I'm not sure you can say *any* school in NoVa is diverse. Arlington has a few truly diverse schools, but more are heavily white (northernmost elementaries) or heavily hispanic (most of South Arlington.) We're in one of the super-white ones - Nottingham. I had hoped to be in a neighborhood with a little more diversity because let's face it, "all white and mostly wealthy" isn't really that representative of the DC area or the country. But we couldn't afford the SFH's in most of the truly diverse elementary school boundaries (the ones around Ballston and Clarendon) because those tended to be closer to Metro.

So yeah, I get why the PP said the schools might be too white.

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It is not about being the lonely only in a whole school, it is about being the lonely only in your individual classrooms. That means there has to be at least 5-7%. 2-<5% doesn't cut it.

I think this is just someone trying to make their own school sound like the place where the porridge is just the right temperature. Just about any school in NoVa is diverse, particularly compared to 20-30 years ago.

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Good point...I think the same could be said for WNL. Not sure what the explanation is.

What's with the bolded abbreviation? That makes it sound like "W and L," which would be the college in Lexington.

Was that confusing for you? Poor thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly my worry is that its too white.

Imagine people's reactions if you said you avoided a school in DC because it was "too black."

Wow.

New poster. It depends on the the background of the child. Most parents, regardless of race and/or ethnic background, do not want their child to be the lonely only. So, yes parents of all backgrounds have avoided schools that are "too" something they are not.

Well, be it 75% or 65% white, no one child is "the only one" of a race at Yorktown.

I think a lot of white people, paradoxically, say they want to avoid schools that are "too white," anyway. Of course, then they learn that there aren't unicorns shitting gold bricks in every classroom of a "diverse" school and come to realize that the Bennetton myth is just that.

SES matters more than skin color in terms of achievement.

It is not about being the lonely only in a whole school, it is about being the lonely only in your individual classrooms. That means there has to be at least 5-7%. 2-<5% doesn't cut it.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly my worry is that its too white.

Imagine people's reactions if you said you avoided a school in DC because it was "too black."

Wow.

New poster. It depends on the the background of the child. Most parents, regardless of race and/or ethnic background, do not want their child to be the lonely only. So, yes parents of all backgrounds have avoided schools that are "too" something they are not.

Well, be it 75% or 65% white, no one child is "the only one" of a race at Yorktown.

I think a lot of white people, paradoxically, say they want to avoid schools that are "too white," anyway. Of course, then they learn that there aren't unicorns shitting gold bricks in every classroom of a "diverse" school and come to realize that the Bennetton myth is just that.

SES matters more than skin color in terms of achievement.

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Good point...I think the same could be said for WNL. Not sure what the explanation is.

What's with the bolded abbreviation? That makes it sound like "W and L," which would be the college in Lexington.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly my worry is that its too white.

Imagine people's reactions if you said you avoided a school in DC because it was "too black."

Wow.

New poster. It depends on the the background of the child. Most parents, regardless of race and/or ethnic background, do not want their child to be the lonely only. So, yes parents of all backgrounds have avoided schools that are "too" something they are not.

Anonymous wrote:Honestly my worry is that its too white.

Imagine people's reactions if you said you avoided a school in DC because it was "too black."

Wow.

Anonymous wrote:There is something about the math does not workout right. It appears that all of the elementary schools that feed into Yorktown are way, way less diverse. I wonder if diversity is dramatically decreasing as the real estate prices go up, and you are going to see an 85%+ white enrollment at Yorktown in a couple of years.

Good point...I think the same could be said for WNL. Not sure what the explanation is.

I know several kids who went through APS elementary and middle schools that are now going to private high schools instead of Yorktown. They are all upper middle class/affluent, white families. Perhaps this is part of the explanation for the lower percentage of whites at YHS?

There is something about the math does not workout right. It appears that all of the elementary schools that feed into Yorktown are way, way less diverse. I wonder if diversity is dramatically decreasing as the real estate prices go up, and you are going to see an 85%+ white enrollment at Yorktown in a couple of years.

Anonymous wrote:Looks like it is still more diverse than most of the elementary schools that feed into it. 73% white is still majority, but there appears to be some diversity. It is likely more homogeneous in terms of economics.

Yorktown was 64% white last year, not 73%.

http://www.apsva.us/cms/lib2/VA01000586/Centricity/Domain/11/civilrights/Civil%20Rights_2012-13_Web.pdf

And it's still the highest performing school in the county, and not by a small margin.

Anonymous wrote:Honestly my worry is that its too white.