Most conservative private school?

[Anonymous]

Fiscal conservative sending their kid to a school that costs $35,000 in an area with some of the best public schools in the nation? I smell a troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Funny, it seems to me that the missions of most private schools (separating rich from poor, providing unequal access to educational resources) seems to be more of a Republican thing than a Democratic thing. So I think you'll be o.k. anywhere except public.

Interesting. I conclude the opposite. The whole point of this string is that the majority of the public schools in this area are full of liberal elites who, despite their lip service to "tolerance" and "diversity," are intolerant of any views other than their own (as demonstrated by your post) and justify the inequality of their child's circumstances by the fact that they believe, in their heart of hearts, that somebody else (generally the federal government) really should be doing something about improving the public schools. Which party is it that supports giving every parent the ability to choose where their child goes to school? Oh, yeah, that would be Republicans. Democrats oppose vouchers and school choice and other mechanisms to provide "more equal access to educational resources," because they "support the public schools (i.e., the teachers unions)," and then blithely send their own children to private school, leaving everyone else behind to fend for themselves. That would be you, President Obama, and almost everyone in the Obama Administration that I know (and I actually know quite a few). Generally nice people (but hypocrites).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fiscal conservative sending their kid to a school that costs $35,000 in an area with some of the best public schools in the nation? I smell a troll.

I live in DC, my child would probably have to go to private school at some point after elementary if we went the public route there. But more importantly we went to a private school and so did our parents and that's what we want for our child. My rationale behind this thread was just to find a place where they wouldn't feel left out if say there was a mock vote and they were the only one to choose candidate "X", not to start any kind of political debate. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

the majority of the public schools in this area are full of liberal elites

because they "support the public schools (i.e., the teachers unions)," and then blithely send their own children to private school, leaving everyone else behind to fend for themselve

Do you not see the contradiction here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny, it seems to me that the missions of most private schools (separating rich from poor, providing unequal access to educational resources) seems to be more of a Republican thing than a Democratic thing. So I think you'll be o.k. anywhere except public.

Interesting. I conclude the opposite. The whole point of this string is that the majority of the public schools in this area are full of liberal elites who, ... blah, blah, blah

Please take this cage match to the politics board, ladies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

the majority of the public schools in this area are full of liberal elites

because they "support the public schools (i.e., the teachers unions)," and then blithely send their own children to private school, leaving everyone else behind to fend for themselve

Do you not see the contradiction here?

Actually, I misspoke (misstyped?). I meant "private schools in this area...."

[Anonymous]

I would guess that the Heights and Oakcrest are "the most conservative private schools" in this area, based on % of parents who would likely call themselves political/social/and/or religious conservatives, but they are very Catholic, so they will not appeal to you.

[Anonymous]

Why would your kid feel out of place because you're Republican? Your kid isn't voting yet, and you can encourage your child during the mock votes to make up his own mind. Every school has a mock vote, and you will find a lot of kids who think through issues for themselves (so their votes won't concur with their family's leanings). That's a good thing, since they have to vote at some point, and they want to think through the issues for themselves.

[Anonymous]

1337-I think I just fell in love-wish I knew you ..we could be great friends. I so understand where you are coming from. As for why this matters. It does because most liberals are so hostile to views other than their own, they are downright rude when you let them know that you are a Republican. I hate that because I am open to discussing any point of view and then going out and having a drink and talking about something else. So the reality is that at some point it comes out and then it makes the whole school experience unpleasant for the parent as well as the child because let's face it..until kids are older, there is a lot of parent interaction in playdates/events.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]Funny, it seems to me that the missions of most private schools (separating rich from poor, providing unequal access to educational resources) seems to be more of a Republican thing than a Democratic thing. So I think you'll be o.k. anywhere except public.[/quote]

I have to respond to this because attitudes like this are without merit . The fact is my DC's parent community contributed over 1.6 Million dollars out of their own pocket to the annual scholarship fund drive last year so that the school could award financial aid to almost 35% of the student body who couldn't afford to go there otherwise. Also, the donation rate from families despite income was between 95-100% for parents of each grade in the school. That is not a Republican or a Democratic thing; that is a community thing.

[Anonymous]

To the person who is criticizing Obama for not going public: We all support the public schools with our tax dollars; it isn't an option not to. What progressives or liberals want to do is see that money put to better use and will spend days,weeks, years hand wringing over it whereas many conservatives simply opt out of the public school system and never look back. I would also argue that DC is also not a very good litmus test for whether one "walks the walk" on this as it has, not just bad schools, but the worst public school system in the country. Weekly shankings aside,why would ANY parent who could afford to send there child elsewhere by either MOVING to a nice suburb or paying 30K/year per child for private not do so when the alternative is to send their DC to a school that "graduates" a population 40% of which are functionally illiterate.

[Anonymous]

PP ITA!

[Anonymous]

As an R family, we send our child to a crunchy granola bastion of liberalism and encourage our child to think for himself and strive to embrace the lovely if unrealistic humanitarian and environmental goals often promulgated by the school. We are not against a fair, peaceful world with clean skies and rivers after all. When our child grows up, he will decide for himself how best those goals can be reached. And if he rebels and decides to become an R ... yeah!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As an R family, we send our child to a crunchy granola bastion of liberalism and encourage our child to think for himself and strive to embrace the lovely if unrealistic humanitarian and environmental goals often promulgated by the school. We are not against a fair, peaceful world with clean skies and rivers after all. When our child grows up, he will decide for himself how best those goals can be reached. And if he rebels and decides to become an R ... yeah!!!

And in many ways I am the opposite, a political liberal whose child Thrives on structure and ritual and clearly defined expectations. When I asked my ten year old what he wanted in a middle school the first two things he mentioned were wearing a tie and learning about God. I trust my child to find the path that works for him, even if it isn't the one that worked for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Funny, it seems to me that the missions of most private schools (separating rich from poor, providing unequal access to educational resources) seems to be more of a Republican thing than a Democratic thing. So I think you'll be o.k. anywhere except public.

This is so laughable . . . please remind us where President Obama's girls attend school? Is that the same private school that Chelsea Clinton attended?!