Anonymous wrote:Why are your kids so tired they have to walk to coffee shop?

They used to bike to a really hip one on the Hill, but their carbon fiber bikes were stolen by thugs there, and they hate biking westbound on the Custis on their hybrid bikes, so now they walk to the neighborhood coffee shop.

Ummm...this started out with you Yorkies getting superior about your school. It devolved into you trying to make the argument that schools control all real estate values.

Idiotic in both counts.

Actually, I posted very early on that there was nothing wrong with W-L. Then, it predictably devolved into a classic DCUM thread. I never said schools control all real estate values, only that it is something that some people trade off for other things.

I found the report in Arlington Magazine that W-L pushes kids into AP classes they hadn't signed up for in order to boost the school's ratings fairly distressing. To me, it's exactly how the W-L posters come off in these threads, always trying to make their neighborhood and schools sound better than they really are.