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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eh, North Arlington schools have been and always will be better. I grew up in the system and have two kids in it now. I am half-minority (bi-racial, whatever the hell you want to call it) so I'll call it like I see it.

If you want your kids to be around non-whites at school, that's a wonderful goal and you should definitely stay in SA. If you want your kids to go to great colleges and universities, which leads to better careers, connections, etc., then it is North all the way.

The people who went to Wakefield went to shit colleges. W-L, unless you were doing IB, you went to shit to mediocre colleges. Bishop O'Connell kids all went to shit schools (I knew of like a dozen kids there who went to Christopher Newport...the lowest-tier state school). Yorktown and HB always had the most elite placements.

So, if you are happy with your kid going to Christopher Newport, Longwood, etc., with JMU being their stretch school, then definitely keep them in South Arlington. If you want their fallback school to be UVA, do what you can to save up the money to buy a North Arlington house.

The immigrant and low SES kids, as cute as they are, are always a huge distraction in the classroom. They drag the whole class down to their level. Everyone is always waiting for them to catch up, but they never do. [/quote]

And this is why, in a county as small as Arlington, there shouldn't be neighborhood high schools. There should be busing. [/quote]

Never going to happen.[/quote]

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