How would you place top schools on a scale of most liberal to most conservative?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Save us from your societal damnation spewing from your Chevy Chase home.

You send your child to a school that costs more than a family considered middle class earns. Please don’t lecture us on the “liberal” greater good of society. If you really, really believed that, your DC wouldn’t be at a private school. Period.

Don’t jump into the we’re FA families, you wouldn’t be reading DCUM forums, you’d be trying to make ends meat and working your tails off. Oh that’s right, your liberal beliefs allow you to collect off society and criticize without working for it so you have time to post.

+100

[Anonymous]

So only one side of the political spectrum is "allowed" to send their kids to private school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So only one side of the political spectrum is "allowed" to send their kids to private school?

No.

But if you have any sensitivity to this type of thing and don't want your children to be affected by it, you just need to be careful about the schools you consider. Some of these schools (staff, teachers, parents, as as a result, the students) are very heavily tilted in one direction.

They give lip service, of course, to being balanced and "fair" but they are pretty much convinced that their view of the world is the correct one and that the other side is wrong or even evil.

It's all part of the general fracturing of America in which people of different political stripes have stopped socializing or even talking to one another. But its hard to escape it. Even in public schools, teachers are generally in one camp.

[Anonymous]

I wasn't referring to conservatives. I was asking whether only they were allowed to send their kids to private schools, because it would purportedly be hypocritical for liberals to send their kids to private because that would somehow be at odds with economic/social equality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So only one side of the political spectrum is "allowed" to send their kids to private school?

Yes. The one claiming to truly care about public education and public service whike, well, sending their kids to private schools with obscene tuition fees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So only one side of the political spectrum is "allowed" to send their kids to private school?

Yes. The one claiming to truly care about public education and public service whike, well, sending their kids to private schools with obscene tuition fees.

So voting every year to raise the property taxes I pay to raise teachers salaries and build new schools isn’t enough? In fact, I’m not only subsidizing your kids’ educations for nothing (directly) in return, I’m allowing more resources to flow to your kids by taking my kids out of the system, but even that’s not enough?

Any more purity tests you want to impose?

[Anonymous]

Careful pp you are making yourself sound worse.

[Anonymous]

Wondering how the public school parents will out-smug the private school parents here. C’mon PP, you can do it!

[Anonymous]

I went to collegiate. No one my my class is doing anything special. I see a number of 25yo STA, GdS, SFS grads in our neighborhood also not doing anything special, and in many cases, not doing anything! Where’s the drive, the hunger, the practicality?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to collegiate. No one my my class is doing anything special. I see a number of 25yo STA, GdS, SFS grads in our neighborhood also not doing anything special, and in many cases, not doing anything! Where’s the drive, the hunger, the practicality?

Those qualities disappeared a couple of generations ago. These are the" Millennials". They are typical of the group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to collegiate. No one my my class is doing anything special. I see a number of 25yo STA, GdS, SFS grads in our neighborhood also not doing anything special, and in many cases, not doing anything! Where’s the drive, the hunger, the practicality?

Job interview video. This might be the problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo0KjdDJr1c

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to collegiate. No one my my class is doing anything special. I see a number of 25yo STA, GdS, SFS grads in our neighborhood also not doing anything special, and in many cases, not doing anything! Where’s the drive, the hunger, the practicality?

They have nothing to prove. DCUM says they are at their pinnacle right now, at the Big 3. Everything else is downhill, so why bother. Plus your parents will spot you an apartment, some rental properties to tide you over and 5 years at whatever college takes your money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wondering how the public school parents will out-smug the private school parents here. C’mon PP, you can do it!

No special effort needed, it's pretry obvious that no self-respecting Dem would send their kids to a private school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^ would a conservative but very bright child not fit in well at Maret? I care more about teaching but don't want D.C. Not to feel comfortable.

This was us. Look somewhere else!

I disagree. Maybe if OP is extreme right, but I am moderate and love Maret. I went there and students are taught to respect one another opinions. To this day the very vocal Republican and the very vocal Democrat from my class there remain best of friends. They had constant debates and respected one another.

May they be a sign of a better political future for our country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wondering how the public school parents will out-smug the private school parents here. C’mon PP, you can do it!

No special effort needed, it's pretry obvious that no self-respecting Dem would send their kids to a private school.

Maybe you should’ve let the Obamas know.