worry about redistricting and boundary changes.

Ha. Without Willow Springs and Powell ES families in the county propping up Johnson MS and Fairfax HS, it would be a bottom tier pyramid.

I'm not familiar with Willow Springs or Powell. What is it about those kids?

The Fairfax kids from those schools are higher performing than the kids from Providence and Daniels Run living in Fairfax City.

I would love to know where people thing "poor kids" live in the City of Fairfax- is it the 1 million townhouses or the houses on the Army Navy Country Club golf course?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Daniels Run - Katherine Johnson - Fairfax High School

This pyramid has a great sense of community, especially as a Fairfax City resident. Daniels Run is 99% city residents (as opposed to Providence Elementary, which has a larger percentage of county kids). The city is able to supplement some of the offerings, like having a STEAM lab and Spanish class in elementary school. And, since all city residents go to city schools, we never have to worry about redistricting and boundary changes.

Ha. Without Willow Springs and Powell ES families in the county propping up Johnson MS and Fairfax HS, it would be a bottom tier pyramid.

I'm not familiar with Willow Springs or Powell. What is it about those kids?

The Fairfax kids from those schools are higher performing than the kids from Providence and Daniels Run living in Fairfax City.

I would love to know where people thing "poor kids" live in the City of Fairfax- is it the 1 million townhouses or the houses on the Army Navy Country Club golf course?

Providence is over 40% FARMS. In one recent year it was over 50%. Daniels Run is 30-40%. Willow Springs is more like 14%. Fairfax HS is mid as it is, but without the county residents it would be bottom third.