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[quote=Anonymous]The broad brush stroke stereotype of Alexandria is just that (as it might be for Arlington, but I don't know Arlington schools, so can't say). "Alexandria is bascially segregrated" is grossly offensive and comes from someone with a pretty big chip on his/her shoulder. The racial description of TC Williams is off base, offensive, and I doubt comes from someone who has spent much time in our school system. I graduated from Alexandria public schools and the system is different in terms of scale because there is one high school. All children, rich or poor, those that speak English as a first or second language, etc. go through the system and then to TC. The school system has some of the brightest students in the nation, students that need considerable extra help, and everything in between. In my graduating class, we had dozens of students attend a college or university ranked in the top 5 nationally, including children of immigrant families attending Harvard, MIT, and a score of other excellent schools. And plenty of families with the means don't take to "white flight". As for me, I'm not one of the "really poor black children living in public housing" that makes up the black population of TC... I'm a product of a lower-middle class black family and worked my way through the schools and into and through a top 3 university.[/quote]
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