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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you really think that if you picked up your family from Langley and moved to the South Lakes district that your children's chances of current and future happiness and success would be materially affected? Are your children really so fragile? Do you have so little confidence in their innate abilities and the home life and environment you provide?[/quote]

Not necessarily, although it is telling that, when part of Madison got moved to South Lakes a few years ago, home values in those neighborhoods declined sharply.  Had students been moved from Langley to South Lakes, the reaction presumably would have been similar.  
It tells you that, despite your rhetoric, parents do assign considerable value to sending their kids to schools such as Madison and Langley with larger cohorts of higher-achieving students.

But the more salient point here is that purported data on college admissions at a handful of schools in a particular year is not especially instructive as to school quality.  If the other poster wants to argue that W-L is equal or superior to schools in FCPS, he or she ought to cone up with something more persuasive.[/quote]

Peer effects are huge, especially in high school. Any parent who really thinks they have that much influence that school quality doesn't matter, that the expectations that their peers and peers's parents hold don't matter, are delusional.

On a similar 1% note, from someone probably in the 10%, and who grew up somewhere way down (just sold our 30 yr old family home for 50k, so DC and Northeast are a completely different word), having relationships and contacts into an entire 4+ cohort of people who will likely attend world class colleges, head companies, start companies, or be appointed to run think tanks or foundations, there are real limitations to the opportunities your child will have later in life. And with the growing inequality, and the necessity of 'knowing' someone to get that job or secure that funding, sadly 'friends from high school' could really reflect a divergence in their life's path. [/quote]

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