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Reply to "McLean HS vs. Bishop O'connell"
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[quote=Anonymous]We are districted for McLean, and we chose private for my kid. Coming out of Longfellow, there was concern about the size of McLean and while it is an excellent academic school, that creates a lot of stress within the student body, and that can really affect a kid. We have a strong student, was straight As at Longfellow, NJHS, etc. and I think those two years of ubercompetitiveness in all things was a lot. Additionally, most MHS classes are 30-32 students. I do know kids that diverted from Longfellow to BOC and they are happy there. I think you *have* to be on board with the Catholic doctrine and social beliefs, to include abortion, and a lot of Catholic Families have strong feelings about that and political issues. McLean is big and as we all know from this board, FCPS isn't doing much about it. The building is in bad repair - It's understood that on a daily basis, a toilet is going to be flooding a bathroom, there are rats in the cafeteria and a ceiling tile might fall from the ceiling during class. The trailer situation is real - a lot of them (probably in the neighborhood of 20 classrooms) and most students will spend a lot of time "not in the building" as a result. [/quote]
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