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[quote=Anonymous]There's a lot of good stuff in 02:04's post a few up the page.

BUT:

An Honor Code is anywhere near the same thing being a Catholic in America. Being a Catholic goes beyond attending Mass or practicing the Faith more broadly. It has any number of cultural aspects.

With 60 boys in a class, how many Catholics can there be and still have room for the Mormons, Jews, Buddhists, and other Protestants? There are a few Catholics at Landon and their families are generally new to DC and not part of the larger Catholic community.

If you take most of the African Americans out of the mix at Prep, the student body is overwhelmingly Catholic, primarily from families that have been in DC for several generations. Prep is run by a Catholic religious order. Its staff and alumni are also overwhelmingly Catholics.

The schools are similar when viewed from the outside. But their primary difference is who attends each and not size of the student body.

For some reason, the Landon people choose to argue with this relatively obvious difference. I guess they are interested in seeing more Caholics enrolled or they don't want the school labeled as being dominated by other groups. It's curious to me. Prep has 450+ Catholic boys. Landon has a handful of them.[/quote]

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