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1. No open houses are only 5 min long

2. What other major source of info about the school are you saying should weigh as heavily as open houses?  Most schools look good or great on paper; you're acting like there is some other much more obvious place/source that we should be gathering our information about what the schools are actually like?  What are these other sources?[/quote]

Parents at the school, people here, friends should be sources.  The admin don't make the community, the parents do.   [/quote]

I'm sure you mean well, so I'll check my incredulousness and just say this: most parents (including stay at home parents, but ESPECIALLY working out of the home parents) barely have time to even get to open houses for all the schools they are considering.  It is just about impossible to expect that a parent trying to narrow their choice of 12 schools is not only going to go to open houses... research the commutes... research test scores... and research on DCUM for threads about the school and chances to get in... AND track down: parents at each school, "people here" (whatever that means - seriously, I have no idea what that means), and "friends" (whose friends?  Pretty much goes without saying that any parent who knows other parents at a school will ask them their opinion).

To say it shorter: most people don't get to 12 open houses, and we'd need to go to more than 12 to feel good about narrowing down the list to 12.  Thinking you can find and engage parents at a school you know no one at is incredibly unrealistic and uninformed.[/quote]

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