What's up at Our Lady of Mercy in Potomac, MD???

[Anonymous]

Hi All-
My kids are at Mercy and I think there is a huge misunderstanding of the wonderful relationship we as parents have with our principal. Since Mercy is a fairly small school, parents, teachers, kids and administrators know each other well and are very comfortable with each other. Mrs. Hosmer, our principal, is a loving, inspiring and FUNNY woman who leads a school that wins awards, retains teachers,and most importantly educates and nurtures our kids. I'll be honest in that it was my husband who wanted our children to attend Mercy. I went to public school and got a fine education. Now that my son is in 8th grade, I am so happy that we made the decision to go to Mercy. He is well prepared for high school and has always felt supported and inspired by his teachers.
Mercy is having an Open House on 10/13 and I highly encourage anyone interested the school to come. You can check the web site for times, but they are in the process of changing the site, so if you can't get to it at first, try again.

[Anonymous]

I am a student at mercy. I'm in 7th grade. Mercy is one of the few schools with such a great program for learning and physical disabilities. It is very challenging. Mrs.hosmer was just trying to be funny!! It's her personality!!! She's always smiling and laughing...

As others said:
The reason so many people are leaving Mercy is to go to other Catholic schools, such as Landon, Mater Dei, Holy Child, etc. it may also be for financial issues, as for the economy isn't that great. A lot of people have been losing their jobs, or maybe their pay has been a lesser quantity. (trying to sound professional!)

Here is my experience:
I came in third grade to Our Lady of Mercy. I was a little shy at first, but I soon "came out of my shell.". Last year, in sixth grade, I was diagnosed with a learning disability. I was put into a program where you do not take Social Studies and Spanish. I know it sounds silly, but it reduced my homework. Gave me more time to study, got extra help in subjects such as math and English. This year, in seventh grade, I do not take science and Spanish. During when the other children have science, I learn my math facts, so I've 2 math classes a day. When other kids are in Spanish, I do my active reading or another assignment I need to catch up on. There are about ten children in my grade who do not take Spanish, and about five who do not take sciences md Spanish.

Overall, Mercy is a great school, and you should send your. Children the!

[Anonymous]

If anyone is still following this forum, I am a father of a 6th grade boy who I am transferring out. In fact, three other boys and as many two girls from the 6th grade are leaving after this year. That is almost 20% of the class. I would recommend that you do some research to discover the real story about the administration before enrolling. Talk to multiple families not just the inside "click". Parents of boys should be especially thorough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a student at mercy. I'm in 7th grade. Mercy is one of the few schools with such a great program for learning and physical disabilities. It is very challenging. Mrs.hosmer was just trying to be funny!! It's her personality!!! She's always smiling and laughing...

As others said:
The reason so many people are leaving Mercy is to go to other Catholic schools, such as Landon, Mater Dei, Holy Child, etc. it may also be for financial issues, as for the economy isn't that great. A lot of people have been losing their jobs, or maybe their pay has been a lesser quantity. (trying to sound professional!)

Here is my experience:
I came in third grade to Our Lady of Mercy. I was a little shy at first, but I soon "came out of my shell.". Last year, in sixth grade, I was diagnosed with a learning disability. I was put into a program where you do not take Social Studies and Spanish. I know it sounds silly, but it reduced my homework. Gave me more time to study, got extra help in subjects such as math and English. This year, in seventh grade, I do not take science and Spanish. During when the other children have science, I learn my math facts, so I've 2 math classes a day. When other kids are in Spanish, I do my active reading or another assignment I need to catch up on. There are about ten children in my grade who do not take Spanish, and about five who do not take sciences md Spanish.

Overall, Mercy is a great school, and you should send your. Children the!

Landon is not a Catholic school. Nor is it cheaper than Mercy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a student at mercy. I'm in 7th grade. Mercy is one of the few schools with such a great program for learning and physical disabilities. It is very challenging. Mrs.hosmer was just trying to be funny!! It's her personality!!! She's always smiling and laughing...

As others said:
The reason so many people are leaving Mercy is to go to other Catholic schools, such as Landon, Mater Dei, Holy Child, etc. it may also be for financial issues, as for the economy isn't that great. A lot of people have been losing their jobs, or maybe their pay has been a lesser quantity. (trying to sound professional!)

Here is my experience:
I came in third grade to Our Lady of Mercy. I was a little shy at first, but I soon "came out of my shell.". Last year, in sixth grade, I was diagnosed with a learning disability. I was put into a program where you do not take Social Studies and Spanish. I know it sounds silly, but it reduced my homework. Gave me more time to study, got extra help in subjects such as math and English. This year, in seventh grade, I do not take science and Spanish. During when the other children have science, I learn my math facts, so I've 2 math classes a day. When other kids are in Spanish, I do my active reading or another assignment I need to catch up on. There are about ten children in my grade who do not take Spanish, and about five who do not take sciences md Spanish.

Overall, Mercy is a great school, and you should send your. Children the!

Landon is not a Catholic school. Nor is it cheaper than Mercy.

Decidedly not. Very few Catholics at Landon. Catholics who go there risk expulsion from the Mafia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a student at mercy. I'm in 7th grade. Mercy is one of the few schools with such a great program for learning and physical disabilities. It is very challenging. Mrs.hosmer was just trying to be funny!! It's her personality!!! She's always smiling and laughing...

As others said:
The reason so many people are leaving Mercy is to go to other Catholic schools, such as Landon, Mater Dei, Holy Child, etc. it may also be for financial issues, as for the economy isn't that great. A lot of people have been losing their jobs, or maybe their pay has been a lesser quantity. (trying to sound professional!)

Here is my experience:
I came in third grade to Our Lady of Mercy. I was a little shy at first, but I soon "came out of my shell.". Last year, in sixth grade, I was diagnosed with a learning disability. I was put into a program where you do not take Social Studies and Spanish. I know it sounds silly, but it reduced my homework. Gave me more time to study, got extra help in subjects such as math and English. This year, in seventh grade, I do not take science and Spanish. During when the other children have science, I learn my math facts, so I've 2 math classes a day. When other kids are in Spanish, I do my active reading or another assignment I need to catch up on. There are about ten children in my grade who do not take Spanish, and about five who do not take sciences md Spanish.

Overall, Mercy is a great school, and you should send your. Children the!

Landon is not a Catholic school. Nor is it cheaper than Mercy.

Decidedly not. Very few Catholics at Landon. Catholics who go there risk expulsion from the Mafia.

Funny you say that, because of the Catholics at Landon, most are of the non-Irish Catholic variety (Italian, Hispanic, Central European) – not the Irish Catholics that have caused so much trouble for the U.S. Catholic church – from pedophile priests (mostly Irish Catholics) to CINO politicians. So yeah, Catholics at Landon are more likely to be out of the “Irish Catholic Mafia” already.

[Anonymous]

Wait, wait, wait. Let me get this straight...you are saying Landon doesn't allow the Irish-Catholic types that cause trouble into your school? It is nice to know you have standards, racist and bigoted as they may be. Moron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a student at mercy. I'm in 7th grade. Mercy is one of the few schools with such a great program for learning and physical disabilities. It is very challenging. Mrs.hosmer was just trying to be funny!! It's her personality!!! She's always smiling and laughing...

As others said:
The reason so many people are leaving Mercy is to go to other Catholic schools, such as Landon, Mater Dei, Holy Child, etc. it may also be for financial issues, as for the economy isn't that great. A lot of people have been losing their jobs, or maybe their pay has been a lesser quantity. (trying to sound professional!)

Here is my experience:
I came in third grade to Our Lady of Mercy. I was a little shy at first, but I soon "came out of my shell.". Last year, in sixth grade, I was diagnosed with a learning disability. I was put into a program where you do not take Social Studies and Spanish. I know it sounds silly, but it reduced my homework. Gave me more time to study, got extra help in subjects such as math and English. This year, in seventh grade, I do not take science and Spanish. During when the other children have science, I learn my math facts, so I've 2 math classes a day. When other kids are in Spanish, I do my active reading or another assignment I need to catch up on. There are about ten children in my grade who do not take Spanish, and about five who do not take sciences md Spanish.

Overall, Mercy is a great school, and you should send your. Children the!

Landon is not a Catholic school. Nor is it cheaper than Mercy.

Decidedly not. Very few Catholics at Landon. Catholics who go there risk expulsion from the Mafia.

Funny you say that, because of the Catholics at Landon, most are of the non-Irish Catholic variety (Italian, Hispanic, Central European) – not the Irish Catholics that have caused so much trouble for the U.S. Catholic church – from pedophile priests (mostly Irish Catholics) to CINO politicians. So yeah, Catholics at Landon are more likely to be out of the “Irish Catholic Mafia” already.

Because of historical patterns of immigration. a significant majority of Catholics in DC are of Irish heritage. There are very few Italians or Eastern Europeans in DC as there are in other major metro areas in the East.

If there are Catholics at Landon it's because they are from families new, or at least not native, to the area. They do not know, and they may not care, that sending their sons to Landon is not something the natives are interested in doing. The native Catholics want to send their sons to Gonzaga or Prep or St Johns to continue the family traditions and build the Catholic community in DC. They certainly aren't interested in Landon or St Albans or Sidwell.

Those "outside the Irish Mafia" Catholics who send their sons to Landon, who are members of a parish, are probably surprised at how that decision is received by their fellow parishioners. I have read their comments on this forum. They report that it was suggested to them that they were insufficiently Catholic or "not a real Catholic" for doing this. They are surprised and not very happy about this. They didn't really understand the "rules of the game" as it is played here in DC.

And to your comments laying the problems of the Catholic Church at the feet of the Irish. I think the problems that the Church has had are pretty well spread around among the major ethnic groups. The Irish were the cops. The Italians were --- and are --- the criminals.

[Anonymous]

Should you ever have a chance to spend a private moment with the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See to the United States you might want to ask what he really thinks of the "Catholic" schools in the DC area. Might not be what the parishioners at OLOM think. But then, what does the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See to the United States know about Catholicism?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Should you ever have a chance to spend a private moment with the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See to the United States you might want to ask what he really thinks of the "Catholic" schools in the DC area. Might not be what the parishioners at OLOM think. But then, what does the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See to the United States know about Catholicism?

Serious question - what would he say? I'm not being snarky, I seriously would like to know. TIA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should you ever have a chance to spend a private moment with the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See to the United States you might want to ask what he really thinks of the "Catholic" schools in the DC area. Might not be what the parishioners at OLOM think. But then, what does the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See to the United States know about Catholicism?

Serious question - what would he say? I'm not being snarky, I seriously would like to know. TIA.

He's only been in the US for 7 mos. so I doubt he's had time to form a strong impression of DC Catholic schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should you ever have a chance to spend a private moment with the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See to the United States you might want to ask what he really thinks of the "Catholic" schools in the DC area. Might not be what the parishioners at OLOM think. But then, what does the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See to the United States know about Catholicism?

Serious question - what would he say? I'm not being snarky, I seriously would like to know. TIA.

A second serious question --- Why should anyone care?

I have been a practicing Catholic for many years and a graduate of Catholic schools and I had to Google Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See" to find out it the Vatican's ambassador to the US. Assuming the Apostolic Nunciature said what this person thinks he said, it really doesn't have much weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should you ever have a chance to spend a private moment with the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See to the United States you might want to ask what he really thinks of the "Catholic" schools in the DC area. Might not be what the parishioners at OLOM think. But then, what does the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See to the United States know about Catholicism?

Serious question - what would he say? I'm not being snarky, I seriously would like to know. TIA.

A second serious question --- Why should anyone care?

I have been a practicing Catholic for many years and a graduate of Catholic schools and I had to Google Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See" to find out it the Vatican's ambassador to the US. Assuming the Apostolic Nunciature said what this person thinks he said, it really doesn't have much weight.

I'm the PP asking what he said. I really am not concerned with how much "weight" his opinion has, I am just curious to know.
I am not Catholic, but my kids are in Catholic school, I find it to be of interest.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I want to know too!

What does the ANHSUS really think of the "Catholic" schools in the DC area??

[Anonymous]

Some of you may be intereted in an outside opinion of OLOM school. However, what really matters is that 8 children (6 boys) are leaving from the current sixth grade. It seems to me that the opinion of at least 25% of the 6th grade parents and/or students isn't very good for one reason or another. Is it the teacher? The enviroment? The academic rigor (lack of)? or, all of the above?