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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The dearth of high achievers at Wakefield dispels your hypothesis.

I mean, you can keep posting this stuff to try and convince people to move to South Arlington, but the vast majority of those who care about education will pick Langley HS or something closer to Langley than Wakefield every time. [/quote]

People do LIE.  It's like everyone was saying that Clinton is going to win the 2016 election and now Trump is in the White House.

As the PP stated, the VAST majority of South Arlington will send their kids to Langley/Mclean HS in a heart beat, if given a choice.  You're only kidding yourself if you think otherwise.[/quote]

WTF are you even talking about? I never said that families will send their kids to Wakefield. I don't know whether they will or not. Certainly, historically, they have not. That's easy enough to see. I simply refuted your idiotic assertion that just going to Langley/McLean will result in an UMC child getting higher test scores WITHOUT all the tutoring/prep that IS NOT INCLUDED IN A HOME PURCHASE in those zones, and that a student whose family can afford all the extra tutoring and sends a child to Wakefield isn't dooming them to a couple hundred fewer points on the SAT.

Also, I can assure you that while people ultimately may not send their kids to Wakefield, they're not going to move all the way out to Langley/McLean just for the schools. If they have chosen Arlington, it's likely for the commute. They might move within Arlington, or just transfer. Or go private. It's easy enough to do if you haven't wasted all your money on a gaudy house to announce to the world that you're new money.

You are astonishingly insecure. [/quote]

DP.  You disputed the claim that going to a school like Langley or McLean will lead to a UMC child getting higher test scores.  You didn't refute it.  And if you had any clue about where and why people move, you'd know that more people from Arlington to Fairfax than vice versa; schools often play a significant role in their decision; and that the "way out" Langley/McLean districts are literally next door to Arlington.

No wonder Wakefield scores are so bad. [/quote]

Are you the person APS has employed to project student capacity? Are your incorrect assumptions the reason we have the overcrowding crisis?

I know where the FFX schools are located. Like pretty much everyone else I know who has at least one parent working in DC, we are not willing to move any further west from DC, even right "next door" to McLean. Langley would be even further away for us. We're not alone in this, and all the UMC families I know who've left "because of the schools" HAVE moved within Arlington, or to FCC. Not out to McLean or Langley, unless there has been a job change, too. Most haven't moved at all and have gone private or sought a transfer if they weren't happy with their zoned school.

But whatever you need to tell yourself. [/quote]

Now you're just babbling.  LOL. [/quote]

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