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[quote=Anonymous][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]

NP in this particular discussion. There are some nice, small homes within a half mile of Yorktown that go for less than a larger house somewhere else in N Arlington. What about Garden City. I don't find it hard to believe that the PP couldn't find a house they liked in the W-L district and I don't' think they are paranoid and misinformed. Other families have also said they like the socio-economic diversity at W-L, even if the feeder elementary schools tend to be fairly homogenous. And let's not over generalize. There are "real" rich kids at Yorktown, and plenty of "haves" and "have nots" there also. I believe most families in Arlington are perfectly happy with the way things are with both North Arlington high schools, and both are very desirable.[/quote]

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