Georgetown Prep vs. Sidwell

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^^^^

All 50+ ADW schools feed into Prep so you would have many different people from many different parts of the ADW schools attend Prep. But I agree, if you plan to attend Prep and you plan to only befriend the kids from Bethesda/Potomac/Chevy chase you will have an insular experience.

If you take the boys from Mater Dei, Mercy, S, DeChantal, St Bart's and Holy Redeemer and one or two others in the NW DC, Bethesda, Potomac area that's a big chunk of any Prep class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^^^

All 50+ ADW schools feed into Prep so you would have many different people from many different parts of the ADW schools attend Prep. But I agree, if you plan to attend Prep and you plan to only befriend the kids from Bethesda/Potomac/Chevy chase you will have an insular experience.

If you take the boys from Mater Dei, Mercy, S, DeChantal, St Bart's and Holy Redeemer and one or two others in the NW DC, Bethesda, Potomac area that's a big chunk of any Prep class.

I knew the percentages when I applied. Yes, there is "big chunk" of kids from those schools, but there are over 1/2 at least that are not.

I think when you live close to prep it feels like Prep/Gonzaga is everybody's first choice but when you get to know other families from other parishes you see a few kids from those parishes go to each school which bring a diverse group together. It's bound to happen with 50+feeder schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^^^

All 50+ ADW schools feed into Prep so you would have many different people from many different parts of the ADW schools attend Prep. But I agree, if you plan to attend Prep and you plan to only befriend the kids from Bethesda/Potomac/Chevy chase you will have an insular experience.

If you take the boys from Mater Dei, Mercy, S, DeChantal, St Bart's and Holy Redeemer and one or two others in the NW DC, Bethesda, Potomac area that's a big chunk of any Prep class.

I would say right now it's about ¼ - ? of the class, at most, that come the schools you mention. Roughly 65 schools represented in each class.

[Anonymous]

That should've said one-quarter to one-third.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mission of the ADW schools: Our mission is to educate all students in a Christian environment, welcoming children of all faiths. We promote the value of the individual while encouraging mutual respect through our Catholic faith and traditions.

For some reason you are hell bent on sending an unwelcoming message from Catholic schools to those on this website, not sure why. But your view is yours alone.

You don't spend much time with the alumni of these independent Catholic schools depending instead on position papers from the Bishops.

The piece from O'Connell was obviously written to address concerns being raised by the majority and to defend the practice of admitting non-Catholics. If people weren't complaining or asking questions there would have been no reason to write it. So maybe I'm not alone in the world.

Interesting logic. So we should infer that a majority of faithful Catholics believe the *the opposite* of Catholic teaching as reflected in official Catholic publications . . . because otherwise there'd be no need for them to be written? (Not that such a misguided majority's opinion would be persuasive, anyway.) And that other confused "Catholics"/alumni like yourself better reflect Church teaching and the mission of Catholic education than what the Church says itself? Come on. Please stop claiming to speak for the Church and Catholic education when you obviously missed the essentials of Church teaching and dishonor the legacy of Catholic education with every hypocritical statement you make. And you accuse others of using Catholic schools for the wrong reasons!?! All you can rightly claim is that you are part of a very small, unhappy, anachronistic group who once attended these schools . . . maybe you're not alone in the world, but you're in very pitiful company.

By the way, I spend a lot of time with alumni, current parents, current students, AND I am informed on official Church teaching and publications . . . I am pretty sure you can't say the same.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mission of the ADW schools: Our mission is to educate all students in a Christian environment, welcoming children of all faiths. We promote the value of the individual while encouraging mutual respect through our Catholic faith and traditions.

For some reason you are hell bent on sending an unwelcoming message from Catholic schools to those on this website, not sure why. But your view is yours alone.

You don't spend much time with the alumni of these independent Catholic schools depending instead on position papers from the Bishops.

The piece from O'Connell was obviously written to address concerns being raised by the majority and to defend the practice of admitting non-Catholics. If people weren't complaining or asking questions there would have been no reason to write it. So maybe I'm not alone in the world.

Interesting logic. So we should infer that a majority of faithful Catholics believe the *the opposite* of Catholic teaching as reflected in official Catholic publications . . . because otherwise there'd be no need for them to be written? (Not that such a misguided majority's opinion would be persuasive, anyway.) And that other confused "Catholics"/alumni like yourself better reflect Church teaching and the mission of Catholic education than what the Church says itself? Come on. Please stop claiming to speak for the Church and Catholic education when you obviously missed the essentials of Church teaching and dishonor the legacy of Catholic education with every hypocritical statement you make. And you accuse others of using Catholic schools for the wrong reasons!?! All you can rightly claim is that you are part of a very small, unhappy, anachronistic group who once attended these schools . . . maybe you're not alone in the world, but you're in very pitiful company.

+100.

By the way, I spend a lot of time with alumni, current parents, current students, AND I am informed on official Church teaching and publications . . . I am pretty sure you can't say the same.

[Anonymous]

20:14 and 20:43 must be the same nut job. They are either a troll or a very sad soul - spewing anti-Catholic rhetoric in order to make the religious faith and it's followers look bad. If they are claiming to be Catholic then they are out of touch with reality! This is 2015!! Welcome to the 21st Century! Not all Catholics go to Catholic schools (some go to other religious schools or non-religious) and some non-Catholics go to Catholic schools. Even if people are Catholic and at Catholic schools, there are different levels of religious involvement. Some go to church regularly and some do not. Some go to school solely because it is Catholic, but many go for other reasons - neighborhood, friends, values, education, safety, cost, faith, familiarity, family tradition, etc. These are all fine reasons and don't make people bad because Catholicism isn't the one and only reason. That is ridiculous!

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Anonymous wrote:It's true, though. If you see a car driven by the Catholic Mafia, it's all about the Gonzaga or Prep bumper sticker. You never see a college bumper sticker.

Ridiculous, but it IS true that you are a bigot.

It's not ridiculous. Sorry you can't handle the truth.

Nice try, but I see probably 200+ Catholic school cars on my carpool rounds every day and MANY have college stickers, sometimes multiple colleges. Maybe you're the one too focused on HS to notice colleges

Almost all of those stickers are terrible colleges. Regardless, the previous point was correct: for whatever reason, the Catholics in this area care so much more about the HS destination than the college one.

That seems to be true and one reason seems to be that the parents are too wrapped up in their kids lives - the sports teams, their friends, being the popular family. Honestly for some of these families it starts out in kindergarten where the socially obsessed families make sure their kids are friends with other 'chosen' families - excluding other families. It's not subtle at all but still unexpected if you have no idea of these things as we did.

We took our kids out for public school for a bunch of years to escape the stupidity
Back in private high school - I must say the more academic the school the less of this stupid nonsense that seems to go on

Parents can't rule a college. Their lives are over when junior goes to college (until grandkids).

It's all really dumb

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's true, though. If you see a car driven by the Catholic Mafia, it's all about the Gonzaga or Prep bumper sticker. You never see a college bumper sticker.

Ridiculous, but it IS true that you are a bigot.

It's not ridiculous. Sorry you can't handle the truth.

Nice try, but I see probably 200+ Catholic school cars on my carpool rounds every day and MANY have college stickers, sometimes multiple colleges. Maybe you're the one too focused on HS to notice colleges

Almost all of those stickers are terrible colleges. Regardless, the previous point was correct: for whatever reason, the Catholics in this area care so much more about the HS destination than the college one.

That seems to be true and one reason seems to be that the parents are too wrapped up in their kids lives - the sports teams, their friends, being the popular family. Honestly for some of these families it starts out in kindergarten where the socially obsessed families make sure their kids are friends with other 'chosen' families - excluding other families. It's not subtle at all but still unexpected if you have no idea of these things as we did.

We took our kids out for public school for a bunch of years to escape the stupidity
Back in private high school - I must say the more academic the school the less of this stupid nonsense that seems to go on

Parents can't rule a college. Their lives are over when junior goes to college (until grandkids).

It's all really dumb

The problem also is that some of these adults treat 'outsiders' /aka people who didn't attend one of these school with disdain. Not including them in conversations, turning their backs to them in social situations, leaving them off email chains for school related things - just treating them like they don't exist. It's one thing to have pride in the school you went to its another thing to exclude others

It's really embarrassingly dumb and rude . Intellectually stunted

We don't see these things at prep by the way - good parents, welcoming families. Good academics. Good kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's true, though. If you see a car driven by the Catholic Mafia, it's all about the Gonzaga or Prep bumper sticker. You never see a college bumper sticker.

Ridiculous, but it IS true that you are a bigot.

It's not ridiculous. Sorry you can't handle the truth.

Nice try, but I see probably 200+ Catholic school cars on my carpool rounds every day and MANY have college stickers, sometimes multiple colleges. Maybe you're the one too focused on HS to notice colleges

Almost all of those stickers are terrible colleges. Regardless, the previous point was correct: for whatever reason, the Catholics in this area care so much more about the HS destination than the college one.

That seems to be true and one reason seems to be that the parents are too wrapped up in their kids lives - the sports teams, their friends, being the popular family. Honestly for some of these families it starts out in kindergarten where the socially obsessed families make sure their kids are friends with other 'chosen' families - excluding other families. It's not subtle at all but still unexpected if you have no idea of these things as we did.

We took our kids out for public school for a bunch of years to escape the stupidity
Back in private high school - I must say the more academic the school the less of this stupid nonsense that seems to go on

Parents can't rule a college. Their lives are over when junior goes to college (until grandkids).

It's all really dumb

The problem also is that some of these adults treat 'outsiders' /aka people who didn't attend one of these school with disdain. Not including them in conversations, turning their backs to them in social situations, leaving them off email chains for school related things - just treating them like they don't exist. It's one thing to have pride in the school you went to its another thing to exclude others

It's really embarrassingly dumb and rude . Intellectually stunted

We don't see these things at prep by the way - good parents, welcoming families. Good academics. Good kids.

Actually the more the school serves their old-time DC alumni base, the more frequently you can see the behaviors you find so objectionable. Prep which is loaded with legacies is at the head of this list with Gonzaga and Visitation. It's just done dore subtly than in the parish schools.