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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wakefield Forest is a beautiful neighborhood, the elementary school is walking distance, the pool is great, and the community is really friendly. Those are the concrete, right-now things. Even if the high schools were the exact same caliber right now, it sounds like you're saying your family might be happier there because of everything else the neighborhood offers. There's something to be said for that.

Even if Woodson is a competitive rat-race and stays that way for the next 10 years, that doesn't mean your children would necessarily get sucked into it, any more than they would get pulled into gang life, or whatever the heck people are saying Falls Church HS has. If it were my family, I'd rather they deal with super smart type-A kids than worry they might get knifed in the bathroom because they wore the wrong color to school that day.[/quote]

That's nonsense.  How many kids have you heard of getting knifed in the bathroom at FCHS?

OP, I'd base your move/not move decision on whether you like your house and want to stay there, or would rather be in a different neighborhood with the community that you describe.  I went to Frost and to FCHS.  Granted my experience is many years in the past, and MS and HS are different, but I had a far better experience at FCHS than at Frost.  I'm glad that I had the opportunity to make friends who had different backgrounds than I did and came from different socioeconomic groups.  Yeah, there were moments that were hard and awkward, but I'd argue that's a good thing, not a bad thing.  I certainly think I'm a more well-rounded and productive member of society now because of it.  And I did have a lot of opportunity both academically and in extracurricular activities at FCHS that I'm not sure I would have gotten at Woodson.

If you decide to move, I'm sure your kids will do fine in WF/Frost/Woodson also.  Sometimes we forget that even the worst-performing schools in FFX are far better than the majority of schools in the rest of the country.

FWIW,  I live in the FCHS pyramid now and look forward to my DD attending (she's in 3rd grade now).  I do wish that they had done the renovations already, though![/quote]

PP, I'm curious--what was it about your experiences at Frost and FCHS that made one better than the other?  
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