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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A school can be better than one in inner-city Chicago and still far below the expectations or aspirations of many in this area.

Anyway, enough with the excuses. You obviously have a horse in this race. Move to the Lee district from your “good” district and let us know how it goes.

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Different poster. I have students at Lee. This year Lee graduates are attending UVA, William & Mary, VCU, James Madison, Virginia Tech, George Mason, Drexel, Texas A&M, UNC-Chapel Hill, BYU, Barnard, the University of Richmond, Loyola-Chicago, and the University of Chicago (as examples). I think things are going quite well for these students.

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By comparison, at DD's School, there were:
W & M 46 accepted, 17 enrolled
VT.      104 accepted 37 enrolled
UVA.    69 accepted  39 enrolled
JMU.  122 Accepted. 41 enrolled

this is out of a class of about 500.

so, 27% went to one of the top 4 Va Schools.

Oh, other schools include MIT, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Yale.

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And what is to say that these students wouldn't do just as well if they attended Lee? You are mistaking the students for the school. If they are the fantastic students you say they are, then the school won't be the difference (in Fairfax County).[/quote]

DP. You keep saying this and it doesn’t get any more convincing with repetition.

Why do you think GS, US News, School Digger, etc (including this sub-forum) exist. There is a demand for this information because people are interested in sending their kids to the best schools.  If you can’t afford one of those districts, so be it, but you aren’t going to convince people with a choice to pick Lee over Langley by serving up platitudes.[/quote]

These sites just contribute to the problem. They all have questionable methodologies and can't possibly tell the real story of a school. Because people are using these sites to select homes, the divide gets wider every year and more students cram into fewer schools. How many Fairfax high schools are no-go zones now? 7?9? What will it be in five years? 10 or 12? Great School scores dropped recently for a number of schools - do they now fall out of the real estate search for families new to the area? The answer to that question is probably yes and then those schools start to slide. It can be very insidious.

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That First Amendment sure is pesky, isn’t it? And, yet, if we had to rely on other sources for the “real story,” there would be less useful information available to parents.

I’m not aware of any high schools in the county that are viewed generally as “no-go zones,” but if there are that is FCPS’s doing and not the fault of Great Schools or US News.

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