How conservative is Washington & Lee?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They removed the confederate flags from Lee Chapel in 2014. So less conservative than it once was. Located near VMI which is also less conservative than it once was.

Yet W&L still has Lee’s body in the chapel and VMI removed their first black superintendent for being too woke.

OP- watch a video of the annual Lee Jackson day parade in Lexington and decide if that’s the environment you want for your kid.

You are advocating for disinternment? Yikes. Now that you have offended believers in most religions…

In all fairness, do people not know that Robert E. Lee was the president of W&L after the Civil War? It was a fledgling school that most certainly would have closed without him. So maybe the school should close as well?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Based on your responses, all of which I agree with btw - I think there's a better fit out there for your kiddo. A dear friend went to W&L and is still quite conservative - she told me about a frat party that had black people pretending to pick cotton...I've never been able to think of W&L the same, and never even uttered the school's name to my DD.

And?

White frat boys do that at schools like Amherst too.

It's America.

And? What a nasty response.

Question was how conservative is W&L...not whether white frat boys at Amherst are racist. I guess that's another thread.

Students who graduate from largely segregated schools in MA and other New England states are not any more liberal or inclusive than students at W & L. If anything, students from southern cities are often more inclusive because they've attended schools with more diversity and formed friendships with those who may come from different backgrounds and have a variety of viewpoints.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/06/11/racial-segregation-massachusetts-schools

It is true. The richer and more democratic the towns are in Massachusetts, the more segregated the “public” schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your gay son will be more comfortable, in my view, in a more diverse urban setting. I wouldn’t suggest W&L for him.

OP here. He’s not gay. Demographically he’d fit right in at W&L.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They removed the confederate flags from Lee Chapel in 2014. So less conservative than it once was. Located near VMI which is also less conservative than it once was.

Yet W&L still has Lee’s body in the chapel and VMI removed their first black superintendent for being too woke.

OP- watch a video of the annual Lee Jackson day parade in Lexington and decide if that’s the environment you want for your kid.

You are advocating for disinternment? Yikes. Now that you have offended believers in most religions…

In all fairness, do people not know that Robert E. Lee was the president of W&L after the Civil War? It was a fledgling school that most certainly would have closed without him. So maybe the school should close as well?

Because he was homeless after surrendering his Arlington property then confederate losers wanted to send their kids to worship him. Losers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They removed the confederate flags from Lee Chapel in 2014. So less conservative than it once was. Located near VMI which is also less conservative than it once was.

Yet W&L still has Lee’s body in the chapel and VMI removed their first black superintendent for being too woke.

OP- watch a video of the annual Lee Jackson day parade in Lexington and decide if that’s the environment you want for your kid.

You are advocating for disinternment? Yikes. Now that you have offended believers in most religions…

In all fairness, do people not know that Robert E. Lee was the president of W&L after the Civil War? It was a fledgling school that most certainly would have closed without him. So maybe the school should close as well?

Because he was homeless after surrendering his Arlington property then confederate losers wanted to send their kids to worship him. Losers.

What an absurdly simplistic statement about history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They removed the confederate flags from Lee Chapel in 2014. So less conservative than it once was. Located near VMI which is also less conservative than it once was.

Yet W&L still has Lee’s body in the chapel and VMI removed their first black superintendent for being too woke.

OP- watch a video of the annual Lee Jackson day parade in Lexington and decide if that’s the environment you want for your kid.

You are advocating for disinternment? Yikes. Now that you have offended believers in most religions…

In all fairness, do people not know that Robert E. Lee was the president of W&L after the Civil War? It was a fledgling school that most certainly would have closed without him. So maybe the school should close as well?

Because he was homeless after surrendering his Arlington property then confederate losers wanted to send their kids to worship him. Losers.

Losers worshipping a loser...that sounds oddly familiar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They removed the confederate flags from Lee Chapel in 2014. So less conservative than it once was. Located near VMI which is also less conservative than it once was.

Yet W&L still has Lee’s body in the chapel and VMI removed their first black superintendent for being too woke.

OP- watch a video of the annual Lee Jackson day parade in Lexington and decide if that’s the environment you want for your kid.

You are advocating for disinternment? Yikes. Now that you have offended believers in most religions…

In all fairness, do people not know that Robert E. Lee was the president of W&L after the Civil War? It was a fledgling school that most certainly would have closed without him. So maybe the school should close as well?

Robert E Lee was Episcopalian. They don’t have injunctions against disinterment (no N - internment is locking people up, interment is burying them. It’s good to know the difference.)

[Anonymous]

The only risk of sending a young man to W&L is that you’ll get a well mannered gentleman in return.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They removed the confederate flags from Lee Chapel in 2014. So less conservative than it once was. Located near VMI which is also less conservative than it once was.

Yet W&L still has Lee’s body in the chapel and VMI removed their first black superintendent for being too woke.

OP- watch a video of the annual Lee Jackson day parade in Lexington and decide if that’s the environment you want for your kid.

You are advocating for disinternment? Yikes. Now that you have offended believers in most religions…

In all fairness, do people not know that Robert E. Lee was the president of W&L after the Civil War? It was a fledgling school that most certainly would have closed without him. So maybe the school should close as well?

Because he was homeless after surrendering his Arlington property then confederate losers wanted to send their kids to worship him. Losers.

What an absurdly simplistic statement about history.

You’re right, this really isn’t that hard to understand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Based on your responses, all of which I agree with btw - I think there's a better fit out there for your kiddo. A dear friend went to W&L and is still quite conservative - she told me about a frat party that had black people pretending to pick cotton...I've never been able to think of W&L the same, and never even uttered the school's name to my DD.

I’m genuinely curious, when was this?

And - clarify - this was black students willingly pretending to pick cotton?!?

This was in the late '90s - and no, not black students...everything about it was offensive.

“Well mannered gentleman” LOL

[Anonymous]

Not so long ago some of the Greek organizations still held “The South will rise again” parties with the boys in Confederate grey and the girls dressed as belles. International students were largely ignored and thought of as weirdos and not an integrated part of the social scene, unlike the schools in the Northeast. I think it will feel
pretty conservative to OP’s son.

[Anonymous]

Such wild trafficking in stereotypes.

We actually have much better race relations in the south than in the north.

And most of these racist fantasies are old wives tales passed on from the days of the great migration.

It’s a new south, and it’s tolerant and happy. Suck on that yankee!

[Anonymous]

Anything written here remotely in favor of W&L and not entirely woke and conservative bashing will be deleted.

FYI are people out there who have good W&L experiences and are not racist as you all assume. They just can’t voice it here.

W&L is a good school with a good community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anything written here remotely in favor of W&L and not entirely woke and conservative bashing will be deleted.

FYI are people out there who have good W&L experiences and are not racist as you all assume. They just can’t voice it here.

W&L is a good school with a good community.

+1

I have a URM student there. Treated exceptionally well at W&L without any issues. He's safer there than if matriculating at U of Chicago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anything written here remotely in favor of W&L and not entirely woke and conservative bashing will be deleted.

FYI are people out there who have good W&L experiences and are not racist as you all assume. They just can’t voice it here.

W&L is a good school with a good community.

+1

A lot of the comments about W&L on here are really wild. A school that has a student body that is 50% Democrats and a very liberal faculty is somehow a hot bed a far right conservatism and full of racists?