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[quote=Anonymous]Reston schools are perfectly fine.  They'll never get the best scores in the county because Reston has a diverse population, by design.  ~30% of the housing is low income, by design.  Reston is a master-planned community.  Your kid will go to school with kids of all races and SES backgrounds.  This is a good thing because it teaches them tolerance, compassion, gratitude and gives them a more realistic perspective of the world.  You'll notice that the FARMS percentage in most Reston schools is between 20-30%.  This is a stable figure.  Some people erroneously visualize an inner city school plagued with social ills that you see in the movies because they see a certain amount of black and hispanic kids and are afraid that the school will become a ghetto school or something like that.  Reston is unique in that the SES balance is set into the infrastructure, so it won't become a ghetto.  People who move here choose to live here because of the diversity, not in spite of it.  This is the first place I've ever lived where different races actually live and interact together and it's not just a visual illusion or lip service (I'm from NYC by the way, where there's a lot of diversity, but people stay with their own kind).  [/quote]

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