Fantastic preschool! All of the staff is so helpful and they are all amazing with the kids. When a friend of ours went to visit to look into sending their daughter they staying for an hour watching different groups and didn't even go home to talk first, wrote a check to hold their spot that moment. Seems to really be a caring place from the kids, teachers, owner and parents. They have different events like a hike one sunday with a picnic for all the fathers and the kids to spend time together, and the teachers volunteer their time. How great is that? You don't see that very often. Overall just a 5 star place and I'd recommend absolutely sending your children if you live within a reasonable distance. One parent drives almost a half hour just to bring her child because she's so happy there.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Frontier Regional High School- South Deerfield, MA
Frontier Regional- is a known "sports" school throughout the area and continually sends
team after team season after season sport after sport year after year into the playoffs and
beyond. The towns that feed into Frontier are Conway, Whately, Sunderland, and Deerfield which
are mainly rural wide open farming areas and the student population reflects that. It's a public
school and several buildings have recently been remade from the poor condition to basically
brand new still.
MAP SATELLITE VIEW FROM GOOGLE
Gym is nice and can fill to capacity for a home basketball game and atmosphere
is great. Boys+Girls teams are both top notch at basketball, soccer, football, cross-country,
volleyball, and baseball. Teaching was about average for the area with trivial authority figures
making hypocritical decisions, displaying favortism for some depending on who they were, what
they played, ect ect. Same in a lot of small towns in the area but compared with other schools
elsewhere would rank below average in that category.
team after team season after season sport after sport year after year into the playoffs and
beyond. The towns that feed into Frontier are Conway, Whately, Sunderland, and Deerfield which
are mainly rural wide open farming areas and the student population reflects that. It's a public
school and several buildings have recently been remade from the poor condition to basically
brand new still.
MAP SATELLITE VIEW FROM GOOGLE
Gym is nice and can fill to capacity for a home basketball game and atmosphere
is great. Boys+Girls teams are both top notch at basketball, soccer, football, cross-country,
volleyball, and baseball. Teaching was about average for the area with trivial authority figures
making hypocritical decisions, displaying favortism for some depending on who they were, what
they played, ect ect. Same in a lot of small towns in the area but compared with other schools
elsewhere would rank below average in that category.
Police Departments- Local Western Mass Towns
Deerfield Police Department: For years the Deerfield police department was a solid group of veteran policemen that all lived locally and had built longterm relationships with the community as a whole earning them respect with almost everyone. They had a job to do but balanced the need of having a positive re-pore. Knowing when to give a simple warning on the first nice day of spring rather then a speeding ticket can go a long way in a small town. In a place like this where news spreads like wildfire the poor treatment of citizens won't be kept quiet and won't be tolerated. By poor treatment I don't mean a needless speeding ticket either though, it's obnoxious but not something to stage a protest about.
The department has now shifted to bringing in a younger generation of officers by sending local applicants to the academy and then hiring them afterwards. Out of the total of 6 or 7 full time police officers working in the town 3/4 are from the "old guard" and I went to school with at least 3 of them. 1 a year below me, 1 in my class and 1 a year or 2 years ahead of me. This is the kind of hire that could really help the community by having officers that can relate and easily communicate with the citizens along with working knowledge of possible trouble areas and overall knowledge of roads and landmarks.
However, they happened to choose guys who don't exactly scream "Thank you for being a citizen in this town, we are here to serve and protect you and if there is anything you need were always here" More of the kind of guys that wear sunglasses indoors in the summer, hand out tickets to people like there is an expiration date on each one and one has set the record for most tickets/overall money brought into the town by those tickets in a month+quarter. That's quite the accomplishment for someone that has only been working there a couple years and there has been a department for a little while longer I think, haha.
The department has now shifted to bringing in a younger generation of officers by sending local applicants to the academy and then hiring them afterwards. Out of the total of 6 or 7 full time police officers working in the town 3/4 are from the "old guard" and I went to school with at least 3 of them. 1 a year below me, 1 in my class and 1 a year or 2 years ahead of me. This is the kind of hire that could really help the community by having officers that can relate and easily communicate with the citizens along with working knowledge of possible trouble areas and overall knowledge of roads and landmarks.
However, they happened to choose guys who don't exactly scream "Thank you for being a citizen in this town, we are here to serve and protect you and if there is anything you need were always here" More of the kind of guys that wear sunglasses indoors in the summer, hand out tickets to people like there is an expiration date on each one and one has set the record for most tickets/overall money brought into the town by those tickets in a month+quarter. That's quite the accomplishment for someone that has only been working there a couple years and there has been a department for a little while longer I think, haha.
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