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Anonymous wrote:Many neighborhoods in eastern Fairfax are great places to live and raise a family - Fort Hunt, Stratford Landing, Hayfield, Kingstowne, Saratoga. Great locations, good housing stock, etc. Why are some of the schools in those areas performing poorly? Good neighborhood schools are suddenly not so good. What's going on FCPS?

Huh? These areas look very good compared to, say, South Arlington.

The houses is south Arlington are comparatively much more expensive.

That is true, but they are being bought by people who don't care about the public schools.

Umm..no. Just not true at all.

Wakefield has some of the lowest SAT scores in NoVa. If OP has issues with Hayfield, she will have even more issues with lower performing Wakefield.

Yes yes, and people still pay a premium for it. We certainly prefer it to Stuart or wherever. Besides who said Op should look in south Arlington? She likely can't afford a comparable home located there.

What does it mean to "pay a premium" for a house there? Over what? You could just as easily say houses there sell "at a discount" compared to North Arlington, Falls Church, McLean, etc.

Stuart has higher SAT scores than Wakefield, and a growing IB diploma program. I'm not sure what Wakefield's selling point is other than the building and the basketball program, but in any event OP has better options in Fairfax than South Arlington.

Honestly, how daft do you have to be to not understand how much more expensive real estate is in any part of Arlington ( south Arlington included) compared to houses zoned Hayfield ( which I think is a perfectly fine school).

Take it to the Real Estate forum. You aren't being constructive here, and nothing you say is going to make Wakefield sound attractive as an alternative to the Hayfield pyramid.

I'm sorry that you are so insecure about your life choices. I'm sure the Wakefield graduate destined to be your child's boss will go easy on them!

Yawn.

Well I take it back. If they sleep on the job, I'm sure they'll be given the boot.

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Anonymous wrote:Many neighborhoods in eastern Fairfax are great places to live and raise a family - Fort Hunt, Stratford Landing, Hayfield, Kingstowne, Saratoga. Great locations, good housing stock, etc. Why are some of the schools in those areas performing poorly? Good neighborhood schools are suddenly not so good. What's going on FCPS?

Huh? These areas look very good compared to, say, South Arlington.

The houses is south Arlington are comparatively much more expensive.

That is true, but they are being bought by people who don't care about the public schools.

Umm..no. Just not true at all.

Wakefield has some of the lowest SAT scores in NoVa. If OP has issues with Hayfield, she will have even more issues with lower performing Wakefield.

Yes yes, and people still pay a premium for it. We certainly prefer it to Stuart or wherever. Besides who said Op should look in south Arlington? She likely can't afford a comparable home located there.

What does it mean to "pay a premium" for a house there? Over what? You could just as easily say houses there sell "at a discount" compared to North Arlington, Falls Church, McLean, etc.

Stuart has higher SAT scores than Wakefield, and a growing IB diploma program. I'm not sure what Wakefield's selling point is other than the building and the basketball program, but in any event OP has better options in Fairfax than South Arlington.

Honestly, how daft do you have to be to not understand how much more expensive real estate is in any part of Arlington ( south Arlington included) compared to houses zoned Hayfield ( which I think is a perfectly fine school).

Take it to the Real Estate forum. You aren't being constructive here, and nothing you say is going to make Wakefield sound attractive as an alternative to the Hayfield pyramid.

I'm sorry that you are so insecure about your life choices. I'm sure the Wakefield graduate destined to be your child's boss will go easy on them!

Wakefield opened over 60 years ago. The Wiki page for the school features but four "notable alumni," one of whom was a professional wrestler and another of whom was the Fort Hood shooter.

The odds for your prediction are not looking great.

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Anonymous wrote:Many neighborhoods in eastern Fairfax are great places to live and raise a family - Fort Hunt, Stratford Landing, Hayfield, Kingstowne, Saratoga. Great locations, good housing stock, etc. Why are some of the schools in those areas performing poorly? Good neighborhood schools are suddenly not so good. What's going on FCPS?

Huh? These areas look very good compared to, say, South Arlington.

The houses is south Arlington are comparatively much more expensive.

That is true, but they are being bought by people who don't care about the public schools.

Umm..no. Just not true at all.

Wakefield has some of the lowest SAT scores in NoVa. If OP has issues with Hayfield, she will have even more issues with lower performing Wakefield.

Yes yes, and people still pay a premium for it. We certainly prefer it to Stuart or wherever. Besides who said Op should look in south Arlington? She likely can't afford a comparable home located there.

What does it mean to "pay a premium" for a house there? Over what? You could just as easily say houses there sell "at a discount" compared to North Arlington, Falls Church, McLean, etc.

Stuart has higher SAT scores than Wakefield, and a growing IB diploma program. I'm not sure what Wakefield's selling point is other than the building and the basketball program, but in any event OP has better options in Fairfax than South Arlington.

Honestly, how daft do you have to be to not understand how much more expensive real estate is in any part of Arlington ( south Arlington included) compared to houses zoned Hayfield ( which I think is a perfectly fine school).

Take it to the Real Estate forum. You aren't being constructive here, and nothing you say is going to make Wakefield sound attractive as an alternative to the Hayfield pyramid.

I'm sorry that you are so insecure about your life choices. I'm sure the Wakefield graduate destined to be your child's boss will go easy on them!

Yawn.

Just a quick post to say we're a Lake Braddock family and love the school. Neighborhoods around it are great too!

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Anonymous wrote:But my little snowflake might have to be near those brown and black skinned kids that don't take school seriously and, before you know it, they will be pulled over to the dark side and no longer care about school anymore!!!

No. Just worried they will be a distraction and get in the way.

Resources get channeled to lower performing and ESOL kids at the expense of other students. Kids at the very top (AAP) and very bottom get attention while kids in the middle are left to fend for themselves.

This is just cut-and-paste nonsense, and not the case at all at most schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Many neighborhoods in eastern Fairfax are great places to live and raise a family - Fort Hunt, Stratford Landing, Hayfield, Kingstowne, Saratoga. Great locations, good housing stock, etc. Why are some of the schools in those areas performing poorly? Good neighborhood schools are suddenly not so good. What's going on FCPS?

Huh? These areas look very good compared to, say, South Arlington.

The houses is south Arlington are comparatively much more expensive.

That is true, but they are being bought by people who don't care about the public schools.

Umm..no. Just not true at all.

Wakefield has some of the lowest SAT scores in NoVa. If OP has issues with Hayfield, she will have even more issues with lower performing Wakefield.

Yes yes, and people still pay a premium for it. We certainly prefer it to Stuart or wherever. Besides who said Op should look in south Arlington? She likely can't afford a comparable home located there.

What does it mean to "pay a premium" for a house there? Over what? You could just as easily say houses there sell "at a discount" compared to North Arlington, Falls Church, McLean, etc.

Stuart has higher SAT scores than Wakefield, and a growing IB diploma program. I'm not sure what Wakefield's selling point is other than the building and the basketball program, but in any event OP has better options in Fairfax than South Arlington.

Honestly, how daft do you have to be to not understand how much more expensive real estate is in any part of Arlington ( south Arlington included) compared to houses zoned Hayfield ( which I think is a perfectly fine school).

Take it to the Real Estate forum. You aren't being constructive here, and nothing you say is going to make Wakefield sound attractive as an alternative to the Hayfield pyramid.

I'm sorry that you are so insecure about your life choices. I'm sure the Wakefield graduate destined to be your child's boss will go easy on them!

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I was a lower SES kid so that is not the issue, and I came from a poor performing school so I know there are groups of dedicated students everywhere. What has really struck home for me though is our neighbor, who is an aide at Hayfield SS, has said she will not send her own child there. I have not dug deeper, but I would generally trust her judgment.

That being said I have not heard much about West Springfield besides their Great Schools rating, and I don't necessarily think it would be worth it to sell anyway. Thank you for the information on Bishop Ireton. I think I will try to find out more on St. Stephen's and Agnes too.

Sometimes digger deeper will confirm this is more about the neighbor than the school.

We had neighbors who said on several occasions they would never send their kids to Marshall HS. At some point, they acknowledged that it was because they didn't like "the looks" of the largely Hispanic and black students who walk to the school from the apartments behind the school. That explained their perspective, but said more about them than GCM.

To be fair to your neighbor, though, what a school aide sees (in terms of kids who are tardy, in trouble, or needing medical attention) may not be representative of the experience that other students would have.

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Anonymous wrote:Many neighborhoods in eastern Fairfax are great places to live and raise a family - Fort Hunt, Stratford Landing, Hayfield, Kingstowne, Saratoga. Great locations, good housing stock, etc. Why are some of the schools in those areas performing poorly? Good neighborhood schools are suddenly not so good. What's going on FCPS?

Huh? These areas look very good compared to, say, South Arlington.

The houses is south Arlington are comparatively much more expensive.

That is true, but they are being bought by people who don't care about the public schools.

Umm..no. Just not true at all.

Wakefield has some of the lowest SAT scores in NoVa. If OP has issues with Hayfield, she will have even more issues with lower performing Wakefield.

Yes yes, and people still pay a premium for it. We certainly prefer it to Stuart or wherever. Besides who said Op should look in south Arlington? She likely can't afford a comparable home located there.

What does it mean to "pay a premium" for a house there? Over what? You could just as easily say houses there sell "at a discount" compared to North Arlington, Falls Church, McLean, etc.

Stuart has higher SAT scores than Wakefield, and a growing IB diploma program. I'm not sure what Wakefield's selling point is other than the building and the basketball program, but in any event OP has better options in Fairfax than South Arlington.

Honestly, how daft do you have to be to not understand how much more expensive real estate is in any part of Arlington ( south Arlington included) compared to houses zoned Hayfield ( which I think is a perfectly fine school).

Take it to the Real Estate forum. You aren't being constructive here, and nothing you say is going to make Wakefield sound attractive as an alternative to the Hayfield pyramid.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I was a lower SES kid so that is not the issue, and I came from a poor performing school so I know there are groups of dedicated students everywhere. What has really struck home for me though is our neighbor, who is an aide at Hayfield SS, has said she will not send her own child there. I have not dug deeper, but I would generally trust her judgment.

That being said I have not heard much about West Springfield besides their Great Schools rating, and I don't necessarily think it would be worth it to sell anyway. Thank you for the information on Bishop Ireton. I think I will try to find out more on St. Stephen's and Agnes too.

Could you ask the aide what kinds of kids she is working with? I would guess that the aides are there to aid the students with the greatest needs... which may influence her impression. But, if there is another reason related to the administration or general population, that would be good for you to know (and please share with the rest of us).

OP here. I was a lower SES kid so that is not the issue, and I came from a poor performing school so I know there are groups of dedicated students everywhere. What has really struck home for me though is our neighbor, who is an aide at Hayfield SS, has said she will not send her own child there. I have not dug deeper, but I would generally trust her judgment.

That being said I have not heard much about West Springfield besides their Great Schools rating, and I don't necessarily think it would be worth it to sell anyway. Thank you for the information on Bishop Ireton. I think I will try to find out more on St. Stephen's and Agnes too.