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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone see a commons theme here - prep fathers or prep dads are infatuated with where they went to high school...

I was raised catholic from Ohio relocated to the DC area and my son is at an independent school (sorry not catholic) and is loving his experience thus far.

I don't understand what is the obsession in this area with high school degrees - again it's the vibe that some of these catholic schools give off. [/quote]

Let's see. "I'm from Ohio" and "I don't understand the obsession ...".

Have you considered that being from Ohio doesn't allow you to understand the local Catholics and the history here?

In Ohio, I'm guessing that the Catholic population is not dominated by a single ethnic group. Here it is, the Irish.

In DC, the Catholic community has lived here for several generations and is very cohesive. There' a lot of inter-marriage between families. They went to grammar school and high school together. They even have a different geography with the DC area divided up bay parish boundaries.

The great majority of the Catholics here that send their kids to private schools don't even consider independent private schools. The choice is either between two or more of the Catholic schools or between Catholic schools and their local public school. These people are more likely to be practicing Catholics than they are people that have been "raised Catholic".

It's a matter of history and preference.

Your son, I'm sure, will be fine. He is just having a different experience.[/quote]

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