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So... anyone getting in off wait lists?
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Anonymous
I agree, but I thought she was talking about applications for 2009-2010. I think a floating spot is probably one that is not presumptively preassigned to priority group applicant (siblings, alumni, etc.). And yes, plenty of high-level Republicans send their kids to DC private schools--you don't think they're going to entrust their children to the care of the state?! 
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Anonymous
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I'm so amused by how hypocritical and misguided the dems who posted the comments on this thread are--
newsflash!! The kids in the schools everyone seems to be obsessing about (GDS and Sidwell) don't exactly come from GOP families--don't know who you think will be taking up those spots regardless of what happens with the elections, but at those schools it's not going to be Republicans! |
Anonymous
| I hate to break "bad" news, but there are plenty of Republicans sending our kids to private DC schools, even the granola, progressive ones! Perhaps we are viewed as diversity! |
Anonymous
No, they view you like an attraction at a circus freak show . . . novel, oddly exciting, but repulsive at the same time. Kidding. Absolutely kidding. I'm one of you. Republican with a kid at Granola Day School. But I don't wear my politics on my sleeve. I'm not saying I'm intentionaly closeting my politics, but I do find myself biting my tongue when the subject of politics comes up . . . I'm afraid they may burn me at the stake if my dirty little secret became public. Only slightly kidding. Love the place, but still rue the day when Beauvoir dinged Jr. |
Anonymous
It's nice to know that there is some political diversity on these boards! PP - I can relate to your experience; I think there may be more Republicans in these schools than folks might want to admit. |
Anonymous
| That's hilarious. I am a faithful, maybe even kneejerk, Democrat, but I think I may have blown our GDS interview when I mentioned that I would like my children to encounter ideological diversity, too. |
Anonymous
FWIW, I don't think your comments mattered a bit. I get the sense that GDS couldn't care less about your political views so much as your support of the GDS philosophy and mission. |
Anonymous
| Republican parents love and support kids -- theirs and others, donate money to schools they attend, volunteer for field trips, and so forth. Supporting different national policies does not mean we cannot all agree on what constitutes a good education for our children. |
Anonymous
| Ha ha, I'm a Dem but I withdrew my kids application from GDS because the interviewer's PC preciousness drove me NUTS! |
Anonymous
Probably a good idea that you withdrew. |
Anonymous
| Has anyone gotten in off the Sidwell, Norwood or WES waitlist or talked with any of these to see if there is any movement for K? |
Anonymous
| No movement at Sidwell for K. |
Anonymous
| Mimi Mulligan at Norwood just posted that they have exhausted their wait list for K and are taking late apps. |
Anonymous
| what does that mean exhausted the wait list?? |
Anonymous
| I assume it means that everyone who was on the wait list for K has been offered a spot. |