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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, we were in your shoes and moved last year.  We loved our neighbors, and many had kids that were just leaving for college from JEB.  The stories they told us seemed balanced (some good, some bad), and most admitted that if they were going to do it again they might have considered private.  Some indeed ended up sending their kids to catholic schools.  In the end we talked to several teachers and two school administrators (including two family members that teach in NoVa), and as much as we know there are some kids that thrive in that school pyramid - we decided that we would rather stake the odds in their favor by moving to a better school pyramid.  Looking back we have no regrets.[/quote]

We stayed and I regret staying.  It's frowned upon in my group of friends to say anything but positive things about Justice, but I wish I had moved before our oldest got to high school.  Moving in the middle of high school isn't ideal.  I think your kids get exposed to diversity in that there are kids of different races, but it's segregated because you don't have a significant number of higher SES minority families.  My DC's friends refer to themselves as "the white girls" and generally stick to themselves.  I think there is very much a have and have not divide, and I don't think it's a positive way to experience diversity.  The academics are fine, but not great.  I'm considering moving when my oldest is a senior and can drive to school and sending my younger kids to a different high school.  I'd move sooner rather than later.  
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Why do the nonwhite families need to be “higher SES”? So many amazing IB students and past valedictorians at Justice are from very humble beginnings, and from what I see the kids all hang out with the other kids they have classes with regardless of race. Maybe your daughter has some implicit race/class biases considering you seem to only want her hanging out with nonwhite kids if their families have money and she self-refers to her friend group as “the whote girls”. There are amazing teachers and students at Justice, the majority are. It’s a great school with some challenges due to struggling ESOL students, but your post sounds like a you/your daughter problem rather than a pervasive problem at the school.[/quote]

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