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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi — Thoughts on Blessed Sacrament for our kids?

We’re a liberal Jewish family (but not very religious) in the neighborhood.

Our neighbors seem to like BS, and we like that it’s nearby, affordable, and smaller than public but not too small.

We are looking for a school that will provide a good education, in a welcoming community, where our kids and we can make friends. [/quote]

look at Milton. It has a liberal parent body (many are not religious) and offers sicnifigant financial aid to many families.  It sounds like you and your family would fit in well there. Good education, welcoming community (many in Chevy chase), not super far away, will be a place for you and your kids to make friends for sure.  It is also pretty diverse.[/quote]

Interesting.  I just looked at the websites for both schools.  In addition to tuition at BS being only 1/3 that of Milton, it says on page one of BS’s website:

“As Catholics, we invite students and families of all faiths and beliefs to enrich our learning environment and school community.”

Contrast that with Milton:

“Students attending MILTON belong to Secular, Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative, Modern Orthodox, and inter-faith families. All streams of Judaism and perspectives are celebrated and respected.”

Quite a difference when it comes to acceptance, eh?   Yet everybody is jumping all over the Catholic school . . .[/quote]

It’s not that Milton doesn’t accept non-Jewish families. They are telling you what the student body consists of, and given that much of the day is spent learning Hebrew and Judaic studies, it’s not at all surprising that it’s not somewhere that most non-Jewish families choose. And they are explaining that they are a pluralist Jewish school, which is in contrast to some Jewish schools that are Orthodox or Conservative - again, not that non Orthodox or Conservative families couldn’t go but they are explaining what the prayer and teaching philosophy will look like.  There are a handful of non-Jewish families at Milton that I know of, but of course there aren’t many. [/quote]

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