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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We really liked Bishop Ireton, but we also had concerns about getting to/from school from our house (about 25 minutes away), while juggling other kids at another other Catholic K-8 school.

To be fair, when my kids were in FCPS, no joke the middle school bus picked them up at approx. 6:50 a.m. every morning, and if I recall correctly they didn't get to school until around 7:30 a.m. (this included what appeared to be a scheduled "double park the bus and wait by the side of the road" 10 minute break, which I was told was required to coordinate the bus arrival).  And we lived maybe 5-10 minutes away by car!  So it was a crappy commute as well, it was just something that we as parents didn't have to deal with.

We liked both O'Connell and Ireton, but will probably go with O'Connell.  Location is not the sole factor there, but it's one of them.  I believe Ireton is strong in the music/arts, and so if that was important to my children we would probably deal with the commute and figure out some way to carpool.

One thing to consider is whether your HS student would be involved in after-school sports or other clubs/activities, and how that would make your afternoon pickup better (or worse) in terms of juggling your other children.

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Op here. This is a us ^^ Kids were FCPS, but switched to Catholic this year. My younger kids will stay in Catholic (I don't trust FCPS to go back in person after following the SB meetings and reading the message boards), but oldest kid doesn't have much of a choice except to go to FCPS since Ireton seems really tricky to get to while still juggling the other kids. We were spoiled all these years with FCPS neighborhood pyramid/bus stop.

Thank you to all who posted; some great tips and I appreciate the candid reviews. [/quote]

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