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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People have been wanting to get rid of the reliance on Greatschools for a long time, but house hunters find it invaluable (including us).  The change in methodology may have finally succeeded in getting people to stop looking at it, at least locally.  [/quote]

Wrong conclusion. This is a transient area. This will push people further into more segregated areas.  It’s will encourage communities to work harder to block low income  housing.
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All Fairfax high schools, all Arlington high schools were lowered, some more than others.  (I think TC Williams was already pretty low, I don't think it's GS score changed much, and I don't really track Loudoun County, so I don't know if their scores moved.)  Seriously -- Greatschools is irrelevant in DC and they're making themselves irrelevant in NoVa.  [/quote]

I hope you are correct, but it just doesn’t follow national trends. I don’t think nova is an exception. In fact I think the type A, debate team, model UN, SGA officer, striver atmosphere in DC makes us much more susceptible to these patterns. Schools are more segregated than ever. [/quote]

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