Conservative or progressive schools ?

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Anonymous wrote:I would say Maret and GDS are left, not liberal. Anything episcopal is going to trend liberal (not necessarily left) with a traditional vibe. Sidwell is liberal leaning left. Stone Ridge is actually very left for a catholic school. Potomac is middle leaning left. Flint hill is the same.

SR is very maga. Don’t let all girls fool you into thinking they at progressive. Everyone is blonde and the culture is a party mentality.

I don’t know about very maga or even the school being very left, but families and girls do have Trump stickers on their cars. However, I would say the school itself leans in the middle.

That is not a basis for assessing an entire student body. There is a Trump sticker on a car in our school parking lot, but the student and parent body is heavily liberal.

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SR is not maga. lol. Like any school there are a few but not majority. What a troll.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some conservative schools: Stone Ridge; Prep, Bullis (very conservative; HOS is an Australian Trump), Visitation

Liberal: GDS (very), Potomac, SSASA, Holton, Burke, Maret

Center: Sidwell (more left), NCS, St. Albans, Landon

What do others think?

This is hilarious, even if fake news! Since you are incorrect about his original nationality, it's highly unlikely you know anything about his politics, or indeed the school!

+100! Ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would say Maret and GDS are left, not liberal. Anything episcopal is going to trend liberal (not necessarily left) with a traditional vibe. Sidwell is liberal leaning left. Stone Ridge is actually very left for a catholic school. Potomac is middle leaning left. Flint hill is the same.

SR is very maga. Don’t let all girls fool you into thinking they at progressive. Everyone is blonde and the culture is a party mentality.

So you’re thinking is that blondes are MAGA and all other hair colors are left leaning?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would say Maret and GDS are left, not liberal. Anything episcopal is going to trend liberal (not necessarily left) with a traditional vibe. Sidwell is liberal leaning left. Stone Ridge is actually very left for a catholic school. Potomac is middle leaning left. Flint hill is the same.

SR is very maga. Don’t let all girls fool you into thinking they at progressive. Everyone is blonde and the culture is a party mentality.

So you’re thinking is that blondes are MAGA and all other hair colors are left leaning?

I guess this explains why my naturally blonde daughter just dyed her hair black. She attends a Catholic and is very liberal. Ha!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some conservative schools: Stone Ridge; Prep, Bullis (very conservative; HOS is an Australian Trump), Visitation

Liberal: GDS (very), Potomac, SSASA, Holton, Burke, Maret

Center: Sidwell (more left), NCS, St. Albans, Landon

What do others think?

I can’t speak to the Catholic schools, but we’ve had children at many of the other schools on this list and have close friends at some others. In our experience, all of the high-end DC-area privates fall on a similar spectrum politically, which runs basically from far left to center left. The difference is not where they fall on the political spectrum, in that they seem much of a muchness, but how overt and in-your-face the politics is and how hostile the environment is to non-liberals. We do have a student at Bullis now and I think calling it a “conservative” school politically seems like a major stretch. In general the parent body there is made up of the standard left to center-left DC parents you see at basically all of these schools, with a relatively higher proportion of what I would call “apolitical rich people,” as well as others focused basically strictly on athletics, at Bullis than at some other schools. (In that, it seems similar to Landon.) And of course you have the same 15-20% or so of closeted conservatives, which includes a smaller (but bigger than you think) fraction of Trump sympathizers, that you have basically everywhere. There are also a few token “professional” Republicans at all of these schools, who are generally given a pass on that inconvenient political fact as they are an important part of the town industry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would say Maret and GDS are left, not liberal. Anything episcopal is going to trend liberal (not necessarily left) with a traditional vibe. Sidwell is liberal leaning left. Stone Ridge is actually very left for a catholic school. Potomac is middle leaning left. Flint hill is the same.

SR is very maga. Don’t let all girls fool you into thinking they at progressive. Everyone is blonde and the culture is a party mentality.

LOL, you have no idea what you’re talking about. SR is extremely liberal, especially for a Catholic school. They may have a couple of MAGA parents, but most of the parents, students, and especially faculty and administrators, are very liberal. Teachers have the LGBTQ flags hung in their classrooms. My DD’s religion teacher has the LGBTQ and “Proud of my trans kid” stickers prominently placed on her laptop during Back to School Night. The US principal and at least one other teacher are openly gay. They have a couple of trans kids (although only girl-to-boy because biological they’re still girls which would be acceptable for an all-girls school). And they do not call today’s holiday “Columbus Day”, but “Indigenous People’s Day”.

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I didn't know they made "Proud of my Trans Kid" stickers. Yikes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would say Maret and GDS are left, not liberal. Anything episcopal is going to trend liberal (not necessarily left) with a traditional vibe. Sidwell is liberal leaning left. Stone Ridge is actually very left for a catholic school. Potomac is middle leaning left. Flint hill is the same.

SR is very maga. Don’t let all girls fool you into thinking they at progressive. Everyone is blonde and the culture is a party mentality.

LOL, you have no idea what you’re talking about. SR is extremely liberal, especially for a Catholic school. They may have a couple of MAGA parents, but most of the parents, students, and especially faculty and administrators, are very liberal. Teachers have the LGBTQ flags hung in their classrooms. My DD’s religion teacher has the LGBTQ and “Proud of my trans kid” stickers prominently placed on her laptop during Back to School Night. The US principal and at least one other teacher are openly gay. They have a couple of trans kids (although only girl-to-boy because biological they’re still girls which would be acceptable for an all-girls school). And they do not call today’s holiday “Columbus Day”, but “Indigenous People’s Day”.

Faculties are almost always more Liberal than the families. I can't think of many schools where that isn't true.

The parishes that send their kids to Prep and Visi and SR are not filled with Liberals.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would say Maret and GDS are left, not liberal. Anything episcopal is going to trend liberal (not necessarily left) with a traditional vibe. Sidwell is liberal leaning left. Stone Ridge is actually very left for a catholic school. Potomac is middle leaning left. Flint hill is the same.

SR is very maga. Don’t let all girls fool you into thinking they at progressive. Everyone is blonde and the culture is a party mentality.

I just have experience from about 10 years ago and it was aggressively left. Now maybe it changed in the last few years but the teachers were outspoken socialists and definitely guided the kids in that way. Catholic is not always maga conservative, see e.g Joe Biden or Jerry Connelly.

+1

SR may have a traditional social culture, but the ideology there is left of center.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am independent and I see that some schools have very rigid views on the way a society should be.

Regardless of the bias, which schools tend to be more open to different views and are more tolerant. I just don’t want a school that brainwash children with ideology.

Most of the population in the DMV is liberal, so the student population at almost all schools will lean left.

The Heights, Oakcrest, and Brookwood are the only schools in the area that I've heard people claim lean conservative.

Some of the Catholic high schools (but not all) do a pretty good job of staying politically neutral in their curriculam because they know that they have some conservatives in their student body. (Catholic teaching doesn't easily fit into the way we divide our politics in the US).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am independent and I see that some schools have very rigid views on the way a society should be.

Regardless of the bias, which schools tend to be more open to different views and are more tolerant. I just don’t want a school that brainwash children with ideology.

Most of the population in the DMV is liberal, so the student population at almost all schools will lean left.

The Heights, Oakcrest, and Brookwood are the only schools in the area that I've heard people claim lean conservative.

Some of the Catholic high schools (but not all) do a pretty good job of staying politically neutral in their curriculam because they know that they have some conservatives in their student body. (Catholic teaching doesn't easily fit into the way we divide our politics in the US).

I had the same impression of catholic schools. They tend to be less divisive than liberal schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would say Maret and GDS are left, not liberal. Anything episcopal is going to trend liberal (not necessarily left) with a traditional vibe. Sidwell is liberal leaning left. Stone Ridge is actually very left for a catholic school. Potomac is middle leaning left. Flint hill is the same.

SR is very maga. Don’t let all girls fool you into thinking they at progressive. Everyone is blonde and the culture is a party mentality.

Think you need to revisit what MAGA actually means.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would say Maret and GDS are left, not liberal. Anything episcopal is going to trend liberal (not necessarily left) with a traditional vibe. Sidwell is liberal leaning left. Stone Ridge is actually very left for a catholic school. Potomac is middle leaning left. Flint hill is the same.

SR is very maga. Don’t let all girls fool you into thinking they at progressive. Everyone is blonde and the culture is a party mentality.

I just have experience from about 10 years ago and it was aggressively left. Now maybe it changed in the last few years but the teachers were outspoken socialists and definitely guided the kids in that way. Catholic is not always maga conservative, see e.g Joe Biden or Jerry Connelly.

Catholic is why we have Trump.
UGH

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am independent and I see that some schools have very rigid views on the way a society should be.

Regardless of the bias, which schools tend to be more open to different views and are more tolerant. I just don’t want a school that brainwash children with ideology.

Most of the population in the DMV is liberal, so the student population at almost all schools will lean left.

The Heights, Oakcrest, and Brookwood are the only schools in the area that I've heard people claim lean conservative.

Some of the Catholic high schools (but not all) do a pretty good job of staying politically neutral in their curriculam because they know that they have some conservatives in their student body. (Catholic teaching doesn't easily fit into the way we divide our politics in the US).

I had the same impression of catholic schools. They tend to be less divisive than liberal schools.

No they do not.
They are indoctrination centers that push Catholic teachings which is why people spend the money to send their kids.
Those teachings are conservative.