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[quote=Anonymous]Our school has a day for freshman where they go in and here about clubs, attend a pep rally, have lunch, meet other kids.  It's sort of goofy with loud music, lights dimmed, kids roller skating in the hall, holding banners and welcoming the incoming students.

I walked into this chaotic looking, rowdy free for all fresh out of town with my incoming HS freshman (who knew not a sole at that school).  I had been expecting this to be more like an Open House event where we saw classrooms, met teachers, got a look at the school - the same as middle school. I had no idea that the event was supposed to last all day.  Nor did I have any idea that my son was supposed to go with the *extremely spirited* roller skating wild and crazy kids down one hallway, while I was instructed to go into a parent's conference where the parents were told to leave and come back in a few hours to get our kids.

It was about the strangest of introductions to a school that I could have dreamed up.  If we had been warned ahead of time that would have been one thing...but it was a bit nerve wracking to just walk into that scene w/o warning.  Made me really wonder about that school and WTH we had done to ourselves, lol.  As it turns out, my son had fun and things were better organized than they initially appeared to be.  For the second son at least I knew what to expect...

At any rate, by comparison, the orientation days at FCPS are  boring and NBD at all.  Your kid will be fine.[/quote]

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