Anonymous wrote:Woodson obviously has a real problem.

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(As posted on pg 1 of this thread)

honestly, the insanity that is Fairfax County is making me think moving to PWC or Stafford is the better choice for our family. My husband works north of Fredericksburg and our first is an average student. Getting away from the pressure cooker might be a welcome change in general. FCPS has made it pretty obvious that they cater to the upper class and gifted.

Woodson obviously has a real problem.

As a teacher, I heard the worst stories about Edison. This was almost 10 years ago, though - back then it was known as a school with a cruel staff and incompetent administration, and people used to tell horror stories about how many teachers would run home crying in the middle of the day, and about how high the school turnover was. It might have improved since then.

Lee was also horrid - I actually interviewed there once, and couldn't run out afterward fast enough. The principal was the biggest, most obviously incompetent jackass I'd ever met. Hopefully both those school got new administrators in the past 10 years.

As a parent, I've heard the worst things about Langley - two family members went there and could not have hated it more.

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Anonymous wrote:just like alexandria, the rich families in Mt. Vernon go private for High School. which completely skews the demographics. white flight is still alive and well in the 21st century.

There isn't an alternative

White/middle class flight is not staying in one area, and sending your child to private school. I don't know what that is called.

I couldn't come up with a better term - it's the only one available.

But the alternative would be to actually utilize your neighborhood public high school. But as more and more families go private, it just makes the situation worse.

Look, I get that people are doing what they think is best for their kids. I just think that skewing the demos then just dooms that HS to mediocrity in perpetuity. The situation will never improve if the neighborhood families don't send their own kids...unless fcps wants to do some crazy boundary/social engineering stuff.

If they come, it is gentrification. If they go it is white flight. If they go private they are removing their precious awesome proximity. If they stay all will be well.

Is this really realistic? Can a school not thrive without white people? Come on, that's just so wtf.

I didn't say white. I said rich.

By concentrating poverty in one place, you concentrate the problems that go with it. And the middle class opts out. It's a cycle.

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Anonymous wrote:I get why Mt. Vernon isn't what everyone wants, but could this region revive like APS. OR are the poorer people being pushed out to Rt. 1?

It's all about the housing. Fairfax supervisors apparently approved a lot of low-income housing for this area, sparing other areas of the county... and this is what you get. Low-quality housing = poor families = poor schools.

Dude- APS or really the Arlington county has done this too. South Arlington housing the poors, so north Arlington doesn't have to. It happens everywhere.

Anonymous wrote:I get why Mt. Vernon isn't what everyone wants, but could this region revive like APS. OR are the poorer people being pushed out to Rt. 1?

It's all about the housing. Fairfax supervisors apparently approved a lot of low-income housing for this area, sparing other areas of the county... and this is what you get. Low-quality housing = poor families = poor schools.

I get why Mt. Vernon isn't what everyone wants, but could this region revive like APS. OR are the poorer people being pushed out to Rt. 1?

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Anonymous wrote:just like alexandria, the rich families in Mt. Vernon go private for High School. which completely skews the demographics. white flight is still alive and well in the 21st century.

There isn't an alternative

White/middle class flight is not staying in one area, and sending your child to private school. I don't know what that is called.

I couldn't come up with a better term - it's the only one available.

But the alternative would be to actually utilize your neighborhood public high school. But as more and more families go private, it just makes the situation worse.

Look, I get that people are doing what they think is best for their kids. I just think that skewing the demos then just dooms that HS to mediocrity in perpetuity. The situation will never improve if the neighborhood families don't send their own kids...unless fcps wants to do some crazy boundary/social engineering stuff.

If they come, it is gentrification. If they go it is white flight. If they go private they are removing their precious awesome proximity. If they stay all will be well.

Is this really realistic? Can a school not thrive without white people? Come on, that's just so wtf.

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Anonymous wrote:just like alexandria, the rich families in Mt. Vernon go private for High School. which completely skews the demographics. white flight is still alive and well in the 21st century.

There isn't an alternative

White/middle class flight is not staying in one area, and sending your child to private school. I don't know what that is called.

I couldn't come up with a better term - it's the only one available.

But the alternative would be to actually utilize your neighborhood public high school. But as more and more families go private, it just makes the situation worse.

Look, I get that people are doing what they think is best for their kids. I just think that skewing the demos then just dooms that HS to mediocrity in perpetuity. The situation will never improve if the neighborhood families don't send their own kids...unless fcps wants to do some crazy boundary/social engineering stuff.

Anonymous wrote:How is Westfield High School?

I would like to know as well, looking at houses in that boundary

How is Westfield High School?

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Anonymous wrote:They are all awful and so smugly self-satisfied. FCPS is a self-contained provincial asylum which sends about 90% of its students to roughly five in-state universities. These poor kids are born, live their lives and die without ever leaving the confines of the Commonwealth of Virgnia.

Their students graduate woefully unprepared for the rigors of life and college academics.

Sorry your kid didn't get into a decent Va. school. You are an idiot.

This is a typical response from a mindless FCPS student lacking any and all analytical skills. Rather than supporting your position with a reasoned argument you make false assumptions and personal attacks. This FCPS student like many others would destroy others rather than listening and spending the time and effort required to improve themselves.

Hurry up and get out of bed. You are already late for two-a-days!

There's no analysis in your post.

You are just bitter, useless excrement.

We'll just let your last response stand on its own merit. Enjoy the rest of your summer.

Madison -- mean girls and over emphasis on sports

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Anonymous wrote:just like alexandria, the rich families in Mt. Vernon go private for High School. which completely skews the demographics. white flight is still alive and well in the 21st century.

There isn't an alternative

White/middle class flight is not staying in one area, and sending your child to private school. I don't know what that is called.

It's just "doing what's best for your child", on a large scale. Of course each family's individual decisions can have no adverse effects on anyone else. See this thread:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/489841.page