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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]

So you are evaluating Justice now based on your experience from the 1990s? My son goes there and while it’s not perfect (and what is these days?) he is very happy there. I am very impressed with the teachers and the principal is very dedicated to the students and building a sense of community.

I’m not sure why people on this site who have no direct or recent experience with this school feel the need to weigh in.[/quote]

I’m the product of Stuart, having graduated in the ‘90s as an immigrant from Vietnam. 
Even today, I still make my way to Eden Center on weekends, and many of my relatives call 
Seven Corners home. In fact, I’ve made it a point to let my family members use my Langley 
address so their kids can attend Langley High School. While Seven Corners is about a 25-minute 
drive from Langley, if you gave families from Seven Corners a choice between sending their 
kids to Justice High School with free transportation or to Langley with transportation on 
their own, they’d choose Langley without a second thought. That’s because, frankly, Justice 
just doesn’t offer the same quality of cohort like Langley.[/quote]

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