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[quote=Anonymous]Not a real estate agent at all, although I do look at real estate and I consider lots of different high schools in the process.  What I've found is that it doesn't make sense to broadly categorize certain schools in Ffx Cnty as "bad" or even "average" just b/c they tend to have higher populations of lower performing kids --- b/c they also have equally HIGH performing kids just like the "best" schools do.  And the "bad" or "average" schools ARE doing a good job of educating kids who want to learn (as shown by the average SAT scores of groups == white and asian === which are the same groups creating the high scores at the schools you consider "the best.")  The only difference between chools like Herndon/ South Lakes/ Robinson/ Fairfax and the schools some people like to call "the best" is that the latter have little diversity (and therefore only a small percentage of kids who are scoring low).

My gripe is that people label a school as "bad" when the school simply has a wider mix of student achievement.  Those high-performing students at the diverse schools, and the schools themselves aren't getting the credit they deserve.  The so-called "best" schools are getting far more credit than they deserve simply b/c they have an easy (less diverse) student body.  [/quote]

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