Most conservative private school?

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting how OP never responded to the very well-reasoned question posted at 17:33. I guess OP isn't really interested in finding a school that is best for her child, with the most well-devolped and enriching curriculum. If that's the case, why is anyone even bothering trying to reason with this person. Just send her on her way . . . .

I'm guessing you are the author of that "well reasoned" post, that I find nonsensical.

Of course, the tenets of "liberalism" aren't passed along in the math assignments. And to suggest this is the only way these can be transmitted to students is dishonest. You are obviously nowhere as near as smart as you think you are. You are just opinionated and overbearing.

These principles or tenets are, however, baked into the rest of the student's experience there and these schools produce student bodies with a uniform set of Liberal beliefs.

I guess the OP was looking for help distancing herself and her family from Liberal indoctrination that many believe these schools offer.

Now I can't prove this .... but I would guess that a survey of the Volvos in the pick-upline at GDS or Sidwell might show a large number of Obama stickers.

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PP, you're wrong. The person you quoted did not write 17:33; I did.

I was interested in hearing how some of the conservatives here think this liberalism will be passed to their children through middle school class assignments. And also just how conservative or liberal the teaching would need to be to satisfy these conservatives' fears. I walked through each of the major subjects, and wrote about how they might or might not be vehicles for political indoctrination.

Instead of insulting me, why don't you spend some time explaining how you think teaching these subjects bakes "liberal indoctrination" into children?

[Anonymous]

New poster here. I'm not too concerned about it, but I am always interested to see when some, not all, liberal-leaning teachers build biases into their history and science assignments. E.g. giving extra credit to attend protests (always liberal leaning ones), and to justify why elementary students need to think about ways to preserve the polar bear's habitat where it is a foregone conclusion that global warming has happened in exactly the way the militant enviornmentalists (or a particular teacher) believes. What about the assignment last year of writing why students should support the president's agenda?

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Anonymous wrote:What about the assignment last year of writing why students should support the president's agenda?

I'm not familiar with that assignment. Were the students given that specific task: "Write about why we should support the president's agenda"? Or are you paraphrasing / reinterpreting somewhat?

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Public school. Seriously. The private schools try too hard to be politically correct. Public schools don't worry about such things.

That's DC. In Maryland, it's a different story somewhat. I'd consider Landon and Holton were I an R who lived out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New poster here. I'm not too concerned about it, but I am always interested to see when some, not all, liberal-leaning teachers build biases into their history and science assignments. E.g. giving extra credit to attend protests (always liberal leaning ones), and to justify why elementary students need to think about ways to preserve the polar bear's habitat where it is a foregone conclusion that global warming has happened in exactly the way the militant enviornmentalists (or a particular teacher) believes. What about the assignment last year of writing why students should support the president's agenda?

Yes those things would be alarming, where are they happening? Do you have some evidence?

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OK, I hope OP is still around. I know this is ancient history but back when the Quayles were in town they had to take their son out of St. Albans because of all the crap flung at the kid for being the son of a Repub. They put him at Gonzaga (they were not Catholic) and were very happy. Consider the Catholic schools.

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Anonymous wrote:OK, I hope OP is still around. I know this is ancient history but back when the Quayles were in town they had to take their son out of St. Albans because of all the crap flung at the kid for being the son of a Repub. They put him at Gonzaga (they were not Catholic) and were very happy. Consider the Catholic schools.

Not to be too mean (a little mean will suffice), but said scion was a dim bulb (the wattage may have been genetic) and couldn't handle the academics. Good cover story that he was driven out of coat-and-tie-wearing, stained glass window sporting St. Albans by the slings and arrows of mean liberal children, though!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New poster here. I'm not too concerned about it, but I am always interested to see when some, not all, liberal-leaning teachers build biases into their history and science assignments. E.g. giving extra credit to attend protests (always liberal leaning ones), and to justify why elementary students need to think about ways to preserve the polar bear's habitat where it is a foregone conclusion that global warming has happened in exactly the way the militant enviornmentalists (or a particular teacher) believes. What about the assignment last year of writing why students should support the president's agenda?

What's so bad about the polar bear assignment? When I was a kid we had lots of "stop pollution" related elementary school projects and I bet it made us all a little better about not littering (that and the crying Indian commercial -- killer!). It is a verifiable fact that the polar bear habitat is shrinking, is it not? When the kids are older they can get more into the science of climate change, including charges that it the risk is overblown etc., but for elementary school science thinking about the disappearing polar bear habitate sounds fine. And I call BS on the description of an assignment of "why students should support the president's agenda," unless perhaps, if this was a real example, it was in the context of introducing children to persuasive writing (and I'd bet they had an option of opposing the agenda too).

A "child of my acquaintance" had a question on a history midterm that quoted a Sons of Confederate Veterans tv ad about the causes of the Civil War and asked the students to assume it had been denied airing by a television channel. They were given the choice of writing a letter from the tv executive explaining why it was factually flawed OR by the Sons of Confederate Veterans explaining why it was correct and deserved to be aired. The child of my acquaintance, who is a contrarian, argued in favor of the ad and apparently was graded quite well on that essay question because of the quality of the historical arguemnt made by said child. This child doesn't talk too specifically about details of tests, etc., but obviously enjoyed the intellectual exercise enough to remember it and talk about it. Topical assignments are fun and make things real for the kids, and they should be honing their critical skills to be able to make their own judgments.

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And I call BS on the description of an assignment of "why students should support the president's agenda," unless perhaps, if this was a real example, it was in the context of introducing children to persuasive writing (and I'd bet they had an option of opposing the agenda too).

It is so tiresome for posters to call bs every time they see something they don't like or that doesn't fall within their own neat little view. I am not the poster you reference, but at my child's school, the middle schoolers had to watch a video going in great depth about why American consumerism is destroying the planet (not reference to other countries) and the teacher said up front that Conservatives hate the video. There was not balance presented or attempted in the assignment. It was simply anti-American drivel.

[Anonymous]

Based on what I've heard from conservative friends at Sidwell and Maret, cross these schools of your list. GDS, too.

That sounds about right.

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Anonymous wrote:

And I call BS on the description of an assignment of "why students should support the president's agenda," unless perhaps, if this was a real example, it was in the context of introducing children to persuasive writing (and I'd bet they had an option of opposing the agenda too).

It is so tiresome for posters to call bs every time they see something they don't like or that doesn't fall within their own neat little view. I am not the poster you reference, but at my child's school, the middle schoolers had to watch a video going in great depth about why American consumerism is destroying the planet (not reference to other countries) and the teacher said up front that Conservatives hate the video. There was not balance presented or attempted in the assignment. It was simply anti-American drivel.

Also call BS on the "support the president's agenda" assignment and assume it was probably a "for and against" persuasive writing assignment. As for your little anecdote, without knowing the content of the video, or what the teacher said (you weren't there either, I'd note) I can't speak to it other than to say it sounds like you or your child was paraphrasing. Got any "war against Christmas" anecdotes to share while we're at it?

[Anonymous]

(you weren't there either, I'd note)

I watched in online after my daughter came home and told me about it. Try again bs'er.

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Anonymous wrote:

(you weren't there either, I'd note)

I watched in online after my daughter came home and told me about it. Try again bs'er.

Um, what? Lol. You sound absolutely crazy. I'd love to hear the longer explanation, though. They do live streaming of her classroom? And the teacher repeated the objectionable remark so that you could view it? Or what? (Hidden camera? Did you bug your kid's lunchbox/) Keep posting, please, this gets better and better!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

(you weren't there either, I'd note)

I watched in online after my daughter came home and told me about it. Try again bs'er.

Um, what? Lol. You sound absolutely crazy. I'd love to hear the longer explanation, though. They do live streaming of her classroom? And the teacher repeated the objectionable remark so that you could view it? Or what? (Hidden camera? Did you bug your kid's lunchbox/) Keep posting, please, this gets better and better!

Oh, and for the record, I call BS on "I watched in online." Lol.