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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a student at mercy.  I'm in 7th grade.  Mercy is one of the few schools with such a great program for learning and physical disabilities.  It is very challenging.  Mrs.hosmer was just trying to be funny!!  It's her personality!!!  She's always smiling and laughing...

As others said:
The reason so many people are leaving Mercy is to go to other Catholic schools, such as Landon, Mater Dei, Holy Child, etc.  it may also be for financial issues, as for the economy isn't that great.  A lot of people have been losing their jobs, or maybe their pay has been a lesser quantity.  (trying to sound professional!)

Here is my experience:
I came in third grade to Our Lady of Mercy.  I was a little shy at first, but I soon "came out of my shell.". Last year, in sixth grade, I was diagnosed with a learning disability.  I was put into a program where you do not take Social Studies and Spanish.  I know it sounds silly, but it reduced my homework. Gave me more time to study, got extra help in subjects such as math and English.  This year, in seventh grade, I do not take science and Spanish.  During when the other children have science, I learn my math facts, so I've 2 math classes a day.  When other kids are in Spanish, I do my active reading or another assignment I need to catch up on.  There are about ten children in my grade who do not take Spanish, and about five who do not take sciences md Spanish.

Overall, Mercy is a great school, and you should send your. Children the![/quote]

Landon is not a Catholic school.  Nor is it cheaper than Mercy.  [/quote]

Decidedly not. Very few Catholics at Landon. Catholics who go there risk expulsion from the Mafia.[/quote]
Funny you say that, because of the Catholics at Landon, most are of the non-Irish Catholic variety (Italian, Hispanic, Central European) – not the Irish Catholics that have caused so much trouble for the U.S. Catholic church – from pedophile priests (mostly Irish Catholics) to CINO politicians.  So yeah, Catholics at Landon are more likely to be out of the “Irish Catholic Mafia” already.

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Because of historical patterns of immigration. a significant majority of Catholics in DC are of Irish heritage. There are very few Italians or Eastern Europeans in DC as there are in other major metro areas in the East.

If there are Catholics at Landon it's because they are from families new, or at least not native, to the area. They do not know, and they may not care, that sending their sons to Landon is not something the natives are interested in doing. The native Catholics want to send their sons to Gonzaga or Prep or St Johns to continue the family traditions and  build the Catholic community in DC. They certainly aren't interested in Landon or St Albans or Sidwell.

Those "outside the Irish Mafia" Catholics who send their sons to Landon, who are members of a parish, are probably surprised at how that decision is received by their fellow parishioners. I have read their comments on this forum. They report that it was suggested to them that they were insufficiently Catholic or "not a real Catholic" for doing this. They are surprised and not very happy about this. They didn't really understand the "rules of the game" as it is played here in DC.

And to your comments laying the problems of the Catholic Church at the feet of the Irish. I think the problems that the Church has had are pretty well spread around among the major ethnic groups. The Irish were the cops. The Italians were --- and are --- the criminals.

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