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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to SLHS in the 90s.  It was rough.  Langston Hughes was even rougher relatively speaking considering the age.  Went to an ivy college.  It can be done.[/quote]

Yes SLHS was definitely rougher in the 90s and early 2000s, among the rougher schools in FCPS and rougher than Herndon back then. It is less rough today proportionally because of the redrawn neighborhood boundaries. It’s one of the few such schools that reversed the trajectory of its roughness quotient and speaks to the power of redrawing boundaries.

A reporter in the 90s followed the lives of jaded SLHS teens and wrote about the dark underbelly of Reston youth. It became a very popular book. Kind of like the book version of the hit 1990s ABC show My Saw Called Life starring Claire Danes we all watched growing up. I never read the book, but the Sunday Washington Post gave it a glowing review. [/quote]

THE KIDS NOBODY KNOWS by Reston mom Pat Hersch
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1998/06/25/the-kids-nobody-knows/0195dee4-ff61-4ba6-a3de-65dbdd59d8a7/[/quote]

The book title is A Tribe Apart and can be purchased via Penguin Random House books: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/79131/a-tribe-apart-by-patricia-hersch/[/quote]

Omg, what are you a salesperson or something? No one wants a book about SL kids from the 90s.[/quote]

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