Is Bryn Mawr School still worth it?

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Anonymous wrote:You're the first person to ever compare Bryn Mawr to Tome. I can't imagine why anyone would look at both schools. If you're in Harford County, the only place where it might be feasible to be able to contemplate either school, there's Harford Day and John Carroll, which are more reliable options than Tome.

If the whole question of whether Bryn Mawr is "worth it" comes down to the schools' ideological stance towards gender matters, then it is definitely on the progressive side. Bryn Mawr's kindness and tolerance is going to be other people's foolish enability and injustice against girls. Like everything else in modern society, the private schools are sorting out on either side of the fault lines and there are other private schools that take a more traditional approach to gender identities, whether directly or indirectly.

County privates tend to be more pragmatic than the city privates. Except Park. You have plenty of options in the Baltimore area, minus Oldfields.

Yes, Harford County. Since you are familiar - Why do you feel Harford Day/John Carroll are better options than Tome? Out of those three, I've heard the most positive things from Tome. The reason we are looking at Tome and Bryn Mawr is simply that we're still early in this process and the financial side of things isn't really a major hurdle one way or the other.

John Carroll is a great school if you want you kid to have a drug problem.

Bryn Mawr is barely in the city. It sit at the edge of Roland Park, the county side. easily accessible from points north of town.


Which is said about every school, public or private.

If finances aren't an issue for OP, then the difference between Tome and a full fledged private like Bryn Mawr is going to be staggering. Quality of facilities, instruction, student body, the overall campus atmosphere. You'd want to visit all the schools and see for yourself.

Commuting from Harford to the Baltimore area schools is going to be rough. It's possible McDonogh may run a bus out to Harford. I'd also look at the Saint Pauls schools as they're right off the beltway. If you can't move closer in, then I'd probably look closely at Harford Day as a long established option that has sent graduates to the Baltimore area schools for HS. I know very little about Tome other than it is a resurrection of a much older boarding school that closed during the Depression. The only connection is the name.

There's a bus at the Fallston Park and Ride that goes to the city privates. I personally would worry about sending my young children on a 45 minute bus ride into Baltimore City. I mean, I assume they take good care of the kids and all, but jeez.

Is this a joke? Have you never been to the North Baltimore private schools? The biggest danger is your kid being run over by a Mercedes suv.

Roland Park et al are not even remotely safe areas. Those campuses are not exactly locked down either. I don't know where exactly the bus drop off would be, but you have a strange sense of what is safe if those areas seem ok to you. Especially in 2023.

You are either a troll or certifiably insane. Maybe both.

For those who re rational, the bus drops off the students at each school, as one would expect.

Haha every Baltimore thread we have you nutters come out of the woodwork and insist the city is safe. Last time I remember someone posted current footage in real time of drug addicts and homeless on the street perpendicular to Bryn Mawr

Definitely going with a troll.

Yeah, because everyone knows Baltimore is super safe. That's for sure the common wisdom. And the criminal stats support your case too! You're definitely not engaged in willful self deceit.

I love walking along Northern Parkway at night with the kids!

I know people who live on Northern Parkway a few blocks from Bryn Mawr. I have no idea what you're trying to allege. Actually, I do, but it makes no sense and only shows that you know nothing about Baltimore.

I live in the burbs and very cognizant of the many problems plaguing Baltimore but your ranting posts about lack of safety around Bryn Mawr is ridiculous. The North Baltimore neighborhoods surrounding the campus are handsome, safe, and lovely.

I live in the burbs too, but when I went to a gilman football game last fall, there were 100% drug addicts from the street in attendance. They just walked in and stood at the fence around the field to watch and cheer for the game. I know and respect all these schools, but there isn't a moat separating you from the rest of the city or anything. You have to be aware and conscious of that.

Obviously this never happened. But even if it did, what’s your problem with drug addicts having a good time at a football game like anyone else?

The only crime taking place on Roland Avenue is the price gouging that Eddie’s engages in

I kind of low-key want to meet this person who wouldn't be bothered by a manic drug addict shouting in the end zone at a Gilman football game and who thinks there is no crime in the 21210 or 21212. Is this the same person who takes leisure walks up and down the cesspool that is Northern Parkway? If so, I have a bridge I want to sell you ...
and as I said before, I have a lot of respect for these schools, but these areas of Baltimore are crime prone in a way that neighborhoods even two miles north of there are not. And I say this as a resident, someone who loves the architecture, a runner who routinely traverses the many roads of the city, is raising their children here, blah blah. I don't live my life in fear, but I have a normal and healthy respect for the criminals and the insane drivers on Northern Parkway.

Part of me says I shouldn't bother responding but another part of me is rather insulted by the denialism of these types of post. I live in the county. Two miles north of Bryn Mawr sounds about right. Do you know what the NextDoor hysteria is all about these days? Crime in Towson. Remember the shootings in central Towson by the mall about a month ago? Or mass youth gatherings? I see panhandlers and aggressive driving all around Towson and people running red lights.

Of course I know about the level of city crime and the problematic demographics but a lot of that is appearing on the county side with the rapid decline of Parkville and Loch Raven. As for boasting about "no crime near me" the only way that is possible is if you live deep, deep in rural areas. There's definitely petty crime all up and down York Road, as you find anywhere where there's large numbers of people. You worry about drug addicts. Well, the County has plenty of them. There's homeless beggars and zonked out druggies in Towson hanging around York Road and the courthouse. I see them all the time whenever I go to the Whole Foods or cut through Towson. Then trying to make a statement about the "speedway" along Northern Parkway outside Bryn Mawr is plain silly, especially with the aggressive speed cameras and multiple traffic lights installed between Falls and York.

Baltimore isn't perfect. No place is. But North Baltimore isn't West Baltimore or even Patterson Park. The hysteria in your posts is misplaced, misleading and insulting.

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Anonymous wrote:You're the first person to ever compare Bryn Mawr to Tome. I can't imagine why anyone would look at both schools. If you're in Harford County, the only place where it might be feasible to be able to contemplate either school, there's Harford Day and John Carroll, which are more reliable options than Tome.

If the whole question of whether Bryn Mawr is "worth it" comes down to the schools' ideological stance towards gender matters, then it is definitely on the progressive side. Bryn Mawr's kindness and tolerance is going to be other people's foolish enability and injustice against girls. Like everything else in modern society, the private schools are sorting out on either side of the fault lines and there are other private schools that take a more traditional approach to gender identities, whether directly or indirectly.

County privates tend to be more pragmatic than the city privates. Except Park. You have plenty of options in the Baltimore area, minus Oldfields.

Yes, Harford County. Since you are familiar - Why do you feel Harford Day/John Carroll are better options than Tome? Out of those three, I've heard the most positive things from Tome. The reason we are looking at Tome and Bryn Mawr is simply that we're still early in this process and the financial side of things isn't really a major hurdle one way or the other.

John Carroll is a great school if you want you kid to have a drug problem.

Bryn Mawr is barely in the city. It sit at the edge of Roland Park, the county side. easily accessible from points north of town.


Which is said about every school, public or private.

If finances aren't an issue for OP, then the difference between Tome and a full fledged private like Bryn Mawr is going to be staggering. Quality of facilities, instruction, student body, the overall campus atmosphere. You'd want to visit all the schools and see for yourself.

Commuting from Harford to the Baltimore area schools is going to be rough. It's possible McDonogh may run a bus out to Harford. I'd also look at the Saint Pauls schools as they're right off the beltway. If you can't move closer in, then I'd probably look closely at Harford Day as a long established option that has sent graduates to the Baltimore area schools for HS. I know very little about Tome other than it is a resurrection of a much older boarding school that closed during the Depression. The only connection is the name.

There's a bus at the Fallston Park and Ride that goes to the city privates. I personally would worry about sending my young children on a 45 minute bus ride into Baltimore City. I mean, I assume they take good care of the kids and all, but jeez.

Is this a joke? Have you never been to the North Baltimore private schools? The biggest danger is your kid being run over by a Mercedes suv.

Roland Park et al are not even remotely safe areas. Those campuses are not exactly locked down either. I don't know where exactly the bus drop off would be, but you have a strange sense of what is safe if those areas seem ok to you. Especially in 2023.

You are either a troll or certifiably insane. Maybe both.

For those who re rational, the bus drops off the students at each school, as one would expect.

Haha every Baltimore thread we have you nutters come out of the woodwork and insist the city is safe. Last time I remember someone posted current footage in real time of drug addicts and homeless on the street perpendicular to Bryn Mawr

Definitely going with a troll.

Yeah, because everyone knows Baltimore is super safe. That's for sure the common wisdom. And the criminal stats support your case too! You're definitely not engaged in willful self deceit.

I love walking along Northern Parkway at night with the kids!

I know people who live on Northern Parkway a few blocks from Bryn Mawr. I have no idea what you're trying to allege. Actually, I do, but it makes no sense and only shows that you know nothing about Baltimore.

I live in the burbs and very cognizant of the many problems plaguing Baltimore but your ranting posts about lack of safety around Bryn Mawr is ridiculous. The North Baltimore neighborhoods surrounding the campus are handsome, safe, and lovely.

I live in the burbs too, but when I went to a gilman football game last fall, there were 100% drug addicts from the street in attendance. They just walked in and stood at the fence around the field to watch and cheer for the game. I know and respect all these schools, but there isn't a moat separating you from the rest of the city or anything. You have to be aware and conscious of that.

Obviously this never happened. But even if it did, what’s your problem with drug addicts having a good time at a football game like anyone else?

The only crime taking place on Roland Avenue is the price gouging that Eddie’s engages in

I kind of low-key want to meet this person who wouldn't be bothered by a manic drug addict shouting in the end zone at a Gilman football game and who thinks there is no crime in the 21210 or 21212. Is this the same person who takes leisure walks up and down the cesspool that is Northern Parkway? If so, I have a bridge I want to sell you ...
and as I said before, I have a lot of respect for these schools, but these areas of Baltimore are crime prone in a way that neighborhoods even two miles north of there are not. And I say this as a resident, someone who loves the architecture, a runner who routinely traverses the many roads of the city, is raising their children here, blah blah. I don't live my life in fear, but I have a normal and healthy respect for the criminals and the insane drivers on Northern Parkway.

Part of me says I shouldn't bother responding but another part of me is rather insulted by the denialism of these types of post. I live in the county. Two miles north of Bryn Mawr sounds about right. Do you know what the NextDoor hysteria is all about these days? Crime in Towson. Remember the shootings in central Towson by the mall about a month ago? Or mass youth gatherings? I see panhandlers and aggressive driving all around Towson and people running red lights.

Of course I know about the level of city crime and the problematic demographics but a lot of that is appearing on the county side with the rapid decline of Parkville and Loch Raven. As for boasting about "no crime near me" the only way that is possible is if you live deep, deep in rural areas. There's definitely petty crime all up and down York Road, as you find anywhere where there's large numbers of people. You worry about drug addicts. Well, the County has plenty of them. There's homeless beggars and zonked out druggies in Towson hanging around York Road and the courthouse. I see them all the time whenever I go to the Whole Foods or cut through Towson. Then trying to make a statement about the "speedway" along Northern Parkway outside Bryn Mawr is plain silly, especially with the aggressive speed cameras and multiple traffic lights installed between Falls and York.

Baltimore isn't perfect. No place is. But North Baltimore isn't West Baltimore or even Patterson Park. The hysteria in your posts is misplaced, misleading and insulting.

Are you seriously trying to defend Roland Park by comparing it to Baltimore County? No one said the county wasn't a crime ridden pile of garbage. The fact that that is your only frame of reference speaks volumes. Newsflash, the whole city/county area is awful. The quality of the area and the level of crime is in a different universe from NoVA areas like Mclean or Vienna, or even parts of DC itself. And Harford County is a different planet.

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Anonymous wrote:You're the first person to ever compare Bryn Mawr to Tome. I can't imagine why anyone would look at both schools. If you're in Harford County, the only place where it might be feasible to be able to contemplate either school, there's Harford Day and John Carroll, which are more reliable options than Tome.

If the whole question of whether Bryn Mawr is "worth it" comes down to the schools' ideological stance towards gender matters, then it is definitely on the progressive side. Bryn Mawr's kindness and tolerance is going to be other people's foolish enability and injustice against girls. Like everything else in modern society, the private schools are sorting out on either side of the fault lines and there are other private schools that take a more traditional approach to gender identities, whether directly or indirectly.

County privates tend to be more pragmatic than the city privates. Except Park. You have plenty of options in the Baltimore area, minus Oldfields.

Yes, Harford County. Since you are familiar - Why do you feel Harford Day/John Carroll are better options than Tome? Out of those three, I've heard the most positive things from Tome. The reason we are looking at Tome and Bryn Mawr is simply that we're still early in this process and the financial side of things isn't really a major hurdle one way or the other.

John Carroll is a great school if you want you kid to have a drug problem.

Which is said about every school, public or private.

If finances aren't an issue for OP, then the difference between Tome and a full fledged private like Bryn Mawr is going to be staggering. Quality of facilities, instruction, student body, the overall campus atmosphere. You'd want to visit all the schools and see for yourself.

Commuting from Harford to the Baltimore area schools is going to be rough. It's possible McDonogh may run a bus out to Harford. I'd also look at the Saint Pauls schools as they're right off the beltway. If you can't move closer in, then I'd probably look closely at Harford Day as a long established option that has sent graduates to the Baltimore area schools for HS. I know very little about Tome other than it is a resurrection of a much older boarding school that closed during the Depression. The only connection is the name.

There's a bus at the Fallston Park and Ride that goes to the city privates. I personally would worry about sending my young children on a 45 minute bus ride into Baltimore City. I mean, I assume they take good care of the kids and all, but jeez.

Bryn Mawr is literally walking distance from the city-county line.

I'm looking at their bus route as I type this, and from the Fallston stop to Bryn Mawr is 43 minutes per the bus company. Fallston is Harford, not Baltimore County. Although it's right on the line.

It's a bit of a stretch. At least for young kids. I'm thinking about my 3 year old for kindergarten. That's an awfully long commute for her everyday. And depending on the age of the kids she's riding with, I could see that being not great, e.g., a bunch of 15 year olds talking about sex or something. I assume that all ages and all the schools are packed into one bus since there aren't as many people coming from my area.

I'd really like to make Bryn Mawr work, but it might not make sense until my daughters are a bit older. Maybe at like age 8? I don't know how other parents would feel about this. Im just thinking kindergarten and a 45 minute bus ride 2x daily wouldn't work.

No school is worth that kind of commute. If you want to send your kid to a Baltimore school you should move, or stay where you are and stick to a Harford Co school. It's not as good, but so what. There are many factors that lead to success, school is just one of them.

OP again, yeah this is kind of where my head is at. Hence, Tome School. It's not comparable to Baltimore independents, but they just aren't really feasible. If my choice is the local public schools or a no name but pleasant private school, I guess I'm choosing the latter. The public schools here get worse every year.

Also, if I'm being honest, if I were to move, it probably wouldn't be to Baltimore to pay 40k/year tuition. I'd just move north to the Unionville area, which has one of the best school districts in the country.

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Anonymous wrote:So sad to live your life with such a consuming level of fear.

I had a girlfriend who went to Loyola who felt like that. She was held at knife point on the campus there in the nice part of Baltimore. The was almost 2 decades ago. I can't imagine it's gotten better since then. But yeah, you're probably right. The crime statistics are probably lying. Racist cops and all that. That's why real estate is moving so fast in the area...

Yes it has. That neighborhood has improved significantly.

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Anonymous wrote:You're the first person to ever compare Bryn Mawr to Tome. I can't imagine why anyone would look at both schools. If you're in Harford County, the only place where it might be feasible to be able to contemplate either school, there's Harford Day and John Carroll, which are more reliable options than Tome.

If the whole question of whether Bryn Mawr is "worth it" comes down to the schools' ideological stance towards gender matters, then it is definitely on the progressive side. Bryn Mawr's kindness and tolerance is going to be other people's foolish enability and injustice against girls. Like everything else in modern society, the private schools are sorting out on either side of the fault lines and there are other private schools that take a more traditional approach to gender identities, whether directly or indirectly.

County privates tend to be more pragmatic than the city privates. Except Park. You have plenty of options in the Baltimore area, minus Oldfields.

Yes, Harford County. Since you are familiar - Why do you feel Harford Day/John Carroll are better options than Tome? Out of those three, I've heard the most positive things from Tome. The reason we are looking at Tome and Bryn Mawr is simply that we're still early in this process and the financial side of things isn't really a major hurdle one way or the other.

John Carroll is a great school if you want you kid to have a drug problem.

Bryn Mawr is barely in the city. It sit at the edge of Roland Park, the county side. easily accessible from points north of town.


Which is said about every school, public or private.

If finances aren't an issue for OP, then the difference between Tome and a full fledged private like Bryn Mawr is going to be staggering. Quality of facilities, instruction, student body, the overall campus atmosphere. You'd want to visit all the schools and see for yourself.

Commuting from Harford to the Baltimore area schools is going to be rough. It's possible McDonogh may run a bus out to Harford. I'd also look at the Saint Pauls schools as they're right off the beltway. If you can't move closer in, then I'd probably look closely at Harford Day as a long established option that has sent graduates to the Baltimore area schools for HS. I know very little about Tome other than it is a resurrection of a much older boarding school that closed during the Depression. The only connection is the name.

There's a bus at the Fallston Park and Ride that goes to the city privates. I personally would worry about sending my young children on a 45 minute bus ride into Baltimore City. I mean, I assume they take good care of the kids and all, but jeez.

Is this a joke? Have you never been to the North Baltimore private schools? The biggest danger is your kid being run over by a Mercedes suv.

Roland Park et al are not even remotely safe areas. Those campuses are not exactly locked down either. I don't know where exactly the bus drop off would be, but you have a strange sense of what is safe if those areas seem ok to you. Especially in 2023.

You are either a troll or certifiably insane. Maybe both.

For those who re rational, the bus drops off the students at each school, as one would expect.

Haha every Baltimore thread we have you nutters come out of the woodwork and insist the city is safe. Last time I remember someone posted current footage in real time of drug addicts and homeless on the street perpendicular to Bryn Mawr

Definitely going with a troll.

Yeah, because everyone knows Baltimore is super safe. That's for sure the common wisdom. And the criminal stats support your case too! You're definitely not engaged in willful self deceit.

I love walking along Northern Parkway at night with the kids!

I know people who live on Northern Parkway a few blocks from Bryn Mawr. I have no idea what you're trying to allege. Actually, I do, but it makes no sense and only shows that you know nothing about Baltimore.

I live in the burbs and very cognizant of the many problems plaguing Baltimore but your ranting posts about lack of safety around Bryn Mawr is ridiculous. The North Baltimore neighborhoods surrounding the campus are handsome, safe, and lovely.

I live in the burbs too, but when I went to a gilman football game last fall, there were 100% drug addicts from the street in attendance. They just walked in and stood at the fence around the field to watch and cheer for the game. I know and respect all these schools, but there isn't a moat separating you from the rest of the city or anything. You have to be aware and conscious of that.

Obviously this never happened. But even if it did, what’s your problem with drug addicts having a good time at a football game like anyone else?

The only crime taking place on Roland Avenue is the price gouging that Eddie’s engages in

I kind of low-key want to meet this person who wouldn't be bothered by a manic drug addict shouting in the end zone at a Gilman football game and who thinks there is no crime in the 21210 or 21212. Is this the same person who takes leisure walks up and down the cesspool that is Northern Parkway? If so, I have a bridge I want to sell you ...
and as I said before, I have a lot of respect for these schools, but these areas of Baltimore are crime prone in a way that neighborhoods even two miles north of there are not. And I say this as a resident, someone who loves the architecture, a runner who routinely traverses the many roads of the city, is raising their children here, blah blah. I don't live my life in fear, but I have a normal and healthy respect for the criminals and the insane drivers on Northern Parkway.

Part of me says I shouldn't bother responding but another part of me is rather insulted by the denialism of these types of post. I live in the county. Two miles north of Bryn Mawr sounds about right. Do you know what the NextDoor hysteria is all about these days? Crime in Towson. Remember the shootings in central Towson by the mall about a month ago? Or mass youth gatherings? I see panhandlers and aggressive driving all around Towson and people running red lights.

Of course I know about the level of city crime and the problematic demographics but a lot of that is appearing on the county side with the rapid decline of Parkville and Loch Raven. As for boasting about "no crime near me" the only way that is possible is if you live deep, deep in rural areas. There's definitely petty crime all up and down York Road, as you find anywhere where there's large numbers of people. You worry about drug addicts. Well, the County has plenty of them. There's homeless beggars and zonked out druggies in Towson hanging around York Road and the courthouse. I see them all the time whenever I go to the Whole Foods or cut through Towson. Then trying to make a statement about the "speedway" along Northern Parkway outside Bryn Mawr is plain silly, especially with the aggressive speed cameras and multiple traffic lights installed between Falls and York.

Baltimore isn't perfect. No place is. But North Baltimore isn't West Baltimore or even Patterson Park. The hysteria in your posts is misplaced, misleading and insulting.

Are you seriously trying to defend Roland Park by comparing it to Baltimore County? No one said the county wasn't a crime ridden pile of garbage. The fact that that is your only frame of reference speaks volumes. Newsflash, the whole city/county area is awful. The quality of the area and the level of crime is in a different universe from NoVA areas like Mclean or Vienna, or even parts of DC itself. And Harford County is a different planet.

According to you some of the nicest and most expensive residential areas in the entire Baltimore metro area is a crime ridden wasteland.

We get it. I should get off this computer and back to real life and take my dog for a walk in this crime ridden drugged out wasteland populated by druggies. Should I take my bullet proof vest with me? And the pepper mace?

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Anonymous wrote:You're the first person to ever compare Bryn Mawr to Tome. I can't imagine why anyone would look at both schools. If you're in Harford County, the only place where it might be feasible to be able to contemplate either school, there's Harford Day and John Carroll, which are more reliable options than Tome.

If the whole question of whether Bryn Mawr is "worth it" comes down to the schools' ideological stance towards gender matters, then it is definitely on the progressive side. Bryn Mawr's kindness and tolerance is going to be other people's foolish enability and injustice against girls. Like everything else in modern society, the private schools are sorting out on either side of the fault lines and there are other private schools that take a more traditional approach to gender identities, whether directly or indirectly.

County privates tend to be more pragmatic than the city privates. Except Park. You have plenty of options in the Baltimore area, minus Oldfields.

Yes, Harford County. Since you are familiar - Why do you feel Harford Day/John Carroll are better options than Tome? Out of those three, I've heard the most positive things from Tome. The reason we are looking at Tome and Bryn Mawr is simply that we're still early in this process and the financial side of things isn't really a major hurdle one way or the other.

John Carroll is a great school if you want you kid to have a drug problem.

Bryn Mawr is barely in the city. It sit at the edge of Roland Park, the county side. easily accessible from points north of town.


Which is said about every school, public or private.

If finances aren't an issue for OP, then the difference between Tome and a full fledged private like Bryn Mawr is going to be staggering. Quality of facilities, instruction, student body, the overall campus atmosphere. You'd want to visit all the schools and see for yourself.

Commuting from Harford to the Baltimore area schools is going to be rough. It's possible McDonogh may run a bus out to Harford. I'd also look at the Saint Pauls schools as they're right off the beltway. If you can't move closer in, then I'd probably look closely at Harford Day as a long established option that has sent graduates to the Baltimore area schools for HS. I know very little about Tome other than it is a resurrection of a much older boarding school that closed during the Depression. The only connection is the name.

There's a bus at the Fallston Park and Ride that goes to the city privates. I personally would worry about sending my young children on a 45 minute bus ride into Baltimore City. I mean, I assume they take good care of the kids and all, but jeez.

Is this a joke? Have you never been to the North Baltimore private schools? The biggest danger is your kid being run over by a Mercedes suv.

Roland Park et al are not even remotely safe areas. Those campuses are not exactly locked down either. I don't know where exactly the bus drop off would be, but you have a strange sense of what is safe if those areas seem ok to you. Especially in 2023.

You are either a troll or certifiably insane. Maybe both.

For those who re rational, the bus drops off the students at each school, as one would expect.

Haha every Baltimore thread we have you nutters come out of the woodwork and insist the city is safe. Last time I remember someone posted current footage in real time of drug addicts and homeless on the street perpendicular to Bryn Mawr

Definitely going with a troll.

Yeah, because everyone knows Baltimore is super safe. That's for sure the common wisdom. And the criminal stats support your case too! You're definitely not engaged in willful self deceit.

I love walking along Northern Parkway at night with the kids!

I know people who live on Northern Parkway a few blocks from Bryn Mawr. I have no idea what you're trying to allege. Actually, I do, but it makes no sense and only shows that you know nothing about Baltimore.

I live in the burbs and very cognizant of the many problems plaguing Baltimore but your ranting posts about lack of safety around Bryn Mawr is ridiculous. The North Baltimore neighborhoods surrounding the campus are handsome, safe, and lovely.

I live in the burbs too, but when I went to a gilman football game last fall, there were 100% drug addicts from the street in attendance. They just walked in and stood at the fence around the field to watch and cheer for the game. I know and respect all these schools, but there isn't a moat separating you from the rest of the city or anything. You have to be aware and conscious of that.

Obviously this never happened. But even if it did, what’s your problem with drug addicts having a good time at a football game like anyone else?

The only crime taking place on Roland Avenue is the price gouging that Eddie’s engages in

I kind of low-key want to meet this person who wouldn't be bothered by a manic drug addict shouting in the end zone at a Gilman football game and who thinks there is no crime in the 21210 or 21212. Is this the same person who takes leisure walks up and down the cesspool that is Northern Parkway? If so, I have a bridge I want to sell you ...
and as I said before, I have a lot of respect for these schools, but these areas of Baltimore are crime prone in a way that neighborhoods even two miles north of there are not. And I say this as a resident, someone who loves the architecture, a runner who routinely traverses the many roads of the city, is raising their children here, blah blah. I don't live my life in fear, but I have a normal and healthy respect for the criminals and the insane drivers on Northern Parkway.

Part of me says I shouldn't bother responding but another part of me is rather insulted by the denialism of these types of post. I live in the county. Two miles north of Bryn Mawr sounds about right. Do you know what the NextDoor hysteria is all about these days? Crime in Towson. Remember the shootings in central Towson by the mall about a month ago? Or mass youth gatherings? I see panhandlers and aggressive driving all around Towson and people running red lights.

Of course I know about the level of city crime and the problematic demographics but a lot of that is appearing on the county side with the rapid decline of Parkville and Loch Raven. As for boasting about "no crime near me" the only way that is possible is if you live deep, deep in rural areas. There's definitely petty crime all up and down York Road, as you find anywhere where there's large numbers of people. You worry about drug addicts. Well, the County has plenty of them. There's homeless beggars and zonked out druggies in Towson hanging around York Road and the courthouse. I see them all the time whenever I go to the Whole Foods or cut through Towson. Then trying to make a statement about the "speedway" along Northern Parkway outside Bryn Mawr is plain silly, especially with the aggressive speed cameras and multiple traffic lights installed between Falls and York.

Baltimore isn't perfect. No place is. But North Baltimore isn't West Baltimore or even Patterson Park. The hysteria in your posts is misplaced, misleading and insulting.

Are you seriously trying to defend Roland Park by comparing it to Baltimore County? No one said the county wasn't a crime ridden pile of garbage. The fact that that is your only frame of reference speaks volumes. Newsflash, the whole city/county area is awful. The quality of the area and the level of crime is in a different universe from NoVA areas like Mclean or Vienna, or even parts of DC itself. And Harford County is a different planet.

According to you some of the nicest and most expensive residential areas in the entire Baltimore metro area is a crime ridden wasteland.

We get it. I should get off this computer and back to real life and take my dog for a walk in this crime ridden drugged out wasteland populated by druggies. Should I take my bullet proof vest with me? And the pepper mace?

I still have the crime map up in a tab. So many reported assaults and car break ins that they overlap with each other. I get that you think it's so safe or whatever, what I don't understand is ragging on OP for daring to live in the suburbs instead. Is this a misery loves company thing? How do you derive a sense of superiority from mocking people who simply choose not to live around crime? Why is tolerance of criminal activity around you a virtue?

I lived in Baltimore on Maryland and 26th for a long time in my early 20s. I wasn't scared there either. Still wouldn't raise my kids there.

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Anonymous wrote:OP - pls check out McDonogh and also Bryn Mawr - kangaroo coach provides bus service to Roland park privates so it may be doable. Both schools do an excellent job preparing kids for college and beyond.

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I do plan on contacting McDonogh about their bus routes. I think that's a great suggestion. They don't have any stops in Harford Co, but I'm assuming there are stops pretty close to the line in Balt Co, so it could possibly work.

I guess my main hang up at the moment is whether a long bus ride for a 5 year old is feasible. If my kids are OK with it, either school could work. I'm not averse to it per se, I just don't know if I'm putting too much on them.

Regardless, a stop in Baltimore County going to McDonogh would be under 30 minutes.. I think?

The Mcdonogh buses make multiple stops, I would expect an hour door to door minimum, given how far you are.

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If the whole question of whether Bryn Mawr is "worth it" comes down to the schools' ideological stance towards gender matters, then it is definitely on the progressive side. Bryn Mawr's kindness and tolerance is going to be other people's foolish enability and injustice against girls. Like everything else in modern society, the private schools are sorting out on either side of the fault lines and there are other private schools that take a more traditional approach to gender identities, whether directly or indirectly.

County privates tend to be more pragmatic than the city privates. Except Park. You have plenty of options in the Baltimore area, minus Oldfields.

Yes, Harford County. Since you are familiar - Why do you feel Harford Day/John Carroll are better options than Tome? Out of those three, I've heard the most positive things from Tome. The reason we are looking at Tome and Bryn Mawr is simply that we're still early in this process and the financial side of things isn't really a major hurdle one way or the other.

John Carroll is a great school if you want you kid to have a drug problem.

Bryn Mawr is barely in the city. It sit at the edge of Roland Park, the county side. easily accessible from points north of town.


Which is said about every school, public or private.

If finances aren't an issue for OP, then the difference between Tome and a full fledged private like Bryn Mawr is going to be staggering. Quality of facilities, instruction, student body, the overall campus atmosphere. You'd want to visit all the schools and see for yourself.

Commuting from Harford to the Baltimore area schools is going to be rough. It's possible McDonogh may run a bus out to Harford. I'd also look at the Saint Pauls schools as they're right off the beltway. If you can't move closer in, then I'd probably look closely at Harford Day as a long established option that has sent graduates to the Baltimore area schools for HS. I know very little about Tome other than it is a resurrection of a much older boarding school that closed during the Depression. The only connection is the name.

There's a bus at the Fallston Park and Ride that goes to the city privates. I personally would worry about sending my young children on a 45 minute bus ride into Baltimore City. I mean, I assume they take good care of the kids and all, but jeez.

Is this a joke? Have you never been to the North Baltimore private schools? The biggest danger is your kid being run over by a Mercedes suv.

Roland Park et al are not even remotely safe areas. Those campuses are not exactly locked down either. I don't know where exactly the bus drop off would be, but you have a strange sense of what is safe if those areas seem ok to you. Especially in 2023.

You are either a troll or certifiably insane. Maybe both.

For those who re rational, the bus drops off the students at each school, as one would expect.

Haha every Baltimore thread we have you nutters come out of the woodwork and insist the city is safe. Last time I remember someone posted current footage in real time of drug addicts and homeless on the street perpendicular to Bryn Mawr

Definitely going with a troll.

Yeah, because everyone knows Baltimore is super safe. That's for sure the common wisdom. And the criminal stats support your case too! You're definitely not engaged in willful self deceit.

I love walking along Northern Parkway at night with the kids!

I know people who live on Northern Parkway a few blocks from Bryn Mawr. I have no idea what you're trying to allege. Actually, I do, but it makes no sense and only shows that you know nothing about Baltimore.

I live in the burbs and very cognizant of the many problems plaguing Baltimore but your ranting posts about lack of safety around Bryn Mawr is ridiculous. The North Baltimore neighborhoods surrounding the campus are handsome, safe, and lovely.

I live in the burbs too, but when I went to a gilman football game last fall, there were 100% drug addicts from the street in attendance. They just walked in and stood at the fence around the field to watch and cheer for the game. I know and respect all these schools, but there isn't a moat separating you from the rest of the city or anything. You have to be aware and conscious of that.

Obviously this never happened. But even if it did, what’s your problem with drug addicts having a good time at a football game like anyone else?

The only crime taking place on Roland Avenue is the price gouging that Eddie’s engages in

I kind of low-key want to meet this person who wouldn't be bothered by a manic drug addict shouting in the end zone at a Gilman football game and who thinks there is no crime in the 21210 or 21212. Is this the same person who takes leisure walks up and down the cesspool that is Northern Parkway? If so, I have a bridge I want to sell you ...
and as I said before, I have a lot of respect for these schools, but these areas of Baltimore are crime prone in a way that neighborhoods even two miles north of there are not. And I say this as a resident, someone who loves the architecture, a runner who routinely traverses the many roads of the city, is raising their children here, blah blah. I don't live my life in fear, but I have a normal and healthy respect for the criminals and the insane drivers on Northern Parkway.

Part of me says I shouldn't bother responding but another part of me is rather insulted by the denialism of these types of post. I live in the county. Two miles north of Bryn Mawr sounds about right. Do you know what the NextDoor hysteria is all about these days? Crime in Towson. Remember the shootings in central Towson by the mall about a month ago? Or mass youth gatherings? I see panhandlers and aggressive driving all around Towson and people running red lights.

Of course I know about the level of city crime and the problematic demographics but a lot of that is appearing on the county side with the rapid decline of Parkville and Loch Raven. As for boasting about "no crime near me" the only way that is possible is if you live deep, deep in rural areas. There's definitely petty crime all up and down York Road, as you find anywhere where there's large numbers of people. You worry about drug addicts. Well, the County has plenty of them. There's homeless beggars and zonked out druggies in Towson hanging around York Road and the courthouse. I see them all the time whenever I go to the Whole Foods or cut through Towson. Then trying to make a statement about the "speedway" along Northern Parkway outside Bryn Mawr is plain silly, especially with the aggressive speed cameras and multiple traffic lights installed between Falls and York.

Baltimore isn't perfect. No place is. But North Baltimore isn't West Baltimore or even Patterson Park. The hysteria in your posts is misplaced, misleading and insulting.

Are you seriously trying to defend Roland Park by comparing it to Baltimore County? No one said the county wasn't a crime ridden pile of garbage. The fact that that is your only frame of reference speaks volumes. Newsflash, the whole city/county area is awful. The quality of the area and the level of crime is in a different universe from NoVA areas like Mclean or Vienna, or even parts of DC itself. And Harford County is a different planet.

According to you some of the nicest and most expensive residential areas in the entire Baltimore metro area is a crime ridden wasteland.

We get it. I should get off this computer and back to real life and take my dog for a walk in this crime ridden drugged out wasteland populated by druggies. Should I take my bullet proof vest with me? And the pepper mace?

I still have the crime map up in a tab. So many reported assaults and car break ins that they overlap with each other. I get that you think it's so safe or whatever, what I don't understand is ragging on OP for daring to live in the suburbs instead. Is this a misery loves company thing? How do you derive a sense of superiority from mocking people who simply choose not to live around crime? Why is tolerance of criminal activity around you a virtue?

I lived in Baltimore on Maryland and 26th for a long time in my early 20s. I wasn't scared there either. Still wouldn't raise my kids there.

No one here is ragging the OP for living in the suburbs. Some of us live in the suburbs if not most of us. No one here is pretending there is no crime in Baltimore. Only that Harford County to Bryn Mawr is a long commute, especially for young children. If you want to go to Bryn Mawr, it would be better to move closer in to make the most of the school. And you know what, it's perfectly fine! to live near Bryn Mawr! Really, it is! Between you and me, I wouldn't want to live on Maryland and 26th either but how is that even relevant to Bryn Mawr?! That's like me saying I don't want to live in Harford County because of meth addicts in cheap apartment complexes off Joppa Road.

But I know enough that you have a certain warped perspective and clear inability to understand and measure risks.

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Anonymous wrote:You're the first person to ever compare Bryn Mawr to Tome. I can't imagine why anyone would look at both schools. If you're in Harford County, the only place where it might be feasible to be able to contemplate either school, there's Harford Day and John Carroll, which are more reliable options than Tome.

If the whole question of whether Bryn Mawr is "worth it" comes down to the schools' ideological stance towards gender matters, then it is definitely on the progressive side. Bryn Mawr's kindness and tolerance is going to be other people's foolish enability and injustice against girls. Like everything else in modern society, the private schools are sorting out on either side of the fault lines and there are other private schools that take a more traditional approach to gender identities, whether directly or indirectly.

County privates tend to be more pragmatic than the city privates. Except Park. You have plenty of options in the Baltimore area, minus Oldfields.

Yes, Harford County. Since you are familiar - Why do you feel Harford Day/John Carroll are better options than Tome? Out of those three, I've heard the most positive things from Tome. The reason we are looking at Tome and Bryn Mawr is simply that we're still early in this process and the financial side of things isn't really a major hurdle one way or the other.

John Carroll is a great school if you want you kid to have a drug problem.

Bryn Mawr is barely in the city. It sit at the edge of Roland Park, the county side. easily accessible from points north of town.


Which is said about every school, public or private.

If finances aren't an issue for OP, then the difference between Tome and a full fledged private like Bryn Mawr is going to be staggering. Quality of facilities, instruction, student body, the overall campus atmosphere. You'd want to visit all the schools and see for yourself.

Commuting from Harford to the Baltimore area schools is going to be rough. It's possible McDonogh may run a bus out to Harford. I'd also look at the Saint Pauls schools as they're right off the beltway. If you can't move closer in, then I'd probably look closely at Harford Day as a long established option that has sent graduates to the Baltimore area schools for HS. I know very little about Tome other than it is a resurrection of a much older boarding school that closed during the Depression. The only connection is the name.

There's a bus at the Fallston Park and Ride that goes to the city privates. I personally would worry about sending my young children on a 45 minute bus ride into Baltimore City. I mean, I assume they take good care of the kids and all, but jeez.

Is this a joke? Have you never been to the North Baltimore private schools? The biggest danger is your kid being run over by a Mercedes suv.

Roland Park et al are not even remotely safe areas. Those campuses are not exactly locked down either. I don't know where exactly the bus drop off would be, but you have a strange sense of what is safe if those areas seem ok to you. Especially in 2023.

You are either a troll or certifiably insane. Maybe both.

For those who re rational, the bus drops off the students at each school, as one would expect.

Haha every Baltimore thread we have you nutters come out of the woodwork and insist the city is safe. Last time I remember someone posted current footage in real time of drug addicts and homeless on the street perpendicular to Bryn Mawr

Definitely going with a troll.

Yeah, because everyone knows Baltimore is super safe. That's for sure the common wisdom. And the criminal stats support your case too! You're definitely not engaged in willful self deceit.

I love walking along Northern Parkway at night with the kids!

I know people who live on Northern Parkway a few blocks from Bryn Mawr. I have no idea what you're trying to allege. Actually, I do, but it makes no sense and only shows that you know nothing about Baltimore.

I live in the burbs and very cognizant of the many problems plaguing Baltimore but your ranting posts about lack of safety around Bryn Mawr is ridiculous. The North Baltimore neighborhoods surrounding the campus are handsome, safe, and lovely.

I live in the burbs too, but when I went to a gilman football game last fall, there were 100% drug addicts from the street in attendance. They just walked in and stood at the fence around the field to watch and cheer for the game. I know and respect all these schools, but there isn't a moat separating you from the rest of the city or anything. You have to be aware and conscious of that.

Obviously this never happened. But even if it did, what’s your problem with drug addicts having a good time at a football game like anyone else?

The only crime taking place on Roland Avenue is the price gouging that Eddie’s engages in

I kind of low-key want to meet this person who wouldn't be bothered by a manic drug addict shouting in the end zone at a Gilman football game and who thinks there is no crime in the 21210 or 21212. Is this the same person who takes leisure walks up and down the cesspool that is Northern Parkway? If so, I have a bridge I want to sell you ...
and as I said before, I have a lot of respect for these schools, but these areas of Baltimore are crime prone in a way that neighborhoods even two miles north of there are not. And I say this as a resident, someone who loves the architecture, a runner who routinely traverses the many roads of the city, is raising their children here, blah blah. I don't live my life in fear, but I have a normal and healthy respect for the criminals and the insane drivers on Northern Parkway.

You know if only there were some way to keep criminals in "these areas of Baltimore," some kind of red lines or something, a way to legally ensure that areas even two miles away were kept separate. Equal, of course! What kind of person do you think I am? But definitely separate

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Anonymous wrote:You're the first person to ever compare Bryn Mawr to Tome. I can't imagine why anyone would look at both schools. If you're in Harford County, the only place where it might be feasible to be able to contemplate either school, there's Harford Day and John Carroll, which are more reliable options than Tome.

If the whole question of whether Bryn Mawr is "worth it" comes down to the schools' ideological stance towards gender matters, then it is definitely on the progressive side. Bryn Mawr's kindness and tolerance is going to be other people's foolish enability and injustice against girls. Like everything else in modern society, the private schools are sorting out on either side of the fault lines and there are other private schools that take a more traditional approach to gender identities, whether directly or indirectly.

County privates tend to be more pragmatic than the city privates. Except Park. You have plenty of options in the Baltimore area, minus Oldfields.

Yes, Harford County. Since you are familiar - Why do you feel Harford Day/John Carroll are better options than Tome? Out of those three, I've heard the most positive things from Tome. The reason we are looking at Tome and Bryn Mawr is simply that we're still early in this process and the financial side of things isn't really a major hurdle one way or the other.

John Carroll is a great school if you want you kid to have a drug problem.

Bryn Mawr is barely in the city. It sit at the edge of Roland Park, the county side. easily accessible from points north of town.


Which is said about every school, public or private.

If finances aren't an issue for OP, then the difference between Tome and a full fledged private like Bryn Mawr is going to be staggering. Quality of facilities, instruction, student body, the overall campus atmosphere. You'd want to visit all the schools and see for yourself.

Commuting from Harford to the Baltimore area schools is going to be rough. It's possible McDonogh may run a bus out to Harford. I'd also look at the Saint Pauls schools as they're right off the beltway. If you can't move closer in, then I'd probably look closely at Harford Day as a long established option that has sent graduates to the Baltimore area schools for HS. I know very little about Tome other than it is a resurrection of a much older boarding school that closed during the Depression. The only connection is the name.

There's a bus at the Fallston Park and Ride that goes to the city privates. I personally would worry about sending my young children on a 45 minute bus ride into Baltimore City. I mean, I assume they take good care of the kids and all, but jeez.

Is this a joke? Have you never been to the North Baltimore private schools? The biggest danger is your kid being run over by a Mercedes suv.

Roland Park et al are not even remotely safe areas. Those campuses are not exactly locked down either. I don't know where exactly the bus drop off would be, but you have a strange sense of what is safe if those areas seem ok to you. Especially in 2023.

You are either a troll or certifiably insane. Maybe both.

For those who re rational, the bus drops off the students at each school, as one would expect.

Haha every Baltimore thread we have you nutters come out of the woodwork and insist the city is safe. Last time I remember someone posted current footage in real time of drug addicts and homeless on the street perpendicular to Bryn Mawr

Definitely going with a troll.

Yeah, because everyone knows Baltimore is super safe. That's for sure the common wisdom. And the criminal stats support your case too! You're definitely not engaged in willful self deceit.

I love walking along Northern Parkway at night with the kids!

I know people who live on Northern Parkway a few blocks from Bryn Mawr. I have no idea what you're trying to allege. Actually, I do, but it makes no sense and only shows that you know nothing about Baltimore.

I live in the burbs and very cognizant of the many problems plaguing Baltimore but your ranting posts about lack of safety around Bryn Mawr is ridiculous. The North Baltimore neighborhoods surrounding the campus are handsome, safe, and lovely.

I live in the burbs too, but when I went to a gilman football game last fall, there were 100% drug addicts from the street in attendance. They just walked in and stood at the fence around the field to watch and cheer for the game. I know and respect all these schools, but there isn't a moat separating you from the rest of the city or anything. You have to be aware and conscious of that.

Obviously this never happened. But even if it did, what’s your problem with drug addicts having a good time at a football game like anyone else?

The only crime taking place on Roland Avenue is the price gouging that Eddie’s engages in

I kind of low-key want to meet this person who wouldn't be bothered by a manic drug addict shouting in the end zone at a Gilman football game and who thinks there is no crime in the 21210 or 21212. Is this the same person who takes leisure walks up and down the cesspool that is Northern Parkway? If so, I have a bridge I want to sell you ...
and as I said before, I have a lot of respect for these schools, but these areas of Baltimore are crime prone in a way that neighborhoods even two miles north of there are not. And I say this as a resident, someone who loves the architecture, a runner who routinely traverses the many roads of the city, is raising their children here, blah blah. I don't live my life in fear, but I have a normal and healthy respect for the criminals and the insane drivers on Northern Parkway.

You know if only there were some way to keep criminals in "these areas of Baltimore," some kind of red lines or something, a way to legally ensure that areas even two miles away were kept separate. Equal, of course! What kind of person do you think I am? But definitely separate

Can't imagine what your point is. Your underlying first principle here is that all black people are criminals, so very progressive of you. But also if what you're arguing is that you want to live fully around criminals and anything less is racist, be my guest and have fun with that. Is this the true intellectual prowess of the Baltimore "elite"?

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OP - would St James Academy work? They send lots of their graduates to the Baltimore privates.

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Anonymous wrote:You're the first person to ever compare Bryn Mawr to Tome. I can't imagine why anyone would look at both schools. If you're in Harford County, the only place where it might be feasible to be able to contemplate either school, there's Harford Day and John Carroll, which are more reliable options than Tome.

If the whole question of whether Bryn Mawr is "worth it" comes down to the schools' ideological stance towards gender matters, then it is definitely on the progressive side. Bryn Mawr's kindness and tolerance is going to be other people's foolish enability and injustice against girls. Like everything else in modern society, the private schools are sorting out on either side of the fault lines and there are other private schools that take a more traditional approach to gender identities, whether directly or indirectly.

County privates tend to be more pragmatic than the city privates. Except Park. You have plenty of options in the Baltimore area, minus Oldfields.

Yes, Harford County. Since you are familiar - Why do you feel Harford Day/John Carroll are better options than Tome? Out of those three, I've heard the most positive things from Tome. The reason we are looking at Tome and Bryn Mawr is simply that we're still early in this process and the financial side of things isn't really a major hurdle one way or the other.

John Carroll is a great school if you want you kid to have a drug problem.

Bryn Mawr is barely in the city. It sit at the edge of Roland Park, the county side. easily accessible from points north of town.


Which is said about every school, public or private.

If finances aren't an issue for OP, then the difference between Tome and a full fledged private like Bryn Mawr is going to be staggering. Quality of facilities, instruction, student body, the overall campus atmosphere. You'd want to visit all the schools and see for yourself.

Commuting from Harford to the Baltimore area schools is going to be rough. It's possible McDonogh may run a bus out to Harford. I'd also look at the Saint Pauls schools as they're right off the beltway. If you can't move closer in, then I'd probably look closely at Harford Day as a long established option that has sent graduates to the Baltimore area schools for HS. I know very little about Tome other than it is a resurrection of a much older boarding school that closed during the Depression. The only connection is the name.

There's a bus at the Fallston Park and Ride that goes to the city privates. I personally would worry about sending my young children on a 45 minute bus ride into Baltimore City. I mean, I assume they take good care of the kids and all, but jeez.

Is this a joke? Have you never been to the North Baltimore private schools? The biggest danger is your kid being run over by a Mercedes suv.

Roland Park et al are not even remotely safe areas. Those campuses are not exactly locked down either. I don't know where exactly the bus drop off would be, but you have a strange sense of what is safe if those areas seem ok to you. Especially in 2023.

You are either a troll or certifiably insane. Maybe both.

For those who re rational, the bus drops off the students at each school, as one would expect.

Haha every Baltimore thread we have you nutters come out of the woodwork and insist the city is safe. Last time I remember someone posted current footage in real time of drug addicts and homeless on the street perpendicular to Bryn Mawr

Definitely going with a troll.

Yeah, because everyone knows Baltimore is super safe. That's for sure the common wisdom. And the criminal stats support your case too! You're definitely not engaged in willful self deceit.

I love walking along Northern Parkway at night with the kids!

I know people who live on Northern Parkway a few blocks from Bryn Mawr. I have no idea what you're trying to allege. Actually, I do, but it makes no sense and only shows that you know nothing about Baltimore.

I live in the burbs and very cognizant of the many problems plaguing Baltimore but your ranting posts about lack of safety around Bryn Mawr is ridiculous. The North Baltimore neighborhoods surrounding the campus are handsome, safe, and lovely.

I live in the burbs too, but when I went to a gilman football game last fall, there were 100% drug addicts from the street in attendance. They just walked in and stood at the fence around the field to watch and cheer for the game. I know and respect all these schools, but there isn't a moat separating you from the rest of the city or anything. You have to be aware and conscious of that.

Obviously this never happened. But even if it did, what’s your problem with drug addicts having a good time at a football game like anyone else?

The only crime taking place on Roland Avenue is the price gouging that Eddie’s engages in

I kind of low-key want to meet this person who wouldn't be bothered by a manic drug addict shouting in the end zone at a Gilman football game and who thinks there is no crime in the 21210 or 21212. Is this the same person who takes leisure walks up and down the cesspool that is Northern Parkway? If so, I have a bridge I want to sell you ...
and as I said before, I have a lot of respect for these schools, but these areas of Baltimore are crime prone in a way that neighborhoods even two miles north of there are not. And I say this as a resident, someone who loves the architecture, a runner who routinely traverses the many roads of the city, is raising their children here, blah blah. I don't live my life in fear, but I have a normal and healthy respect for the criminals and the insane drivers on Northern Parkway.

You know if only there were some way to keep criminals in "these areas of Baltimore," some kind of red lines or something, a way to legally ensure that areas even two miles away were kept separate. Equal, of course! What kind of person do you think I am? But definitely separate

Yes I remember that time my sister was mugged in Baltimore. The guy taking her wallet told her, verbatim: "I don't want to do this. More than anything I want to live a decent honest life. However, the all powerful and eternally influential forces of red lining that occurred 60 years ago, 45 years before i was born, are literally pulling me out onto the streets and into your neighborhood to force me to rob you. I'm so sorry. Please do something to combat this systemic injustice." And then he punched her in the head. It was crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:OP - would St James Academy work? They send lots of their graduates to the Baltimore privates.

Hey thanks for this recommendation. I've been looking into it just now, and it's less than 30 minutes from our house. Could definitely work. At first glance it seems like there's a lot to like about the school, so I will get in touch with them and explore further.

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Anonymous wrote:You're the first person to ever compare Bryn Mawr to Tome. I can't imagine why anyone would look at both schools. If you're in Harford County, the only place where it might be feasible to be able to contemplate either school, there's Harford Day and John Carroll, which are more reliable options than Tome.

If the whole question of whether Bryn Mawr is "worth it" comes down to the schools' ideological stance towards gender matters, then it is definitely on the progressive side. Bryn Mawr's kindness and tolerance is going to be other people's foolish enability and injustice against girls. Like everything else in modern society, the private schools are sorting out on either side of the fault lines and there are other private schools that take a more traditional approach to gender identities, whether directly or indirectly.

County privates tend to be more pragmatic than the city privates. Except Park. You have plenty of options in the Baltimore area, minus Oldfields.

Yes, Harford County. Since you are familiar - Why do you feel Harford Day/John Carroll are better options than Tome? Out of those three, I've heard the most positive things from Tome. The reason we are looking at Tome and Bryn Mawr is simply that we're still early in this process and the financial side of things isn't really a major hurdle one way or the other.

John Carroll is a great school if you want you kid to have a drug problem.

Bryn Mawr is barely in the city. It sit at the edge of Roland Park, the county side. easily accessible from points north of town.


Which is said about every school, public or private.

If finances aren't an issue for OP, then the difference between Tome and a full fledged private like Bryn Mawr is going to be staggering. Quality of facilities, instruction, student body, the overall campus atmosphere. You'd want to visit all the schools and see for yourself.

Commuting from Harford to the Baltimore area schools is going to be rough. It's possible McDonogh may run a bus out to Harford. I'd also look at the Saint Pauls schools as they're right off the beltway. If you can't move closer in, then I'd probably look closely at Harford Day as a long established option that has sent graduates to the Baltimore area schools for HS. I know very little about Tome other than it is a resurrection of a much older boarding school that closed during the Depression. The only connection is the name.

There's a bus at the Fallston Park and Ride that goes to the city privates. I personally would worry about sending my young children on a 45 minute bus ride into Baltimore City. I mean, I assume they take good care of the kids and all, but jeez.

Is this a joke? Have you never been to the North Baltimore private schools? The biggest danger is your kid being run over by a Mercedes suv.

Roland Park et al are not even remotely safe areas. Those campuses are not exactly locked down either. I don't know where exactly the bus drop off would be, but you have a strange sense of what is safe if those areas seem ok to you. Especially in 2023.

You are either a troll or certifiably insane. Maybe both.

For those who re rational, the bus drops off the students at each school, as one would expect.

Haha every Baltimore thread we have you nutters come out of the woodwork and insist the city is safe. Last time I remember someone posted current footage in real time of drug addicts and homeless on the street perpendicular to Bryn Mawr

Definitely going with a troll.

Yeah, because everyone knows Baltimore is super safe. That's for sure the common wisdom. And the criminal stats support your case too! You're definitely not engaged in willful self deceit.

I love walking along Northern Parkway at night with the kids!

I know people who live on Northern Parkway a few blocks from Bryn Mawr. I have no idea what you're trying to allege. Actually, I do, but it makes no sense and only shows that you know nothing about Baltimore.

I live in the burbs and very cognizant of the many problems plaguing Baltimore but your ranting posts about lack of safety around Bryn Mawr is ridiculous. The North Baltimore neighborhoods surrounding the campus are handsome, safe, and lovely.

I live in the burbs too, but when I went to a gilman football game last fall, there were 100% drug addicts from the street in attendance. They just walked in and stood at the fence around the field to watch and cheer for the game. I know and respect all these schools, but there isn't a moat separating you from the rest of the city or anything. You have to be aware and conscious of that.

Obviously this never happened. But even if it did, what’s your problem with drug addicts having a good time at a football game like anyone else?

The only crime taking place on Roland Avenue is the price gouging that Eddie’s engages in

I kind of low-key want to meet this person who wouldn't be bothered by a manic drug addict shouting in the end zone at a Gilman football game and who thinks there is no crime in the 21210 or 21212. Is this the same person who takes leisure walks up and down the cesspool that is Northern Parkway? If so, I have a bridge I want to sell you ...
and as I said before, I have a lot of respect for these schools, but these areas of Baltimore are crime prone in a way that neighborhoods even two miles north of there are not. And I say this as a resident, someone who loves the architecture, a runner who routinely traverses the many roads of the city, is raising their children here, blah blah. I don't live my life in fear, but I have a normal and healthy respect for the criminals and the insane drivers on Northern Parkway.

You know if only there were some way to keep criminals in "these areas of Baltimore," some kind of red lines or something, a way to legally ensure that areas even two miles away were kept separate. Equal, of course! What kind of person do you think I am? But definitely separate

Yes I remember that time my sister was mugged in Baltimore. The guy taking her wallet told her, verbatim: "I don't want to do this. More than anything I want to live a decent honest life. However, the all powerful and eternally influential forces of red lining that occurred 60 years ago, 45 years before i was born, are literally pulling me out onto the streets and into your neighborhood to force me to rob you. I'm so sorry. Please do something to combat this systemic injustice." And then he punched her in the head. It was crazy.

That sounds like complete BS.

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Anonymous wrote:You're the first person to ever compare Bryn Mawr to Tome. I can't imagine why anyone would look at both schools. If you're in Harford County, the only place where it might be feasible to be able to contemplate either school, there's Harford Day and John Carroll, which are more reliable options than Tome.

If the whole question of whether Bryn Mawr is "worth it" comes down to the schools' ideological stance towards gender matters, then it is definitely on the progressive side. Bryn Mawr's kindness and tolerance is going to be other people's foolish enability and injustice against girls. Like everything else in modern society, the private schools are sorting out on either side of the fault lines and there are other private schools that take a more traditional approach to gender identities, whether directly or indirectly.

County privates tend to be more pragmatic than the city privates. Except Park. You have plenty of options in the Baltimore area, minus Oldfields.

Yes, Harford County. Since you are familiar - Why do you feel Harford Day/John Carroll are better options than Tome? Out of those three, I've heard the most positive things from Tome. The reason we are looking at Tome and Bryn Mawr is simply that we're still early in this process and the financial side of things isn't really a major hurdle one way or the other.

John Carroll is a great school if you want you kid to have a drug problem.

Bryn Mawr is barely in the city. It sit at the edge of Roland Park, the county side. easily accessible from points north of town.


Which is said about every school, public or private.

If finances aren't an issue for OP, then the difference between Tome and a full fledged private like Bryn Mawr is going to be staggering. Quality of facilities, instruction, student body, the overall campus atmosphere. You'd want to visit all the schools and see for yourself.

Commuting from Harford to the Baltimore area schools is going to be rough. It's possible McDonogh may run a bus out to Harford. I'd also look at the Saint Pauls schools as they're right off the beltway. If you can't move closer in, then I'd probably look closely at Harford Day as a long established option that has sent graduates to the Baltimore area schools for HS. I know very little about Tome other than it is a resurrection of a much older boarding school that closed during the Depression. The only connection is the name.

There's a bus at the Fallston Park and Ride that goes to the city privates. I personally would worry about sending my young children on a 45 minute bus ride into Baltimore City. I mean, I assume they take good care of the kids and all, but jeez.

Is this a joke? Have you never been to the North Baltimore private schools? The biggest danger is your kid being run over by a Mercedes suv.

Roland Park et al are not even remotely safe areas. Those campuses are not exactly locked down either. I don't know where exactly the bus drop off would be, but you have a strange sense of what is safe if those areas seem ok to you. Especially in 2023.

You are either a troll or certifiably insane. Maybe both.

For those who re rational, the bus drops off the students at each school, as one would expect.

Haha every Baltimore thread we have you nutters come out of the woodwork and insist the city is safe. Last time I remember someone posted current footage in real time of drug addicts and homeless on the street perpendicular to Bryn Mawr

Definitely going with a troll.

Yeah, because everyone knows Baltimore is super safe. That's for sure the common wisdom. And the criminal stats support your case too! You're definitely not engaged in willful self deceit.

I love walking along Northern Parkway at night with the kids!

I know people who live on Northern Parkway a few blocks from Bryn Mawr. I have no idea what you're trying to allege. Actually, I do, but it makes no sense and only shows that you know nothing about Baltimore.

I live in the burbs and very cognizant of the many problems plaguing Baltimore but your ranting posts about lack of safety around Bryn Mawr is ridiculous. The North Baltimore neighborhoods surrounding the campus are handsome, safe, and lovely.

I live in the burbs too, but when I went to a gilman football game last fall, there were 100% drug addicts from the street in attendance. They just walked in and stood at the fence around the field to watch and cheer for the game. I know and respect all these schools, but there isn't a moat separating you from the rest of the city or anything. You have to be aware and conscious of that.

Obviously this never happened. But even if it did, what’s your problem with drug addicts having a good time at a football game like anyone else?

The only crime taking place on Roland Avenue is the price gouging that Eddie’s engages in

I kind of low-key want to meet this person who wouldn't be bothered by a manic drug addict shouting in the end zone at a Gilman football game and who thinks there is no crime in the 21210 or 21212. Is this the same person who takes leisure walks up and down the cesspool that is Northern Parkway? If so, I have a bridge I want to sell you ...
and as I said before, I have a lot of respect for these schools, but these areas of Baltimore are crime prone in a way that neighborhoods even two miles north of there are not. And I say this as a resident, someone who loves the architecture, a runner who routinely traverses the many roads of the city, is raising their children here, blah blah. I don't live my life in fear, but I have a normal and healthy respect for the criminals and the insane drivers on Northern Parkway.

You know if only there were some way to keep criminals in "these areas of Baltimore," some kind of red lines or something, a way to legally ensure that areas even two miles away were kept separate. Equal, of course! What kind of person do you think I am? But definitely separate

Yes I remember that time my sister was mugged in Baltimore. The guy taking her wallet told her, verbatim: "I don't want to do this. More than anything I want to live a decent honest life. However, the all powerful and eternally influential forces of red lining that occurred 60 years ago, 45 years before i was born, are literally pulling me out onto the streets and into your neighborhood to force me to rob you. I'm so sorry. Please do something to combat this systemic injustice." And then he punched her in the head. It was crazy.

That sounds like complete BS.

Why would someone lie on the internet? You shouldn't be so incredulous.