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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a hard fact to swallow when we all pay so much more to cluster around a few schools. Your umc, high achieving, ambitious, competitive kid; would also be all of those things at ... Annandale, Stuart, TC, Wakefield, Lee...
They aren’t going to join a gang. They will still have the opportunity to be on debate team, or sing in choir. I always assume posters disparaging the lower rated schools, are from elsewhere and just don’t understand that NOVA isn’t Newark.[/quote]

I agree that top flight kids will do well at either type of school....but....by definition, most kids are not "top flight".  So if you have a kid who is not super motivated or talented, should you put that kid in a school where the admin might be attending more to the needier kids (behavior, economic needs, academically behind), or do you put you child in a school where the admin and students are all focussed on achieving with the hope that that influences your kid?

That's the question parents have to answer if your kid isn't super impressive heading into MS or HS.[/quote]

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