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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yorktown parent here.  My impression of the school is neutral but I don't see significant issues due to overcrowding in the near future.  My kids really felt overcrowding in PE and at lunch in elementary school and gym, particularly at Williamsburg during the construction of Discovery.

I do find that kids at Yorktown are very conformist and don't want to seen as trying too hard (being a "try hard" is the ultimate social disgrace).  My kids certainly do not receive much individual attention from their teachers.  Also, you see the more intellectual kids going to Jefferson and the nerdier kids (I mean it in a good way as kids who are less conformist)  transfer to W&L  for IB.

I had looked into O'Connell but I did not see/feel much difference between the teaching and students there versus Yorktown.[/quote]

I think this conformist thing is intensely common. [/quote]

That's exactly what you'd expect to happen at a high-income school when you have an outflow of bright and/or quirky students to TJ, HB and W-L, and aren't getting an inflow of similar kids.  [/quote]

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