Anonymous wrote:Academically it’s on par with the local publics, in some ways better. As for the rest of it?

What my child won’t experience is daily fights in the cafeteria. Knowing which bathrooms to avoid because that’s where the drug deals take place. Openly disruptive kids in class. A focus on character, and staff who know each student by name.

No school is perfect but our family is looking forward to putting behind us the worst parts of our public school experience next fall.

Agree with this - better than Yorktown, which is our designated public.

It was outstanding for our family.

DJO is average. Truly. It’s just average.

Anonymous wrote:Academically it’s on par with the local publics, in some ways better. As for the rest of it?

What my child won’t experience is daily fights in the cafeteria. Knowing which bathrooms to avoid because that’s where the drug deals take place. Openly disruptive kids in class. A focus on character, and staff who know each student by name.

No school is perfect but our family is looking forward to putting behind us the worst parts of our public school experience next fall.

Well said!
We chose DJO to have a high school experience kids are supposed to have (but nowadays unfortunately difficult at some public schools)

Meet like-minded students, participate in clubs, prepare for college, and no need to be afraid of disrupting students (and go to bathrooms). For us, the religious aspect was a plus as well. This is the only school where they asked for a discipline form signed by the middle school principal (maybe other schools could check from transcript but still)

We could agree to disagree, not all people have the same purpose for selecting where to go.

Anonymous wrote:What is DJO?

Bishop Denis J O’Connell

What is DJO?

Anonymous wrote:They let anyone in with a pulse.

this - and anyone willing to give them $.

Anonymous wrote:Any chance I get still get my 9th grader in? We were planning on public for HS, but many things have changed in the past 2 months. Need something different.

They do admit kids off cycle. I’d give them a call!

Any chance I get still get my 9th grader in? We were planning on public for HS, but many things have changed in the past 2 months. Need something different.

Academically it’s on par with the local publics, in some ways better. As for the rest of it?

What my child won’t experience is daily fights in the cafeteria. Knowing which bathrooms to avoid because that’s where the drug deals take place. Openly disruptive kids in class. A focus on character, and staff who know each student by name.

No school is perfect but our family is looking forward to putting behind us the worst parts of our public school experience next fall.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They let anyone in with a pulse.

Hate to reply to a troll, but this is a reason we love DJO. Our honors student can take hard classes and track towards a top college without having to live in a pressure cooker and hate high school.

Sure

DJO is academically inferior to every public high school around it but that’s ok.

We used to threaten to send our Yorktown kids there when they misbehaved, but we’d never actually do it!

Ignore this poster. They want attention and you are giving it to them.

Anonymous wrote:They let anyone in with a pulse.

They let anyone in with a soul.

Fixed it for you.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They let anyone in with a pulse.

Hate to reply to a troll, but this is a reason we love DJO. Our honors student can take hard classes and track towards a top college without having to live in a pressure cooker and hate high school.

Sure

DJO is academically inferior to every public high school around it but that’s ok.

We used to threaten to send our Yorktown kids there when they misbehaved, but we’d never actually do it!

N.P. Based on what measure? You have no idea what you are talking about.

Prospective DJO parents, ignore this DJO hater who has posted before the "DJO is where parents send their problem children" garbage. DJO does not tolerate any problem students. They are shown the door.

Longtime DJO parent here...have put all four kids through there, all different in their own way, but all four had great experiences.

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Anonymous wrote:They let anyone in with a pulse.

Hate to reply to a troll, but this is a reason we love DJO. Our honors student can take hard classes and track towards a top college without having to live in a pressure cooker and hate high school.

Sure

DJO is academically inferior to every public high school around it but that’s ok.

We used to threaten to send our Yorktown kids there when they misbehaved, but we’d never actually do it!

Anonymous wrote:They let anyone in with a pulse.

Hate to reply to a troll, but this is a reason we love DJO. Our honors student can take hard classes and track towards a top college without having to live in a pressure cooker and hate high school.