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[quote=Anonymous]Wow, Woodson can't get a break.  From this thread I gather it is both a pressure-cooker for rich kids and in a crappy area full of crap houses/THs.

I live in one of the crap houses (thanks for that!) right near Woodson.  The house and neighborhood is older but it suits our needs wonderfully.  We wanted a 4 bedroom house in a good school district for under 450k, which is an elusive combo in NoVa.  I am sure the schools in Vienna are stellar, we simply could not afford that area.  We are thrilled that our kids can walk to school.  We don't want our kids surrounded by excessive wealth and privilege, and while they may see some of that in HS (the districting is strange, in that includes parts of Fairfax Station), our neighborhood elementary is full of families like ours with modest incomes- parents are teachers, feds, military, healthcare workers, George Mason profs, etc.   They value education but it is not an intense, highly competitive atmosphere. Now, I can only speak to the elementary school experience- I suppose the intensity will ratchet up in middle and HS, but any more so than other NoVA schools? doubtful.[/quote]

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