NPS vs St Pats

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because you lean conservative let me share this: We asked St. Pat’s whether they were teaching anything about gender theory before we enrolled. The administration said no, although they mentioned students might hear about it from other children. We felt that was fair and decided to enroll our child.

However, we later noticed that many of the teachers seemed very liberal, and we found books like Julian Is a Mermaid in the classroom, along with others I don’t recall. Because of this, we decided to withdraw our child from the school and went to a Catholic school.

“If you’re vapid and you know it snort some coke!” *clap clap*

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because you lean conservative let me share this: We asked St. Pat’s whether they were teaching anything about gender theory before we enrolled. The administration said no, although they mentioned students might hear about it from other children. We felt that was fair and decided to enroll our child.

However, we later noticed that many of the teachers seemed very liberal, and we found books like Julian Is a Mermaid in the classroom, along with others I don’t recall. Because of this, we decided to withdraw our child from the school and went to a Catholic school.

“If you’re vapid and you know it snort some coke!” *clap clap*

Hey teen! Go back to school! Nobody cares about your opinion!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Very happy liberal NPS family here. Kids have thrived, and grateful for the amazing faculty and staff that make my children feel known and supported.

First time heard NPS being liberal. As is well known in DC, NW is NOT as liberal as some of the other schools.

Noone said NPS was liberal. Our family is. Two different things.

Ours too!

NPS is much less conservative than it used to be, imo. It tends to be very neutral in most areas, for better or for worse. I have found most families to be warm and welcoming. You’ll find pockets of less down to earth folks, but hey—it’s a private school in DC

NPS is swinging toward woke. Now they include a land acknowledgement in their all school assemblies -- a wasted minute, at best, since they study the settlement of north America in their social studies classes. And the head of school has begun to sign his messages with "he/him". Just when woke is becoming passé.

When we first visited the school several years ago we heard a classroom of first graders singing "It's A Grand Old Flag".

Oh no, you read pronouns!! Don’t worry, you can still sing patriotic songs around the piano at home in your silk flag pajamas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because you lean conservative let me share this: We asked St. Pat’s whether they were teaching anything about gender theory before we enrolled. The administration said no, although they mentioned students might hear about it from other children. We felt that was fair and decided to enroll our child.

However, we later noticed that many of the teachers seemed very liberal, and we found books like Julian Is a Mermaid in the classroom, along with others I don’t recall. Because of this, we decided to withdraw our child from the school and went to a Catholic school.

I send my kids to a Catholic school and lean far left, including on gender issues. I don’t personally subscribe to much of what the school pronounces, but have no problem with my kids being exposed to it. They can enter the priesthood for all I care. I like the school because they do a damn good job teaching the basis and feed into excellent Catholic high schools. Then again, I grew up poor and went to crappy schools, so don’t really have much mental bandwidth to concern myself with the silly books in the library.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NPS - read up on its philosophy regarding the Decade of Childhood and preserving/protecting the precious childhood years.

This is laughable. They don’t know how to implement that philosophy. Many teachers focus on punishment v. discipline and seem to have forgotten that boys learn differently from girls. Any elementary school that takes away recess from kids for alleged “behavior” issues doesn’t understand child development. Our brief time there was not joyous and sucked the life out of our child.

[Anonymous]

A vote for NPS

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If you’re eyeing St. Patrick’s or NPS, newsflash: you’re not a liberal or a progressive. You’re wealthy, and you're leveraging your privilege for the benefit of your offsping. That you parrot lofty concerns about social justice, the marginalized, or the downtrodden doesn’t make you a better person - it just makes you a well-meaning member of the bourgeoisie, which, spoiler alert, is the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you’re eyeing St. Patrick’s or NPS, newsflash: you’re not a liberal or a progressive. You’re wealthy, and you're leveraging your privilege for the benefit of your offsping. That you parrot lofty concerns about social justice, the marginalized, or the downtrodden doesn’t make you a better person - it just makes you a well-meaning member of the bourgeoisie, which, spoiler alert, is the problem.

Yeah, I don’t think anyone would even deny that now.

[Anonymous]

To answer the actual question, NPS has my vote

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+1

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NPS. My kid is in HS and announcing they would send their (one day maybe) kid there. So.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NPS. My kid is in HS and announcing they would send their (one day maybe) kid there. So.

Why?

[Anonymous]

Completely agree. Our children were there for several years and we left after many disappointments. The decade of child is just marketing nonsense. Academically very weak and I’m hearing from my kids peers entering their outplacement schools far behind of where they should be and requiring tutors. I’d stay far away from NPS.

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Anonymous wrote:NPS - read up on its philosophy regarding the Decade of Childhood and preserving/protecting the precious childhood years.

This is laughable. They don’t know how to implement that philosophy. Many teachers focus on punishment v. discipline and seem to have forgotten that boys learn differently from girls. Any elementary school that takes away recess from kids for alleged “behavior” issues doesn’t understand child development. Our brief time there was not joyous and sucked the life out of our child.

[Anonymous]

The thing here, and bear with me, is NPS is connected to the National Presbyterian Church. You can like pronouns all you want, but the church with which NPS shares building and funding teaches on Sunday there are two, God assigned genders. It’s not crazy to expect the school to do the same the HOS to knock this shit off.

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Anonymous wrote:Very happy liberal NPS family here. Kids have thrived, and grateful for the amazing faculty and staff that make my children feel known and supported.

First time heard NPS being liberal. As is well known in DC, NW is NOT as liberal as some of the other schools.

Noone said NPS was liberal. Our family is. Two different things.

Ours too!

NPS is much less conservative than it used to be, imo. It tends to be very neutral in most areas, for better or for worse. I have found most families to be warm and welcoming. You’ll find pockets of less down to earth folks, but hey—it’s a private school in DC

NPS is swinging toward woke. Now they include a land acknowledgement in their all school assemblies -- a wasted minute, at best, since they study the settlement of north America in their social studies classes. And the head of school has begun to sign his messages with "he/him". Just when woke is becoming passé.

When we first visited the school several years ago we heard a classroom of first graders singing "It's A Grand Old Flag".

Oh no, you read pronouns!! Don’t worry, you can still sing patriotic songs around the piano at home in your silk flag pajamas.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NPS. My kid is in HS and announcing they would send their (one day maybe) kid there. So.

Why?

She felt safe and good there. She would go back sometimes in the morning in higher grades to say hi to teachers in former grades. Everyone took an interest the whole way through. Nps does a good job of creating that sense of belonging, but it's also like she felt like the school belonged to her as well . Good experience.