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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in a neighborhood that feeds into Woodson, and though my kids are only in ES, I feel confident in saying that it isn't a pressure cooker.  Our neighborhood is solidly middle class- a mix of teachers, military, govt. workers, GMU profs, and I don't hear talk about fancy cars or exotic vacations, or any of the kind of obsessing about AAP that you see on this board.  My neighbors are down-to-earth, and the families I know who are feeding into West Springfield and Lake Braddock are very similar.  I tend think it is a somewhat different culture in this part of Fairfax county than what you find at Langley and McLean, which are much wealthier and more of a pressure-cooker atmosphere (ok, this last bit is conjecture on my point.)[/quote]

Dunno; maybe it is conjecture.  We're at McLean, and I've always thought it was more like Woodson and Madison than like Langley.  There was a poster a while back who claimed that guidance counselors at Langley were pushing her daughter to take 4-5 AP courses/year, even though she was stressed out and not getting enough sleep.  I never knew if that was really true, but it would not happen at McLean, although there are kids who do this on their own initiative or at their parents' behest.  Our own view was that 1-2 AP courses/year were enough for our HS kids, and the counselors at McLean readily accepted that decision.  At the end of the day, these are public schools and, even at the schools that serve the most affluent parts of the county, there are going to be students with different academic abilities and aspirations.  Exactly how that translates into academic "pressure" isn't always obvious.  In theory, a kid may feel less pressure if he knows his parents will pay to send him to a private LAC or an out-of-state public university than if he thinks he absolutely has to get into one of the top 3-4 public universities in the state. [/quote]

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