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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My older DC graduated from Blair CAP in 2022.

Generally quite a positive experience.  Had been at Eastern Humanities beforehand so the curriculum really followed on fairly well.  They have some great teachers (although some less so, but at least one of those is now gone!) and left HS with some great writing skills that has served them very well in college. The interdisciplinary projects of 9th and 10th grade were really awesome high points of their experience (although the time of Covid meant they missed out on some of the best 10th grade interdisciplinaries).

The school is huge.  Positive of that is that there are lots of courses offered and lots of clubs. Negative is that the crowd can be a little overwhelming at times. Having the CAP cohort helped with that a bit.

Some of my kid's favorite teachers were in classes outside of CAP!  AP Human Geography, AP Comparative Government, Forensics, French, Biology... There are some awesome teachers there.

The journalism program is awesome...both print Silver Chips and Silver Chips Online.  The robotics club was very cool and totally open to kids who weren't gung-ho "STEM-all-the-time" types.  [/quote]

Mine was in magnet and also liked the AP Comp Gov teacher!

Mine liked the excellent math teachers she had for Functions, Analysis, etc. There are two really phenomenal math teachers there. Also an amazing physics teacher and great bio too! Really liked that the program was trying to addres bias in STEM (including within the program) with the Equity in STEM class. Really good class. My kid won a competition writing about bias in AI. Fantastic orchestra opportunities.  I know there is a new teacher now,, but assuming they are good too. Great admin -- program and principal.  Great resource teacher for counseling. [/quote]

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