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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Like another PP, my kids went to public schools K-12 in ACPS. They wound up at UVA and William & Mary.

When you have one large high school, two things happen:
1. The concentration of resources means that there is an incredible amount of resources: tons of AP classes but also lots of electives.
2. You have a greater awareness of the full range of American teenagers. There are struggling kids across the country, in every jurisdiction. Sometimes they are intentionally segregated away from the people living the typical DCUM life.

My kids' "exposure" to this broader span of reality did not negatively impact their trajectory. If anything, I think they enter adulthood with more awareness than those that live within a narrow band.

Also, I live in a nice neighborhood in the West End. Yes, those exist in Alexandria beyond Del Ray and Old Town.

I don't think this city is perfect by any means, but the level of rage displayed on this thread is... odd.[/quote]

I usually don't bother with the Alexandria City posts, because there are people who very angry about the city and just want me to believe I am a fool living here with a family.   I look around at my neighbors who along with me have children in the schools.  We all seem like normal people with good jobs living in nice enough housing and wonder what is wrong with us.  What potential harm are we doing to our children who are doing well at the schools and friends of many socioeconomic levels, races, and nationalities.   We see older kids in our neighborhood graduate from the high school and go to good colleges, get jobs, and a few of them are even able to buy houses in the city or off the parkway in Fairfax/Alexandria.

I just wonder why if Alexandria is so horrible why hasn't everyone figured it out and moved.

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