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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, if student behaviour outside the school was a good advertisement for SH, some of us living in-boundary would be more favorably disposed toward enrolling our children.

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Agree. We are inbound for the Cluster but at SWS.  Unfortunately my daughter has had repeated bad incidents with SH kids hanging out at the Sherwood/SWS playground during aftercare hours, plus witnessed some problems with SH kids near the 7-11.  The upshot is that she is now campaigning against going to S-H, asserting that "she does not want to go to a school with bullies, like those at S-H."

I've reassured her that not all of the kids at S-H are like that, and that kids often behave worse when they're not at school, but the truth is these constant run-ins with misbehaving S-H kids make the school a really tough sale to my future middle-schooler.[/quote]

SH has tons of afterschool programming at no cost.  Students bothering 7-11 year olds at Sherwood are the exception.  Go to SH afterschool iand you'll see a much bigger group of engaged and well behaved kids doing sports, theater and other clubs.  Every school has bad apples.[/quote]
Right, but the bad apples have been rampaging through my back alley in packs in red polo shirts on a regular basis ever since the shirts arrived, what, four years ago? I was just out collecting candy wrappers they'd strewn down the alley, for the 3rd or 4th time since Halloween, along with their soda bottles.  I'm not surprised to hear that the daughter of the PP above has been campaigning against going to to SH.  I'm tired of girls in red polo shirts, tight hooker-short skirts and giant loopy earrings shrieking obscenities within earshot of my 5 year old.

Every time we've gone to the school and complained over the the last few years (several times), some admin has assured us that the problem is "in hand."  It's not in hand.  The only way we seem to get the school's attention is to involve the cops (after the gang becomes a fight club). SH pretty clearly needs to institute some sort of incentive system for the kids to behave well outside the school while in uniform.  Not holding my breath.[/quote]

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