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This area is full of middle class, well educated, young parents, that are happily sending their kids to low rated schools. Their children are having positive experiences at school and then going on to good colleges. 
They aren't afraid of children that look different than their own, and they aren't afraid of poverty. They know what happens at home is the number one factor for a child's success. 
If you are insecure about any of those factors, move further out. [/quote]

This is bs[/quote]

Yeah, according to DCUM my $330K HHI makes us upper class

Kids have been fine in south Arlington elem and middle schools, I'm sure they will do fine at Wakefield and much better odds of acceptance for UVA and W&M[/quote]

The last time Arlington Magazine published the college admissions data for the Arlington high schools, the Wakefield admissions to top schools were less than impressive.   And looking at the standardized test scores, not even the white or Asian kids at Wakefield do very well. [/quote]

Links/facts Please.[/quote]

Stop encouraging this stupid racist troll. Of course a school where half of the kids are on free and reduced lunch and dont speak English at home is going to send fewer kids to the Ivy League than a school where less than 15% of the kids are on free lunch and 65% are white. It doesn't mean the school is terrible, it most likely means there are more students there whose parents probably didn't go to college. But I love it when rich white people lord it over the poor brown people and point out over and over that they are so inferior, and also that anyone who goes to school with them is inferior too. Just put on your "Make America Great Again" hat and STFU.  [/quote]

Maybe you're the one who should STFU with the assumptions.

First-- please don't assume that everyone who cares about the quality of their kids schools supports Trump. You can be liberal, and still want your kids to have a decent sized cohort of smart, motivated peers at school. Most people I know think the kids can be black, brown, white, purple-- whatever, as long as the kids work hard and stay out of trouble. I would certainly rather have my kids be friends with minorities with good grades, involved parents and good values than the kids at the wealthier FCPS schools dabbling in cocaine and drinking (with their parents help). It is not about race or class. It's about values and priorities. Your kid values education, and is a nice, respectful human being? They are welcome at our house.

Second-- 1st generation college is a significant hook. A brown kid with less than HS educated parents probably stands as good (or better for comparable credentials) a chance at an Ivy admission than my white, affluent AAP kid.  Which is as it should be. My kid has had advantages (private music lessons, ADHD tutor, great summer camps, etc) the poor brown kid could not afford. I have no problem with leveling the playing field. Even if my kid ends up at (horrors)!W&M and not Cornell.

Third--  few things are more important than a good education. I have zero respect for people who send their kids to a mediocre school so they can buy a bigger house, then act like I'm prejudiced because I bought less house to get a better school. Again-- priorities.  The fact mine have to do with a good education and not a huge house does not make me a bigot. [/quote]

Why do you argue so hard at people who are actually sending their kids to these schools and reporting that they are fine? You have a very strange ax to grind.[/quote]

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