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Not planning to do a deep dive at all. At a social event, standing around with a group of 5 or 6 other parents, politics eventually comes up. Or more recently, masks/vaccines.
Will a moderate, pro-mask, pro-vaccine type fit in? Or will 5 of the 6 parents be standing around ridiculing those crazy morons who think masks are helpful, etc.?
Edit: I find that if I spend some time here and there with a group of people over the course of a year or two, I will generally gain a sense of how they feel about current events. When you're thinking about comitting to a place to the tune of $10k+ per year, it can't hurt to try to get a feel for what you will find.
Wouldn't the bigger question be what happens when the requirement is dropped? When the majority of students stop wearing masks because of mandate ending, will you want your children to continue to mask? My guess is after a few months nobody will care but those first few days/weeks will be when the differentiation will occur. So if your children aren't starting until the fall (and we havent gone back to universal masking due to a new variant), it should be a non-issue.
We spent 3 years at St. David's and live in Cary. We got a number of comments about that, in a bizarre way (not mean spirited, just clear who they wanted to associate with). If you don't live ITB in a $1.5M+ house, you aren't going to "fit in" if you care about that. We are now at GRACE and absolutely love it.
Thanks for posting. Are you able to comment at all on the politics of the parents? As I said above, I don't plan to do a deep dive, but I'm curious if political moderates would feel out of place at social gatherings (e.g., off-hand negative comments about masks, vaccines, Biden, etc etc etc).
Edit: And actually, would you mind sharing about Grace as well? Sounds like they were very solid on covid measures. Which makes me think they would probably be OK all around.
Wouldn't the bigger question be what happens when the requirement is dropped? When the majority of students stop wearing masks because of mandate ending, will you want your children to continue to mask? My guess is after a few months nobody will care but those first few days/weeks will be when the differentiation will occur. So if your children aren't starting until the fall (and we havent gone back to universal masking due to a new variant), it should be a non-issue.
Obviously at some point--hopefully in the very near future--masks and vaccines will no longer be the flavor of the week. But there will always be a new one. Obviously there's no perfect way to find out where a group of people fall on a political spectrum, but masks/vaccines are a pretty good proxy at the moment, and are also a topic that may get discussed somewhat more frequently at social gatherings. So yeah, it will be a non-issue soon, but I'd nevertheless be curious to know if there was a strong sense of support, disdain, etc., amongst the parents for the various covid protocols.
I know this is off topic but it makes me sad that any conservative person is now considered a Trumper by many. That’s a little closed-minded in my opinion.
I don’t have any useful info for you about the schools, but hopefully others do. Good luck.
When the fringe has become the core of the modern GOP, it is a perfectly valid concern. E.g., the official twitter account of the Republican National Committee today: https://t.co/8lanpKXO10
Neither of my children went to private school, but have friends from both places as well as I have numerous clients/friends at both places.
St Tim's of course ends at 8th grade. St Davids you can go from K-12.
St Tim's has more families that are moderate to liberal Dems, without being progressives. St Tim's doesn't "seem to be" as moneyed as St David's is.
St David's has everything from mod/liberal Dems who still want private vs public to something on the "religious right" spectrum that don't their kids involved with public school teenager/social media/drug and alcohol phenomenon. And a lot of people in between that want the small classes and have the cashes.
We spent 3 years at St. David's and live in Cary. We got a number of comments about that, in a bizarre way (not mean spirited, just clear who they wanted to associate with). If you don't live ITB in a $1.5M+ house, you aren't going to "fit in" if you care about that. We are now at GRACE and absolutely love it.
St David's seems to draw heavily from ITB, and it's small enough they may have found it curious someone would come from Cary. Since my impression is more St David's are long-time residents, they may have also had some "Cary" (Yankee) bias
I will say there are as many if not more, folks that have bought a $1.5MM house ITB in the last 5 years that send their kids to WCPSS as any private school.
Edit: And actually, would you mind sharing about Grace as well? Sounds like they were very solid on covid measures. Which makes me think they would probably be OK all around.
My personal opinion is Grace did a fine job with COVID protocols. They were only full virtual for last part of the 2019-2020 school year, so maybe 4 months? They went back to school in the fall of 2020, as they should have. There was certainly a mix of virtual and in person kids in 2020-2021, and they seemed to do okay with the technology to do that. You aren't going to please everyone with COVID protocols, but I think the Headmaster did a fine job. FYI - They are going mask optional starting tomorrow.
In regards to Grace Christian in terms of your other questions. I've never had a political discussion with any parent of Grace at any social function. It's a Christian school, so obviously that comes with a certain set of expectations in terms of dress codes, behavior expectations, religious beliefs, but I'm positive that politically there is a wide mix of families. There is a decent range of transplants, locals, ethnicities, and economic diversity. Yes, it's a private school, but I can tell you that there are families that attend that the tuition is a sacrifice, and others it's just noise in the yearly budget.
And like every Christian school, we have been part of around the Southeast, if you are going to get offended by your kid getting served Chic-fil-a at a sporting event, or at lunch, you should look elsewhere :-)
I toured St. Timothy’s and think Bo’s assessment is probably correct. It seemed like people were more middle of the road politically. I’ve heard from other parents that Grace Christian is pretty conservative.
Neither of my children went to private school, but have friends from both places as well as I have numerous clients/friends at both places.
St Tim's of course ends at 8th grade. St Davids you can go from K-12.
St Tim's has more families that are moderate to liberal Dems, without being progressives. St Tim's doesn't "seem to be" as moneyed as St David's is.
St David's has everything from mod/liberal Dems who still want private vs public to something on the "religious right" spectrum that don't their kids involved with public school teenager/social media/drug and alcohol phenomenon. And a lot of people in between that want the small classes and have the cashes.
Thanks for the info. So what's your bottom line impression? Sounds like a moderate who lives outside the beltway would do OK at St Tim's, but might feel out of place at St David's?
if you are going to get offended by your kid getting served Chic-fil-a at a sporting event, or at lunch, you should look elsewhere :-)
Hah, Chick-fil-A at lunch is the least of my worries about a school. Especially at a nominally CHRISTIAN school.
(P.S. I love chick-fil-a despite my political moderateness )
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