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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. 
It seems that the discussion has been derailed.

Please understand, I am not asking your opinions about my family's values, if I am overprotecting my child etc. This goes both ways of course, as I am not questioning yours. I am not engaging into discussions on these issues, each family knows what's best for their children and noone else (and certainly, not some anonymous posters in DCUM).

I made a straightforwards question, how those 2 MS compare with others in Fairfax like Frost in terms of a) safety b) controversial issues c) academics.

So far, based on the publicly available statistics (to pp who posted the link: thanks so much!) and based on some anonymous responses (which I have no way to find out if they are all distinct or not) my impression is that wrt (a) those 2 schools are slightly better, wrt (b) there's no difference and wrt (c) they are slightly better.

If anyone else wants to share his/her experience, please do. Thanks[/quote]

Your questions are not as straightforward as you suggest because:

1.  The statistics that schools report on safety issues are not rigorously vetted and depend on how current rules are interpreted and reported by individual school administrators.  So you can pretend that they allow for apples-to-apples comparisons, but that ignores the fact that administrators at schools where parents are more likely to object to any disciplinary action against their kids may, over time, write up and report fewer students.

2.  It is not clear what you are talking about when it comes to "controversial issues."  Do you mean the extent to which students are exposed to "controversial issues" on a day-to-day basis as part of the classroom curriculum?  That is unlikely to vary much among schools.  Do you mean the extent to which the schools themselves become embroiled in "culture war" issues?  If so, Cooper clearly is among the schools [b]more [/b]likely to get caught up in those discussion because of the number of parents and community members in that area who are conservative activists.

3.  It is easiest to compare schools based on academics since you can look at SOL results across schools on the VDOE web page. Overall Cooper is slightly higher than Longfellow and Longfellow is slightly higher than Frost, which also aligns with the relative wealth of the families of the students in those pyramids. [/quote]

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