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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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?[b] There are a few Catholics at Landon and their families are generally new to DC and not part of the larger Catholic community. [/b]

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]

we are at Landon (and not catholic) The catholic kids in my DS class are neither new to DC nor are they not part of the Catholic community. I would say at least 20% of the class is Catholic.

It sounds like you have failed to move on from the 1990's.[/quote]

Being a transplanted Catholic whose children have gone the route of non Catholic privates, I can actually attest that years ago when we moved here we tried to break into the local Catholic community. We felt very ostracized in ways that are hard to describe. Suffice it to say we pulled our first out of the local parish school and never looked back. Without identifying specifics we went the "Landon-like" route.  I have noticed this pattern so often here that I so believe there really is something to the particular insularity of the local Catholics. I say this with some sadness as I felt somewhat betrayed (perhaps that is too strong) but I am trying to make a point. That is all. [/quote]

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