I lived in suburban Northern Virginia for 15 years, including the time that I was in high school in Fairfax County. I knew a number of students from ISA and competed against them in some of my extracurricular activities and clubs. The students I encountered were bright, polite, knowledgeable, and above all, normal teenagers.

As with any large group of people, such as the student body of a school, there are going to be individuals who grow up to commit crimes or engage in any number of ill-advised activities. Would you look through my high school yearbook and judge my classmates by the bad behavior of a few? Of course you wouldn't. Why judge ISA by a different standard, simply because it's not the school you attended?