Daphne High School Vs. Spanish Fort High school (hotel, houses)

[Matt H.]

Me and my family have just moved into the Daphne area and are currently living in a hotel until we can find a house. I have a son who is going to be a Junior high school. He was planning on going to Spanish Fort High and so we have been looking at houses in that school zone. We really like Timber Creek and hope to move there. Though as we talk to people down here people have been saying that Daphne High is much better. They also say Spanish Fort High is a bad school ,that there is alot of drug use, and that the kids there are in the news for bad reasons. So we are reconsidering where to send him to school. He likes is interested in Robotics and Technology classes and plays Soccer and Kicks for football. I was wondering which school you guys would recommend and why?

Thank you!

[Azalea City Man]

Spanish Fort a bad school? lol

If your kid likes soccer, that would be a reason to send him to Daphne though. Good soccer program, well, from my memory which would be years ago.

[itsalladream]

All high schools have drug use...from my understanding, a good public school (Murphy) has its pot, and a private school (McGill) has its coke. I imagine that it's the same across the bay.

[Azalea City Man]

Originally Posted by itsalladream

All high schools have drug use...from my understanding, a good public school (Murphy) has its pot, and a private school (McGill) has its coke. I imagine that it's the same across the bay.

What's high school without a little experimentation? lol

And being someone who had friends at Murphy and McGill ... pot and alcohal definitely were after-school activities. Never saw coke or any hard drugs at all though, luckily. Don't know about kids nowadays.

[Mr crabb]

Originally Posted by Matt H.

Me and my family have just moved into the Daphne area and are currently living in a hotel until we can find a house. I have a son who is going to be a Junior high school. He was planning on going to Spanish Fort High and so we have been looking at houses in that school zone. We really like Timber Creek and hope to move there. Though as we talk to people down here people have been saying that Daphne High is much better. They also say Spanish Fort High is a bad school ,that there is alot of drug use, and that the kids there are in the news for bad reasons. So we are reconsidering where to send him to school. He likes is interested in Robotics and Technology classes and plays Soccer and Kicks for football. I was wondering which school you guys would recommend and why?

Thank you!

Whoever you have been listening to stop .Don't listen to anyone here that has a mullet hairstyle and a roll tide shirtBoth schools are THE best within a 50 mile radius. Have you priced Timber Creek? Not inexpensive. I live there and there is not a better neighborhood within 100 miles. Both schools have a great sports programs and Daphne has an IB(International bacculariate) program.I really don't think any school in the area has robitics as a part of the program but you might want to try Alabama School of Math and Science (http://www.asms.net/academics.htm - broken link) it's in mobile and only a 20 min drive at most.

[itsalladream]

Originally Posted by oscottscotto

What's high school without a little experimentation? lol

And being someone who had friends at Murphy and McGill ... pot and alcohal definitely were after-school activities. Never saw coke or any hard drugs at all though, luckily. Don't know about kids nowadays.

Not that I was a prude or anything, but I didn't really do any experimentation in high school.

It was always my understanding that Murphy had it's hippie drugs (pot, shrooms, lsd), and McGill had its coke. As for Murphy, I know of people having done all of those on campus.

[Azalea City Man]

Originally Posted by itsalladream

Not that I was a prude or anything, but I didn't really do any experimentation in high school.

It was always my understanding that Murphy had it's hippie drugs (pot, shrooms, lsd), and McGill had its coke. As for Murphy, I know of people having done all of those on campus.

Don't get me wrong, I am a complete prude when it comes to hard drugs. Anyone who does shrooms, lsd, coke, etc is an idiot and they should be in jail no matter what age.

The experementation I was more referring to was simply alcohol and pot. I know opinion widely differs on the second item and this isn't the politics/controversies forum - so I don't mean to start a debate.

[itsalladream]

I think the point is all high schools, even the best, aren't going to be 100% clean. High schools seem to be fairly representative of the real world, in some respects, of course.