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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our DS (currently in college) graduated from WSHS and we never had the sense of it being a very high pressure environment. If a student felt high pressure it would have come from the household, not the school itself.[/quote]

The same is true at every FCPS high school.  The label "pressure cooker" only gets bandied about by parents at some schools - especially West Springfield, Robinson, and Lake Braddock - to take a shot at schools in wealthier areas and suggest their own schools are the "happy medium."  [/quote]

I don't think the Robinson, Lake Braddock or West Springfield families really even pay attention to Woodson.  Woodson is not really part of that neighborhood so it is not even on the radar of those Springfield/Burke parents to even think about, let alone have some nefarious coordinated plan to slam Woodson online.

Most likely comments about Woodson are from Woodson parents or from other schools in their general Fairfax neighborhood.[/quote]

Not buying it.  It's not like the West Springfield, Burke, and Fairfax Station neighborhoods that feed into these three schools are one neighborhood, and the areas that feed into Woodson in Fairfax, Fairfax Station, and even outside-the-Beltway Annandale are far, far away.  Woodson boundaries are adjacent to both Robinson and Lake Braddock boundaries, and West Springfield is just a little further south.  But some have decided that the best way to elevate your schools over Woodson is to call it a pressure cooker and/or bring up some student suicides that happened a decade or so ago. [/quote]

NP.  It's a different demographic - housing prices determine whether a family picks Woodson or WSHS/LBSS/Robinson.

Other information, such as equality of test scores at WSHS or the history of the suicide cluster are important but they don't trump housing prices.[/quote]

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