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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I lived in the Langley school zone I'd send my kid there. Same with McLean. But I live in the Wakefield school zone so my kid will go there.

I am not upset about *not* having hoards of tiger moms surrounding me. I know my kids will do well.

I went to McLean. My class has plenty of high achievers. But we also had plenty of people who are middling about just like the rest of the plebes who went to "less rich" high schools.

Going there does not guarantee success anymore than going to Wakefield seals your doom.

So you would send your kids to Baltimore City schools?

Dp- you are asking if they would send their child to a dysfunctional school system, as opposed to APS? Are you implying Wakefield is similar to inner city Baltimore schools? You are a moron.

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Anonymous wrote:If I lived in the Langley school zone I'd send my kid there. Same with McLean. But I live in the Wakefield school zone so my kid will go there.

I am not upset about *not* having hoards of tiger moms surrounding me. I know my kids will do well.

I went to McLean. My class has plenty of high achievers. But we also had plenty of people who are middling about just like the rest of the plebes who went to "less rich" high schools.

Going there does not guarantee success anymore than going to Wakefield seals your doom.

So you would send your kids to Baltimore City schools?

Anonymous wrote:If I lived in the Langley school zone I'd send my kid there. Same with McLean. But I live in the Wakefield school zone so my kid will go there.

I am not upset about *not* having hoards of tiger moms surrounding me. I know my kids will do well.

I went to McLean. My class has plenty of high achievers. But we also had plenty of people who are middling about just like the rest of the plebes who went to "less rich" high schools.

Going there does not guarantee success anymore than going to Wakefield seals your doom.

Anonymous wrote:So what can be done to improve the school? It’s a nice building but the achievement levels suck and it’s hard to see them improving much with such a large low-income, minority student body.

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Anonymous wrote:Asians don't like other minorities either.

Are you implying that Asians are racist too? What an absurd statement to make.

Not absurd in anyway. It is absolutely true.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asians don't like other minorities either.

Are you implying that Asians are racist too? What an absurd statement to make.

Anonymous wrote:Asians don't like other minorities either.

Anonymous wrote:Is the situation at Wakefield is similar to that in DCPS, where the schools are graduating students who did not meet attendance requirements?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2018/01/19/its-not-just-ballou-schools-across-d-c-are-graduating-students-who-were-chronically-absent/?hpid=hp_local-news_dcschools-1005am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.5e57cba2d039

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Anonymous wrote:Are you the person APS has employed to project student capacity? Are your incorrect assumptions the reason we have the overcrowding crisis?

I know where the FFX schools are located. Like pretty much everyone else I know who has at least one parent working in DC, we are not willing to move any further west from DC, even right "next door" to McLean. Langley would be even further away for us. We're not alone in this, and all the UMC families I know who've left "because of the schools" HAVE moved within Arlington, or to FCC. Not out to McLean or Langley, unless there has been a job change, too. Most haven't moved at all and have gone private or sought a transfer if they weren't happy with their zoned school[i].

But whatever you need to tell yourself.

Those that live in Arlington County who has at least one parent working in DC don't move but then send their kids to Sidwell or National Cathedral School (NCS) because they are, you guess it, DC.

So are you agreeing with me? I mean, I live here and see what stickers are on the cars. I literally don't know any families who've moved out to FFX when APS was found lacking. But there are a number at privates. Nobody who has to work in DC is moving further out if they can help it.

That doesn't mean that any student can't succeed at Wakefield.

are you seriously claiming no one commutes from Fairfax county to DC?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you the person APS has employed to project student capacity? Are your incorrect assumptions the reason we have the overcrowding crisis?

I know where the FFX schools are located. Like pretty much everyone else I know who has at least one parent working in DC, we are not willing to move any further west from DC, even right "next door" to McLean. Langley would be even further away for us. We're not alone in this, and all the UMC families I know who've left "because of the schools" HAVE moved within Arlington, or to FCC. Not out to McLean or Langley, unless there has been a job change, too. Most haven't moved at all and have gone private or sought a transfer if they weren't happy with their zoned school[i].

But whatever you need to tell yourself.

Those that live in Arlington County who has at least one parent working in DC don't move but then send their kids to Sidwell or National Cathedral School (NCS) because they are, you guess it, DC.

So are you agreeing with me? I mean, I live here and see what stickers are on the cars. I literally don't know any families who've moved out to FFX when APS was found lacking. But there are a number at privates. Nobody who has to work in DC is moving further out if they can help it.

That doesn't mean that any student can't succeed at Wakefield.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you the person APS has employed to project student capacity? Are your incorrect assumptions the reason we have the overcrowding crisis?

I know where the FFX schools are located. Like pretty much everyone else I know who has at least one parent working in DC, we are not willing to move any further west from DC, even right "next door" to McLean. Langley would be even further away for us. We're not alone in this, and all the UMC families I know who've left "because of the schools" HAVE moved within Arlington, or to FCC. Not out to McLean or Langley, unless there has been a job change, too. Most haven't moved at all and have gone private or sought a transfer if they weren't happy with their zoned school[i].

But whatever you need to tell yourself.

Those that live in Arlington County who has at least one parent working in DC don't move but then send their kids to Sidwell or National Cathedral School (NCS) because they are, you guess it, DC.

So are you agreeing with me? I mean, I live here and see what stickers are on the cars. I literally don't know any families who've moved out to FFX when APS was found lacking. But there are a number at privates. Nobody who has to work in DC is moving further out if they can help it.

That doesn't mean that any student can't succeed at Wakefield.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you the person APS has employed to project student capacity? Are your incorrect assumptions the reason we have the overcrowding crisis?

I know where the FFX schools are located. Like pretty much everyone else I know who has at least one parent working in DC, we are not willing to move any further west from DC, even right "next door" to McLean. Langley would be even further away for us. We're not alone in this, and all the UMC families I know who've left "because of the schools" HAVE moved within Arlington, or to FCC. Not out to McLean or Langley, unless there has been a job change, too. Most haven't moved at all and have gone private or sought a transfer if they weren't happy with their zoned school[i].

But whatever you need to tell yourself.

Those that live in Arlington County who has at least one parent working in DC don't move but then send their kids to Sidwell or National Cathedral School (NCS) because they are, you guess it, DC.