Southern Family Privates

[Anonymous]

Why is no one mentioning Beauvoir?

[Anonymous]

Private schools in the south lean conservative because many of them started as segregation academies, if they aren’t still, and a lot of the newer ones started as evangelical cultural institutions.

DC has a lot of racial problems, including in schools, but the bulk of the private schools are of a different vintage and different wings of Christianity, if applicable. I think that affects the culture.

That said, there are “conservative” families everywhere and I think we can say that Republican politics have been fully severed from any coherent political philosophy anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Private schools in the south lean conservative because many of them started as segregation academies, if they aren’t still, and a lot of the newer ones started as evangelical cultural institutions.

DC has a lot of racial problems, including in schools, but the bulk of the private schools are of a different vintage and different wings of Christianity, if applicable. I think that affects the culture.

That said, there are “conservative” families everywhere and I think we can say that Republican politics have been fully severed from any coherent political philosophy anyway.

How does that affect the culture?

[Anonymous]

I think SSSAS is worth a look. I don’t find the school to be all that liberal and progressive when it comes to day-to-day. A lot of teachers are very traditional. There is definitely a preppy/old money/conservative contingency there too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think SSSAS is worth a look. I don’t find the school to be all that liberal and progressive when it comes to day-to-day. A lot of teachers are very traditional. There is definitely a preppy/old money/conservative contingency there too.

As long as you aren’t offended by or offensive to a decent-sized percentage of nonbinary students and a handful of trans students.

[Anonymous]

Episcopal schools are more liberal, so you might want to skip those unless you are happy with diversity of all kinds.

[Anonymous]

OP doesn't know our acronyms, so I'll spell them out.

Yes, OP, if you don't want Catholic schools, then National Presbyterian School and Washington Episcopal School will feel comfortable for your family.

Once you get past 4th grade, St. Albans will also fit for a slightly right of center family. Southerners like its traditionalism. St. Andrew's Episcopal School (preschool through 12) in Potomac skews liberal, but isn't as ideologically self-sorting as inside the beltway schools. (Trump and Paul Ryan sent their kids there, but so did plenty people from the Obama administration). The Potomac School (in McLean) has plenty of conservative families as would Flint Hill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP doesn't know our acronyms, so I'll spell them out.

Yes, OP, if you don't want Catholic schools, then National Presbyterian School and Washington Episcopal School will feel comfortable for your family.

Once you get past 4th grade, St. Albans will also fit for a slightly right of center family. Southerners like its traditionalism. St. Andrew's Episcopal School (preschool through 12) in Potomac skews liberal, but isn't as ideologically self-sorting as inside the beltway schools. (Trump and Paul Ryan sent their kids there, but so did plenty people from the Obama administration). The Potomac School (in McLean) has plenty of conservative families as would Flint Hill.

Why do you think that? OP posted once and hasn’t come back for 5 pages. But they used acronyms in their original post.

[Anonymous]

OP also mentioned Holy Trinity, so it doesn’t sound like they are opposed to Catholic schools. Catholic schools might actually be the best bet. More likely to be conservative-leaning, but despite some DCUM opinion they aren’t all overrun with maga sympathizers.

[Anonymous]

Holy Trinity is Jesuit. Not MAGA friendly at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Holy Trinity is Jesuit. Not MAGA friendly at all.

A Jesuit Catholic school sounds like a great choice for OP.

[Anonymous]

People I know who describe themselves as you do chose the Cathedral schools (Beauvior, NCS and St. Albans). As at any school, this does not mean every person there is exactly like you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you still vote for Republicans, the Catholic schools will be the best fit for you.

Some, but not all. Half of Catholics are liberal Democrats, especially nuns, so if the school is associated with an order, as opposed to a dioceses, it is likely more liberal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is no one mentioning Beauvoir?

That was my top of the list when I read OP's question.

[Anonymous]

This thread title is like the title of some trashy Southern gothic novel.