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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I graduated from Wakefield in the 80s.  It was already considered the lowest tier school in Arlington County.  A friend I met in grad school's father went to Wakefield and he wouldn't send his kids to that school which would have been the same time I was there (they went to St. Alban's and NCS).  I think the Fair Housing Act of the early 70s generated his parent's flight from South Arlington.  
Wakefield continued to decline after I graduated. Like that dad, there is absolutely no way I would send my kids there today.
Arlington residents do have legitimate concerns about how apartment complexes are detrimental to school quality and the spectre of Wakefield is the reason why so many are fighting the "missing middle" rationale for development. W&L has slid along the same path as Wakefield, albeit a decade later.  I'm pretty sure this kind of stuff is going on at W&L already.[/quote]

My dad worked in Crystal City when siblings and I were in school k-12.  Early 70s-1988.  Wakefield was awful.  They veteoed buying a house in Arlington because a lot of other schools were weak. We ended up in a new suburb in Fairfax Co.[/quote]

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