Question about private school families and religious attendance

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think (m)any highly educated, genuinely smart people are truly religious (and I'm continually bemused by how many engage in the charade -- probably more with kids in privates than in publics).

I am not at all religious myself, but I could certainly point you to a number of MDs and PhDs I know who are. Do they qualify as smart, in your mind? How about the ones with Ivy League degrees? Do they count as smart? And do you actually know the meaning of "bemused"?

[Anonymous]

Graduate of "Big 3" and ivy league here. My faith is a very important part of my life.

You have no idea if someone who attends services engages in a charade or not. And you have no right to judge.

This entire thread is absurd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think (m)any highly educated, genuinely smart people are truly religious (and I'm continually bemused by how many engage in the charade -- probably more with kids in privates than in publics).

I am not at all religious myself, but I could certainly point you to a number of MDs and PhDs I know who are. Do they qualify as smart, in your mind? How about the ones with Ivy League degrees? Do they count as smart? And do you actually know the meaning of "bemused"?

No more than 20% of my Ivy League law school classmates were smart (and I went to one of the good ones). Of those, one also was pursuing a degree at the Div School, so he probably counts as genuinely religious. The rest? Doubtful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Plus you aren't going to get any kind of accurate read. Some people will say one thing, others will say another. It is totally meaningless.

I'm a private school graduate who also finds your assumptions offensive. Essentially you are relying on stereotypes of both private and public school families.

Geesh, lighten up people. I'm trying to get responses from high income parents who are presumably well-educated. Does it not make sense to post the question on a board where people are spending $30,000/year to educate their child? Must suck to go through life with such a chip on your shoulder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Graduate of "Big 3" and ivy league here. My faith is a very important part of my life.

You have no idea if someone who attends services engages in a charade or not. And you have no right to judge.

This entire thread is absurd.

Why exactly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Plus you aren't going to get any kind of accurate read. Some people will say one thing, others will say another. It is totally meaningless.

I'm a private school graduate who also finds your assumptions offensive. Essentially you are relying on stereotypes of both private and public school families.

Geesh, lighten up people. I'm trying to get responses from high income parents who are presumably well-educated. Does it not make sense to post the question on a board where people are spending $30,000/year to educate their child? Must suck to go through life with such a chip on your shoulder.

Does anything you are trying to do here make sense?

[Anonymous]

We are active members of our church, which shares the same denomination as our dcs' schools. Most of the parents we know also have active religious lives, but they worship across a number of faith traditions and denominations. I would condition that by noting I can't immediately identify a family that actively professes to being Born Again evangelicals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Plus you aren't going to get any kind of accurate read. Some people will say one thing, others will say another. It is totally meaningless.

I'm a private school graduate who also finds your assumptions offensive. Essentially you are relying on stereotypes of both private and public school families.

Yeah, that's pretty much a known risk when posting a question on an anonymous forum. But it is easier and often more interesting than an NIH funded double blind study.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think (m)any highly educated, genuinely smart people are truly religious (and I'm continually bemused by how many engage in the charade -- probably more with kids in privates than in publics).

I am not at all religious myself, but I could certainly point you to a number of MDs and PhDs I know who are. Do they qualify as smart, in your mind? How about the ones with Ivy League degrees? Do they count as smart? And do you actually know the meaning of "bemused"?

No more than 20% of my Ivy League law school classmates were smart (and I went to one of the good ones). Of those, one also was pursuing a degree at the Div School, so he probably counts as genuinely religious. The rest? Doubtful.

LOL. Funny on so many levels.

[Anonymous]

Um, maybe you should include religious schools in your question, because if you are wealthy and smart (the people you seem interested in) and religious you might consider sending your kid to a religious school. So your sample is already shot by only asking about private, non-religious schools.

Signed,
A smart person of faith with a kid at a Friends school

[Anonymous]

hahahah hidden troll, great make a point that all religious people are stupid LOLz I see what you did there

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Um, maybe you should include religious schools in your question, because if you are wealthy and smart (the people you seem interested in) and religious you might consider sending your kid to a religious school. So your sample is already shot by only asking about private, non-religious schools.

Signed,
A smart person of faith with a kid at a Friends school

Yes, but obviously I would expect the population that sends it's children to religious schools to have a high church attendance rate. That's not saying that these people can't be wealthy and highly educated as well.

[Anonymous]

I think the question is really stupid. I don't see any correlation between whether someone goes to private or public and whether or not they go to church.

At our DD's top private -- there were kids of many faiths who actively practiced their religions. We are Catholic and go to Catholic Church. Other kids were Jewish and happily celebrated their bar/bat mitzvahs for the whole class. Other kids were one of the many Protestant sects. No big deal -- no one cared what someone else was.

[Anonymous]

NP and another Ivy grad, with kids formerly in private and now in public magnets, who is serious about faith.

I'm also "well educated" enough to understand that you're not going to get anything like a statistically valid sample of "educated" people by polling only people who go private AND visit DCUM....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Um, maybe you should include religious schools in your question, because if you are wealthy and smart (the people you seem interested in) and religious you might consider sending your kid to a religious school. So your sample is already shot by only asking about private, non-religious schools.

Signed,
A smart person of faith with a kid at a Friends school

Yes, but obviously I would expect the population that sends it's children to religious schools to have a high church attendance rate. That's not saying that these people can't be wealthy and highly educated as well.

But what percentage of people on this Private School Board send their kids to a private school with no religious affiliation?