Gay Friendly Private Schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh, Pleease, take your self-promotion elsewhere. The school sucks.

Wow! Here I was just innocently searching my kids' schools and I ran across this! I'd love to know what leads you to be so bitter about Capitol Hill Day.

Pleease that's just more self-promotion BS or get a life. You just happen to be trolling or Googling your HS and college age children's former school. Yeah, right. You're probably the same person who responds to every negative CHDS post.

The OP asked about gay-friendly schools. CHDS had one family entering before we left.

No amount of coordinated self-promotion is going to help that school. It's poorly run with no clear mission and too many teachers who have no business being around children. If other parents are so unfortunate as to have to send their child/ren there, go ahead but don't say an anonymous DCUM didn't try to help you dodge an expensive bullet.

[Anonymous]

All I can say to you is that our 20 combined years there meant a lot to our family in many ways and served our kids really well -- and in that time I knew several kids with gay parents -- and the only reason I'm "trolling" the website is that I'm trying to help a friend with children who's moving to the area and looking for schools. Hope you've found something that works for you.

[Anonymous]

To 20:15: Your tone and sneering comments about Capitol Hill Day School do nothing to advance your argument. O.k., you don't like the school. We're left to infer that your child had a bad experience for some reason, and you're bitter. Another family had a great experience (I am not that poster, by the way; we live in Virginia and as they say here "don't have a dog in this fight.") If you give specifics about what you don't like (i.e., students don't know math when they graduate, administration was unresponsive to your concerns, etc.) then people might give your posts more consideration. Saying things like "this school sucks" sounds like a petulant 10-year-old whose gameboy has been taken away.

[Anonymous]

...although I am also growing suspicious of these eerily similar posts talking about the "hidden gem" of CHDS. I have a friend with a child in CHDS and they like it, by the way. But just as there seems to be one and only one horrendously disgruntled former CHDS parent, there also seems to be one and only one Stepford Wife-ish spokesperson for CHDS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To 20:15: Your tone and sneering comments about Capitol Hill Day School do nothing to advance your argument. O.k., you don't like the school. We're left to infer that your child had a bad experience for some reason, and you're bitter. Another family had a great experience (I am not that poster, by the way; we live in Virginia and as they say here "don't have a dog in this fight.") If you give specifics about what you don't like (i.e., students don't know math when they graduate, administration was unresponsive to your concerns, etc.) then people might give your posts more consideration. Saying things like "this school sucks" sounds like a petulant 10-year-old whose gameboy has been taken away.

I don't want to sound like a petulant 10-year old, but I did say: It's poorly run with no clear mission and too many teachers who have no business being around children.

I don't know what specifics you would need. I am still friends with a few of the parents at that school and don't want to blatently disclose my identity even though most families have now moved on (children in high school). I will say I was definitely not the only disgruntled parent. There are plenty of families who leave each year and it's not because they move away. Other families stay because they don't have many choices - they are limited by geography. Anyone who wants to even apply to that school, go ahead but I did do my good deed of trying to help everyone out there avoid a nightmare. I won't post anymore on this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:...although I am also growing suspicious of these eerily similar posts talking about the "hidden gem" of CHDS. I have a friend with a child in CHDS and they like it, by the way. But just as there seems to be one and only one horrendously disgruntled former CHDS parent, there also seems to be one and only one Stepford Wife-ish spokesperson for CHDS.

Hi, it's me, Stepford Wife again! one reason it may look that way to you is that when I found this site the other day I was struck by two things -- the unfair dismissal of a place I love and the anxiety so many parents were feeling about not being able to get into the "big 3." So I DID copy and paste part of my response on this thread to start a new subject "advice on applying to schools...." and some of the language is repeated, Stepford Wife-ish. But really really really it was my first time here and I don't want to be responsible for making it look like there's a co-ordinated effort -- there are tons of people who love that school and I hear there's a lot of enthusiasm about the new Head, it's not just me --

[Anonymous]

The Maret School is very gay friendly. One of the biggest clubs at maret is the gay-straight alliance club. As previously mentioned they do have a booth at the Rainbow Families DC Conference which is staffed not only by facultyy and parents but also by students. Maret is a very safe and accepting environment.