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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What percentage of St. Albans mom work?  It seems like once women hit their mid-30's at all the area private schools. many choose to stay home.  That's always surprising to me considering how many extremely well educated and liberal moms are at these schools. [/quote]

Well your premise is in incorrect. St. Albans is not mostly liberal moms. It is mostly republicans in my two sons grades. The administration and Cathedral may be more liberal leaning but the current parents and boys are not. NCS, Sidwell, Holton, and GDS are where you will find more liberal moms. [/quote]

This may be your experience, and I have no doubt you are relaying your experience, but it is not my experience nor my son's.  We have found that there is a small, albeit vocal, minority of hard-core Republicans, and within that some Trump supporters as well as some never-Trumpers.  These families often live in NoVA.  Overall, however, here are far more moderate and liberal-leaning boys and families (often socially liberal but fiscally conservative).  I would agree that there are few hard-core liberals at STA but the majority of families are liberal-leaning moderates.  I also do agree there are more girls at NCS who are truly liberal.

If your son is in the upper school, suggest he join Gov Club.  Gov Club is co-ed and gives the best snap-shot into the political disposition of the Close high school students as it requires the kids (so both STA and NCS here) declare their political affiliation.  I can tell you that the liberal, Democrats camp is always much larger than the conservative group, and its not just NCS girls.  There have even been instances when the "Republican/conservative group"  has had to ask some "independents" (or kids who move back and forth based on issues) to stand with them to even out numbers for various exercises.

Too often people presume that the Cathedral schools have a majority of conservative families based only on appearances.  This is not a good way to judge anyone's political affiliation.  In Washington at least, preppy does not equal conservative.[/quote]

I am a liberal, Democrat, full-time working mom with a son at STA. [/quote]

I am too.  But I know a lot of conservative Republicans there.  And they're not "DC conservative" (i.e. moderates).  Many are very conservative and full-on Trump-conservative.
It's my only intersection with Trump supporters in DC.   I'm sure it varies by grade like everything else.  I don't have a kid in upper (high) school.  [/quote]

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