Is there a feeder school for Georgetown Prep?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks. Mind if I ask (1) what private elementary school you are sending you kids to. and (2) what high school you went to.

Again, thanks much.

Whitman, wont get too specific about DS school since the parents are ALWAYS on DCUM.
But it is not Landon or Prep.

Any BCC parents out there?

[Anonymous]

Are there any feeders for Visitation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are there any feeders for Visitation?

I've known people who sent their kids to Our Lady of Victory because they wanted their kids to go to Visitation. I also expect Holy Trinity might be a feeder school. But I'm not in the parochial school world so I don't know the politics of it all and don't take my word for it. But I was told that you have to come from a Catholic school.

[Anonymous]

It seems that many on DCUM automatically assume that if it's a Catholic school, it's academically inferior to the top independent schools.

Have you never heard of the Jesuits? Daniel Moynaham? Tim Russert? Chris Matthews? Just to name a few prominent DC- types who had Catholic educations. Never mind serious Catholic intellectuals like Alisdair Macintyre and others. And many of our kids will end up applying to Georgetown University (if they can bear to be so close to us) which has not forsaken its Jesuit identity.

Open your minds people. WASP doesn't not = "superior academically."

If you have an objection to Catholic schools based on doctrine, then that might be fair -- but it's another topic. The top Catholic schools train their students to be rigorously analytical.

I know because my father was in Catholic schools all the way through college (but not through grad school), and is still has one of the finest mind that I've come across. I myself got my mother's WASP brain. Had I had followed her example, would have learned not to try too hard. Apparently it was unladylike/ungentlemanly amongst people of her background to actually strive for knowledge (or anything else).

Georgetown Prep and Georgetown Visitation are schools of the finest caliber that should concede nothing to Landon or STA.

[Anonymous]

The Catholic Schools have a reputation of lagging in the sciences and math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems that many on DCUM automatically assume that if it's a Catholic school, it's academically inferior to the top independent schools.

Have you never heard of the Jesuits? Daniel Moynaham? Tim Russert? Chris Matthews? Just to name a few prominent DC- types who had Catholic educations. Never mind serious Catholic intellectuals like Alisdair Macintyre and others. And many of our kids will end up applying to Georgetown University (if they can bear to be so close to us) which has not forsaken its Jesuit identity.

Open your minds people. WASP doesn't not = "superior academically."

If you have an objection to Catholic schools based on doctrine, then that might be fair -- but it's another topic. The top Catholic schools train their students to be rigorously analytical.

I know because my father was in Catholic schools all the way through college (but not through grad school), and is still has one of the finest mind that I've come across. I myself got my mother's WASP brain. Had I had followed her example, would have learned not to try too hard. Apparently it was unladylike/ungentlemanly amongst people of her background to actually strive for knowledge (or anything else).

Georgetown Prep and Georgetown Visitation are schools of the finest caliber that should concede nothing to Landon or STA.

Sorry, I'm not clear which post you're objecting to. Could you identify it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems that many on DCUM automatically assume that if it's a Catholic school, it's academically inferior to the top independent schools.

Non-diocesan Catholic schools like Visitation are generally of a high caliber; they are sort of equivalent to "private" schools within the "public" Catholic system (I'm making an analogy). Diocesan Catholic schools often do tend to be inferior academically.

[Anonymous]

In general the diocesis catholic schools (k-8) are feeders to schools like Visitation and Gonzaga. They are high schools only so they aren't like Stoneridge for example that go from preK to Highschool. I believe there is some preference for diocesis schools over other schools in the admissions process.

[Anonymous]

Why are Georgetown University graduates so obnoxious?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are Georgetown University graduates so obnoxious?

Hey, I haven't been mean to anyone yet this morning! I'm planning on holding out all day, as a matter of fact -- maybe into the weekend !

(not the defensive poster but a GU grad)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems that many on DCUM automatically assume that if it's a Catholic school, it's academically inferior to the top independent schools.

Non-diocesan Catholic schools like Visitation are generally of a high caliber; they are sort of equivalent to "private" schools within the "public" Catholic system (I'm making an analogy). Diocesan Catholic schools often do tend to be inferior academically.

I would agree with this. Prep and Gonzaga are of a higher caliber than some other Catholic schools in the area and are more difficult to get into. We live in Arlington and my BIL and SIL were insisting that their daughter should apply to O'Connell. I am sure you can get a great education at O'Connell, but their public school is Washington-Lee which has an IB program and a brand new state of the art building. In this case, I don't think there is any reason to spend the money for private school if you are just basing your decision on which school would be more academically challenging. Like any school system, there are ranges of academic rigor within the Catholic school system, too.

[Anonymous]

Regarding the original post question -- the best way to answer your question is to check out the May or June issue of a paper called, Our Parish Times. Our Parish Times does a graduation issue in which most of the 8th graders indicate which high school they will be attending. Some parish schools seem to "feed" better than others. As I recall, de Chantal as well as Holy Redeemer had a good number going to Prep. I don't recall but I am guessing that St. Bart's and Our Lady of Mercy do as well. (But again the paper shows which school they are attending, not which ones have admitted them). You can usually pick up a copy of the newspaper in the back of most of parish churches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems that many on DCUM automatically assume that if it's a Catholic school, it's academically inferior to the top independent schools.

Have you never heard of the Jesuits? Daniel Moynaham? Tim Russert? Chris Matthews? Just to name a few prominent DC- types who had Catholic educations. Never mind serious Catholic intellectuals like Alisdair Macintyre and others. And many of our kids will end up applying to Georgetown University (if they can bear to be so close to us) which has not forsaken its Jesuit identity.

Open your minds people. WASP doesn't not = "superior academically."

If you have an objection to Catholic schools based on doctrine, then that might be fair -- but it's another topic. The top Catholic schools train their students to be rigorously analytical.

I know because my father was in Catholic schools all the way through college (but not through grad school), and is still has one of the finest mind that I've come across. I myself got my mother's WASP brain. Had I had followed her example, would have learned not to try too hard. Apparently it was unladylike/ungentlemanly amongst people of her background to actually strive for knowledge (or anything else).

Georgetown Prep and Georgetown Visitation are schools of the finest caliber that should concede nothing to Landon or STA.

It's Alasdair, not Alisdair, and Moynihan, not Moynaham. You would know this had you gone to Beauvoir/NCS/STA.

[Anonymous]

That last post was sooo mean. I am often so disappointed by the behavior of some people.
BTW, many of us are writing these things while holding babies, wiping noses, breast feeding, and so on. Spelling is does not count. Though it is obvious that you got what she was writing about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That last post was sooo mean. I am often so disappointed by the behavior of some people.
BTW, many of us are writing these things while holding babies, wiping noses, breast feeding, and so on. Spelling is does not count. Though it is obvious that you got what she was writing about.

So true.

But given the arrogance (at least arguably) of PP 14:57 and the context of the message, it did not seem entirely gratuitous or inappropriate.