Potomac Schools new 70 million dollar gym

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Anonymous wrote:70 million. seriously? To play in the MAC?
Could some of that money I’ve been used for teacher salaries or tuition?

50 million. Not that it really matters.

Ande yes, although they are pretty good to their teachers. The school is very well run.

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Anonymous wrote:Eww...the poster makes Potomac sound like southern Republicans. Ewww. just ewww. I prefer to be liberal any day.

It kind of is.

It is VA after all. The confederacy lives in southern states. It does sound bad. How do black kids stand it there?

the seat of the confederacy may have been in Virginia, but Dc and Maryland are the south too

VA is STILL the seat of the confederacy (hello Monument Avenue).

DC was ALWAYS a Union “state,” and Maryland was a border state that fought mostly for the Union during the Civil War. Neither place is southern in the sense that VA is (as well as the rest of the south). However, racists and lost cause sympathizers can be found anywhere.

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That’s crazy and they are not known as a good sports school at all

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$43 million actually and it is something the parents have been asking for a decade or more. The school was beginning to lose current students and new recruits because things like girls volleyball conflict with basketball space, as only one example. And it's a 90 acre campus so building has been relatively modest give the potential use of space.

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Anonymous wrote:That’s crazy and they are not known as a good sports school at all

Well, that all depends on who you are talking to. Its one of the oddities of Potomac - some folks think its totally sporty and others think its not good for sports at all. As a parent with kids who play sports outside of school and with kids at Potomac and other DC area privates, I can tell you it falls in the middle of the spectrum. Its "sportier" than GDS or Sidwell but not as sporty as SSSAS or Landon.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it is awesome when they do this stuff, they don't just do it for athletics but for science labs etc.

when did this ever happen?

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Anonymous wrote:70 million. seriously? To play in the MAC?
Could some of that money I’ve been used for teacher salaries or tuition?

I laughed out loud. Thank you.

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Anonymous wrote:Eww...the poster makes Potomac sound like southern Republicans. Ewww. just ewww. I prefer to be liberal any day.

It kind of is.

Is Potomac where the Alt Right and the Proud Boys in the Washington area send their kids?

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Anonymous wrote:Not surprising. Have you ever been to their auction? Whole tables of parents will each give $10k on a whim.

As a parent considering the school, would you say that those who cannot do this are left out socially or otherwise? I mean, we would be full pay, but really just barely. There is no way we'd be throwing $10k around.

Not that I'm well versed in typical construction costs around here, but $70m seems an awful lot for a gym.

You'll be fine. For every Ted Leonsis - whom I have come across in work, charity events and their lovely children - there are families like you.

I am grateful for the donors - heavy hitters in tech, A&D, investment mgmt. Wouldn't blink to invite them over to my tiny colonial (except they are very busy working, running companies).

Great school, work hard culture, open minded, sweet kids. I guess in contrast to some of the DC super liberal schools with a preference for the community activist and academic elite, here you just might get a dose of capitalism and entrepreneurialism. (GASP!)

And it's lovely to see that parents too are so "open-minded" and non-judgmental!

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Anonymous wrote:Eww...the poster makes Potomac sound like southern Republicans. Ewww. just ewww. I prefer to be liberal any day.

It kind of is.

It is VA after all. The confederacy lives in southern states. It does sound bad. How do black kids stand it there?

the seat of the confederacy may have been in Virginia, but Dc and Maryland are the south too

VA is STILL the seat of the confederacy (hello Monument Avenue).

DC was ALWAYS a Union “state,” and Maryland was a border state that fought mostly for the Union during the Civil War. Neither place is southern in the sense that VA is (as well as the rest of the south). However, racists and lost cause sympathizers can be found anywhere.

If you think that NOVA is a hotbed of confederate sympathy, well...

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What part of Virginia is Georgetown Prep in?

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I don't think this sort of resource allocation sends a good message to kids. Frankly, I think it's obscene.

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I don't think this sort of resource allocation sends a good message to kids. Frankly, I think it's obscene.

Yes how dare wealthy people donate money to a private school. Outrageous.

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I don't think this sort of resource allocation sends a good message to kids. Frankly, I think it's obscene.

Yes how dare wealthy people donate money to a private school. Outrageous.

I think it's GREAT people donate. And I respect the right of people to do what they want to with their money.

But I don't like the message this sort of spending on a gym facility sends to kids.

There are a lot of things I could objectively afford to provide to my kids that I don't provide because I don't think it sends the right message about how resources should be used.

So, I can afford to buy each of my kids a BMW for their first car. I don't think that's a good way to spend money, or a good message to send.

I am not on a crusade against schools that do this, but I question the judgement of educators who make these decisions.

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I don't think this sort of resource allocation sends a good message to kids. Frankly, I think it's obscene.

Yes how dare wealthy people donate money to a private school. Outrageous.

just goes to show that everyone shouldn’t be thinking