Best Catholic schools in FXCO for middle grades

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Anonymous wrote:St. Mary’s

Funny how there are so many “walkers” at st Mary’s during half days. Does half the student body suddenly live within a 2 mile radius of get school?

Off topic, PP! But I’ll bite since you are being such a busy body:

Maybe the middle schoolers are walking to King Street for lunch? Walking seems more environmentally friendly than having their parents drive to get them in the carpool line and drop them off 4 blocks away, no?

Not allowed. To be a walker, you must live or work within a certain radius of the school. You can’t be a walker just bc you want to “go to lunch.”

Which demonstrates how stupid the policy is. The school has no business telling you HOW you get to school or what you do after school is out. The school is the “busy body,” not me.

And sorry if you live nearby and don’t like parents parking on your precious street. Boo hoo - it’s a public street. If you don’t like it, move.

Students are permitted to be walkers on half days when the adjustment is made properly in pickup patrol. That’s an adjustment to the policy that isn’t well known but confirmed by the front office. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Where can they walk to? My car parked a few streets over?

PP, if a car is involved in transportation, you have to use the carpool line. This is clearly stated in the BSSM student-parent handbook which you agreed to when you signed your child up to be a student at the school. Why are you so special to think the rules don’t apply to you? I am a carpool parent, so I know the carpool line isn’t so bad, sheesh.

A previous poster said this doesn’t apply during half days. No?

In any event, it’s none of the school’s damn business what my kids do once school is out and they’re off school property. I consider that provision of the Handbook to be null and void. It’s stupid.

Is the policy part of an agreement with the county to control traffic in the neighborhood?

Don’t give a crap what the school agreed to with the city. I’ll get my kids to and from school however I damn well please. People have different circumstances and can’t all sit in a damn inefficient idiotic carline for an hour every day.

It’s nobody’s business how my kids get to and from school. The whole notion that any school could compel how my kids are transported is totally asinine.

Kids whose parents think they are too good for the carline never make honor roll. Those families are left out of the directory.

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Anonymous wrote:St. Mary’s

Funny how there are so many “walkers” at st Mary’s during half days. Does half the student body suddenly live within a 2 mile radius of get school?

Off topic, PP! But I’ll bite since you are being such a busy body:

Maybe the middle schoolers are walking to King Street for lunch? Walking seems more environmentally friendly than having their parents drive to get them in the carpool line and drop them off 4 blocks away, no?

Not allowed. To be a walker, you must live or work within a certain radius of the school. You can’t be a walker just bc you want to “go to lunch.”

Which demonstrates how stupid the policy is. The school has no business telling you HOW you get to school or what you do after school is out. The school is the “busy body,” not me.

And sorry if you live nearby and don’t like parents parking on your precious street. Boo hoo - it’s a public street. If you don’t like it, move.

Students are permitted to be walkers on half days when the adjustment is made properly in pickup patrol. That’s an adjustment to the policy that isn’t well known but confirmed by the front office. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Nonsense. There’s nothing in the handbook that changes walker eligibility based on half days versus full days.

No mention of handbook reference in my original comment. But again, approved by front office for students whose parents follow proper procedures by calling in to update pickup patrol. Many middle school students walk into OT for lunch on half days.

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Anonymous wrote:St. Mary’s

Funny how there are so many “walkers” at st Mary’s during half days. Does half the student body suddenly live within a 2 mile radius of get school?

Off topic, PP! But I’ll bite since you are being such a busy body:

Maybe the middle schoolers are walking to King Street for lunch? Walking seems more environmentally friendly than having their parents drive to get them in the carpool line and drop them off 4 blocks away, no?

Not allowed. To be a walker, you must live or work within a certain radius of the school. You can’t be a walker just bc you want to “go to lunch.”

Which demonstrates how stupid the policy is. The school has no business telling you HOW you get to school or what you do after school is out. The school is the “busy body,” not me.

And sorry if you live nearby and don’t like parents parking on your precious street. Boo hoo - it’s a public street. If you don’t like it, move.

Students are permitted to be walkers on half days when the adjustment is made properly in pickup patrol. That’s an adjustment to the policy that isn’t well known but confirmed by the front office. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Nonsense. There’s nothing in the handbook that changes walker eligibility based on half days versus full days.

No mention of handbook reference in my original comment. But again, approved by front office for students whose parents follow proper procedures by calling in to update pickup patrol. Many middle school students walk into OT for lunch on half days.

This is exactly my point. The whole rule book on walkers and car line is a total BS charade. Parents who are buddy buddy with admin or who donate enough always get their little “exemptions” while the rest of us suckers sit in car line for 45 minute.

But it’s a good lesson did the kiddos about life, I guess.

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I love to see the middle schoolers hit the town on half days. It's such a special and important milestone for them - a real thrill and grown up experience. My DC still talks about how much fun they'd have going around town. The kids even mastered the public bus (students ride free!) It's important they have these experiences and independence.

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Anonymous wrote:St. Mary’s

Funny how there are so many “walkers” at st Mary’s during half days. Does half the student body suddenly live within a 2 mile radius of get school?

Off topic, PP! But I’ll bite since you are being such a busy body:

Maybe the middle schoolers are walking to King Street for lunch? Walking seems more environmentally friendly than having their parents drive to get them in the carpool line and drop them off 4 blocks away, no?

Not allowed. To be a walker, you must live or work within a certain radius of the school. You can’t be a walker just bc you want to “go to lunch.”

Which demonstrates how stupid the policy is. The school has no business telling you HOW you get to school or what you do after school is out. The school is the “busy body,” not me.

And sorry if you live nearby and don’t like parents parking on your precious street. Boo hoo - it’s a public street. If you don’t like it, move.

Students are permitted to be walkers on half days when the adjustment is made properly in pickup patrol. That’s an adjustment to the policy that isn’t well known but confirmed by the front office. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Nonsense. There’s nothing in the handbook that changes walker eligibility based on half days versus full days.

No mention of handbook reference in my original comment. But again, approved by front office for students whose parents follow proper procedures by calling in to update pickup patrol. Many middle school students walk into OT for lunch on half days.

This is exactly my point. The whole rule book on walkers and car line is a total BS charade. Parents who are buddy buddy with admin or who donate enough always get their little “exemptions” while the rest of us suckers sit in car line for 45 minute.

But it’s a good lesson did the kiddos about life, I guess.

Or call the school and do the same. I’m neither friends with admin or a donor. I simply asked the question of how to make walking to lunch possible for my middle schooler without sitting in carpool or cheating the system and lying in pickup patrol.

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Anonymous wrote:St. Mary’s

Funny how there are so many “walkers” at st Mary’s during half days. Does half the student body suddenly live within a 2 mile radius of get school?

Off topic, PP! But I’ll bite since you are being such a busy body:

Maybe the middle schoolers are walking to King Street for lunch? Walking seems more environmentally friendly than having their parents drive to get them in the carpool line and drop them off 4 blocks away, no?

Not allowed. To be a walker, you must live or work within a certain radius of the school. You can’t be a walker just bc you want to “go to lunch.”

Which demonstrates how stupid the policy is. The school has no business telling you HOW you get to school or what you do after school is out. The school is the “busy body,” not me.

And sorry if you live nearby and don’t like parents parking on your precious street. Boo hoo - it’s a public street. If you don’t like it, move.

Students are permitted to be walkers on half days when the adjustment is made properly in pickup patrol. That’s an adjustment to the policy that isn’t well known but confirmed by the front office. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Nonsense. There’s nothing in the handbook that changes walker eligibility based on half days versus full days.

No mention of handbook reference in my original comment. But again, approved by front office for students whose parents follow proper procedures by calling in to update pickup patrol. Many middle school students walk into OT for lunch on half days.

This is exactly my point. The whole rule book on walkers and car line is a total BS charade. Parents who are buddy buddy with admin or who donate enough always get their little “exemptions” while the rest of us suckers sit in car line for 45 minute.

But it’s a good lesson did the kiddos about life, I guess.

Or call the school and do the same. I’m neither friends with admin or a donor. I simply asked the question of how to make walking to lunch possible for my middle schooler without sitting in carpool or cheating the system and lying in pickup patrol.

So this only applies to middle schoolers? What about 5th graders?

And how do these middle schoolers get home after lunch in old town, exactly?

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In my experience, the middle
school kids go out as a walker with an OT kid. They have the time of their life and call from said friend’s house later or there is a pre-determined pick up location and time. My DC learned to take the bus dn the parkway and get himself home. Life skills here. This is the good stuff of life and these protesting moms are real grinches. Being sent home with a walker doesn’t break any rules.

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Anonymous wrote:In my experience, the middle
school kids go out as a walker with an OT kid. They have the time of their life and call from said friend’s house later or there is a pre-determined pick up location and time. My DC learned to take the bus dn the parkway and get himself home. Life skills here. This is the good stuff of life and these protesting moms are real grinches. Being sent home with a walker doesn’t break any rules.

This is accurate, you have to CALL the school to update pick up patrol via phone to confirm your middle schooler (grades 6-8, just like the uniform) has permission to walk with XYZ student who is an OT resident with a walker pass. This has been a thing for years on half days!

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My kids go to a different Catholic school in Vienna but the amount of attention that is placed on St Mary’s as opposed to any of the other Catholic schools in the area makes me think this school is great and there are just haters/jealousy.
New topic please

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Anonymous wrote:My kids go to a different Catholic school in Vienna but the amount of attention that is placed on St Mary’s as opposed to any of the other Catholic schools in the area makes me think this school is great and there are just haters/jealousy.
New topic please

lol. I guess that’s one theory. Though I can think of another, more plausible one.

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Anonymous wrote:In my experience, the middle
school kids go out as a walker with an OT kid. They have the time of their life and call from said friend’s house later or there is a pre-determined pick up location and time. My DC learned to take the bus dn the parkway and get himself home. Life skills here. This is the good stuff of life and these protesting moms are real grinches. Being sent home with a walker doesn’t break any rules.

This is accurate, you have to CALL the school to update pick up patrol via phone to confirm your middle schooler (grades 6-8, just like the uniform) has permission to walk with XYZ student who is an OT resident with a walker pass. This has been a thing for years on half days!

Got it. So whether a child can circumvent the radius rule for being a walker hinges entirely on whether they happen to be friends with someone who lives in OT. Lovely.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids go to a different Catholic school in Vienna but the amount of attention that is placed on St Mary’s as opposed to any of the other Catholic schools in the area makes me think this school is great and there are just haters/jealousy.
New topic please

lol. I guess that’s one theory. Though I can think of another, more plausible one.

Yeah, I think it's more plausible that there's one single parent (or disgruntled former student or employee) who is just fixated on St. Mary's. Lots of excellent schools in the Diocese. Can't say that St. Mary's is the absolute best or the worst--just one of many great options!

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St Mary’s is a lovely school and I have mostly only great things to say about it. But I do think that the failure to regularly acknowledge honor roll is a bit bizarre and arbitrary. The whole point of honor roll is to “honor” academic performance. I suspect that a big donors DC didn’t get it on the trimesters where they didn’t publish.

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Anonymous wrote:St Mary’s is a lovely school and I have mostly only great things to say about it. But I do think that the failure to regularly acknowledge honor roll is a bit bizarre and arbitrary. The whole point of honor roll is to “honor” academic performance. I suspect that a big donors DC didn’t get it on the trimesters where they didn’t publish.

Sycophant!

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I would look at the schools in McLean and Vienna - St. Luke, OLGC, St. Mark. I don’t know much about St. Mary’s except that they are “interesting” at CYO events.