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[quote=Anonymous][quote]What are you talking about? Special Ed is way higher at Lewis than Langley. Probably the same for all the other things you’ve mentioned not to mention a good part of Langley boundary is at TJ or private schools. Lewis and Mount Vernon are around 20 percent [b]college readiness and Langley is close to 90%[/b]. Yeah people are really clamoring to get away from Langley to go to Lewis and Mount Vernon because of the mental health issues in the rich neighborhoods. You are living in a dream world that some how lines up every poor person with every positive attribute and ever rich person with every negative attribute and the world just doesn’t work that way.
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What are [b]you[/b] talking about?

How many more Langley kids have tutors, prep classes, and family connections that help them get into college than the kids from Mount Vernon do?

It is an insult to everyone reading your post to imply that wealth does not help children achieve academically.

Do not believe it?  Let's try this.  Let's send 200 kids from Langley to Anacostia High and bring 200 students from there here.  The kids that go Anacostia can only use the resources that the parents of the new Langley students can afford.  On average, college readiness for the students originally from Anacostia would go up and the readiness for the students from Langley would go down.

Look around downtown McLean and see all the businesses helping children learn junior and high school subject matter.  You cannot be angry at wealthy parents wanting to help their children.  However, you cannot be stupid enough to pretend its only merit that makes the difference between going to Langley and going on to college and going to Mount Vernon

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