Anonymous wrote:We left our neighborhood school for Heather Hills and it is one of my deepest regrets. Talk to current and former parents at HH to get a feel of the school. As others have mentioned test scores are not everything and HH has the test scores they have because they teach heavily to the test at the expensive of everything else.
They have had at least 3 principals in the last 6 years and terrible turnover among teachers. Nearly 50% left this school year. My kids have done both public and private. Our neighborhood Bowie school has been the best and HH was by far our worst experience and it had nothing to do with the work.
My child started and ended with a perfect 4.0. It is the belief of many that the TAG programs are harder. They are not. More work, perhaps but for us it boiled down to busy work with little value and we still had to supplement at home for the challenge we needed. All this to say, I wouldn't waste one second of my time planning a life around Heather Hills being a viable or good option.
Sorry to hear that. Yeah, I want to love this county so bad, but not a ton of great options in this county sadly. I'm curious, if you don't mind sharing how the private school experience was.
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