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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD is finishing up 8th grade at Sligo.  She had a good experience there but she did so by following a pretty distinct path.  The school is very divided up into cliques (mostly based on race and/or SES).  Is there a rough element?  Sure.  After multiple confrontations over her lunch table, my daughter rarely uses the lunchroom choosing instead to spend her lunches in the math teacher's classroom with her friends.

As long as your child is in all of the advanced classes - especially in Math, they should do just fine at Sligo.  Orchestra is a great place to meet very nice kids as are activities such as Mathletes and Nature Club.  In the end, the good students tend to become friends and overall, we've been happy with her experience at Sligo.[/quote]

I don't have a child in the school but know kids who go there and this has been their experience as well, except that their kids were excluded from certain groups because they were not white. Parents were NOT happy.

Racism and bullying exist everywhere, and there are kids who are uninterested in academics at every school. However, let's not lie to ourselves. The lower-performing schools have more of those problems.

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