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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You guys miss the point.  Of course any one can point anecdotally to a kid here or there not from the Belle Haven or Old Town area.

The point is [b]the population at SSSAS is overwhelmingly from those two areas[/b], and if you aren't from those areas, you get ostracized unless you are an athlete (particularly lacrosse).

That's what happens to schools that have homogeneous student bodies.  SSSAS has a lot of great things going for it, but the lack of diversity at that school is undeniable. [/quote]

Not our experience. [/quote]

PP also keeps repeating this, even though it is almost just mathematically not possible for it to be true, based on the size of the student body at SSSAS and the number of available kids (who don't go to public school) in those very small neighborhoods.  Also, if pp knew anything at all about SSSAS, they would know that there are more kids from Del Ray, Beverly Hills and the neighborhoods immediately surrounding the schools than there are from Belle Haven and Old Town.  For that matter, I'm sure there are more kids from the non-Belle Haven parts of Fairfax County than there are from both of those neighborhoods combined.

By the way, the neighborhoods that most SSSAS students hail from -- City of Alexandria, Fairfax County, Arlington, Prince George's County, Prince William County -- make geographic sense for a school in Alexandria, and that is a HUGE geographic area.  The drive from the house of one of my dc's friends in Prince George's County was more than 30 miles from the house of another friend in McLean.

I'm the one who said that the school is not perfect by any means (my DC doesn't even go there, anymore) but this as a point of criticism is just very odd. [/quote]

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