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[quote=Anonymous]We used to live in the pyramid and yeah, we heard those rumors too.  We moved to Arlington this year, but more for other reasons.  (mostly commuting.)

I have met parents who sent their kids to Jackson and Falls church and they said the schools were actually fine.  They had no real complaints, and their kids were doing well.  You need to remember that at any school, kids will self-segregate into like-minded groups and that if your kid is a smart, motivated kid, he'll end up hanging with similar kids.  I also have friends who graduated from FCHS and Jackson and you wouldn't be able to distinguish them from Woodson grads, if that helps.  :-)  And a 4.0 student at FCHS might stand out more than a 4.0 student from Woodson or Langley or a private.

if the neighborhood kids don't actually go to those schools, they're not exactly the authority - they're just parroting what they hear their parents say when they're rationalizing private school expense in a county with great public schools.  Plus it's just a rivalry thing - growing up in the midwest, we talked trash about all the other public schools in our (very highly ranked) public school district.  And the private school kids talked trash about all of us.  :-)[/quote]

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