Bolivar or Navarre, OH

[cmthomp]

Originally Posted by Julz1

Can anyone tell me about either of these two cities?
What are the people like, schools etc...
Looking to move and considering these towns.
Thanks.

Actually, most of my family has gone to Fairless,including me and I pressure you to do you r research! My senior year (2005) they FINALLY made World History a requirement for graduation and, just a heads up, in my entire educational career in the district, none of my social studies classes got deep enough into our text books to reach World War II!!! There are, also, very few AP classes offered at the high school level. I will say though, that our teachers really seemed to enjoy teaching. But, there didn't seem to be many standards. So, just look up real records of the schools in the area,...and... actually, St.Marys may be a better bet for your children. We are good people, and we don't mind new neighbors, thats great! We'd love you down this way! But, do your research on schools, Fairless is sub par AND, if you do decide its up to standards, let me beg you, for the sake of your childrens health, PACK THEIR LUNCH!!!!!

[DSOs]

Originally Posted by cmthomp

Actually, most of my family has gone to Fairless,including me and I pressure you to do you r research! My senior year (2005) they FINALLY made World History a requirement for graduation and, just a heads up, in my entire educational career in the district, none of my social studies classes got deep enough into our text books to reach World War II!!! There are, also, very few AP classes offered at the high school level. I will say though, that our teachers really seemed to enjoy teaching. But, there didn't seem to be many standards. So, just look up real records of the schools in the area,...and... actually, St.Marys may be a better bet for your children. We are good people, and we don't mind new neighbors, thats great! We'd love you down this way! But, do your research on schools, Fairless is sub par AND, if you do decide its up to standards, let me beg you, for the sake of your childrens health, PACK THEIR LUNCH!!!!!

We ended up in Wooster, Ohio. We were kind of running out of time so we only got to check out one rental on a busy road in Navarre. We hung out by the post office in Town; we really liked the feel of the area. We did sense a 'roughness' in spots but we get that in almost any 'in town' we visit.

Most of our Ohio search was in the Strasburg/Bolivar area. We met friendly people everywhere in Strasburg (Library, LL's, Pizza place, Dollar Store). We bumped into several rude, standoffish LL's in Bolivar (in the country) so we didn't do much in that area.

When we finally picked a town in Ohio (Wooster-big town to us) we were pleasantly surprised @ how well everything is working out. We didn't think we could 'top' Strasburg.