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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used to live in that area but have since moved. Schools are terrible and I don't think the lake is reason enough to stay. My friends who remain in the area send kids to private schools.

Annandale has great places to eat, though. But I wouldn't buy a house just to get some good takeout. [/quote]

Do tell what you mean by "schools are terrible"?

Were the Justice High students admitted this year or last year to Princeton, American, Notre Dame, Yale, Syracuse, Cal Tech, Ohio State, Michigan, Wesleyan, Penn State, UVA, William & Mary, UCLA, JMU, GW, Georgia, Smith, Clemson, Rutgers, USC, Virginia Tech, Middlebury, Georgetown, Maryland, Pitt, and W&L not served well?  [/quote]

Oh, come off it. Justice is a troubled school with — among other things  — high student poverty rates, high teacher turnover rates, and low academic achievement. It’s at the bottom of the barrel along with the likes of Lewis and Annandale. Sure, some students go on to prestigious colleges and universities (Justice like all FCPS high schools is large) but don’t give off an impression that that’s typical. Those kids are in a very small minority.[/quote]

Do you have direct experience with the school?[/quote]

I worked at Justice when I with FCPS. Left recently. PP’s post is true. It’s also pretty tame. Justice is plagued by fights, drugs, broken families, many indifferent teachers, and an unstable administration. Student need is high and often not met. There’s a reason why many wealthy families in the pyramid go private.[/quote]

This. PPs can call it racist all they want but the fact remains that Justice has high rates of violence, gang presence, and other issues which plague low socioeconomic enclaves. The FCPS stats also show that Justice is 40% English Learner, which seems crazy high to me, and 65% reduced fee/free lunch.  I'm Hispanic. I grew up in a majority Hispanic town and family went to Hispanic schools. It was a terrible experience fraught with drugs, gun violence, and number of issues which children should not be exposed to. So call me racist all you want. I left Annandale and would never send my kids there, having grown up in similar circumstances. In fact, almost everyone of my family members who grew up in Hispanic majority areas look to find safer places to send their kids. I find it crazy that only non-minorities think that these types of schools are just fine and ignore the obvious issues. Justice is just not worth it for families who can afford homes elsewhere. [/quote]

Annandale and Justice may be majority Hispanic schools but neither Annandale nor Falls Church is a majority Hispanic or majority poor area, so the experience is rather different than Brownsville TX or East Los Angeles.

Were you always consumed by this much self-loathing, or did you just pick it up to fit in with the DCUM crowd?

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