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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The vast majority of Justice students live in Seven Corners and Culmore.  Please point out where those wealthy country club types that send their kids to Justice.  I am saying this as a Stuart 1990 graduate who came to the United States as a boat refugee from Vietnam.[/quote]

Justice has an enrollment of just over 2300 kids.  About 435 are white, and they mostly live in the single-family areas rather than Seven Corners and Culmore.  They aren't really country club types.  They may live near Lake Barcroft or send their kids to community pools like SHRA and SHB&R.  Their neighbors may send their kids to privates, but there are enough of these families to give Justice a different feel than Annandale (about 275 white kids) or Lewis (about 175 white kids).  They dominate the PTA, they make sure their kids enroll in IB classes, and their kids' college admissions compare favorably to most of the other poorer schools.

Then you have the other demographics at Justice.  The Hispanic kids account for about 60% of the school and are mostly low-income.  The Asian and Black kids account for about 20% of the school and are most economically diverse than the mostly affluent white kids and mostly poor Hispanic kids. [/quote]

Let me break this down for you.  White kids that attend Justice are from MC families.  Asians kids that go to Justice, most of them recently arrived here.  Seven corners and Culmore areas are not safe neighborhoods.  Most of the Vietnamese that arrived here in the 90's live either in Seven Corners or Culmore because those places were affordable for us.  As soon as we graduated from Stuart (now Justice) we couldn't wait to go to college, either UVA or VATech.  Upon college graduation, none of us moved back to either Culmore or Seven Corners.  The vast majority of my Vietnamese classmates move to either Langley or McLean so that their kids can attend better schools.  If Justice is such a great school, you would see a lot of Asian students from UMC families, but you don't because the school is not good.  [/quote]

I went to Justice and still own property there.  I understand the current dynamics in the area just as well as you do.

I don't doubt that coming from Vietnam to Seven Corner/Culmore was a tough transition.  There were lots of fights between the Vietnamese kids fleeing war and then a Communist regime and the Hispanic kids fleeing poverty and gangs for a while.

Sounds like you pride yourself on having ended up in the Langley or McLean area.  Good for you.  There aren't really many Vietnamese kids at either of those schools, though.  There are far more Chinese and Korean kids than Vietnamese kids.  Falls Church has a lot of Vietnamese kids, though.  The families bought less expensive single-family houses when they could move out of the apartments.

But the white kids at Stuart/Justice generally avoided the fights and stayed on the academic track.  Some are middle class but by any objective standard most of their families are UMC. They are fine with their kids doing IB at Justice and going to UVA, VT, etc.  They already feel like they've made it so their sense of self-worth isn't all tied up in sending their kids to Langley, McLean, or even Potomac or Sidwell.  Nor do they really care if only 10% of the Justice kids are Asian vs. 25-30% at Langley, McLean, etc.  [/quote]

I counted 17 students with the last name Nguyen graduating from Falls Church HS this year.  Does any other HS in FCPS have such a large Vietnamese enrollment?  [/quote]

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