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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FFX is a sprawling, overly large almost impossible to comprehend entity, spanning from the sad backwaters of the Springfield area to the gleaming McMansions of western FFX.  You must choose your pyramid extremely carefully.  But in general, the FFX high schools run circles around Arlington high schools.[/quote]

Based on what?   Certainly not based on the Holy Grail of NOVA high schools:  admission to UVA and William & Mary.  Virtually all the top students in NOVA apply to one or the other, and often both, and the admit rates last year were 42 and 47 percent for FCPS and 37 and 53 percent for APS.  No discernible difference.  But I wonder what FCPS would look like if TJ students were excluded?  I bet FCPS would fall below APS.

Outside of Langley, which has an extraordinarily privileged population, no school in Fairfax even arguably "runs circles" around APS.[/quote]

TJ students [i]are[/i] FCPS students, for the most part.  Why exclude them?[/quote]

Because Arlington students can go to TJ just as easily as Fairfax kids.  It’s open to both.  Duh. [/quote]

Is it really open, though?  The small numbers of Latino and African American students suggest that something is woefully unfair about the process.[/quote]

No it doesn't.[/quote]

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