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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. M[b]ost haven't moved at all and have gone private or sought a transfer if they weren't happy with their zoned school[/b][i].

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

Those that live in Arlington County who has at least one parent working in DC don't move but then send their kids to Sidwell or National Cathedral School (NCS) because they are, you guess it, DC.  [/quote]

So are you agreeing with me? I mean, I live here and see what stickers are on the cars. I literally don't know any families who've moved out to FFX when APS was found lacking. But there are a number at privates. Nobody who has to work in DC is moving further out if they can help it.

That doesn't mean that any student can't succeed at Wakefield. [/quote]

are you seriously claiming no one commutes from Fairfax county to DC? [/quote]

OMG, no. I see you clogging up the roads every day. What I am claiming is that I don't know anyone who purposely selects a house in a close-in location who then bails to FFX because the GS score goes down a point at their local school. Of course some people never entertain living in closer-in areas that don't have all GS 9-10 schools and move to FFX the minute they have kids. Just as some people never entertain the idea of living outside the Beltway, or even outside of DC. But this has nothing to do with whether a student can reach their potential at one school and not another.

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