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[quote=Anonymous]My kid chose SMCS and has had a great experience. Peer group is inclusive, bright and supportive. He did not find it a pressure cooker environment.  Before pandemic - he did around 2 hours of homework at home.

Of course the school day is longer than the other houses but he really likes to hang out with his friends, shoot hoops and participate in the clubs too. We have a long commute and opted to not take the bus in the morning so that he could sleep in.  Actually the best part of DL has been the lack of long commute.

I find most students in SMCS to be pretty even in academic standing. Most are from the magnet middle school and are used to managing their time well too. It is again an inclusive bunch.

We liked the GE program on paper (teaching through field trips, sounds so much fun)  but it really had student with a range of academic abilities and thus the class moves along slowly.  Maybe that is a plus for some but it would have been a negative for my impatient child.  Finally, we were not a big fan of missing class time  for fieldtrips because it did not compute that he had to make up the missed stuff himself and it would be comparable in learning along with a class and and so when he chose SMCS we were happy.

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