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No.  If you can't arrange for transportation, or pupil place into the AP school you have decided you would prefer to Marshall, you are indeed "stuck" there.  To use your language, that's just a fact.   [/quote]
That's like saying, "and you're deaf, you can't hear music. That's a fact."  You didn't qualify your "stuck" statement with any conditions like transportation or decision to stay at Marshall.  You said "they are stuck."  That's not true.  Arranging transportation or pupil placement just aren't insurmountable obstacles you'd like to pretend they are. 
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When you cut through all the crap, the point that really ought to come across is that there are many decent choices for people in this area, when it comes to both schools and neighborhoods.  PH definitely could be a good choice for some people.  But I don't know why some people who live in PH today think it's so important to assert that their schools are "better" than ones just a few miles away.  Maybe it's because the neighborhood is generally considered visually unappealing, so people need to keep reassuring themselves that the trade-offs are worth it? [/quote]

That's because their schools are better.  You throw around things like "diversity" and "unique offerings" to obscure an elephant in the room.  That elephant in the room is that SAT and test scores are much lower at FCPS than at Marshall.  These schools aren't just a little apart when it comes to scores. They are very, very far apart.  This distinction is not meaningless, and you're trying to pretend that it is.   People in this area use school quality as one of the top factors in their real estate decisions.  It makes you look dishonest when you pretend that differences among schools don't mean anything and that one is just as good as the other - if you squint your eyes just right.  These schools rank differently, and people use school rankings to inform their house purchasing decisions. In fact, many purchasers will accept a smaller or less renovated property in exchange for good location and good schools.

PH is not beautiful.  Neither is 22042.  None of them is Spring Valley or Kent.  It's certainly possible to find an area as un-beautiful as PH the size of PH within 22042 (which is a much bigger area). [/quote]

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