Anonymous wrote:OP again: thank you for your candor. My children are nerdy and would mesh well in that regard but I see what you are saying.

I'm the OP of this thread... and I'm not Indian.

OP again: thank you for your candor. My children are nerdy and would mesh well in that regard but I see what you are saying.

Anonymous wrote:OP: my children are excellent students and it is not the academic challenge that concerns me. I am concerned about the social aspect of a high school that is majority Indian ethicnity.

Indian parent here..Your concern is very valid. Indian children tend to gravitate towards other Indian children and a white kid in a group of brown kids will stick out like a sore thumb - the Indian kids will talk about cultural activities outside of school which may or may not be appealing to a white kid - another thing is the food..Imagine being the only kid bringing sandwiches when the others at the table have typical Indian lunches with rice and spicy stuff. Just like Loudoun County has Ashburn and South Riding, Montgomery County has Clarksburg, Howard County has Ellicott City - Indians buy houses where there are other Indians. If one person moves in, soon there will be many more flocking there.. Sadly, that has driven out other folks who feel overwhelmed..

Pros - The Indian kids are generally well behaved and don't challenge the teachers authority, you don't have to worry too much about drugs and academically they stand out. Family values is a big thing with Indians.

Cons - There will be many nerds and if your kid is not a nerd, he may not fit in..Being a white minority in a largely Indian crowd will mean difficulty making friends who talk about things your kid will have no clue about..even in the neighborhood, you'll stick out like a sore thumb - you will have to attend Diwali parties and other Indian themed parties (or they may leave you out). Then there's the language issue - kids will talk in several other languages (there are many in India). Indian kids' ideas of fun will be different than a typical white kid's.

I'm not saying you will have to run far to Prince William County - if you don't mind the culture and your kid is nerdy, you may fit right in..

btw, I don't live in Virginia. These are just my observations - at my kids preschool, I see black kids with black kids, Indians with Indians, whites with whites - the kids know at that young age the color of their skin and tend to gravitate to similar looking people..So a high school white kid who doesn't have too many other white kids in his class might feel left out..

Loudoun has a lot of white people who left Fairfax to get away from the Asians and Hispanics only to find the Indians were one step behind them. Oh well, guess they can move to West Virginia.

Brambleton will have its own high school in 2019 and it will be more diverse than Rock Ridge. Rock Ridge might as well be TJ.

OP: my children are excellent students and it is not the academic challenge that concerns me. I am concerned about the social aspect of a high school that is majority Indian ethicnity.

Anonymous wrote:I've been looking into the Brambleton area of Ashburn and all of the houses I'm interested in are zoned for Rock Ridge. I'm concerned about the high school's social environment with one predomininant culture present. My kids are in the minority at their current school and it has led to them being excluded socially on more than one occasion. Thinking it might be more of the same and that's not what we're looking for. Any parents of Rock Ridge high schoolers out there?

If you are talking about lot of Indians being there, you bet its going to be competitive..OP, it won't be a good fit for you. Indian parents generally pressure the kids in academics (maybe most Asians do that - very few who don't). And the kids will be in kumon, aloha, mind math, whatever..An Indian parent who doesn't do all that will not belong..c'est la vie..

Anonymous wrote:If you're looking at brambleton how far out are you from high school? There's yet another new school being built here that will open in a couple of years. So it will all change again.

+1 Brambleton High Schiol is in the works for 2020/2021 I think

Anonymous wrote:I've been looking into the Brambleton area of Ashburn and all of the houses I'm interested in are zoned for Rock Ridge. I'm concerned about the high school's social environment with one predomininant culture present. My kids are in the minority at their current school and it has led to them being excluded socially on more than one occasion. Thinking it might be more of the same and that's not what we're looking for. Any parents of Rock Ridge high schoolers out there?

There are tons of indian students at rr.

If you're looking at brambleton how far out are you from high school? There's yet another new school being built here that will open in a couple of years. So it will all change again.

I've been looking into the Brambleton area of Ashburn and all of the houses I'm interested in are zoned for Rock Ridge. I'm concerned about the high school's social environment with one predomininant culture present. My kids are in the minority at their current school and it has led to them being excluded socially on more than one occasion. Thinking it might be more of the same and that's not what we're looking for. Any parents of Rock Ridge high schoolers out there?