Parent body at Beauvoir and GDS?

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Beauvoir is do your wifely duty. GDS is [too explicit to post here].

[Anonymous]

Beauvoir is a black Chevy Suburban or silver Mercedes 550. GDS is a Prius or Subaru Outback (at least 8 years old).

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Anonymous wrote:Beauvoir is a black Chevy Suburban or silver Mercedes 550. GDS is a Prius or Subaru Outback (at least 8 years old).

Well technically, Beauvoir is an 8-year-old Volvo. The silver Mercedes 550s and Lexus SUVs are at Sidwell....

[Anonymous]

Beauvoir is "borrowing" that single malt and valium from grampy and grammies house after you return from summering with them in Maine. GDS is "seizing" your DC's stash of weed (but deftly pocketing it, for later consumption, as one makes a show of flushing the actually empty baggie down the toilet).

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I think I just saw I justice behind a blade of grass. Wow.

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PP, in your obsession with diversity it's funny that the only category you didn't mention is socioeconomic, which is of course the only one that really matters any more. Perhaps that is because, for all the ballyhooing, B is still not a magnet for families from, shall we say, east of the Park?

LOL. long, long, post and do leave a few things out. Per their website and financial statements to the IRS, Beauvoir awards FA to about 27% of its applicants. - signed and "east of the park " family, of which I know of at least 20 others in DC's grade alone.

How many of these 27% of families getting FA are in the $90-100K HHI range, and getting a few thousand in FA, though? And how many are $30-50K families getting 100% FA, and nobody in the family has been to college? On the General Discussion forum - someone, maybe you, you sound like the same rightwinger - was trying to make the point that at Chevy Chase Elementary School there were "only" 9% FARMS kids. But to get FARMS, you need to have income not more than 185% of the poverty line (the poverty line is around $24 for a family of four, so this is income of maybe $50K). So effectively, the 9% FARMS kids at Chevy Chase ES have HHI of less than $50K and would be the kids who would need 100% FA at any private school. Now THAT's diversity, even at a Chevy Chase public.

PP, there are many great schools in Washington. The OP family has already likely chosen( unless you are the OP posting a troll thread). I think that your screechy defensiveness about GDS pretty much proves my point about the school. Do you mesna to display that on DCUM's where maybe it will be read each year by some ?

All the schools in Washington offer FA, all have a lot of diversity of every kind. Truly, it is not 1945 anymore( when GDS was founded to combat racism in admissions). The world has moved on largely due to the draw of Fed gov't, the increasing size of Executive branch of gov't and the Private school's incresing dependance on non-profit status to manintain their budget. These are realities taht drive the change and they are far more secure determinants of diversity than the mission statement of any school will ever be.

I find it odd that as much as you claim to passionately care about not stereotyping, every time you post about Beauvoir you do just that. Perhaps, deep down, you wish this town still operated the way it did in the 1940's and 1950"s as , that way,it would allow your sanctimony to go unchallenged.

Good luck to the OP ( if she is actually a parent of a child with this decision to make)

I'm not from GDS or from Beauvoir, and I'm certainly not defensive about either GDS or Beauvoir. It's just that every time I see this particular Tea Partier posting this particular argument about how "diversity" is so much better in private schools, I go a little ballistic. I've had kids in private schools and public schools, and I know a thing or two about diversity in each, and I think going ballistic on this Tea Partier is justified. YMMV.

"Tea Partier" wow. Again, how ironic that it seems that you more than anyone on ths thread are the one labelling people. Not that I expect a pat on the back or the "seal of approval" for my personal voting record , but it is:

Bush , the father ( did not like Dukakis)
Clinton twice
Kerry
Obama twice, including the first time when my DS actually filled in the voting card while I held him up to the booth counter with tears in my eyes.

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Beauvoir is "my name is Preston Worthington III. I myself went to a preparatory school as a child and my son little Preston IV will be doing the same. Wouldn't want him to be interacting with the riff raff at some dirty public school." GDS is "I smoke a lot of pot and live in Bethesda because you can get quite the house for a bargain there. We love our Volvo station wagon and we're very liberal."

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Anonymous wrote:Beauvoir is upstairs at Downton Abbey. GDS is downstairs at Downtown Abbey.

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PP, in your obsession with diversity it's funny that the only category you didn't mention is socioeconomic, which is of course the only one that really matters any more. Perhaps that is because, for all the ballyhooing, B is still not a magnet for families from, shall we say, east of the Park?

LOL. long, long, post and do leave a few things out. Per their website and financial statements to the IRS, Beauvoir awards FA to about 27% of its applicants. - signed and "east of the park " family, of which I know of at least 20 others in DC's grade alone.

How many of these 27% of families getting FA are in the $90-100K HHI range, and getting a few thousand in FA, though? And how many are $30-50K families getting 100% FA, and nobody in the family has been to college? On the General Discussion forum - someone, maybe you, you sound like the same rightwinger - was trying to make the point that at Chevy Chase Elementary School there were "only" 9% FARMS kids. But to get FARMS, you need to have income not more than 185% of the poverty line (the poverty line is around $24 for a family of four, so this is income of maybe $50K). So effectively, the 9% FARMS kids at Chevy Chase ES have HHI of less than $50K and would be the kids who would need 100% FA at any private school. Now THAT's diversity, even at a Chevy Chase public.

PP, there are many great schools in Washington. The OP family has already likely chosen( unless you are the OP posting a troll thread). I think that your screechy defensiveness about GDS pretty much proves my point about the school. Do you mesna to display that on DCUM's where maybe it will be read each year by some ?

All the schools in Washington offer FA, all have a lot of diversity of every kind. Truly, it is not 1945 anymore( when GDS was founded to combat racism in admissions). The world has moved on largely due to the draw of Fed gov't, the increasing size of Executive branch of gov't and the Private school's incresing dependance on non-profit status to manintain their budget. These are realities taht drive the change and they are far more secure determinants of diversity than the mission statement of any school will ever be.

I find it odd that as much as you claim to passionately care about not stereotyping, every time you post about Beauvoir you do just that. Perhaps, deep down, you wish this town still operated the way it did in the 1940's and 1950"s as , that way,it would allow your sanctimony to go unchallenged.

Good luck to the OP ( if she is actually a parent of a child with this decision to make)

I'm not from GDS or from Beauvoir, and I'm certainly not defensive about either GDS or Beauvoir. It's just that every time I see this particular Tea Partier posting this particular argument about how "diversity" is so much better in private schools, I go a little ballistic. I've had kids in private schools and public schools, and I know a thing or two about diversity in each, and I think going ballistic on this Tea Partier is justified. YMMV.

"Tea Partier" wow. Again, how ironic that it seems that you more than anyone on ths thread are the one labelling people. Not that I expect a pat on the back or the "seal of approval" for my personal voting record , but it is:

Bush , the father ( did not like Dukakis)
Clinton twice
Kerry
Obama twice, including the first time when my DS actually filled in the voting card while I held him up to the booth counter with tears in my eyes.

Please excuse me while I barf...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Beauvoir is "my name is Preston Worthington III. I myself went to a preparatory school as a child and my son little Preston IV will be doing the same. Wouldn't want him to be interacting with the riff raff at some dirty public school." GDS is "I smoke a lot of pot and live in Bethesda because you can get quite the house for a bargain there. We love our Volvo station wagon and we're very liberal."

NP here also making the same decision, hmmm these last few posts although hilarious, do make it seem that indeed Beauvoir and GDS are different socioeconomically.....

[Anonymous]

It seems the teenagers are having fun with us again, or trying to.

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PP, in your obsession with diversity it's funny that the only category you didn't mention is socioeconomic, which is of course the only one that really matters any more. Perhaps that is because, for all the ballyhooing, B is still not a magnet for families from, shall we say, east of the Park?

LOL. long, long, post and do leave a few things out. Per their website and financial statements to the IRS, Beauvoir awards FA to about 27% of its applicants. - signed and "east of the park " family, of which I know of at least 20 others in DC's grade alone.

How many of these 27% of families getting FA are in the $90-100K HHI range, and getting a few thousand in FA, though? And how many are $30-50K families getting 100% FA, and nobody in the family has been to college? On the General Discussion forum - someone, maybe you, you sound like the same rightwinger - was trying to make the point that at Chevy Chase Elementary School there were "only" 9% FARMS kids. But to get FARMS, you need to have income not more than 185% of the poverty line (the poverty line is around $24 for a family of four, so this is income of maybe $50K). So effectively, the 9% FARMS kids at Chevy Chase ES have HHI of less than $50K and would be the kids who would need 100% FA at any private school. Now THAT's diversity, even at a Chevy Chase public.

PP, there are many great schools in Washington. The OP family has already likely chosen( unless you are the OP posting a troll thread). I think that your screechy defensiveness about GDS pretty much proves my point about the school. Do you mesna to display that on DCUM's where maybe it will be read each year by some ?

All the schools in Washington offer FA, all have a lot of diversity of every kind. Truly, it is not 1945 anymore( when GDS was founded to combat racism in admissions). The world has moved on largely due to the draw of Fed gov't, the increasing size of Executive branch of gov't and the Private school's incresing dependance on non-profit status to manintain their budget. These are realities taht drive the change and they are far more secure determinants of diversity than the mission statement of any school will ever be.

I find it odd that as much as you claim to passionately care about not stereotyping, every time you post about Beauvoir you do just that. Perhaps, deep down, you wish this town still operated the way it did in the 1940's and 1950"s as , that way,it would allow your sanctimony to go unchallenged.

Good luck to the OP ( if she is actually a parent of a child with this decision to make)

I'm not from GDS or from Beauvoir, and I'm certainly not defensive about either GDS or Beauvoir. It's just that every time I see this particular Tea Partier posting this particular argument about how "diversity" is so much better in private schools, I go a little ballistic. I've had kids in private schools and public schools, and I know a thing or two about diversity in each, and I think going ballistic on this Tea Partier is justified. YMMV.

"Tea Partier" wow. Again, how ironic that it seems that you more than anyone on ths thread are the one labelling people. Not that I expect a pat on the back or the "seal of approval" for my personal voting record , but it is:

Bush , the father ( did not like Dukakis)
Clinton twice
Kerry
Obama twice, including the first time when my DS actually filled in the voting card while I held him up to the booth counter with tears in my eyes.

That's my post about FA. Who on earth do you think I am? My only participation on this thread has been to rubbish your silly point about "SES diversity" in private schools. I could care less about Beauvoir or GDS and have never had a kid at either school (although kids have been at a different private).

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I have personal knowledge that there is real socio-economic diversity at Beauvoir. Enough said. I don't see any reason why a rational person would want so so badly to stereotype a school. The PP above assumed I was a Republican, and called me a "Tea Bag Partier", based on what , exactly ? That my DC attended Baeuvoir. Talk about being insular and judgemental of people. Wow.

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GDS is bulky, gaudy Rolex or black plastic Casio. Beauvoir is sleek Philip Patek or classic $20 beater white dialed timex.

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Anonymous wrote:Beauvoir is "my name is Preston Worthington III. I myself went to a preparatory school as a child and my son little Preston IV will be doing the same. Wouldn't want him to be interacting with the riff raff at some dirty public school." GDS is "I smoke a lot of pot and live in Bethesda because you can get quite the house for a bargain there. We love our Volvo station wagon and we're very liberal."

NP here also making the same decision, hmmm these last few posts although hilarious, do make it seem that indeed Beauvoir and GDS are different socioeconomically.....

The posts are funny, yes, but they remind me of the time I (a Sidwell parent) went to watch a game at Landon. I parked our brand-new Prius next to a Cadillac Escalade -- white with gold-colored trim and a Landon sticker -- and smugly thought to myself, "Hah, that's something you'd never see at Sidwell." Wouldn't you know that the very next morning at carpool, there right in front of me was a white Cadillac Escalade with gold trim and a Sidwell sticker.

If someone drew a Venn diagram of the cultural/class signifiers among parents at various private schools, my guess is there would be substantial overlap. That means that unless you're an outlier -- the whitest of white-bread Beauvoir families or the crunchiest of GDS families -- you'll find your tribe regardless of which school your children attend. And, don't forget that as your children get older, they, not you, will choose their friends -- and the families of those friends may be very different in style from your own. We certainly found that to be the case with our children, particularly in high school. The interesting thing, though, is that as a result we ended up getting to know and like parents who were very different from us. Really -- one of my best "mom friends" drives a silver Mercedes.