Parent body at Beauvoir and GDS?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Easy - Beauvoir is nominally Episcopalian. GDS is nominally Jewish. Both are the more liberal sectors of each religious contingent and their school administration's actions and policies reflect the influence of each "tribe".

GDS is nominally "nothing." It was started in 1945 by people who were not into segregation

So, you have never, ever heard that GDS is primarily Jewish and you would swear that the school is, like Beauvoir no more than 20% from any particular religious group ? Question: does GDS give tests on Yom Kippur ? Is it open on Yom Kippur ? Not that there is anything wrong with making allowances , but lets be honest as to the reasons why that is done. There is more religious diversity at Beauvoir than at GDS. That is a fact.

GDS may not give tests on YK, but is open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Easy - Beauvoir is nominally Episcopalian. GDS is nominally Jewish. Both are the more liberal sectors of each religious contingent and their school administration's actions and policies reflect the influence of each "tribe".

GDS is nominally "nothing." It was started in 1945 by people who were not into segregation

So, you have never, ever heard that GDS is primarily Jewish and you would swear that the school is, like Beauvoir no more than 20% from any particular religious group ? Question: does GDS give tests on Yom Kippur ? Is it open on Yom Kippur ? Not that there is anything wrong with making allowances , but lets be honest as to the reasons why that is done. There is more religious diversity at Beauvoir than at GDS. That is a fact.

Does Beauvoir give exams or is open on Christmas or Good Friday?

[Anonymous]

``GDS is nominally Jewish.''
Hey screechy...you are getting all heated up because you don't know what nominally means. ``Nomnially'' is derived from the Latin word for name. So, it's used to imply the idea ``in name only'' - the opposite of how you used way it. This is how nominally is commonly used in sentences. ``I'm nominally Catholic, but I don't really believe in transubstantiation.''

So, GDS is not nominally Jewish. It may have a lot of Jews there - which is, I think, your point. But its actually a secular school founded by people who didn't want to participate in a school system that assigned kids to specific schools based on their skin color. GDS is indeed, as the pp said, nominally nothing.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Easy - Beauvoir is nominally Episcopalian. GDS is nominally Jewish. Both are the more liberal sectors of each religious contingent and their school administration's actions and policies reflect the influence of each "tribe".

GDS is nominally "nothing." It was started in 1945 by people who were not into segregation

So, you have never, ever heard that GDS is primarily Jewish and you would swear that the school is, like Beauvoir no more than 20% from any particular religious group ? Question: does GDS give tests on Yom Kippur ? Is it open on Yom Kippur ? Not that there is anything wrong with making allowances , but lets be honest as to the reasons why that is done. There is more religious diversity at Beauvoir than at GDS. That is a fact.

Are you basically saying that Beauvoir has a religious quota?

[Anonymous]

Watch the kids walk between classes. Presume their parents also did that. Do you want to be with parents who preferred order or those who prefer independence. It's really that simple. If you're six of one, a half dozen of the other on this metric, flip a coin. Oh, and once you're done with either school, or any independent for that matter, the parent "community" pretty much vanishes as folks become defined by the newly attended colleges/universities. So give 10 points to what's good for your kid, including what matches your family values, but give 1 point to your weighting of parental community match. It's about the kids, you'll see.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Beauvoir - tuxes, boob jobs & martinis. GDS - green tea infusions, tie dye, and natural gray. Does that help?

Beauvoir parent here. Never heard something so ridicuous in my life. "Boob job" ??? I think the women are too busy representing the US at the UN, billing hours at their law firm or running their own company. Of the SAHM's I know, all are former law partners. I think the stereotypes that you are potraying are not even worthy of an adolescent. You seem to want to put people in a box. Isn't taht what GDS says is wrong with the world ?

I swear I've read this line on another thread, virtually word for word. The Beauvoir Fawner is back again!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Beauvoir - tuxes, boob jobs & martinis. GDS - green tea infusions, tie dye, and natural gray. Does that help?

Yes, it helps if its accurate and not an outdated stereotype....

There's still some truth to this stereotype. Also, I know lots of B families who belong to country clubs, not so many GDS families.

What proportion/percentage of B families fit the stereotype would you say?

Beauvoir parent for last 5 years: the answer is : None.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Beauvoir - tuxes, boob jobs & martinis. GDS - green tea infusions, tie dye, and natural gray. Does that help?

Beauvoir parent here. Never heard something so ridicuous in my life. "Boob job" ??? I think the women are too busy representing the US at the UN, billing hours at their law firm or running their own company. Of the SAHM's I know, all are former law partners. I think the stereotypes that you are potraying are not even worthy of an adolescent. You seem to want to put people in a box. Isn't taht what GDS says is wrong with the world ?

I swear I've read this line on another thread, virtually word for word. The Beauvoir Fawner is back again!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Easy - Beauvoir is nominally Episcopalian. GDS is nominally Jewish. Both are the more liberal sectors of each religious contingent and their school administration's actions and policies reflect the influence of each "tribe".

GDS is nominally "nothing." It was started in 1945 by people who were not into segregation

So, you have never, ever heard that GDS is primarily Jewish and you would swear that the school is, like Beauvoir no more than 20% from any particular religious group ? Question: does GDS give tests on Yom Kippur ? Is it open on Yom Kippur ? Not that there is anything wrong with making allowances , but lets be honest as to the reasons why that is done. There is more religious diversity at Beauvoir than at GDS. That is a fact.

Are you basically saying that Beauvoir has a religious quota?

No, and boy are you determined to twist everything. I'd say that Beauvoir has a great amount of diversity becuase its a great school with incredible facilities and , as a resuly, they probaly get most of their 1st choice yield each admissions year. PP, can you not simply speak positively about GDS, if that is your feeling. Why do you have to attack Beauvoir to prop GDS up .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Easy - Beauvoir is nominally Episcopalian. GDS is nominally Jewish. Both are the more liberal sectors of each religious contingent and their school administration's actions and policies reflect the influence of each "tribe".

GDS is nominally "nothing." It was started in 1945 by people who were not into segregation

So, you have never, ever heard that GDS is primarily Jewish and you would swear that the school is, like Beauvoir no more than 20% from any particular religious group ? Question: does GDS give tests on Yom Kippur ? Is it open on Yom Kippur ? Not that there is anything wrong with making allowances , but lets be honest as to the reasons why that is done. There is more religious diversity at Beauvoir than at GDS. That is a fact.

Does Beauvoir give exams or is open on Christmas or Good Friday?

Beauvoir, give exams ??? LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:``GDS is nominally Jewish.''
Hey screechy...you are getting all heated up because you don't know what nominally means. ``Nomnially'' is derived from the Latin word for name. So, it's used to imply the idea ``in name only'' - the opposite of how you used way it. This is how nominally is commonly used in sentences. ``I'm nominally Catholic, but I don't really believe in transubstantiation.''

So, GDS is not nominally Jewish. It may have a lot of Jews there - which is, I think, your point. But its actually a secular school founded by people who didn't want to participate in a school system that assigned kids to specific schools based on their skin color. GDS is indeed, as the pp said, nominally nothing.

Yes, and they talk and talk and talk about this as if it were just yesterday, when the country and DC private school world has changed in the last 70 years. After a while, its like using a curriculum that no longer prepares for the current job market. And to try to hang old labels on other schools that no lonher fit those schools just to prop yours up, is well, perpetuating the same type of stereotyping GDS campaigns agianst, no ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Easy - Beauvoir is nominally Episcopalian. GDS is nominally Jewish. Both are the more liberal sectors of each religious contingent and their school administration's actions and policies reflect the influence of each "tribe".

GDS is nominally "nothing." It was started in 1945 by people who were not into segregation

So, you have never, ever heard that GDS is primarily Jewish and you would swear that the school is, like Beauvoir no more than 20% from any particular religious group ? Question: does GDS give tests on Yom Kippur ? Is it open on Yom Kippur ? Not that there is anything wrong with making allowances , but lets be honest as to the reasons why that is done. There is more religious diversity at Beauvoir than at GDS. That is a fact.

Are you basically saying that Beauvoir has a religious quota?

No, and boy are you determined to twist everything. I'd say that Beauvoir has a great amount of diversity becuase its a great school with incredible facilities and , as a resuly, they probaly get most of their 1st choice yield each admissions year. PP, can you not simply speak positively about GDS, if that is your feeling. Why do you have to attack Beauvoir to prop GDS up .

PP, hate to pull a J Steele on you but that is not what you said. You didn't say that Beauvoir has a great amount of diversity because it is a great school with incredible facilities and has a high admissions yield, but that "GDS is primarily Jewish...Beauvoir [has] no more than 20% from any particular religious group." From my reading, you basically say that there is nothing wrong with a lot of Jews at GDS, but that there is more religious diversity at Beauvoir. "That is a fact," which you then do not offer a cite. And unlike your rhetorical question, where you assume no, GDS is not open on Yom Kippur, GDS is open on the Jewish High Holidays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:``GDS is nominally Jewish.''
Hey screechy...you are getting all heated up because you don't know what nominally means. ``Nomnially'' is derived from the Latin word for name. So, it's used to imply the idea ``in name only'' - the opposite of how you used way it. This is how nominally is commonly used in sentences. ``I'm nominally Catholic, but I don't really believe in transubstantiation.''

So, GDS is not nominally Jewish. It may have a lot of Jews there - which is, I think, your point. But its actually a secular school founded by people who didn't want to participate in a school system that assigned kids to specific schools based on their skin color. GDS is indeed, as the pp said, nominally nothing.

Yes, and they talk and talk and talk about this as if it were just yesterday, when the country and DC private school world has changed in the last 70 years. After a while, its like using a curriculum that no longer prepares for the current job market. And to try to hang old labels on other schools that no lonher fit those schools just to prop yours up, is well, perpetuating the same type of stereotyping GDS campaigns agianst, no ?

Excuse me, but where in that post did someone "hang old labels on other schools"? All the poster did was clarify the correct definition of "nominally."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Easy - Beauvoir is nominally Episcopalian. GDS is nominally Jewish. Both are the more liberal sectors of each religious contingent and their school administration's actions and policies reflect the influence of each "tribe".

GDS is nominally "nothing." It was started in 1945 by people who were not into segregation

So, you have never, ever heard that GDS is primarily Jewish and you would swear that the school is, like Beauvoir no more than 20% from any particular religious group ? Question: does GDS give tests on Yom Kippur ? Is it open on Yom Kippur ? Not that there is anything wrong with making allowances , but lets be honest as to the reasons why that is done. There is more religious diversity at Beauvoir than at GDS. That is a fact.

Are you basically saying that Beauvoir has a religious quota?

No, and boy are you determined to twist everything. I'd say that Beauvoir has a great amount of diversity becuase its a great school with incredible facilities and , as a resuly, they probaly get most of their 1st choice yield each admissions year. PP, can you not simply speak positively about GDS, if that is your feeling. Why do you have to attack Beauvoir to prop GDS up .

PP, hate to pull a J Steele on you but that is not what you said. You didn't say that Beauvoir has a great amount of diversity because it is a great school with incredible facilities and has a high admissions yield, but that "GDS is primarily Jewish...Beauvoir [has] no more than 20% from any particular religious group." From my reading, you basically say that there is nothing wrong with a lot of Jews at GDS, but that there is more religious diversity at Beauvoir. "That is a fact," which you then do not offer a cite. And unlike your rhetorical question, where you assume no, GDS is not open on Yom Kippur, GDS is open on the Jewish High Holidays.

I am not interested in a debate with you and I don't think that the OP is interested in us debating. As a Beauvoir parent I can say, for a fact, that Beauvoir has more ethnic and religious diversity than GDS. I know many parents at both schools ( many former B parents are at GDS now)

I guess you don't like having a Beauvoir parent put the lie to the stereotype that the schoool is full of WASPS. It is very , very, diverse, including politically, country of origin, religiously, racially. How is this achieved ? I have no idea. I am not the AD. I postulated that most schools try to achieve diversity but only achieve it if they can get their full yield on their first choice admit roster. Beauvoir achieves this goal all have because its a wonderful school with incredible facilities. That is my guess. Diversity of all kinds: political, racial, religous, country of origin, sexuality, is good for our kids. Do we not agree ? I think we do.

To me a "quota" suggests blindly picking based on religion or race to fit a number. Its a negative association and you know it is, which is why you suggest that to try to put a negative on Beauvoir's diversity. Geesh, give it up. Beauvoir is a great school. If you stromgly feel GD is the best school, perhaps say why as a stand alone point without tagging Beauvoir with a stereotype that is 60 years out of date.