PP is correct. Very insulated.

There's this large and relatively tight-knit Catholic community here in Washington. Visitation is a favorite school for this group, much more than a much more diverse St. Johns, for example.

Just look at the high school destinations of the parish schools in the Parish Times. You can see just how many girls are coming from Blessed Sacrament, Mercy, St Barts, etc.

If you daughter is not in this group, going to Visi will be a little bit like moving to a small town in which everyone knows everyone else or at least their histories and environments are very similar.

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Anonymous wrote:My child goes to another Catholic school and sadly a child passed away. The students attended the funeral in their uniforms and the non/Catholics get a blessing during communion.

I noticed about 40% of the students received the blessing.

I'm sure Visi knows the #'s ... just call and ask.

I assume most of those students are Christian.

I teach at another Catholic HS and I agree that mass is one way you can tell. I never counted, but there are definitely more than 7% of the students who don’t take communion.

Another Catholic school isn't Visitation. Different schools have different student bodies. The overwhelming majority of girls at Visitation are Catholics.

Anonymous wrote:My child goes to another Catholic school and sadly a child passed away. The students attended the funeral in their uniforms and the non/Catholics get a blessing during communion.

I noticed about 40% of the students received the blessing.

I'm sure Visi knows the #'s ... just call and ask.

I assume most of those students are Christian.

I teach at another Catholic HS and I agree that mass is one way you can tell. I never counted, but there are definitely more than 7% of the students who don’t take communion.

My child goes to another Catholic school and sadly a child passed away. The students attended the funeral in their uniforms and the non/Catholics get a blessing during communion.

I noticed about 40% of the students received the blessing.

I'm sure Visi knows the #'s ... just call and ask.

I assume most of those students are Christian.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would a non Catholic want to go to a catholic school when there are plenty of public and non Catholic privates!

That would be my question too. The Catholic nature of this environment goes far beyond the Religion classes and Masses.

I don’t get it either. I know a Jewish family who sends their kids to a Presbyterian school and plans to send at least one to Catholic school after. I’d like to know how they explain the religious aspects of these schools to their kids.

But it's more than the religious aspects. Our experience is that just as their is a Jewish sub-culture there is a Catholic one too.

Non-Catholics can survive a school like Visi, but why do it?

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Anonymous wrote:Why would a non Catholic want to go to a catholic school when there are plenty of public and non Catholic privates!

That would be my question too. The Catholic nature of this environment goes far beyond the Religion classes and Masses.

I don’t get it either. I know a Jewish family who sends their kids to a Presbyterian school and plans to send at least one to Catholic school after. I’d like to know how they explain the religious aspects of these schools to their kids.

I am WASP and interviewed for a teaching position there in the 90s. It felt very Catholic to me. I definitely felt like I would be different. The girls seemed very sweet.

Anonymous wrote:Why would a non Catholic want to go to a catholic school when there are plenty of public and non Catholic privates!

That would be my question too. The Catholic nature of this environment goes far beyond the Religion classes and Masses.

Why would a non Catholic want to go to a catholic school when there are plenty of public and non Catholic privates!

Anonymous wrote:If we are solidly upper middle class - not rich by any means, will our daughter feel out of place here?

I think you will fit right in. That was our daughters' experiences.

If we are solidly upper middle class - not rich by any means, will our daughter feel out of place here?

Anonymous wrote:In my 2005 class there were 7ish out of ~110. I'm not sure how much that's changed

How do you know this? I graduated in the late 90s and in my class of 110ish, I have no idea how many weren’t Catholic. I know there were some but I don’t think anyone would have really cared.

In my 2005 class there were 7ish out of ~110. I'm not sure how much that's changed

Do any non-Catholics attend Georgetown Visitation?