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Anonymous wrote:We paid around $400 a month for daily classes M-F and a weekly short private lesson. Fencing is expensive - whenever a college says it cares about equity but it still has a varsity fencing team, I can't help but roll my eyes...

I don't understand your mentality. You pay for your DC to be in fencing, yet you think a college should not have a varsity fencing team if they REALLY cared about equity? Are they mutually exclusive? And what does that say about you??

I paid for fencing because it was a sport my kid was interested in and I wanted him to get off the couch and I can easily afford it.

But I can still think that colleges shouldn't accept students based on them being good at a sport that is essentially only open to rich kids.

Anonymous wrote:We paid around $400 a month for daily classes M-F and a weekly short private lesson. Fencing is expensive - whenever a college says it cares about equity but it still has a varsity fencing team, I can't help but roll my eyes...

I don't understand your mentality. You pay for your DC to be in fencing, yet you think a college should not have a varsity fencing team if they REALLY cared about equity? Are they mutually exclusive? And what does that say about you??

We paid around $400 a month for daily classes M-F and a weekly short private lesson. Fencing is expensive - whenever a college says it cares about equity but it still has a varsity fencing team, I can't help but roll my eyes...

We live in Baltimore but always enjoyed tournaments at Fairfax Fencers. They were always very welcoming.

If you’re willing to travel to Chantilly VA, Fairfax fencers annual membership cost is around $1200-1300, and you can attend as many classes, e.g., for beginner, you can have 5x 1 hour lesson per week.

$300/month but they usually make you sign a year contract.

A lot

DD is 11 yo and beginner, just moved to Mclean/Tysons areas. Would appreciate some general fencing school/club recommendation and the ballpark range of the cost.

Thanks a lot.