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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]

This is just silly.

WS and LB in particular share all of their sports leagues like SYC and little league.  They overlap schools through Sangster and AAP.  They have very similar military populations.  There is a ton of connections, friendships and overlap between many of the students and families in those two schools, with families alternating between the 2 pyramids as they PCS in and out of the area.

No one from those schools is worried about Woodson or even has anything to contribute about Woodson.  If anyone is, it would be a Woodson family or a Fairfax family.[/quote]

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