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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]boy, this degenerated fast.

We ended up buying about 1/2 mile away from  Yorktown.  I would have preferred Washington-lee - I worried about my kid (white, not rich) being surrounded by only white and rich kids at Yorktown.  the world isn't like that.  But we couldn't find a house we liked feeding into W-L; proximity to Metro meant that prices were higher around there and our price range was low for Arlington.

I think your kid(s) will get a good education at either school, and probably at Wakefield too.  We also looked at schools in Falls Church City and Fairfax.  I think Yorktown and W-L rank with the top third or so of Fairfax schools and with George Mason HS; Wakefield scores are closer to the lower Fairfax schools, but that's demographics and not a reflection on the teaching.  For me, I had to rule out a lot of the Fairfax schools because the commute to DC from those homes would have sucked.  [/quote]

If you could afford to buy 1/2 mile from Yorktown, your kids are very likely in the same socio-economic demographic as most of the other kids at Yorktown, so I find your argument to be disingenuous, paranoid, and misinformed. The real "rich" kids in the Yorktown pyramid go private.

Signed, parent in the Jamestown-Williamsburg-Yorktown pyramid who also thinks we're not "rich" on a relative basis but know that, in fact, most people think the same thing we do. Most of our kids' many friends seem to be similar financial background, and only a couple come from truly loaded families. I think you're far more likely to encounter socio-economic disparity at W-L, along with the problems that can sometimes entail. I think homogeneity from a socio-economic standpoint is probably more desirable than a school where there are "haves" and "have nots"[/quote]

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