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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, we've been in Del Ray since 2001 and have three kids. My oldest is still asleep upstairs while home on break from UVA. My middle kid is a senior this year and they will be attending Georgetown next year. My youngest is, surprisingly, a very talented athlete getting D1 recruiting looks as a Freshman, but they are also a 4.0 GPA honors track kid.

We were Maury- GW, then ACHS. We are white with a HHI of 280k.

The thought of leaving never even crossed our minds. But then again, we aren't xenophobic racists.

FWIW- I know plenty of people like you that moved or went private and still ended up with a kid at JMU.

Best of luck![/quote]

They probably moved because you let them live in your head rent free instead.

I live in Del Ray too and I cannot imagine caring that anyone stays or leaves, nor would it bother me in the slightest.

Also lol at calling people xenophobic racists for moving. Both because of the complete illogic of the statement and because you live in one of the whitest and most upper class parts of Alexandria and [b]sent your kids to what was one of the whitest and most upper class elementary schools in the whole system at the time[/b].

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DP.

Maury in 2010ish (when PP would have had a kid there) was anything but the whitest or most upper class. That was the heyday of bussing kids from the burg to Maury, all the while forcing the Del Ray rich white families to JH in a wild attempt to bolster the failing scores at JH. The solution to pollution is dilution was their approach. They didnt try to help the poor black kids; they instead hoped the rich white kid's scores would buoy the overall scores. That's when most of us in the SE corner of Del Ray ended up in privates.

Ask me how I know.[/quote]

2010 would have been the absolute earliest start for the oldest, who then would have run through 2016 or so, with later starts for the others (probably 2012/3 and 2016/17). People could opt out of J-H starting in 2012 when it lost accreditation which many white families did. Hard to find old data but at least back in 2016-17 Maury was 57% white, even though kids in the school zone were 50% white, which was one of the highest for an ACPS elementary. And it’s not like that suddenly just happened in 2016-17. The second people could leave J-H they did.[/quote]

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