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Anonymous wrote:I dislike the W-L parents I've met so much that I could never envision the school as a good social environment. Parents at both Yorktown and Wakefield are much friendlier and don't act like they have as much to prove.

The YHS parents are the most insufferable out there. They constantly talk about how dangerous Wakefield is and how many minorities go to W-L. Nice try again Yorktown troll. You never cease to amaze me, but we all know you've never met a Wakefield parent in your life...in your bubble in lily-white land.

Exactly. Yorktown parents are an overly demanding and overbearing bunch--some well respected coaches at Yorktown have been forced out over the past few years by the parents who demand teams that win with consistency. A conference win every few years doesn't cut it.

That does not happen at Arlington's other high schools.

This is the typical W-L trash talk. The level of insecurity there is off-the-charts, even though APS has done more to try and help that school than any other. What they can't do is give the W-L parents any class.

Just the facts. At least three long-time, well-respected coaches at Yorktown were dismissed within the last few years, because of parents who didn't approve of the direction the teams were going in. From what I've seen on this forum, W-L parents have been very diplomatic, even as their neighborhoods and school pyramids are attacked.

Yep. My husband coaches youth sports and the most obnoxious sports' parents are those parents that feed into YHS.

Wow! We're interested in McLean, Langley or Yorktown and they all sound awful! I'd like my child to have a balanced and positive HS experience and it honestly sounds like you can't do that anywhere. What's going on in these areas?

Anonymous wrote:I'm starting to think Wakefield is the only school in APS worth considering. Yorktown sounds tough to navigate socially and the W-L helicopter parents gleefully dumping on the school sound petty and jealous. Are there ANY places in Arlington where normal people who just let their kids go to school live?

I am in the Yorktown district, my kids attend Wakefield, I like the social scene there better. It has the same curriculum and great teachers and an involve principal. It is up to them what they make of it. I also like W-L, the kids there look content to me too. Why worry about Yorktown, let those who wants it have it. In the next year or two both Wakefield and W-L will be overcrowded. Yorktown either will be at capacity or slightly under. You have to ask yourself why given all the talk about it being the best pyramid in APS. A slightly higher test score doesn't give the full picture. Why send your kid someplace that is unfriendly everyday for 4 years. Their childhood is too short for that.

Anonymous wrote:I'm starting to think Wakefield is the only school in APS worth considering. Yorktown sounds tough to navigate socially and the W-L helicopter parents gleefully dumping on the school sound petty and jealous. Are there ANY places in Arlington where normal people who just let their kids go to school live?

Seriously, don't give up on any school just because of what you read here. Arlington is actually pretty mellow compared with other school districts.

I'm starting to think Wakefield is the only school in APS worth considering. Yorktown sounds tough to navigate socially and the W-L helicopter parents gleefully dumping on the school sound petty and jealous. Are there ANY places in Arlington where normal people who just let their kids go to school live?

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Anonymous wrote:I dislike the W-L parents I've met so much that I could never envision the school as a good social environment. Parents at both Yorktown and Wakefield are much friendlier and don't act like they have as much to prove.

The YHS parents are the most insufferable out there. They constantly talk about how dangerous Wakefield is and how many minorities go to W-L. Nice try again Yorktown troll. You never cease to amaze me, but we all know you've never met a Wakefield parent in your life...in your bubble in lily-white land.

Exactly. Yorktown parents are an overly demanding and overbearing bunch--some well respected coaches at Yorktown have been forced out over the past few years by the parents who demand teams that win with consistency. A conference win every few years doesn't cut it.

That does not happen at Arlington's other high schools.

This is the typical W-L trash talk. The level of insecurity there is off-the-charts, even though APS has done more to try and help that school than any other. What they can't do is give the W-L parents any class.

Just the facts. At least three long-time, well-respected coaches at Yorktown were dismissed within the last few years, because of parents who didn't approve of the direction the teams were going in. From what I've seen on this forum, W-L parents have been very diplomatic, even as their neighborhoods and school pyramids are attacked.

I was at a girls basketball game a few years ago and some white W-L parents were joking about how no one could understand anything that came out of the mouth of the team's black coach. It didn't leave a great impression.

I'm shocked to hear that white people in n Arlington are racists (allegedly, of course).

The w-l girls bball coach was white.

The man coaching them that evening was most definitely not white.

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Do you know specifically why these kids are transferring from Yorktown to W-L?

In my child's case, it is because they didn't like the social environment at YT. Too much pressure to be an "attractive, rich white kid". Boys felt like they have to be the sports superstar who wears vineyard vines and girls have to wear makeup and cute uggs. Not so much based on the academics. But this has happened to multiple kids I know. I know of 4 kids that transferred in the past year, just out of our small group of friends.

This. The place is kind of cold. Don't want my kid starting becoming an adult life like this. The other two schools have better environments.

Yep. My co worker's daughter got caught up in all that crap. They pulled her out.

I've heard the mean girl and Bro culture is very strong there.

It is. Actually my kid was popular before we switched to the other hs. It just that it takes a lot of energy managing the social environment and it got tiring watching your back all the time. Kid wanted an opportunity to built bond with other kids and minimize the constant postering/fakery that goes on over there.

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Anonymous wrote:I dislike the W-L parents I've met so much that I could never envision the school as a good social environment. Parents at both Yorktown and Wakefield are much friendlier and don't act like they have as much to prove.

The YHS parents are the most insufferable out there. They constantly talk about how dangerous Wakefield is and how many minorities go to W-L. Nice try again Yorktown troll. You never cease to amaze me, but we all know you've never met a Wakefield parent in your life...in your bubble in lily-white land.

Exactly. Yorktown parents are an overly demanding and overbearing bunch--some well respected coaches at Yorktown have been forced out over the past few years by the parents who demand teams that win with consistency. A conference win every few years doesn't cut it.

That does not happen at Arlington's other high schools.

This is the typical W-L trash talk. The level of insecurity there is off-the-charts, even though APS has done more to try and help that school than any other. What they can't do is give the W-L parents any class.

Just the facts. At least three long-time, well-respected coaches at Yorktown were dismissed within the last few years, because of parents who didn't approve of the direction the teams were going in. From what I've seen on this forum, W-L parents have been very diplomatic, even as their neighborhoods and school pyramids are attacked.

I was at a girls basketball game a few years ago and some white W-L parents were joking about how no one could understand anything that came out of the mouth of the team's black coach. It didn't leave a great impression.

I'm shocked to hear that white people in n Arlington are racists (allegedly, of course).

The w-l girls bball coach was white.

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Anonymous wrote:I dislike the W-L parents I've met so much that I could never envision the school as a good social environment. Parents at both Yorktown and Wakefield are much friendlier and don't act like they have as much to prove.

The YHS parents are the most insufferable out there. They constantly talk about how dangerous Wakefield is and how many minorities go to W-L. Nice try again Yorktown troll. You never cease to amaze me, but we all know you've never met a Wakefield parent in your life...in your bubble in lily-white land.

Exactly. Yorktown parents are an overly demanding and overbearing bunch--some well respected coaches at Yorktown have been forced out over the past few years by the parents who demand teams that win with consistency. A conference win every few years doesn't cut it.

That does not happen at Arlington's other high schools.

This is the typical W-L trash talk. The level of insecurity there is off-the-charts, even though APS has done more to try and help that school than any other. What they can't do is give the W-L parents any class.

Just the facts. At least three long-time, well-respected coaches at Yorktown were dismissed within the last few years, because of parents who didn't approve of the direction the teams were going in. From what I've seen on this forum, W-L parents have been very diplomatic, even as their neighborhoods and school pyramids are attacked.

I was at a girls basketball game a few years ago and some white W-L parents were joking about how no one could understand anything that came out of the mouth of the team's black coach. It didn't leave a great impression.

I'm shocked to hear that white people in n Arlington are racists (allegedly, of course).

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Anonymous wrote:I dislike the W-L parents I've met so much that I could never envision the school as a good social environment. Parents at both Yorktown and Wakefield are much friendlier and don't act like they have as much to prove.

The YHS parents are the most insufferable out there. They constantly talk about how dangerous Wakefield is and how many minorities go to W-L. Nice try again Yorktown troll. You never cease to amaze me, but we all know you've never met a Wakefield parent in your life...in your bubble in lily-white land.

Exactly. Yorktown parents are an overly demanding and overbearing bunch--some well respected coaches at Yorktown have been forced out over the past few years by the parents who demand teams that win with consistency. A conference win every few years doesn't cut it.

That does not happen at Arlington's other high schools.

This is the typical W-L trash talk. The level of insecurity there is off-the-charts, even though APS has done more to try and help that school than any other. What they can't do is give the W-L parents any class.

Just the facts. At least three long-time, well-respected coaches at Yorktown were dismissed within the last few years, because of parents who didn't approve of the direction the teams were going in. From what I've seen on this forum, W-L parents have been very diplomatic, even as their neighborhoods and school pyramids are attacked.

I was at a girls basketball game a few years ago and some white W-L parents were joking about how no one could understand anything that came out of the mouth of the team's black coach. It didn't leave a great impression.

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Anonymous wrote:I dislike the W-L parents I've met so much that I could never envision the school as a good social environment. Parents at both Yorktown and Wakefield are much friendlier and don't act like they have as much to prove.

The YHS parents are the most insufferable out there. They constantly talk about how dangerous Wakefield is and how many minorities go to W-L. Nice try again Yorktown troll. You never cease to amaze me, but we all know you've never met a Wakefield parent in your life...in your bubble in lily-white land.

bubble up, bro.

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Anonymous wrote:I dislike the W-L parents I've met so much that I could never envision the school as a good social environment. Parents at both Yorktown and Wakefield are much friendlier and don't act like they have as much to prove.

The YHS parents are the most insufferable out there. They constantly talk about how dangerous Wakefield is and how many minorities go to W-L. Nice try again Yorktown troll. You never cease to amaze me, but we all know you've never met a Wakefield parent in your life...in your bubble in lily-white land.

Exactly. Yorktown parents are an overly demanding and overbearing bunch--some well respected coaches at Yorktown have been forced out over the past few years by the parents who demand teams that win with consistency. A conference win every few years doesn't cut it.

That does not happen at Arlington's other high schools.

This is the typical W-L trash talk. The level of insecurity there is off-the-charts, even though APS has done more to try and help that school than any other. What they can't do is give the W-L parents any class.

Just the facts. At least three long-time, well-respected coaches at Yorktown were dismissed within the last few years, because of parents who didn't approve of the direction the teams were going in. From what I've seen on this forum, W-L parents have been very diplomatic, even as their neighborhoods and school pyramids are attacked.

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Anonymous wrote:I dislike the W-L parents I've met so much that I could never envision the school as a good social environment. Parents at both Yorktown and Wakefield are much friendlier and don't act like they have as much to prove.

The YHS parents are the most insufferable out there. They constantly talk about how dangerous Wakefield is and how many minorities go to W-L. Nice try again Yorktown troll. You never cease to amaze me, but we all know you've never met a Wakefield parent in your life...in your bubble in lily-white land.

Exactly. Yorktown parents are an overly demanding and overbearing bunch--some well respected coaches at Yorktown have been forced out over the past few years by the parents who demand teams that win with consistency. A conference win every few years doesn't cut it.

That does not happen at Arlington's other high schools.

This is the typical W-L trash talk. The level of insecurity there is off-the-charts, even though APS has done more to try and help that school than any other. What they can't do is give the W-L parents any class.

Are you an adult? No class, huh? LOL.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at homes districted for Yorktown, but is W-L as bad as the 5 Great Schools rating indicates? What is the trend there?

Also, is there a chance the high school lines could be redistricted?

No, W-L is not a bad school. We live in the Yorktown district, have one child there, but our younger child may go to W-L for the IB program. I wouldn't reject a house just because it's districted for W-L.

WL is not as good as yorktown. You will get the boosters who will push WL but everyone knows better.

This. Check out the halls at lunch time. I saw kids making out like it was an after-hours club. Dozens and dozens of them.

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Anonymous wrote:I dislike the W-L parents I've met so much that I could never envision the school as a good social environment. Parents at both Yorktown and Wakefield are much friendlier and don't act like they have as much to prove.

The YHS parents are the most insufferable out there. They constantly talk about how dangerous Wakefield is and how many minorities go to W-L. Nice try again Yorktown troll. You never cease to amaze me, but we all know you've never met a Wakefield parent in your life...in your bubble in lily-white land.

Exactly. Yorktown parents are an overly demanding and overbearing bunch--some well respected coaches at Yorktown have been forced out over the past few years by the parents who demand teams that win with consistency. A conference win every few years doesn't cut it.

That does not happen at Arlington's other high schools.

This is the typical W-L trash talk. The level of insecurity there is off-the-charts, even though APS has done more to try and help that school than any other. What they can't do is give the W-L parents any class.