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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no kids, but I have lived in the area for 30 and attended K-12 at a nearby district.

Can someone give me a brief rundown of what is going on with relocating/redistricting[/quote]

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Interesting.  SO why is this debate so heated?  Are people worried about their kids losing friends or possibly meeting some new ones of color? Lowering of academic expectations? Overcrowding?

One thing I do know (at least when I graduated in the mid 2000's).  Our immediate area had Langley, Mclean, Madison, George Mason, WL, Woodson, and Yorktown providing education up to, if not exceeding the standard of the local private schools (O'Connell, Potomac, PVI). I realize I am ignoring the under preforming Jeb Stuart/Justice, Falls Church and maybe to a lesser extent Marshall.  Although, I have heard Marshall is in much better shape than it was 15 years ago.   I know families have different beliefs and traditions, but purely on an academic standing, it felt like a I knew many kids who's parents wasted 30k a year in these private schools.  There were a few interestingly drawn boundaries back then that Im not sure still exist.  The most interesting was just Southwest of the City of Falls Church where you have a little neighborhood called Westwood Park.  It made no sense to send these kids to Mclean when Marshall, Falls Church, Stuart/Justice and even Mason ( I know different school district) were much closer.

Is there concern that these new plans may diminish the exceptional public school system Arlington, and most of Northern Virginia has?

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TBH, only parts of arlington and Fairfax school districts are “exceptional”. The places you admittedly ignore are just as numerous and probably more so that the cloistered, high performing high schools you name. Those places are exceptional because they all have very low FRL rates, and their SOL scores reflect not quality of instruction but family income of the student bossy. It’s the same across the country.

All that said, it has little to do with this debate, which is mostly about UMC north Arlingtonians fighting for whatever plan is most convenient to them personally. [/quote]

Exceptional was a bit of an overstatement, but I would still maintain our "worst" schools are better than the majority or public HS across the country.  And yes, it probably has to do with wealth of the average family. I know plenty of people who feel they are lower middle class by only making $80000 a year.[/quote]

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