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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's up with the hate hard-on some of these Yorktown posters have for W-L?  Are the posters actually, like, high school football players?  Or kids who are mad that W-L had a better Ivy acceptance rate last year and a few years before that?[/quote]

I objected to the pp's prattling on about the homogeneity at Yorktown (as if that's a bad thing), but I have no issues with W-L. I think it's a fine school.
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" I objected to having to acknowledge that Yorktown isn't a very diverse schools.  Although  the very reason I chose it,  is because it isn't a very diverse school"

Fixed it for you. [/quote]

Why do you keep insisting diversity is a virtue? It can be, but it isn't automatically so. Similarly, relative homogeneity doesn't mean a school is bad, yet you seem to believe this to be the case.
Do you hate historically black colleges and universities, too?[/quote]

No where has anyone said that other than you. I went to an extremely wealthy high school growing up. Granted, it was much wealthier than Yorktown, but Yorktown is close enough. I don't want my children surrounded almost exclusively by rich, elistest, entitled  kids. I'm not alone in this fear. MANY ( not some) people on this board have echoed similar sentiments. 
Do I want my kid in a school with a majority esol and farms? No!
I would like a reasonable mix. Arlington isn't doing a great job of that at the moment. W-L is pretty close. A few of the more centrally located elemetaries seem to have nice mix.
[b]You think the homogeneous exclusivity of Yorktown is a plus.[/b] Great! Mant posters share your view and certainly the property values in 22207 reflect that.
Why get so defensive when others don't agree?
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You're not "disagreeing." You're implying that people who send their children to homogenous schools are somehow racist or doing a disservice to their children. Hence the defensiveness. Try a little introspection. You're being sanctimonious -- your piousness is in the blanket assertion that diversity by default is a virtue; it's not.

In my case -- since you asked -- I don't consider Yorktown's relative homogeneity to be a "plus." I consider Yorktown to be an excellent school with excellent resources and an excellent track record for success of its graduates. There's no skin color/economic litmus test to satisfy when I make those evaluations.

Ironically, you seem to live in a black-and-white world defined by stereotypes and caricatures. You know nothing about me, my family's values, the way my kids are raised, or anything, except you have concluded that we are rich, elitist and entitled. Here's a hint: Only one of us is behaving that way. I have attacked no school -- I happen to think W-L is a very good HS, and I would send my kids there if they wanted to do IB (and a lot of people in 22207 DO send their kids there for IB). You, on the other hand, cannot stop attacking Yorktown for some imaginary faults that clearly seem rooted in some childhood trauma of yours. Get over yourself.[/quote]

[b]You literally sound unhinged. [/b]I gave some information to OP mainly concerning schools other than Yorktown. What I said about Yorktown was mainly positive- highly desirable, impressive scores etc... I pointed out one aspect that people ( there are other threads discussing it) have pointed out can be seen as a drawback. 
The point of my original post was mainly that W-L and Wakefield actually have more in common. You've gotten extremely defensive about ... I'm not even sure anymore.
I don't understand why it so hard for some people's world views to be challenged. It shouldn't be so threatening to you that others would make another choice for their kids. It really shouldn't.
I do have some personal experience here that informs why I feel as I do. That's how most people make choices as they grow up. I'm sure there are very down to earth kids at Yorktown, I didn't mean to paint them all in a negative light. However, having my kid in a school with almost exclusively wealthy students isn't what I would chose.

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Please, pp. Get control of yourself and stop sounding so hysterical.[/quote]

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