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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is interesting that, with respect to Lee, all you see on this thread is people talking about why they shouldn't go there and how they get out of going there.  If you canvass people at Falls Church and Stuart from the Saratoga-equivalents (Camelot and Fairhill areas in Falls Church district, Sleepy Hollow/Lake Barcroft in the Stuart district), you'd find people who are involved with the schools and trying to make them better.  The Mason District Parents page on Facebook is one example.

It just sounds like people are checked out when it comes to Mount Vernon and Lee these days. [/quote]

It is a little comical though that one would buy a house that is $50-100K cheaper than the neighboring districts, knowing when you bought the cheaper price is because of the high school, then start complaining that your kids are zoned for the high school that made your home so much cheaper and trying to get your kids moved into the neighboring district that you didn't want to pay for (or sacrifice house size or quality for).

The Saratoga zoning issue is NOT an issue of poor people being trapped or minority/esl families being shuttled off to one place.

That neighborhood is generally the exact same SES status as the WSHS feeders, mostly feds and military level incomes that could afford WSHS neighborhoods if they wanted to. Tuey just made a diffeeent choice of more house for the money, knowing their school assignment. They chose a trade off and others chose a more expensive/smaller house for more money to get zoned for WSHS.

They should focus on trying to improve their zoned school (Lee) that they chose.

We are not talking about the families that feed into Garfield Elementary.  We are talking about upper middle class families that made a choice.[/quote]

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