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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sherwood may be marginally better than Blair, but for twice the commute it isn't worth it to us. If we had horses or worked from home maybe.

People here are very happy with elem options and Blair. I can't speak to the other DCC schools.[/quote]

marginally better?

lol!

The only plus to Blair is magnet/CAP.  That's what gives Blair its reputation.  It's a school w/in a school, and b/c of the magnet - and now with the DCC (aka - school "choice") - there's no community.  That's what happened to PB and Springbrook.  The consortium destroyed the neighborhoods, especially with the addition of Blake, which has NO true home base.

Sherwood opted out of the consortium b/c they knew it would create fragmentation. It's bad enough that Rosa Parks has split articulation - as does Farquhar to some extent.  But it has a better community than the NEC and DCC, which is what helps schools function.

So you can compare all you want about test scores and this and that.  I prefer that my children feel as though they're part of a community.  And having lived in the NEC and worked in an NEC "cluster," we realized that community just wasn't there.

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Did you actually send your child to Blair or teach there and therefore have 1st hand experience of it?  [/quote]

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