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[quote=Anonymous]Re: the commute.

GDS aand Sidwell Friends are within walking distance of the Tenleytown Metro station on the Red Line.  Maret and St. Albans are within walking distance of the Woodley Park - Zoo Metro station on the Red Line.  If he is allowed/has a certain amount of independence, your son should be able to handle this.

Re: after school activities.

All the private schools that go through 12th grade have athletics daily the last period of the day, usually 2:00 - 3:30 in the afternoon, with most schools starting interscholastic sports in the 6th grade.  With schools that only go to grade 8, sports generally go from 3:00 - 4:30, also with teams starting in grade 6.  If his after school activity is music, drama or other artistic endeavor, that is generally handled within the daily class schedule and with some after school rehearsals for bigger productions (school play, concert, chorale and dance performances).

Re: religious schools

Religion light.  Episcopal schools I have encountered, St. Andrew's, St. Albans, Episcopal, St. Stephen's and St. Agnes, Grace, etc. generally require a one semester course in sexuality and a one semester course in ethical decision making in middle school (meeting once or twice a week, not every day)  Chapels, although presided over by the School Chaplain are conducted by the students themselves who generally give their reflections on the Chaplain's Daily Reading from the Old or New Testament or on how The Supreme Being (God, Yahweh, Allah, Buddha, etc) has impacted their/our lives.  Since the faculty accompany their students to chapel, they will on occasion be called upon to give a talk.
No dogma, no specific rules, just lessons on how we should conduct ourselves as ethical, moral and tolerant human beings.[/quote]

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