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Is this joke. I love how people self identify themselves bi-racial and begin to denigrate people of color. Yes, test scores are lower in SA. It always has been I don't need greatschools.org to tell me that either. Living in the Arlington community before the real estate bubble skyrocket home prices it was just  Arlington. I lived here before the great surge of people who figure Arlington was a good place to live and raise a family. I have known families with children who went onto Wakefield, graduated went to shitty schools like Yale, Harvard, MIT and other institutions people at other high schools would hold their nose in disgust. I have lived in North and South Arlington. There are more concentration of low income families because the south has more apartment buildings that don't come with a dog sitting room or Sunday brunch. Yes, the other students who you claim drag down the class, their parents were in a third world nation like Syria. I call it a miracle they have the will to goto school while their parents rebuild their lives. However like other posters on this board it's really about maintaining the image and justifying your million dollar colonial in NA. I think price points peaked in NA and now these poor people who need double incomes to maintain these homes are screwed.

I too live in a large colonial but it's in Arlington Ridge area and love my arlington neighborhood and got it for a steal in 1999.
I also have a house in North Arlington since 1996 that I rent out. All homes are mortgage free and my income is very high.

My children attend SA schools and have grown up to appreciate people of diverse backgrounds.

[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]

Gird your loins.[/quote][/quote]

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