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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please share good/bad/ugly.  The financial savings is not an issue (but not unwelcome).  My biggest concerns are class size, overall size (getting lost in a crowd), ability to play sports and connection to others (school spirit, I guess).
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On the topic of school spirit -- I'm not sure BCC has a lot of it?

My kids are in elementary and middle schools that feed to BCC.  Last month on a Friday night, we attended a BCC boys basketball game where they played Churchill.   It was an exciting and close game.

In my experience, I had come from a big suburban school in the Midwest.  I expected to see cheerleaders from both teams, a dance team, a pep band, and an announcer calling the game.

Instead, the BCC cheerleaders stayed on the sidelines for most of the game, and the dance line did not perform.  There was no pep band and no announcer.  Churchill didn’t even bring its cheerleaders.

I am kind of bummed that this is what my kids’ high school experience will be when they get to BCC.  I liked going to a high school with a lot of school spirit. Having said that, maybe BCC is better in that kids do a greater variety of activities (with less focus on the sports of football and basketball), and there are more social options than just attending a high school basketball game on a Friday night.
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Football games have more of that pep stuff, with the Poms performing and cheerleaders on the sidelines. I've never seen a MCPS school bring cheerleaders to an away game, not sure that's done. I think the Poms perform at a couple of basketball games but their competitive season is in the winter so they are not focusing on school games then (they do every home football game in the fall). Private schools don't have any of that stuff - most don't even have cheerleaders or pep bands.

My DC went to Whitman and there is a lot of school spirit there, and good fan bases for some sports, but kids are busy and have plenty of things to do. People do tend to turn out in force for big games - 4000 people went to the state basketball final last year and at least 1000 to the state soccer finals this year.
 
OP, my concern about your DS is that if he is wanting to change schools to do less work then he may flounder at a school like BCC. The top kids are taking many AP/IB classes and the workload can be quite intense. Kids also take more classes than in the private schools (typically 7 classes, 1 of which might be art/music type classes) so it's pretty fast paced.[/quote]

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