Posted on 05/13/2017 1:41:14 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
POTOMAC, MD — The Trump family has selected the new school for Barron Trump, according to recent reports. The 11-year-old will attend St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, about 15 miles from the White House.
St. Andrew's opened in 1978 with 40 students, grades seven to nine, in the basement of Pilgrim Lutheran Church on Massachusetts Avenue. Today, it has a total enrollment of 580 students in preschool through grade 12. The school operates on 12-week trimesters.
The school focuses on diversity, according to its website. “We value and respect all differences, including but not limited to age, ability, ethnicity, family structure, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status," it says. Less than half of the student population is white.
The Daily Caller reported that if Barron completes middle school at St. Andrew's, he will be required to participate in "service learning activities" in the eighth grade. These activities include a two-day field trip to a soup kitchen in Washington in which students make, serve and eat a meal with the homeless and listen to their life stories.
The school is quite expensive. For Barron's education up to high school, the price tag is $38,590 a year. When he begins high school, if he remains at St. Andrew's, the Trumps will pay the school $40,650 annually.
The St. Andrew's website reports that the student-to-teacher ratio is seven to one, and that class sizes range from 11 to 15 students. One-hundred percent of its graduates go on to attend college.
The Daily Caller reported the student body consists of 16 percent Episcopalians, 18 percent Roman Catholics, 10 percent Jews and 1 percent Muslims. Twenty-three percent of students are of other Protestant denominations, and 21 percent of students had either no religion or did not declare.
The St. Andrew's mascot is the Rampant Lion and its motto is Auctus Mentis Spiritusque, or the Increase of Mind and Spirit.
Notable alumni of the school are Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay; Joe Jacobi, the 1992 Olympic gold medalist in whitewater canoeing; and Whitney Cummings, an actress and comedian.
Just told him to get lost. If you don’t have the courage of your opinions, go private, I guess.
Yes, that’s true. But what she did was distinctly non-political and very much in traditional first lady mode.
Let’s hope Barron isn’t bullied because of who his father is.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
“Staying behind in NY not only cost the taxpayers tremendous expense for security but causes the Libs to start ugly rumors.”
I’ll just bet you believe that, too.
St A’s is in my neighborhood. Always had a great academic reputation. It also doesn’t have the snobby rich reputation that most of the private schools around here have. I’m actually really surprised the Trumps picked it.
Parents I’ve met who send their kids there all seem to be nice, normal, middle,upper-middle class people. I like their kids.
“Service learning activities” are a requirement in all Mont. Co. public schools.
Is there a big Alien Pod in your Garage?
Melenia should have been there from the start to support her husband, as any wife should.
There were plenty of good schools in DC for VIPS.
Instead, she’s cost the taxpayers a fortune (not to mention snarled traffic around Trump Tower) in security costs, and has caused the Libs to start nasty rumors about a troubled marriage.
(Besides, if she had done as she should and gone to the WH with him, he might have had it just a wee bit easier.
A gorgeous first lady would have distracted some of the loony Libs because everyone would have been so enthralled with her.
Now she’s missed her opportunity to make a big splash and left a somewhat bitter taste in the mouths of some.
No, but there’s a big disappointment in Melinia not moving into the WH from day one with her husband supporting him as a wife always should.
“Staying behind in NY not only cost the taxpayers tremendous expense for security but causes the Libs to start ugly rumors.”
I’ll just bet you believe that, too.
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NO, I don’t believe that, but I believe a wife should be with her husband and give him support- not leaving all the things she should have been doing to a daughter, no less.
There are plenty of excellent schools for children of VIPS in Washington.
FINALLY..someone with some common sense.
the father of Monica Lewinsky
paid half a million dollars to the Democrats
to get Monica a white house internship
I did not know that. A very poor investment in his daughter from Papa. Nearly killed her, and definitely ruined her life.
Well, I believe that Donald Trump and his Family have given up more for this Country than any President has in recent memory.
They had the world by the tail and were well liked by the same Liberals who now attack EVERTHING they do and the absolute Hatred directed towards them (and us) is something I have never encountered in my 63 Years on Earth.
If it wasn’t this School thing with Barron, Liberals would have something else to complain about. They rail about the costs of Melania and Barron staying in Manhattan, they rail about The President spending too many weekends at his Home in FL, the rail about The President having two scoops of Ice Cream and drinking a Diet Coke. It is never ending pap.
I laugh when they talk about the cost, yet they have no qualms Bankrupting America to meet their Socialist Goals.
The Clinton’s and the Obama’s came to Washington D.C. and made their Money. The Trump’s made their Money and came to Washington D.C.
Your disappointment in the Trump Family is noted.
There are plenty of excellent schools for children of VIPS in Washington....You just ignored yourself in your post. Schools in DC FOR children OF VIPS IN Washington. I don’t think indoctrination is Trump’s goal.
I was just about to ping you!
St. Andrews... hoity toity!
“Now she’s missed her opportunity to make a big splash and left a somewhat bitter taste in the mouths of some.”
Sad you feel that way.
“Now she’s missed her opportunity to make a big splash and left a somewhat bitter taste in the mouths of some.”
Sad you feel that way.
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If Melania had been by Donald’s side from the first at all times and supported him she could have helped him weather the storm a great deal.
Melania should have been at her husband’s side LOVING and supporting him every step of the way was from the day he went to DC.
Since she did not, but left it to a daughter (of all things), many feel she was not thrilled or proud to be the First Lady of America as she should have been.
There are plenty of excellent schools for VIPS in DC just as good or better than the one in NY.
A woman’s place is by her husband’s side to love and support him at all times.
SAD YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND THIS!
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That’s not the point and you know it.
If she had gone with Donald to DC from the first and stood by his side, loving and supporting him, it would have helped him weather the storm and comfort him a great deal.
There are schools in DC just as good or better than the one Barron attends in NY.
A wife’s place is by her husband’s side to always love and support him.
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I’ll let my daughter and all her military wife friends know what you believe.
You just do that, but I assure you I am not alone in my beliefs.
Doubt the SS will stand idly by.
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