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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wise parents choose to have their DC be big fish in small ponds; lessen the competition for college admissions. Try sending your DC to Lewis or Edison or Annandale and get them tracked for AAP in ES.
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[b]The counter to this argument is that surrounding your kids with driven, college-focused peers may serve as a motivator that you might not have at some of the schools where a good portion of the kids do not have the same ambitions. It really comes down to the individual kid.[/b]

But the school board doesn’t want to acknowledge that possibility, because then they might realize that parents chose specific pyramids for a reason, and that the differences in the schools within Fairfax really do matter.[/quote]

The counter to that is that there are good elementary schools in bad pyramids. Send a kid to one of the Ft Hunt elementary schools and they get a good start and then the benefit of a large high school that has a rigorous track with a high achieving cohort as well as a mass of students who are checked out of both school and extra curricular activities  [/quote]

Ok. But my point is not that you are wrong, rather that families choose pyramids for many reasons unique to each family and that the school board is fundamentally sabotaging those decisions.[/quote]

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