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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems like G'town Prep is a good option though isn't that where their lax coach knocked someone out in a bar fight last year?[/quote]

Actually he was the one that was hit in that incident. He was a remarkable coach who built GP into a national lacrosse power starting with almost nothing. He is gone now. They finally wearied of all the drama.

GP isn't normally considered an ""option" as the people who go there know that's where they want to go for many years. They generally aren't considering other schools except maybe for brother Jesuit school, Gonzaga. GP for many decades has served a relatively narrow slice of the DC Catholic community. And tht means they serve the entire range of that sub-market, the smart ones and the dumb ones and the athletic and not-so-athletic. You can be challenged academically or you can float along with not a lot of effort.

They might be casting a slightly wider net now because of the huge debt that was run up with the building spree they went on and the cost of maintaining the larger physical plant.

The faculty, for many years, has had an out-sized role at Prep. The headmaster, who is totally unqualified for the job he has, is the puppet of the faculty. The place operates on consensus with the faculty having the loudest voice. The Jesuits have largely died off or disappeared. They used to rule the place with an iron hand. Now the few of them that are there are just along for the ride.

Parents. even noisy parents, are listened to politely and then disregarded. Unless they are alumni with either a lot of money or they have a lot of alumni friends, then the administration knows the parents will be gone in a year or two or three. This shouldn't really surprise anyone. This is, after all, part of the Catholic Church.

The Prep athletic programs have taken a hit lately because a lot of the financial aid money has dried up and Gonzaga is so much less expensive. Long dormant Saint John's has even started to get some kids who might have not considered it a few years ago. GP, in many sports is going from IAC bully to an also-ran.

Prep still does offer boys an idyllic four years and life-long close association with the friends they make there. This is one of the groups that really does believe that where you go to high school is more important than where you go to college. They go to Prep, they go to college, and then return to DC to join their high school friends in life-long relationships.[/quote]

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