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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t know which neighborhood we would be living in yet (if he gets the job), so open to schools in the ‘burbs and the city.

My husband and I are politically liberal so a super conservative school wouldn’t be a good fit. Frankly, I’d strongly prefer a school that doesn’t espouse a political bent. [/quote]

In other words you sound like 1990s Democrats?

If looking for an apolitical school, that would rule out most of the Quakers except Penn Charter, which may be your best fit, along with Germantown Academy. I'd consider EA apolitical but it will draw many conservative families.

Keep in mind the school locations and where you eventually buy a house. EA and Germantown Academy are pretty far apart. Do you have a sense of where you'd like to live?

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The Quaker schools wouldn't turn us off. If fact, we like the idea of discussing social justice and equity and the option to take, say, a world religions class. We just don't want hyper-conservative (husband and I went to v conservative Catholic, fire-and-brimstone schools growing up), and while we are liberal, we are not interested in sending our child to a school devoted to "making our child an activist" to very loosely paraphrase one DC school's mission. If our child ends up an activist as an adult, fantastic! But we want him to find his own way and be exposed to a variety of opinions since we have to listen to others we disagree with and work with them in society. We want him to learn how to think rather than be told what to think, if that helps. [/quote]

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