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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love Alexandria, but I would have to do private school to live there. No way I am sending my kids to those public schools. I would rather spend the extra money on a house in Falls Church City, McLean or Vienna in order to get into one of those school pyramids.
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Again, someone who does not have their kids in ACPS. I am the person who wrote earlier about staying. OP, again, talk to people with kids in the school. Look up test scores on the VA and isolate out variables that do not apply to your kids such as being economically disadvantaged. How are kids of your child's demographic doing? I bet you will be surprised. 
 
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The problem is when you go to Arlington and Falls Church you encounter *lots* of people who did have children in ACPS, experienced it pretty fully, and elected to leave. This is a reality.

[b]BTW, this line of argument that "your kids will be fine in ACPS because they're white and not one of the poors" is really an offensive take on things. It's like people who cynically believe a child will have a better shot at college admission having survive TC Williams.[/b][/quote]
You know, as a parent of children who are at TC, that is such a bullshit line I can't stand it. The only place I hear this kind of crap is from people who do not send their children to ACPS. There is not a single parent I know, and my kids are super involved, so I know quite a few, who believe that stuff. The disparity of what I see and experience in real life is so vastly different from what I read here, that it is mind boggling. TC does not have a good Great School rating. Big deal. The things that I care about: interesting and challenging curriculum, safe environment to learn, variety of activities available, that my children are prepared for the next step, and are happy, are all there. To make this bizarre assumption that my family, my neighbors, and my children's friends parents are all sending their children to TC as some kind of "better shot at college admission" is just absurd and frankly, just a really weird assertion.[/quote]

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