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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Amen to that!  I was a free lunch kid and paid my own way through college.  Spouse is 1st generation immigrant who came as kid to this country with a suitcase.  Both from blue collar backgrounds.  You wouldn't know it by seeing us now.  And my own kids won't go through that, but they have been taught that they can never underestimate someone based on their socio-economic conditions.  Also, they know that barring any criminal activity or abuse, they can be friends with anyone and we will accept them.  And yes, my DC goes to SLHS, and yes, he's got a friend group where one lives in a million dollar house and one lived in a hotel.  All good kids, all more than worthy to sit next to any other student in this county.[/quote]

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