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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's up with the hate hard-on some of these Yorktown posters have for W-L?  Are the posters actually, like, high school football players?  Or kids who are mad that W-L had a better Ivy acceptance rate last year and a few years before that?[/quote]

I objected to the pp's prattling on about the homogeneity at Yorktown (as if that's a bad thing), but I have no issues with W-L. I think it's a fine school.
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" I objected to having to acknowledge that Yorktown isn't a very diverse schools.  Although  the very reason I chose it,  is because it isn't a very diverse school"

Fixed it for you. [/quote]

Why do you keep insisting diversity is a virtue? It can be, but it isn't automatically so. Similarly, relative homogeneity doesn't mean a school is bad, yet you seem to believe this to be the case.
Do you hate historically black colleges and universities, too?[/quote]

No where has anyone said that other than you. I went to an extremely wealthy high school growing up. Granted, it was much wealthier than Yorktown, but Yorktown is close enough. I don't want my children surrounded almost exclusively by rich, elistest, entitled  kids. I'm not alone in this fear. MANY ( not some) people on this board have echoed similar sentiments. 
Do I want my kid in a school with a majority esol and farms? No!
I would like a reasonable mix. Arlington isn't doing a great job of that at the moment. W-L is pretty close. A few of the more centrally located elemetaries seem to have nice mix.
You think the homogeneous exclusivity of Yorktown is a plus. Great! Mant posters share your view and certainly the property values in 22207 reflect that.
Why get so defensive when others don't agree?
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