Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Well, I guess I'm one of those upper middle class blacks in the city, and actually, several of my black friends are members of country clubs. But frankly, my kids go to private school, and in our free time I'd like them to be in a more diverse environment. Plus, we don't golf. All our friends who joined clubs are golfers. We just join a pool for the summer.
I'm with you PP. We also have kid in private, and prefer a more diverse environment in our free time. I actually haven't found that many DC private school families have interest in joining these clubs.
Our three children have spent 12 plus years in "top 3" private schools and the club we belong to is filled with the parents of their classmates. The other clubs also have tons of private school families.
Interesting. I'm a K-12 alum of a "top 3" and none of us belonged to those clubs. I'm now preparing to send mine to the same school and, again, we know very few families that belong to them. Most of our friends are in NW - I wonder if many of these families live in MD/VA.
My guess is there are less GDS and Sidwell families than Cathedral school families.
I think that's right. Given the history of GDS and the Quaker values of Sidwell (at least back in our parent's generation), it would be hard to imagine that very many families who sent their children to those schools would have condoned the blatant discrimination of many of these country clubs in the 60s and 70s.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Well, I guess I'm one of those upper middle class blacks in the city, and actually, several of my black friends are members of country clubs. But frankly, my kids go to private school, and in our free time I'd like them to be in a more diverse environment. Plus, we don't golf. All our friends who joined clubs are golfers. We just join a pool for the summer.
I'm with you PP. We also have kid in private, and prefer a more diverse environment in our free time. I actually haven't found that many DC private school families have interest in joining these clubs.
Our three children have spent 12 plus years in "top 3" private schools and the club we belong to is filled with the parents of their classmates. The other clubs also have tons of private school families.
Interesting. I'm a K-12 alum of a "top 3" and none of us belonged to those clubs. I'm now preparing to send mine to the same school and, again, we know very few families that belong to them. Most of our friends are in NW - I wonder if many of these families live in MD/VA.
I'm AA, as is my DH. We have AA friends who are members of country clubs. Personally, we are unwilling to consider paying for membership at private clubs that were so recently closed to our kind. We are also uninterested in feeling like the token Black family, we get plenty of that in the professional and social circles we already run in. Our AA friends who are members seem not to mind. DH and I went to prestigious private top tier colleges and private schools k-12 (well, k-8 for me), so we are quite familiar with the demographic. Many of our white friends are members at various clubs in the area, and every time we have been invited for a meal, I just get a weird feeling. And no, before you dismiss me as an angry black woman who is hypersensitive to anything that might be racial, I am not angry or overly sensitive.
Makes sense to me.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Well, I guess I'm one of those upper middle class blacks in the city, and actually, several of my black friends are members of country clubs. But frankly, my kids go to private school, and in our free time I'd like them to be in a more diverse environment. Plus, we don't golf. All our friends who joined clubs are golfers. We just join a pool for the summer.
I'm with you PP. We also have kid in private, and prefer a more diverse environment in our free time. I actually haven't found that many DC private school families have interest in joining these clubs.
Our three children have spent 12 plus years in "top 3" private schools and the club we belong to is filled with the parents of their classmates. The other clubs also have tons of private school families.
Interesting. I'm a K-12 alum of a "top 3" and none of us belonged to those clubs. I'm now preparing to send mine to the same school and, again, we know very few families that belong to them. Most of our friends are in NW - I wonder if many of these families live in MD/VA.
I'm AA, as is my DH. We have AA friends who are members of country clubs. Personally, we are unwilling to consider paying for membership at private clubs that were so recently closed to our kind. We are also uninterested in feeling like the token Black family, we get plenty of that in the professional and social circles we already run in. Our AA friends who are members seem not to mind. DH and I went to prestigious private top tier colleges and private schools k-12 (well, k-8 for me), so we are quite familiar with the demographic. Many of our white friends are members at various clubs in the area, and every time we have been invited for a meal, I just get a weird feeling. And no, before you dismiss me as an angry black woman who is hypersensitive to anything that might be racial, I am not angry or overly sensitive.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Well, I guess I'm one of those upper middle class blacks in the city, and actually, several of my black friends are members of country clubs. But frankly, my kids go to private school, and in our free time I'd like them to be in a more diverse environment. Plus, we don't golf. All our friends who joined clubs are golfers. We just join a pool for the summer.
I'm with you PP. We also have kid in private, and prefer a more diverse environment in our free time. I actually haven't found that many DC private school families have interest in joining these clubs.
Our three children have spent 12 plus years in "top 3" private schools and the club we belong to is filled with the parents of their classmates. The other clubs also have tons of private school families.
Interesting. I'm a K-12 alum of a "top 3" and none of us belonged to those clubs. I'm now preparing to send mine to the same school and, again, we know very few families that belong to them. Most of our friends are in NW - I wonder if many of these families live in MD/VA.
Anonymous wrote:For whoever mentioned networking, my understanding that networking at CC in general is a huge no-no around here. I know at my CC it is frowned upon.
As for those who don't get the point of a CC, understand that the intiation fee buys no only you a life long membership, but your children a membership at a very reduced initiation fee. And if your children plan to stay near DC that is a huge bonus to them.
As for the monthly dues, if you add up the cost of golfing on a public course on a weekly basis, a gym membership, tennis membership, a swim membership, the monthly dues are a drop in the bucket. Plus food prices for dining at a CC are excellent and there is no tipping involved. The social events are fun and cheap and the summer camp options are excellent.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Well, I guess I'm one of those upper middle class blacks in the city, and actually, several of my black friends are members of country clubs. But frankly, my kids go to private school, and in our free time I'd like them to be in a more diverse environment. Plus, we don't golf. All our friends who joined clubs are golfers. We just join a pool for the summer.
I'm with you PP. We also have kid in private, and prefer a more diverse environment in our free time. I actually haven't found that many DC private school families have interest in joining these clubs.
Our three children have spent 12 plus years in "top 3" private schools and the club we belong to is filled with the parents of their classmates. The other clubs also have tons of private school families.
Interesting. I'm a K-12 alum of a "top 3" and none of us belonged to those clubs. I'm now preparing to send mine to the same school and, again, we know very few families that belong to them. Most of our friends are in NW - I wonder if many of these families live in MD/VA.
My guess is there are less GDS and Sidwell families than Cathedral school families.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Well, I guess I'm one of those upper middle class blacks in the city, and actually, several of my black friends are members of country clubs. But frankly, my kids go to private school, and in our free time I'd like them to be in a more diverse environment. Plus, we don't golf. All our friends who joined clubs are golfers. We just join a pool for the summer.
I'm with you PP. We also have kid in private, and prefer a more diverse environment in our free time. I actually haven't found that many DC private school families have interest in joining these clubs.
Our three children have spent 12 plus years in "top 3" private schools and the club we belong to is filled with the parents of their classmates. The other clubs also have tons of private school families.
Interesting. I'm a K-12 alum of a "top 3" and none of us belonged to those clubs. I'm now preparing to send mine to the same school and, again, we know very few families that belong to them. Most of our friends are in NW - I wonder if many of these families live in MD/VA.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Well, I guess I'm one of those upper middle class blacks in the city, and actually, several of my black friends are members of country clubs. But frankly, my kids go to private school, and in our free time I'd like them to be in a more diverse environment. Plus, we don't golf. All our friends who joined clubs are golfers. We just join a pool for the summer.
I'm with you PP. We also have kid in private, and prefer a more diverse environment in our free time. I actually haven't found that many DC private school families have interest in joining these clubs.
Our three children have spent 12 plus years in "top 3" private schools and the club we belong to is filled with the parents of their classmates. The other clubs also have tons of private school families.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Well, I guess I'm one of those upper middle class blacks in the city, and actually, several of my black friends are members of country clubs. But frankly, my kids go to private school, and in our free time I'd like them to be in a more diverse environment. Plus, we don't golf. All our friends who joined clubs are golfers. We just join a pool for the summer.
I'm with you PP. We also have kid in private, and prefer a more diverse environment in our free time. I actually haven't found that many DC private school families have interest in joining these clubs.