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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP. Do you have a child at Marshall? How do you know their is no sense of community? [/quote]

I'll take a stab at this, as one of my kids attended Marshall. I think you can define a community in different ways.  A school itself is one type of community, so you have that at Marshall, although as has been noted the neighborhoods that feed into Marshall are kind of a grab bag, so the parents and students probably have less in common with one another than may be the case elsewhere.  Most of my fellow neighbors in Vienna who were zoned for Marshall were happy enough with the school, but would have been even happier if we were zoned for Madison, which was closer.  And there was no doubt that the local newspapers paid more attention to Madison than to Marshall, or that you could sense more support for McLean activities if you were in downtown McLean than you could for Marshall activities anywhere in Falls Church or Vienna.  I even recall reading an article in one of the local newspapers at one point in which one of the school administrators or class sponsors at Marshall mentioned this.  I don't think it's a big deal, but I also think denying it is silly, too.  Maybe it will change over time as Tysons gets more development.[/quote]

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