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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]10000% No one will say it’s a bad class before you get there and there is no way to know beforehand either. [/quote]

Everyone said it was a GREAT class and it seems to be great for athletic kids and their tight knit wine moms. The nerdy kids keep trickling away and leaving, miserable.
And yet for my other child it is a great class. People said the parents were “standoffish” but the kids are all just fine.[/quote]

Can you tell from the accepted students' admission events whether the parents are nice? This is the one thing that concerns me the most: the community and the parents. [/quote]

Unfortunately, the accepted student events tend to be pretty big and there's not a lot of mingle with the other accepted students' parents--or at least this was our experience for high school. You could sort of "profile" other parents based on what they were wearing, I guess, but that's not exactly a great barometer of what the school is like. For our K-8, the accepted students event was much smaller and we did actually talk with the parents and you could tell who was likely to accept and who was still on the fence/leaning elsewhere. It worked out that the parents who were accepted were all the people we liked. [/quote]

Yes, we have only been to smaller schools so far.  It is odd that, even though I try to build connections, I haven't gotten to chat with any other families who are also touring the school. [b]The tours and open houses seem to discourage connection between the parents.  [/b]Everyone looks so tense.  I just really wish we could talk to them.

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Because people attending a tour or open house can be very unrepresentative of the people who will actually apply, get in, and go!

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