Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 22:09     Subject: Is Westbrook, Westland and BCC Cluster Liberal
Are you in the administration OP? If so I would go private. You will not get a warm welcome in the B-CC catchment.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 21:18     Subject: Is Westbrook, Westland and BCC Cluster Liberal
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is it true students taking Chinese for world language are more aligned to right-maga territory? But how would one know unless those students are saying so in class??

Is this your roundabout way of asking if Chinese people here are more aligned to right-maga territory?


I think it's because Ivanka brags her kids are fluent in Mandarin... but they're not!
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 21:15     Subject: Is Westbrook, Westland and BCC Cluster Liberal
It's a mix. A lot of Trump admin folks live in this part of BCC/ chevy chase because it has the country club and nice housing stock. But many go to private schools.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 21:07     Subject: Is Westbrook, Westland and BCC Cluster Liberal
Anonymous wrote:BCC parent. We have a mix - some US liberal, and US Trumpy and a peculiar mix of European liberal (Nordic, and Dutch) plus neo-fascist (Italians, mostly).

Trump admin parents often choose catholic school - stone ridge, Georgetown prep.


This BCC European parent finds your use of the word "peculiar" not entirely flattering. Also, just because Meloni is in power, you think all Italians are neo-fascists? You paint with a BROAD brush, my friend. I don't think you know what the heck you're talking about

Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 21:03     Subject: Is Westbrook, Westland and BCC Cluster Liberal
BCC parent. We have a mix - some US liberal, and US Trumpy and a peculiar mix of European liberal (Nordic, and Dutch) plus neo-fascist (Italians, mostly).

Trump admin parents often choose catholic school - stone ridge, Georgetown prep.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 18:59     Subject: Is Westbrook, Westland and BCC Cluster Liberal
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Thank you. useful. I guess all the conservative folks go to private schools then? Any I should stay clear of (I'm going to enroll my pre-K student into private most likely, my teen not so much).


Please post on the Private School Forum to have more accurate details. Some privates are very progressive, like GDS. Every single non-religious school will be center-left to left, because most wealthy people lean left here. Some Catholic schools and perhaps other schools from other denominations will be socially conservative, but not all of them. Jesuit schools are usually less conservative than other Catholic schools. Social conservatism doesn't mean MAGA. The Church has a duty to care for the indigent and vulnerable of any nation, regardless of paperwork, so certain ideologies will never align. If you're interested in the most academically reputable schools - and opinions vary on which to include in that group - such as Sidwell (Quaker school), and the Cathedral schools (Episcopalian), they're all center-left.

I'd like to note that most of us will be courteous if we learn that you work for this administration. I know many decent conservatives in Trump's first term, who felt called to be the bulwarks of democracy against the anticonstitutional or illegal excesses of Trump 1.0. Someone has got to be on the inside looking out for those of us on the outside. I'm sure there are some around for 2.0 as well.

But you are correct to beware of your children's experiences in school. Kids tell it like it is.



I live in this cluster and hard disagree. You don't speak for all of us.


True, but public discourse is the only way we're getting out of our current extreme divisions. You're not helping if you summarily dismiss anyone you think is unreasonable even before you get to know them personally.

Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 18:57     Subject: Is Westbrook, Westland and BCC Cluster Liberal
Anonymous wrote:Thank you. useful. I guess all the conservative folks go to private schools then? Any I should stay clear of (I'm going to enroll my pre-K student into private most likely, my teen not so much).


Just move far out in Virginia.