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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Easy - Beauvoir is nominally Episcopalian. GDS is nominally Jewish.  Both are the more liberal sectors of each religious contingent and their school administration's actions and policies reflect the influence of each "tribe".[/quote]

GDS is nominally "nothing."  It was started in 1945 by people who were not into segregation[/quote]

So, you have never, ever heard that GDS is primarily Jewish and you would swear that the school is, like Beauvoir no more than 20% from any particular religious group ? Question: does GDS give tests on Yom Kippur ? Is it open on Yom Kippur ? Not that there is anything wrong with making allowances , but lets be honest as to the reasons why that is done. There is more religious diversity at Beauvoir than at GDS. That is a fact.[/quote]

Are you basically saying that Beauvoir has a religious quota?[/quote]

No, and boy are you determined to  twist everything.  I'd say that Beauvoir has  a great amount of diversity becuase its a great school with incredible facilities and , as a resuly, they probaly get most of their 1st choice yield each admissions year.  PP, can you not simply speak positively about GDS, if that is your feeling. Why do you have to attack Beauvoir to prop GDS up .  [/quote]

PP, hate to pull a J Steele on you but that is not what you said.  You didn't say that Beauvoir has a great amount of diversity because it is a great school with incredible facilities and has a high admissions yield, but that "GDS is primarily Jewish...Beauvoir [has] no more than 20% from any particular religious group."   From my reading, you basically say that there is nothing wrong with a lot of Jews at GDS, but that there is more religious diversity at Beauvoir.  "That is a fact," which you then do not offer a cite.  And unlike your rhetorical question, where you assume no, GDS is not open on Yom Kippur, GDS is open on the Jewish High Holidays.  [/quote]

I am not interested in a debate with you and I don't think that the OP is interested in us debating. As a Beauvoir parent I can say, for a fact, that Beauvoir has more ethnic and religious diversity than GDS. I know many parents at both schools ( many former B parents are at GDS now)

I guess you don't like having a Beauvoir parent put the lie to the stereotype that the schoool is full of WASPS. It is very , very, diverse, including politically, country of origin, religiously, racially. How is this achieved ? I have no idea. I am not the AD. I postulated that most schools try to achieve diversity but only achieve it if they can get their full yield on their first choice admit roster. Beauvoir achieves this goal all have because its a wonderful school with incredible facilities. That is my guess. Diversity of all kinds: political, racial, religous, country of origin, sexuality, is good for our kids. Do we not agree ?  I think we do.

To me a "quota" suggests blindly picking based on religion or race to fit a number. Its a negative association and you know it is, which is why you suggest that to try to put a negative on Beauvoir's diversity. Geesh, give it up. Beauvoir is a great school. If you stromgly feel GD is the best school, perhaps say why as a stand alone point without tagging Beauvoir with a stereotype that is 60 years out of date.[/quote]

PP, in your obsession with diversity it's funny that the only category you didn't mention is socioeconomic, which is of course the only one that really matters any more. Perhaps that is because, for all the ballyhooing, B is still not a magnet for families from, shall we say, east of the Park?[/quote]

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