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Anonymous
| Does anyone have info they can share about these 2 schools? |
Anonymous
| Oakcrest is moving to Vienna at Hunter Mill and the Toll Road. |
Anonymous
| Will the Oakcrest move be accomplished inside of 6 years? |
Anonymous
| We paid a visit to Oakcrest. Not impressed. Weak academics, and very disorganized. |
Anonymous
| Interesting. If Oakcrest moves, what school will occupy that building? |
Anonymous
| Last I heard, the building was for sale. I don't know if it sold yet, though. |
Anonymous
| For those who don't know, Oakcrest is the sister school of the Heights, about which there is another thread running right now, and like the Heights its religious instruction is under the guidance of Opus Dei. |
Anonymous
| Both Brookewood and Oakcrest are all-girls schools committed to fidelity to the teachings of the Catholic Church. While Oakcrest has an all-female faculty, Brookewood has several men on staff, which gives it more flexibility with regard to hiring decisions. While Oakcrest and the Heights have many families in common, they are quite separate institutions. Brookewood and its brother school Avalon are legally intertwined, operated by the same non-profit organization. They cooperate explicitly in many activities, including plays, the annual gala, transportation, and tuition discounts. They have even shared some faculty members on occasion. Brookewood and Avalon are not sponsored by any religious order or personal prelature of the Catholic Church, but run by faithful laypeople. There is a Catholic priest on staff, with degrees from Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and Cambridge. (I didn't know this was possible for one person!) Oakcrest does have the benefit of having a beautiful Catholic chapel on campus that the girls can visit, and it is more established, so it has more of an infrastructure built up. |
Anonymous
| 12:44 again. Brookwood begins in 1st grade, and offers Italian as a foreign language. Oakcrest begins in 6th grade, and has more traditional foreign language offerings. |
Anonymous
When we visited Oakcrest 5 years ago, they were not even sure if the would be offering *FRENCH* the following year. I found that very odd and was not impressed with the school in the least. |