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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"many parents" doesn't mean anything.  "many" people voted for Trump, but not the majority of voters.

All you know based on what is documented by FCPS is that parents interacted with FCPS officials at the meetings to voice their opinions about the proposed changes.  For every vocal parent, there were probably at least a dozen who didn't bother attending the meetings because they didn't have strong opinions.

All your anecdote does is reinforce the stereotypes of these different schools - that parents at Woodson tend to view Robinson as inferior.  It doesn't mean it IS inferior.  
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Actually, your response speaks more towards parents at Robinson potentially having an inferiority complex than parents at Woodson having a superiority complex, since the most logical inference to be drawn from the recent redistricting was that many Woodson parents in the affected area were happy at WTW and wished to stay, not that they viewed Robinson as inferior.

However, if those parents were unhappy at Woodson, the redistricting gave them a perfect opportunity to express their support for the redistricting, and this did not happen.    [/quote]

Honestly, the redistricting made people mad because they didn't want their kids to go to a 7-12 school. That was the main complaint at the meetings I attended having been a parent in that area. Some people were worried about property values, impact of IB on the attractiveness of their homes, etc. Some people bitched because they didn't like change period ("we have always been a Woodson family and no our youngest can't go...etc").

I don't think the small island is a ringing endorsement or addresses some of the real issues other posters have raised. [/quote]

Combine it with the positive reaction of the Wakefield Forest and Fairfax Villa parents when they were moved from Annandale and Fairfax, respectively, to Woodson and a pattern emerges where people expressed favorable views about Woodson that run counter to the DCUM party line, which is to bash WTW.

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