Family culture at the Heights?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do they teach real science at The Heights or Catholic science?

https://heightsforum.org/series_title/science-education-initiative/

Wow. It’s worse than I thought.

Uh, no

[Anonymous]

The Heights is a great school.

There is a traditional approach to classical education and to Catholic teaching, and that clearly has some woke heads seething. Alas, those looking for that lefty woke stuff only have 90% of the schools in the DMV to choose from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do they teach real science at The Heights or Catholic science?

https://heightsforum.org/series_title/science-education-initiative/

Wow. It’s worse than I thought.

Uh, no

Because when an Opus Dei affiliated Catholic school claims to want to "reinvent" the way science is taught to kids, it's clearly because they want to double down on scientific rigor and objective analysis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do they teach real science at The Heights or Catholic science?

https://heightsforum.org/series_title/science-education-initiative/

Wow. It’s worse than I thought.

Uh, no

Because when an Opus Dei affiliated Catholic school claims to want to "reinvent" the way science is taught to kids, it's clearly because they want to double down on scientific rigor and objective analysis.

Yeah, science at The Heights relies on antiquated superstitions like “biological sex” instead of “gender assigned at birth”.

What’s worse, The Heights teaches that math involves correct (and incorrect) answers—they don’t even believe that “math is racist”!

One shudders at the thought of White, Christian, hetero, cis-gendered males memorizing classic poetry and engaging in sovereign learning instead of flogging themselves for their racial guilt and waving rainbow flags.

Oh, the humanity!

[Anonymous]

Oakcrest doesn't hire male teachers either. It's by design.

[Anonymous]

For those confused, I promise you 100%, that The Heights is not officially a Catholic school. Many of our families don't even know this.

"The Heights School is a private, independent, preparatory school for boys, grades three to twelve."

[Anonymous]

"Although The Heights is not officially (canonically) a Catholic School, it does offer classes in Catholic doctrine as well as Catholic sacraments and liturgy. The curriculum and teachers for the Catholic doctrine program are reviewed and approved by the Archdiocese of Washington."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do they teach real science at The Heights or Catholic science?

https://heightsforum.org/series_title/science-education-initiative/

Wow. It’s worse than I thought.

Uh, no

Because when an Opus Dei affiliated Catholic school claims to want to "reinvent" the way science is taught to kids, it's clearly because they want to double down on scientific rigor and objective analysis.

Yeah, science at The Heights relies on antiquated superstitions like “biological sex” instead of “gender assigned at birth”.

What’s worse, The Heights teaches that math involves correct (and incorrect) answers—they don’t even believe that “math is racist”!

One shudders at the thought of White, Christian, hetero, cis-gendered males memorizing classic poetry and engaging in sovereign learning instead of flogging themselves for their racial guilt and waving rainbow flags.

Oh, the humanity!

Love this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those confused, I promise you 100%, that The Heights is not officially a Catholic school. Many of our families don't even know this.

"The Heights School is a private, independent, preparatory school for boys, grades three to twelve."

I don’t understand your point on this. They have a catholic chapel on school grounds. They follow catholic traditions. You’re being pedantic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here- It’s absolutely a Catholic school, but it’s not a diocese school, big difference. They have Catholic mass daily and prepare the boys for confirmation prep in 8th grade.

I mentioned Catholic and Opus Dei only because there are at least a dozen threads on this board that turn into people trying to ‘warn’ OPs about these two things. I’m well aware of that and prefer it, along with an all male staff.

The Heights is a Catholic school. However, it is not officially affiliated with the archdiocese of Washington. I do not know the exact reason for this, but I can take a guess. The archdiocese of Washington requires all of its affiliated high schools to mandate that ALL students receive instruction in Catholic doctrine every year. The Heights school allows non-Catholic high schoolers to take philosophy classes instead of Catholic doctrine classes. The teacher likely prays privately for the students every day that they may someday be open to the teachings of Catholicism, but does not shove the teachings down their throats. He engages them in the spirit of inquiry.

The Heights used to be formally affiliated with the Archdiocese of Washington, but I have a strong hunch that the curriculum requirements for non-Catholic students started the fissure.

—- a former religion teacher at another Catholic high school

It is affiliated with OPUS dei - how do you not know this?

Well technically it was an ADW school and Opus Dei, now it's not an ADW school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those confused, I promise you 100%, that The Heights is not officially a Catholic school. Many of our families don't even know this.

"The Heights School is a private, independent, preparatory school for boys, grades three to twelve."

I don’t understand your point on this. They have a catholic chapel on school grounds. They follow catholic traditions. You’re being pedantic.

It's the difference between calling yourself catholic and doing everything catholic and being part of the catholic community... aka ADW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do they teach real science at The Heights or Catholic science?

https://heightsforum.org/series_title/science-education-initiative/

Wow. It’s worse than I thought.

Uh, no

Because when an Opus Dei affiliated Catholic school claims to want to "reinvent" the way science is taught to kids, it's clearly because they want to double down on scientific rigor and objective analysis.

Yeah, science at The Heights relies on antiquated superstitions like “biological sex” instead of “gender assigned at birth”.

What’s worse, The Heights teaches that math involves correct (and incorrect) answers—they don’t even believe that “math is racist”!

One shudders at the thought of White, Christian, hetero, cis-gendered males memorizing classic poetry and engaging in sovereign learning instead of flogging themselves for their racial guilt and waving rainbow flags.

Oh, the humanity!

Are you saying they think sex and gender are the same thing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those confused, I promise you 100%, that The Heights is not officially a Catholic school. Many of our families don't even know this.

"The Heights School is a private, independent, preparatory school for boys, grades three to twelve."

I don’t understand your point on this. They have a catholic chapel on school grounds. They follow catholic traditions. You’re being pedantic.

It's the difference between calling yourself catholic and doing everything catholic and being part of the catholic community... aka ADW.

Midwest poster here. My kids’ classical school was not part of our diocese until this year, and it is the first time in the entire diocese this has been awarded to a non-parish church school. It taught the same curriculum before and after the approval.

We used to attend our parish school, and this curriculum is far superior and more traditional Catholic teaching than the parish school.

Being part of the ADW would seem to me to be a disadvantage if what The Heights does is “not Catholic” to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those confused, I promise you 100%, that The Heights is not officially a Catholic school. Many of our families don't even know this.

"The Heights School is a private, independent, preparatory school for boys, grades three to twelve."

I don’t understand your point on this. They have a catholic chapel on school grounds. They follow catholic traditions. You’re being pedantic.

The things you state would make you pedantic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do they teach real science at The Heights or Catholic science?

https://heightsforum.org/series_title/science-education-initiative/

Wow. It’s worse than I thought.

Yes, because it undermines your nonsense.