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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s with the silly claim that Fairfax schools are so great everywhere and are better than everywhere else?  That’s quite the generalization.  Like everywhere else, they vary.  [/quote]

I agree that, within a county, there is variation in the distribution of excellence of schools - as there is variation in any population of anything that has ever existed in human society. But we can still rank two distributions by any number of metrics that usually involve comparing the right tails, or the "best" of both distributions. Those who believe that Fairfax provides a better public education than other counties around the DMV would point to Fairfax having:

1. (One of) The highest ranked high schools in the US in TJ (regardless of the recent controversies)
2. Higher ranking high schools (Langley, Mclean...) in general
3.  The Highest average SAT scores within the top 1,3, or 5 top high schools
4. the most National Merit scholars (by total and per capita)
5. the most Presidential scholars
6. the most number of HYPSM attendees

etc...

We can argue the merits of those metrics, but anyone outside the DMV might glance at those metrics and say "yeah, Fairfax schools are better, on average, than MoCo schools".  
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Arlington sends kids to TJ.

Every W school is as good if not better than Langley or McLean

Langley or McLean aren’t so much better than Yorktown or Washington-Liberty that they’re worth living in hell for.

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Wrong, apart from the bit about APS sending a few kids to TJ, but keep talking. You know who is top dog, and so does everyone else. [/quote]

Well not EVERYONE else:

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-school-districts/s/virginia/[/quote]

Here you go.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia/rankings[/quote]

Your point?  Looks like Yorktown did pretty well there too.  [/quote]

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