Anonymous wrote:My kid is 2 years away from K and wondering what schools would be a culture fit for us? DH and I are both from the SE and will be raising kids here. Want them to get a great education but want it to be a fit for us as a family. Not into MAGA stuff but consider ourselves right of center. would SSAS, Holy Trinity, Potomac, St Pats be good fits? Any others?

Anonymous wrote:I think Trump is essentially “Hitler” but have MAGA family I still must deal with, so I can easily manage these dynamics in a school setting…which is say, I ignore them and keep my mouth shut. This may be easier to do as a man…

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Anonymous wrote:We’re at SSSAS and we genuinely don’t want you. You might be big donors but SSSAS has enough legacy liberal families and POC. You just make a giant fuss over every summer reading book and every history report topic and every book title in the lower school classrooms. You complain every time a kid changes their name. You’re annoying and on the wrong side of history. Read the room. Episcopalians are woke and you’re just not listening.

Speak for yourself. Also at SSSAS and I don’t think your represent the majority. And I think your probably a weird troll.

I've noticed that the left-leaning frequently can't imagine they aren't in the majority. I guess that's natural when you are as sure of the rightness of your politics as many of them are.

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It's also natural when you associate only with your fellow left leaning parents, and roll your eyes at normal people who don't judge people based on race, don't want boys in girls sports, and don't think that Trump is the second coming of Hitler. At too many DC privates, people like this are the norm, and thank God my children are not part of that culture.

I’d take it a step further. We have experience at 4 different privates. We are right leaning independents. I do not agree with a lot of the more extreme stuff people describe as woke. But I don’t feel the need to insert my opinion about it or Trump or politics into conversations with parents. Every instance in the last 11 years that I can recall where someone has made broad categorizations related to politics have been Democrats lambasting Republicans. They absolutely assume everyone agrees with them and they just spout off. Now, I don’t lie and say I agree when I don’t but I do not actively engage. I don’t want to and it’s not worth it because they aren’t interested in discussing. Frankly I’m probably not either. The point is that they assume everyone is a democrat and hates Trump or hates everything Republicans are doing. It just isn’t true. And FWIW, I live in Fairfax and my kids were in public for a time and the public school parents were the same. Those who spoke up were loud and absolutely convinced that they were in the right and also that everyone around them agreed. It’s kind of wild to see people so completely convinced but also so clearly oblivious.

I have the exact same experience, but the other way. I am always shocked by the number of people who assume that I support Trump, hate Biden (and Hilary), think antidiscrimination laws are unnecessary because "I don't see color," and that I approve of the way we are treating human beings who we suspect might be here illegally. I'm white, blonde, and don't wear my Dem card on my sleeve so perhaps I'm viewed as safe to expound to. I'm not denying your experience, but please don't think it's one-sided. It definitely goes both ways.

Anonymous wrote:Oh please. What an annoying thread. Let's have a contest to see which political side is more aggrieved.

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Anonymous wrote:The answer is SSSAS. Yes, there are woke teachers. Yes, there are some enby kids. Yes, the school instills a sense of social responsibility. Yes, the school dipped its toes into BLM for a brief period immediately after George Floyd.

All of that is true, but it's also true that the parent culture is more conservative (meaning probably like D +10 as opposed to like D +80 at a school like Sidwell) and MUCH more southern (and preppy) than other DC area privates.

I don't know any parents who are openly MAGA, but I know a more than a few who voted for Youngkin. It's not a conservative school in the political sense but it is a school where conservatives can and do fit in. People don't wear their politics on their sleeves.

I don’t think you are an SSSAS parent. It is not the place for someone who describes themselves as OP does. Not anymore.

Anonymous wrote:The answer is SSSAS. Yes, there are woke teachers. Yes, there are some enby kids. Yes, the school instills a sense of social responsibility. Yes, the school dipped its toes into BLM for a brief period immediately after George Floyd.

All of that is true, but it's also true that the parent culture is more conservative (meaning probably like D +10 as opposed to like D +80 at a school like Sidwell) and MUCH more southern (and preppy) than other DC area privates.

I don't know any parents who are openly MAGA, but I know a more than a few who voted for Youngkin. It's not a conservative school in the political sense but it is a school where conservatives can and do fit in. People don't wear their politics on their sleeves.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re at SSSAS and we genuinely don’t want you. You might be big donors but SSSAS has enough legacy liberal families and POC. You just make a giant fuss over every summer reading book and every history report topic and every book title in the lower school classrooms. You complain every time a kid changes their name. You’re annoying and on the wrong side of history. Read the room. Episcopalians are woke and you’re just not listening.

Speak for yourself. Also at SSSAS and I don’t think your represent the majority. And I think your probably a weird troll.

I've noticed that the left-leaning frequently can't imagine they aren't in the majority. I guess that's natural when you are as sure of the rightness of your politics as many of them are.

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It's also natural when you associate only with your fellow left leaning parents, and roll your eyes at normal people who don't judge people based on race, don't want boys in girls sports, and don't think that Trump is the second coming of Hitler. At too many DC privates, people like this are the norm, and thank God my children are not part of that culture.

I’d take it a step further. We have experience at 4 different privates. We are right leaning independents. I do not agree with a lot of the more extreme stuff people describe as woke. But I don’t feel the need to insert my opinion about it or Trump or politics into conversations with parents. Every instance in the last 11 years that I can recall where someone has made broad categorizations related to politics have been Democrats lambasting Republicans. They absolutely assume everyone agrees with them and they just spout off. Now, I don’t lie and say I agree when I don’t but I do not actively engage. I don’t want to and it’s not worth it because they aren’t interested in discussing. Frankly I’m probably not either. The point is that they assume everyone is a democrat and hates Trump or hates everything Republicans are doing. It just isn’t true. And FWIW, I live in Fairfax and my kids were in public for a time and the public school parents were the same. Those who spoke up were loud and absolutely convinced that they were in the right and also that everyone around them agreed. It’s kind of wild to see people so completely convinced but also so clearly oblivious.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re at SSSAS and we genuinely don’t want you. You might be big donors but SSSAS has enough legacy liberal families and POC. You just make a giant fuss over every summer reading book and every history report topic and every book title in the lower school classrooms. You complain every time a kid changes their name. You’re annoying and on the wrong side of history. Read the room. Episcopalians are woke and you’re just not listening.

Speak for yourself. Also at SSSAS and I don’t think your represent the majority. And I think your probably a weird troll.

I've noticed that the left-leaning frequently can't imagine they aren't in the majority. I guess that's natural when you are as sure of the rightness of your politics as many of them are.

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It's also natural when you associate only with your fellow left leaning parents, and roll your eyes at normal people who don't judge people based on race, don't want boys in girls sports, and don't think that Trump is the second coming of Hitler. At too many DC privates, people like this are the norm, and thank God my children are not part of that culture.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re at SSSAS and we genuinely don’t want you. You might be big donors but SSSAS has enough legacy liberal families and POC. You just make a giant fuss over every summer reading book and every history report topic and every book title in the lower school classrooms. You complain every time a kid changes their name. You’re annoying and on the wrong side of history. Read the room. Episcopalians are woke and you’re just not listening.

Speak for yourself. Also at SSSAS and I don’t think your represent the majority. And I think your probably a weird troll.

I've noticed that the left-leaning frequently can't imagine they aren't in the majority. I guess that's natural when you are as sure of the rightness of your politics as many of them are.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re at SSSAS and we genuinely don’t want you. You might be big donors but SSSAS has enough legacy liberal families and POC. You just make a giant fuss over every summer reading book and every history report topic and every book title in the lower school classrooms. You complain every time a kid changes their name. You’re annoying and on the wrong side of history. Read the room. Episcopalians are woke and you’re just not listening.

Speak for yourself. Also at SSSAS and I don’t think your represent the majority. And I think your probably a weird troll.

I've noticed that the left-leaning frequently can't imagine they aren't in the majority. I guess that's natural when you are as sure of the rightness of your politics as many of them are.

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Anonymous wrote:SSSAS is way too woke for you. All of the teachers are very liberal leaning. The families who are republicans are being pushed out. I’d do Catholic school. St Mary’s in Old Town is for the “southern” moderates.

Agree . The MAGA crowd is heading to Visi for HS