<p>Our D wants to go to BS. We have checked into them and were impressed with the quality of schools that are out there. However, we have one issue that we would like you to comment on. We are conservative Christians. We are not necessarily looking for conservative secular schools, although I guess that would be nice. What we are looking for is a balanced approach to education in social and political areas. We do not want liberal biases pushed without us being able to discuss both sides around the dinner table at night. </p>
<p>Do you know how I could get a straight answer to this question - or where I might find schools that meet our criteria?</p>
<p>We are not considering NE schools. The ones we are considering are:</p>
<p>Darlington - Georgia
Rabun Gap - Georgia
Baylor School - Tennessee
Culver Academy - Indiana
Bolles School - Florida</p>
<p>Thanks for your help.</p>
<p>Here’s a link to a listing of Christian Boarding Schools:</p>
<p>[Christian</a> Boarding Schools - Boarding School Review](<a href=“http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/christian-boarding-schools.php]Christian”>Best Christian Boarding Schools (2024-25))</p>
<p>I don’t know anything about any of them. I do live in GA, however, and would expect those in the South to be fairly conservative.</p>
<p>I think I’ve driven by the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School. (Or it may have been the Tallulah Falls School.) It looks like a pretty campus very near the GA/NC border.</p>
<p>Thank you. I appreciate the info on the Christian schools. I was also looking for input on secular schools, and in particular, the ones I mentioned - if someone has some knowledge about them.</p>
<p>I do believe Culver has a rather good reputation. It’s traditionally a military school. I have no idea where it stands with regard to religion. Of those you mentioned, Culver is probably the most well known.</p>
<p>Culver also has a very high percentage of boarders, which in my opinion is better. I believe the other schools you mentioned have a majority of day students, which may detract from the boarding school experience.</p>
<p>The following two might as well be northeastern schools, but they’re south of the Mason Dixon line: Episcopal High School in Alexandria, VA, and St. Andrews in Delaware. They’re very competitive schools, but probably tend to be less liberal than others, while not exactly conservative.</p>
<p>Depending on what you’re looking for, it may be enough to find a school which has a student body and faculty which include at least some conservative voices.</p>
<p>You might also check into St. Andrews Sewanee, in Tennessee. I believe there is a staff member from (sbergman) there who chimes in from time to time in the Prep School forum.</p>
<p>Thanks to all of you. Great suggestions. I will follow up on them. I was also wondering what kind of direction I might get from the American Association of Boarding Schools. Thoughts?</p>
<p>I’m not sure if an association will give a recommendation for a particular member school over another, so you may not get an answer. These groups like to stay neutral within their membership.</p>
<p>Another school comes to mind: The Asheville School, in Asheville, NC. It stacks up rather well with even the elite NE schools, has a high percentage of boarders, and a formal dress code, which to me suggests that they’re probably not at the far left end of the spectrum.</p>
<p>California is a long way off, but you could consider Villanova Prep.</p>
<p>Emma Willard School is a good, conservative school :)</p>
<p>emma willard is NOT conservative at all really.
i hope ur being sarcastic…</p>
<p>I realized that after I posted my post. (?)
Well I mean some of the students are really conservative. :]
It’s a good school, with tough rules. :]</p>
<p>As a business owner moderate republican with a student who sought open minded discourse, I can tell you that you made a good choice in staying out of New England. The unbridled bashing by student and teachers of anything not hyper left is rampant. Alternate opinions are either hooted down or result in a personal attack. She and I are very disappointed.</p>
<p>Of course Hockaday is an elite girl’s school, but amazinness!!! is correct, it only has something like 10-15% boarders. St Stephens in Austin also has a majority of day students. There are no good boarding options in Texas, in my opinion. Which is too bad, because we’re in West Texas.</p>
<p>FYI, at many of the schools with a minority of boarders, a significant subset of them, sometimes most of them, happen to be international students.</p>
<p>Toadstool, if you don’t mind, could you let me know the New England school where your daughter had this experience? Please message me if you don’t want to post it in the forum.</p>
<p>I’m a centrist libertarian type with conservative tendencies myself. It would be nice if my kids were educated in an environment where my views weren’t necessarily held in contempt.</p>
<p>(Although I turned out OK in spite of Resident Advisor training and indoctrination at Cornell in the late 80’s. That was when “politically correct” was a term used by the left without a hint of irony.)</p>
<p>webb school in bell buckle, tn is a good boarding school in the south too.
baylor is quite conservative.</p>
<p>I don’t want to be redundant, but I agree with what has already been said. If you don’t want a liberal school NE is NOT the place to look. I live in MA and if you are even slightly conservative in your views, forget it.</p>
<p>You seem to be off to a good start looking farther south or west, where the politics in schools might be either more balanced or even predominantly conservative. Good luck!</p>
<p>In addition to Webb and Baylor, there are some other fine conservative schools in Tennessee. One is McCallie, which is an all-boys school located in Chattanooga, has chapel daily and requires its boarders to attend church every Sunday. Another quality conservative school is St. Andrews-Sewanee.</p>
<p>My son will be attending a BS in NE. His politics lean to Ron Paul, but he can’t stand GWB and his gang of fools. So, he can howl against the neo-cons with the best. Still, his libertarian, anti-statist views may run him afoul with the radical, totalitarian left in NE. If so, what doesn’t kill him will make him stronger…or stranger. We shall see.</p>
<p>To clarify, are you talking about politically conservative schools, schools with conservative values, or both? I went to a NE boarding school that is typically put on a pedestal by this forum and I had very conservative values, but was very liberal minded. I never had a problem in the least. The NE boarding schools I’m familiar with tend to be very open to others’ values. With politics, the problem is that there are many argue-to-the-death types. They won’t disrespect someone’s political stance, but they will love to discuss it (some in more argumentative ways than others), probably because there are so many that agree with them. Obviously they’ll stop if asked, but I imagine this can be hard if you’re in that minority. This is a valid reason for not wanting to attend a school, as is distance. I just wanted to make sure the above was clear.</p>