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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My top recommendations would be Madison, McLean, Marshall and Woodson, but any high school in Fairfax County is good.   I have to admit I find the concentration of wealth, and lack of SES diversity, at Langley off-putting, but maybe it's not an issue.  George Mason in FCC is just too small for my tastes. [/quote]

This.  Langley has great academics, but the lack of any economic diversity wouldn't be ideal for us. I wouldn't want to buy an $800K or $900K home and have my kids be considered the poor kids. Too much keeping up with the Jones. From clothes to cars to summers in Europe, its not the type of environment I'd want my kids growing up in. [/quote]
OP made clear they could afford any school district.  Sounds like Langley would be perfect.  [/quote]

Prior poster here, not the one you're responding to.  The four other schools mentioned have plenty of rich kids, but I think the greater SES diversity acts as some counterbalance to the "affluenza" associated with the rich parts of NoVa.  I think the kids are perhaps less likely to focus on the bling if they have classmates who obviously cannot afford it.

I also recognize that it could be viewed as condescending to want low or moderate-income kids at a school just so they can bring your rich kids down to earth, but the other kids get the benefit of the challenging academic environment at those schools as well.  In the first instance, parents ought to be teaching their kids values, but I wonder how much of that goes out the window when the peer group is 98.5% wealthy and talking about their cars, clothes and vacations. [/quote]
Wonder away.  As for the kids at Langley, they do just fine.  [/quote]

Wouldn't it be easier and less costly to be the cool kid in a school that's not Langley?[/quote]

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