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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are likely moving to Arlington for my kid’s HS years. I see that all the three comprehensive HS are massive. Is there any difference in how they handle the size between them? I’m not that concerned about the differences in demographics etc. Just want my kid to be able to integrate into the school with the other kids. He is not a STEM kid so Arlington Tech isn’t really an option. I don’t think he will be full IB either. [/quote]

Why would you do this? Move to FCC. We moved here pre kids for the short commute and metro access, but as nearly empty nesters FCC would be ideal.[/quote]

Because I don’t like the suburbs and because I don’t think sticking him into a smaller school where all the kids have been together since K is a great idea either. [/quote]

Arlington is a suburb. What are you talking about? If you send your kid to Yorktown its no different. 22207 and 22213 are as suburban as you can get.[/quote]

Lots of DD's friends at Washington-Liberty live in high rises in Rosslyn and Ballston. Kids walk from school to Ballston to eat and hang out, and it definitely feels urban more than suburban. Depends where you are.

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So they skip out on the bus home, how are they getting home? Mom and dad or a student with a car picks them up. No teenager is taking the ART at 5pm.

Ballston is a so-so mall, with a few ground level shops and a target, and a LOT of office buildings. Its not really urban in the vibrant community way. [/quote]

I wouldn't consider Ballston a mall any longer. Maybe a failed mail. But it has a successful ice rink, food hall, and other places kids eat. No one's kidding themselves that Ballston is vibrant 14th Street or Union Market, etc. Ballston, Clarendon, Roslyn are vibrant communities with shops (Clarendon mainly), eateries, cultural institutions (MOCAA-Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington), robust public transit, diverse and dense housing types, etc.

W-L upperclassmen do take advantage of open lunch and walk to/from Ballston to eat. Students do in fact take the public bus or subway after dark. [/quote]

Students also walk home after dark and after school sports events. I don't know why PPP is so fixated on Ballston, which is just one of a number of communities in the vicinity of the high school. The high school for "culturally vibrant" Georgetown is Macarthur, far from Metro and in an area that's not the most pedestrian friendly. Not knocking the MacArthur, but it helps make my point that W-L is well situated for walking, biking, transit, etc. And culturally vibrant DC (Smithsonian, Kennedy Center, National Theater, downtown shopping, pro sports venues, etc.) is a short subway ride away. Field trips from the school into the city have often used Metro over the many decades. [/quote]

You are insane to think APS students are jetting off to the National Theater.  When we talk about urban we don’t mean 5 metro stops away from anything.

BTW Meridian is about the same distance to West Falls station as WL is from Ballston station, and WF station is two stops further from DC. Its a wash.

The advantage is that Meridian is about 1/3 the size of WL. The insularity may be an issue, but in WL anonymity runs rampant. [/quote]

+1 Yorktown kids are in Georgetown all the time but not for @culture@ lol. [/quote]

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