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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I graduated from SLHS back in the 90s when it was an AP school. Even back then it was a rough environment. Staying in mostly AP classes helped me avoid the riff raff. I would not send my child to a school like that now unless they really wanted IB and even then I would have hesitations.[/quote]

Spoken like someone who grew up in the burbs and has zero idea what a rough school is actually like. SLHS and Herndon are not rough schools except in the minds of DCUM. [/quote]

I heard the same about rough riff raff from a mid 90's SLHS grad - a George Mason soccer kid who liked to drink and fight. I liked the kid but it shows the peril of relying on anecdotal information. I am a Duke grad, and find it laughable that Grant Hill's school could be described as a rough school. His teammates would tease him over his privileged background. There is a low income population, but most are good kids. Track coach is a friend and used to coach at Oakton - he verifies mostly good kids at SL - and track is the most diverse of sports.[/quote]

So in other words you don’t know because you didn’t go there. You’re relying on anecdotes from Grant Hill’s teammates, who also didn’t go there. And from a coach who teaches dedicated sports kids. Those aren’t the riff raff. The riff raff aren’t in sports. They are in gangs.[/quote]

I am from  Chicago, was a national champion in my diverse sport and know what a rough school is. You are not going to persuade me from your candy soft suburban existence that South Lakes is a rough school. My friend is a Division 1 coach from the south side of Chicago who recruits at Fairfax schools. South Lakes is not a rough school. He laughs atthe notion. You are another soft suburbanite who likely isn't mentally tough. I crawled out of poverty to make it. I completed against East St Louis kids and beat them. That school, junior, is a rough school. And don't play the faux intellectual game either; you couldn't have gone to the schools I went to or done as well. Your post is laughable. Enjoy your effete life [/quote]

DP. I think South Lakes is fine but your “let’s step outside and settle this once and for all” act is a hoot. [/quote]

It is not a hoot. I was a law review editor at a top law school with the rare advantage of coming from poverty. The effete apparatchiks don't care and do not look out for people who engage in manual labor for a living. Moreover nowhere did I suggest to step outside and settle it all. A straw man argument which conflates the assertion of an effete outlook with aggression. Then again, likely neither bright or educated. [/quote]

As a fellow previously poor person who climbed their way out from *actual* poverty, I felt everything you said deep in my heart. Keep it up, call them out. It’s true most of them couldn’t do what we did. [/quote]

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