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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Virginia ranks fourth nationally for K-12 education. You guys seem to forget that ALL of Virginia has VERY strong schools, from Bristol up to Roanoke over to Virginia Beach up to Winchester. Admission into Virginia's colleges and universities isn't just about you in NOVA. Your kids are competing against the students of ROVA (Rest of Virginia) who are very strong, as well. You dismiss them as invisible. But come application time, they are there and they are getting into all the schools. I can see how it's a wake-up call.[/quote]

LOL, ROVA...that's a good one.  Just remember anything south of Fredericksburg is a bunch toothless rednecks.

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I live in an area you would scoff at as a "toothless redneck" area. Our oldest's grad class last year had plenty of graduates going to UVA, VT, W&M, JMU, VCU, etc. Others went out of state to NYU, U of Chicago and other big-city schools. With scholarships. Our kid got all the same college postcards your kids did. Education is the ticket to the bright lights, big city for a kid when you come from a small town or more rural place. The kids out here are working their tails off, and they're smart, with good manners. We moved here from NOVA. We have plenty of helicopter mothers here too, taking their HS students to SAT prep and to weekend robot design championships. Also remember that the governor's schools like TJ are all over Virginia, they are all over the state. Class sizes are smaller out here, and -- here's the kicker -- teaching is still a highly-valued profession. Teachers are respected as a pillar of the community. The teachers works with the parents. That is a huge thing.[/quote]

Quota is the big deal there.  They have a cap on number of students from “the great state of Northern VA” as they called it back when I was applying.  It’s the big fish in a little pond that helps the more remote areas of VA.[/quote]

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