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[quote=Anonymous]My DD is an 11th grader at Arlington Tech. She is social and gets along with everyone but she is not a social butterfly or an extreme extrovert. She really loves the small size of the school and the individual attention she gets from the teachers and administration staff there. She is on the animal science path and is so happy that she gets to spend 2 hours everyday working with the animals. She quickly made a group of really good, mature friends there and gets together with them outside of school often. She also plays a varsity sport at her home high school. From that, she gets a taste of the big high school life and is so thankful that she is not a part of it (particularly the cliques and troublemakers). There seems to be much less of that at Arlington Tech. A good friend of hers is doing the media journalism track and another doing aviation. Its amazing how much the kids get to dig into their interest and learn so much before they have to make college decisions.

However, there are a few neighborhood kids (all boys) who went to AT for 9th grade and switched back to their home high school for 10th because their friends were on the baseball team and they missed their friends.

So it really depends on if your child is willing to give up seeing close friends at school for the opportunity to take in depth classes on the subjects they love. But remember that all of the kids may be scattering anyway. For my daughter's friend group, 2 got into HB Woodlawn, 2 went to the W&L IB program and 1 other went to Arlington Tech, so not many were going to the home high school anyway.[/quote]

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