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Thanks for all the input..I appreciate it. I think you are right....high school it what you make of it, just like anything. Sounds like you had a good experience there.
It was rocky at times but the school itself was better than most. My mom got really sick in the fall of my freshman year and the administration waived the remainder of our tuition for that school year until Mom got better and went back to work the following fall. I also remember that the teachers and administration were all very supportive that whole year while she was in and out of the hospital.
I graduated in 1999 so I was the first class out of Daniel Island. Fair warning when the wind blows just right, the entire campus smells like paper mill (it's only a few miles down 526 from the school)
Bishop England is a good school. The athletic department is very successful. I don't know that much about the other activities they provide, but I would imagine that it's a good mix. BE also gets a lot of support from their alumni around town. It used to be downtown and many business leaders are graduates.
Bishop England is a pretty good school, and has a good reputation, even though many associate some of the students with drugs, but I can tell that is not that big of a problem.
They have a great soccer program (winning three or four straight state championships), a good football team usually, and just a good all-around sports program.
They dominate most of the spring sports, since even though they can pick the best kids from throughout the Charleston area, they are 2A (second lowest division), and have double the kids of some schools in their region.
They also have good feeders with Nativity and the rest of the Catholic schools, and everybody in the Catholic school district supports BE, since it is one of the only Catholic high schools in the state.
I wouldn't hold the perception of drugs against BE. To be honest everyone I know who attended or sent their kids to any of the better private schools has encountered drug issues. If mom and dad have the $ to pay for BE/Ashley Hall/Porter Gaud the kids will probably have the $ for recreation if you will.
I would say 90% + of the people I know who went their were very pleased and felt prepared for college. I think BE also has a better mix than some of the other private schools since being Catholic knocks the tuition down a good bit. Dealing with snotty rich kids is not an experience that ends after high school so learning to deal with that situation might be a valuable skill.
1-Yeah if the kid comes from money then he/she probably has money to spend on extra curricular activities.
2-The student body is small so it's almost impossible to not have a higher percentage of kids who smoke pot than your average public school (although I would put money down that we come in lower than Burke, North Charleston and Stall any day)
3-Private schools are sometimes a last resort for problem kids. When they get booted out of the public schools the private schools are sometimes a last resort before boarding school, military school or home schooling.
By and large though the only "drug problem" I remember from BE was the double standard. If the stoner kid who got straight A's got caught with pot in his locker he was kicked out but if the ENTIRE first string of the soccer team is actually caught smoking pot on school grounds behind the gym at lunch one day, they get a week of detentions (with time off for practice). I'm not making that story up-it's what you get when you put coaches in charge of discipline.
As a mother of a HS Junior, I can say Drugs are everywhere. Low, Middle and Upper Class. You just have to teach your kids right from wrong and pray a little.
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