Anonymous wrote:Easy to spot the Mater Dei/Prep/Gonzaga parents.

1. Absolute nightmares at sporting events

2. Cares everything about the HS bumper sticker
Couldn't care less where the kid goes to college

Had two sons who attended different private schools in the DMV. Both competed against Prep in sports. When I went to watch games or meets at Prep on school day afternoons or evenings, I was always amazed that the rest room was trashed--the one in the lobby of the building with the bookstore. Paper towels and other litter thrown all over the floor, a total mess. And, it was consistent. I never saw a mess like that at my sons' schools, nor at any other school I visited. Again, this was consistent, and i was always surprised that the Administration let it go on. Would not have happened when I was in high school, either. Maybe seems like a trivial thing to some people, but I will forever think of Prep as a place where students feel entitled and the Administration seems to do nothing about that.

I also attended one game at Prep where a kid was in the announcer's booth all game taunting Prep's opponent and its fans with snarky comments, while Prep was getting it handed to them on the field (which was poetic justice). I knew kids on both teams, but was pulling for the visitors after about 10 minutes of enduring the classless dribble coming over the loud speakers. I was dumbfounded that I did not see someone in the Administration march up to the booth, turn off the mic and haul out the kid by his ear. Really poor form.

I did not have the same experiences with Gonzaga. They brought the fan base for sure and they have some of the best school spirit in the DMV. I never saw the issues I saw with Prep.

On Mater Dei, I did watch one of my sons play them in middle school basketball, and they had three kids who looked 25 years old. They might have been!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations to Prep for earning IAC championship! Well fought game!

Which sport?

Varsity Football

Is it like Sprint football?

No. Regular football. Prep has a freshman team, a Junior Varsity team and a Varsity team.

The post above is congratulating the varsity football team on winning the IAC championship.

Spring football is regular football. Do you know what sprint football is?

Spring/sprint football? Please explain what you mean. I have heard of SPRINT football.

The evolution of sprint football was started in the early 1930’s by the president of the University of Pennsylvania. He wanted to assure that the smaller, talented student-athletes still had opportunities to compete in football on the intercollegiate level.

Founded as the Eastern 150-Pound Football League in 1934, the original league had seven members: Cornell, Lafayette, Penn, Princeton, Rutgers, Villanova, and Yale. Throughout the years, a number of teams have either joined or left the league. In 1946, Navy fielded its first squad, with army following suit in 1957. Mansfield started sprint football in 2008 and in the spring of 2009, was admitted as a member, the first new member in over 50 years!!!

During the first 25 years of the league, athletes became bigger, forcing the league to increase the weight limit from 150 to 154 pounds initially, then later to 159 pounds. At that time, the league was called the Eastern Lightweight Football League. Just two days prior to the 1996 season, the ELFL increased the weight limit again, this time to 165 pounds. In 2004, the weight limit was increased to 166 pounds. The current weight limit of 172 pounds was established in 2005.

Georgetown Prep vs Bullis game last Saturday was not sprint or Spring football.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t send my son to Prep if they paid me to do so.

Most of the graduates I know from Prep are pompous asshats with mediocre careers who think they are special.

Another family who won't be applying. At this rate, the number of applicants will be equal to the available seats in the freshman class by about the year 2342AD.

I would not send my child to the sister school either.

As soon as the AHC people mentioned that Prep was the brother school, we were out of there. Did not accept.

Of course Prep would guard their own. More reason to dislike their fake religious selves.

This entire thread is ridiculous, when you bash a school you bash 14-18 yr boys. You must feel so proud of yourself. BTW-Stone Ridge is Prep's sister school.

Sister school doesn't mean anything. All these girls and boys socialize between GP, Gonzaga, Stone Ridge, Visitation, Holy Cross, and Holy Child. The designation of sister school is kind of ridiculous in my opinion. My son went to Gonzaga and most of his exposure to girls schools was to Stone Ridge (where he made life long friends), even though Visitation is technically supposed to be Gonzaga's sister school.

Where and how do they socialize?

In HS and now.

For example, if you son goes golfing at the club with friends are some of those friends girls from Stone Ridge?

In HS -- son was in drama club...many girls from SR and Visitation participate in shows. This was at Gonzaga.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t send my son to Prep if they paid me to do so.

Most of the graduates I know from Prep are pompous asshats with mediocre careers who think they are special.

Another family who won't be applying. At this rate, the number of applicants will be equal to the available seats in the freshman class by about the year 2342AD.

I would not send my child to the sister school either.

As soon as the AHC people mentioned that Prep was the brother school, we were out of there. Did not accept.

Of course Prep would guard their own. More reason to dislike their fake religious selves.

This entire thread is ridiculous, when you bash a school you bash 14-18 yr boys. You must feel so proud of yourself. BTW-Stone Ridge is Prep's sister school.

Sister school doesn't mean anything. All these girls and boys socialize between GP, Gonzaga, Stone Ridge, Visitation, Holy Cross, and Holy Child. The designation of sister school is kind of ridiculous in my opinion. My son went to Gonzaga and most of his exposure to girls schools was to Stone Ridge (where he made life long friends), even though Visitation is technically supposed to be Gonzaga's sister school.

Where and how do they socialize?

In HS and now.

For example, if you son goes golfing at the club with friends are some of those friends girls from Stone Ridge?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Easiest school to get into. They take every Mater Dei kid which is amazing considering that school is just about coloring pictures.

Huh? I heard Mater dei was strong academically. Is what PP just said true?

Mater Dei is an excellent school. Some people on this forum are still mad that BK is on the Supreme Court. It's sad that it manifests itself like this.

They make everyone repeat a grade so that they are bigger for sports. Their school motto is something like be a good guy. Son had several friends who went to MD. All dumb as rocks.

I went to Mater Dei and then an elite college. No pink backpacks. Lots of very smart kids and some less smart but on the whole around average for Prep / Gonzaga and those schools have very high average SAT scores. Not sure you can do much better unless you are talking about a school like St. Albans that draws from the whole area and all religious groups and rejects a ton of people. It's a fine school and insulting 6th grade boys says more about you than them, IMO.

I will say that the sports stuff is overdone, particularly the redshirting, and I probably won't send my sons there for that reason. But the education was high quality and the teachers were dedicated and thoughtful.

In particular, I learned grammar at Mater Dei in a way I never saw it taught elsewhere. This was very beneficial as a lifelong skill.

Correction: No pink backpacks when you were there... in the 80's I assume.

Tired of the Mater Dei/Prep bashing. I don't know who these posters are who think they and their children are so superior but it's rarely a good look or credible to claim that all students at a certain school are dumb as rocks. For what it's worth, I'm an Ivy grad/National Merit Scholar (ie, not athlete) with boys who've attended both schools and of course there is a range of academic abilities at both, but there are a high percentage of very smart, serious students. Of the most academic MD grads from the recent class I know best, some went to Prep, some to Gonzaga, some to St. Albans, among other schools, and from what I hear they are thriving in their respective schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Easiest school to get into. They take every Mater Dei kid which is amazing considering that school is just about coloring pictures.

Huh? I heard Mater dei was strong academically. Is what PP just said true?

Mater Dei is an excellent school. Some people on this forum are still mad that BK is on the Supreme Court. It's sad that it manifests itself like this.

They make everyone repeat a grade so that they are bigger for sports. Their school motto is something like be a good guy. Son had several friends who went to MD. All dumb as rocks.

I went to Mater Dei and then an elite college. No pink backpacks. Lots of very smart kids and some less smart but on the whole around average for Prep / Gonzaga and those schools have very high average SAT scores. Not sure you can do much better unless you are talking about a school like St. Albans that draws from the whole area and all religious groups and rejects a ton of people. It's a fine school and insulting 6th grade boys says more about you than them, IMO.

I will say that the sports stuff is overdone, particularly the redshirting, and I probably won't send my sons there for that reason. But the education was high quality and the teachers were dedicated and thoughtful.

In particular, I learned grammar at Mater Dei in a way I never saw it taught elsewhere. This was very beneficial as a lifelong skill.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t send my son to Prep if they paid me to do so.

Most of the graduates I know from Prep are pompous asshats with mediocre careers who think they are special.

Another family who won't be applying. At this rate, the number of applicants will be equal to the available seats in the freshman class by about the year 2342AD.

I would not send my child to the sister school either.

As soon as the AHC people mentioned that Prep was the brother school, we were out of there. Did not accept.

Of course Prep would guard their own. More reason to dislike their fake religious selves.

This entire thread is ridiculous, when you bash a school you bash 14-18 yr boys. You must feel so proud of yourself. BTW-Stone Ridge is Prep's sister school.

Sister school doesn't mean anything. All these girls and boys socialize between GP, Gonzaga, Stone Ridge, Visitation, Holy Cross, and Holy Child. The designation of sister school is kind of ridiculous in my opinion. My son went to Gonzaga and most of his exposure to girls schools was to Stone Ridge (where he made life long friends), even though Visitation is technically supposed to be Gonzaga's sister school.

Where and how do they socialize?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t send my son to Prep if they paid me to do so.

Most of the graduates I know from Prep are pompous asshats with mediocre careers who think they are special.

Another family who won't be applying. At this rate, the number of applicants will be equal to the available seats in the freshman class by about the year 2342AD.

I would not send my child to the sister school either.

As soon as the AHC people mentioned that Prep was the brother school, we were out of there. Did not accept.

Of course Prep would guard their own. More reason to dislike their fake religious selves.

This entire thread is ridiculous, when you bash a school you bash 14-18 yr boys. You must feel so proud of yourself. BTW-Stone Ridge is Prep's sister school.

Sister school doesn't mean anything. All these girls and boys socialize between GP, Gonzaga, Stone Ridge, Visitation, Holy Cross, and Holy Child. The designation of sister school is kind of ridiculous in my opinion. My son went to Gonzaga and most of his exposure to girls schools was to Stone Ridge (where he made life long friends), even though Visitation is technically supposed to be Gonzaga's sister school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations to Prep for earning IAC championship! Well fought game!

Which sport?

Varsity Football

Is it like Sprint football?

No. Regular football. Prep has a freshman team, a Junior Varsity team and a Varsity team.

The post above is congratulating the varsity football team on winning the IAC championship.

Spring football is regular football. Do you know what sprint football is?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations to Prep for earning IAC championship! Well fought game!

Which sport?

Varsity Football

Is it like Sprint football?

No. Regular football. Prep has a freshman team, a Junior Varsity team and a Varsity team.

The post above is congratulating the varsity football team on winning the IAC championship.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t send my son to Prep if they paid me to do so.

Most of the graduates I know from Prep are pompous asshats with mediocre careers who think they are special.

Another family who won't be applying. At this rate, the number of applicants will be equal to the available seats in the freshman class by about the year 2342AD.

I would not send my child to the sister school either.

As soon as the AHC people mentioned that Prep was the brother school, we were out of there. Did not accept.

Of course Prep would guard their own. More reason to dislike their fake religious selves.

This entire thread is ridiculous, when you bash a school you bash 14-18 yr boys. You must feel so proud of yourself. BTW-Stone Ridge is Prep's sister school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Easiest school to get into. They take every Mater Dei kid which is amazing considering that school is just about coloring pictures.

Huh? I heard Mater dei was strong academically. Is what PP just said true?

Mater Dei is an excellent school. Some people on this forum are still mad that BK is on the Supreme Court. It's sad that it manifests itself like this.

They make everyone repeat a grade so that they are bigger for sports. Their school motto is something like be a good guy. Son had several friends who went to MD. All dumb as rocks.

Easy to spot the Mater Dei/Prep/Gonzaga parents.

1. Absolute nightmares at sporting events

2. Cares everything about the HS bumper sticker
Couldn't care less where the kid goes to college

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Mater Dei is an excellent school. Some people on this forum are still mad that BK is on the Supreme Court. It's sad that it manifests itself like this.

Your delusional if you think the criticisms are new to BK.

Do they still make boys carry s pink backpack as a punishment . Oh it’s a long road to train a mysogynist.

Never heard anything about a pink backpack. Never saw it in my four years. I'm assuming you regularly saw kids carrying pink backpacks when you were there.

It how they punished boys. Not sure why you would “see it”, it happens during the school day.

In my 30+ years at GP, I have never seen anything like this. Urban legend, or just a lie?

The person making this claim has not said how she knows it. Like I said before, in my time there I never saw anything like this. I have a sneaking suspicion that whoever is making this claim really doesn't have any affiliation with which they are speaking on.

The discussion is about Mater Dei and it’s absolutely true. Search this forum and you will find many posts about it.

Of course it hard to believe because it’s appauling.