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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We moved here to be in the Woodson pyramid. I now regret it. If your child is a minority or special ed, you can forget being cared about. Only the creme de la creme are important at Woodson. It is also a very intense, high pressure school. If I could do it over, I would pick Chantilly.[/quote]

Can you please tell us about Woodson. Our son starts HS next year and we bought into this area this Spring. [/quote

Different PP, but I completely utterly agree. [b]DD spent a year at Woodson before we were able to pupil place her to Robinson. It's like night and day. These schools are VERY different. I can't express how much more accessible admin has been in helping DD and I am so, so thankful. Woodson's admin has a very aggressive self-advocacy approach and they use (IMO) shame to discourage students from getting supports. We moved her right before 7th and were clueless, but I tell people all the time that Woodson has issues. Oddly, Frost is fantastic for SPED and we thought high school would be the same. It's not. 
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The big con for Robinson is that it's huge. But I feel like that worked for us because there's no dominant culture and there is a sense from admin and teachers that they want to do what's right for the kid and be compliant versus fostering a culture of "Excellence" --something I heard during an IEP meeting at Woodson.

My younger DD doesn't have special needs, but we will pupil place her as well. [/quote]

Interesting. Our Woodson and Frost experiences have been essentially dramatically opposite to yours. I have a kid in SPED and another in all Hnrs/AP. Woodson has been nothing short of fantastic for both of them. OTOH, with the exception of a few teachers here and there who were great, Frost was pretty bad.[/quote]

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