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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does community support equal quality education in your eyes?

Parades, community newspapers, team sports fans, and the small town feel may be something that some people seek, and other people feel is irrelevant. [/quote]

I think there's a benefit to having your kids attend a school where the community pride in the school is more palpable, but others may think it's largely irrelevant.  I can't think of many who would view it as a negative. [/quote]

Agree that community sense of loyalty and ownership to a school is important. But let's not kid ourselves. The large school districts like Fairfax and MoCo are nothing like the smaller town-based school districts found in the northeast, such as New England, New York or New Jersey. In those places there really is a sense of town pride for public schools. Around here, not so much.[/quote]

It's one more reason why the county schools that manage to create something similar tend to be more sought after.  [/quote]

True but doesn't the city of manassas have a single high school with a greatschools rating of 1 and you don't see people  felling the beltway to move out there.[/quote]

Manassas Park gets a "4" on Great Schools, and their soccer team is supposed to be pretty good.

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