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    You can't go wrong with West Springfield, Lake Braddock, or Robinson. All three are great schools - excellent academics, low pressure, enough diversity (ethnic, social, economic, personality) that your kids will find their place.

Woodson has a rep of being a pressure cooker of overscheduled kids, hyper-involved parents, and suicides. I'm sure type-A, super driven, competitive types are very very happy there. If your kid doesn't fall into that category, probably not the best environment.

Meh. You trade in crude stereotypes.

You could just as easily claim that West Springfield, Lake Braddock and Robinson are second-tier schools where middle-brow types who can't afford homes in the top school districts, but are scared of majority-minority schools with too much (as opposed to "enough") diversity, congregate to pat each other on the back and compare notes on Virginia Tech and JMU. [/quote]

You could, but you'd just be speaking from the entitled, hyper-competitive and snobby perspective of the exact type of student and parent that desires Woodson.  In fact, I think your description is the perfect example of this point.  OP, if you want your child to look at other area schools as "second tier, middle-brow" and full of poors, then by all means, your people are in Woodson!  
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It's not just Woodson parents rolling their eyes when you stereotype WTW to make your middle-of-the-pack school sound better.  Parents at schools like Lee and West Potomac know exactly what code language you're using when you claim WS/LB/Robinson have "enough" diversity.

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