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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pyle. Friends are so important. [/quote]

I'm a huge Eastern booster (particularly for quirky kids) but if he has friends going to Pyle, I'd stick with it. The education at Eastern is very good, and very well coordinated across the magnet classes, but some of the best parts of Eastern for my mid were the social piece and the extracurriculars. If your child has a good social circle and extracurriculars would be hard due to distance, it's a less compelling situation. [/quote]

Ugh. Could we stop with the “quirky kids” stereotype”? It’s such a lame way to reinforce the mean girls view of the world - that some kids are cool and some kids are “quirky” and the cool kids shouldn’t hang with the quirky kids. Blech.  [/quote]

I don't think it's like that. NP.
I'm not sure why you think quirky is an insult. The Eastern kids can have pretty specialized interests like one of DD's friends wrote a book, another writes poetry. When DD reads a good book she did not have any friends at her home school to talk to about it but at Eastern there are plenty of kids who when hearing that would say what book and then go out and read it too. The kids are not all like this though. There are plenty of kids you might think are not quirky, but they choose to go to Eastern to be around the the kids who are really into reading, writing, theatre because they think those topics are cool and those kids are cool. [/quote]

+1 I kind of think PP doesn't have middle/high school aged kids, because "popular" isn't really a thing anymore. There are kids who adopt a preppy aesthetic, but there is no monoculture that resembles popularity in the form it would have taken in a John Hughes movie.

In this case, quirky is a shorthand for "has unique interests and likes to talk about them." If a kid has unique interests, then being with other kids who share them is good. [/quote]

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