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This principal is not a Madison grad and former sports star, as the previous one was, so that is changing the atmosphere there for the better.

And, then, some people think that sports is a great thing for a school. It raises the morale of the kids and gives them activities for balance in their lives.

Sports are still very big at Madison. The problem under the prior principal was that he tolerated bullying and misbehavior by jocks and created an environment in which the kids who were not varsity athletes were made to feel like second-class students. It is much better now.

This worries me as we are looking in the Madison pyramid. Kids are not sporty and not in band. We are not super wealthy. Is it better to go to a lesser school and be on the upper end of it (i.e. like a Herndon school) or go to a Madison type of school where you probably won't be among the super stars. ?? [/quote]

DD is a freshman at Madison...so we only know it as it is for this year.  I think the one take away from the school is kids tend to be really, really focused on their interests whether theater, SGA, Chorus, sports, band, art, or school work, etc.  They do also have friends that span these activities primarily from friendships at Thoreau or the elementary schools they started in.

On the athletics side, another thing that is interesting is that for sports that don't have JV/Varsity and everyone is effectively varsity the kids are friendly between under classmen and upper classmen.  Not sure how it works w/ football or soccer...?  The sports where Madison did really, really well this year where not the "big" boys sports like football, lacrosse or basketball (baseball and football had very good seasons, but playoffs...meh) ...it is the girls sports like cross country, volleyball and softball that have gone well into the state tournaments. Part of the athletics focus for Madison is because so many of the kids come up thru the VYI leagues and there is a very well funding athletic booster club.

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Your description of this school makes it sound [b]very cliquish[/b]. Is it?[/quote]
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