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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, you’re basically asking which highly-ranked UMC HS is best? These are DCUM’s public darlings, if you’re rich and your kid’s smart, either will be fine. McLean has a better band, [b]Langley has higher HHIs[/b]. [/quote]

Where do you see this data?  I would assume the opposite is true. Langley pulls from a large area that includes homes that border sterling and most of the truly wealthy in that area send their kids to private rather than public. [/quote]

DP.  Average single-family house zoned to Langley costs about $200K more than one zoned to McLean, plus McLean has a bunch of less expensive townhouses and apartments.  Langley has no apartments and very few townhouses.

Langley appeals more to people who want to be surrounded by other rich people.  All the other high schools in FCPS, including McLean, have at least some economic diversity.  [/quote]

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OMG.  The chip on your shoulder is a mile wide.  Are you the same poster who is absolutely *obsessed* with HHI at Langley?  You need a hobby.  [/quote]

Dp here. I have no chip. [b]I actually wanted to buy on the mclean high side so my kids would not be going to school with all rich kids.[/b] Turns out kids are pretty normal but the houses are definitely more expensive on the Langley side.

People are always saying how Langley has no economic diversity.[/quote]

Sounds like a chip to me.  No one at Langley thinks about or discusses the relative wealth of their classmates.  However, it does seem to be a point of obsession for those who don’t go there/have kids there.  [/quote]

Are we veering into the middle school "jus' jealous" territory already?  Of course no one in a homogenous wealth group discusses their privilege - they're nearly all coming from the same point of references and only 3% of their peers fall into FARMs range.  It's different if you're part of that 3% or you're one of the very few kids who didn't take an amazing spring break trip or is driving the 25-year-old Buick Grandma gave you after her keys got taken away - I can guarantee you that those kids are not having the same experience as the majority.

We deliberately avoided Langley and McLean because we are not wealthy and didn't want our kids to be the have-nots at their school and prefer they be in a more diverse population of students.  I'm not jealous of people who make more money - we are comfortable, have a nice home, savings for retirement and college, and are able to provide extracurriculars; we are simply not wealthy enough to have a $1.5M+ home or to take expensive vacations or buy our child a Tesla for their 16th birthday.  Langley kids get a great education, and several of my college friends are really fantastic Langley grads.  McLean kids also get a great education, and my kids will as well.  No one's "obsessed" with it, but it's a differentiating factor, and that's what OP asked about.[/quote]

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Your post is so chock full of misinformation and hyperbole, I really don’t know where to start.  My kids go to Langley.  We do not live in a $1.5 million home - not even close.  We live in a neighborhood of houses built in the mid-70s/80s.  I drive a ten yr. old minivan.  Neither of our kids received cars for their 16th birthday - much less Teslas  :lol:  :lol:.  We take a vacation once a year and never go anywhere during spring break.  Most of my kids’ friends live in a similar manner, but the ones who are wealthy and travel a lot, etc. are still our great friends.  Having money does not make one bad or unrelatable, as you seem to think.  Are we fortunate to be able to send our kids to Langley?  You bet we are.  But just because some Langley kids are wealthy doesn’t mean all of them are.  Most are comfortable, as we are.  And again - no one cares.

Frankly, I’m glad you “deliberately avoided” both Langley and McLean because you’re clearly a bean-counting, score-keeping sort who would make yourself and your kids miserable if you had to live among people who might have more than you.  But it certainly does beg the question:  why are you even commenting on a thread about two schools you have “no interest” in or knowledge of?[/quote]

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