and seriously, you are portraying Gonzaga as HIGH CLASS? [and it’s EAGLEs, btw]. have you ever been there? did you perhaps confuse them with the G’town Prep Hoyas who have a golf course on their campus? Gonzaga is behind union station amongst the projects, and St Aloyisius church, on the premises, houses a men’s homeless shelter. The boys all work there doing stuff at various points. My son did laundry for the homeless there.
“...and seriously, you are portraying Gonzaga as HIGH CLASS?”
Compared traditionally to DeMatha kids? In terms of socioeconoic status, yes. Certainly, Georgetown Prep is socioeconomically a step or two (or three) further up the ladder from either Gonzaga or DeMatha.
Location of the school isn't particularly relevant to socioeconomic class of the student body. For pete’s sake, DeMatha has been in HYATTSVILLE, boxed in by body-slamming car dealers for seventy-plus years, in the heart of PG County! LOL!
“The boys all work there doing stuff at various points. My son did laundry for the homeless there.”
Yes, well, all our kids do community service, now, don't they? The question isn't whether one’s kids work in a homeless shelter, but whether they would need to live in one. I'm reasonably sure that folks sending their kids to Gonzaga don't generally need such help (although four years of tuition certainly make parents feel like it's a viable option - even at low-rent DeMatha).
In reality, though, neither school is what it was when we were young. When I was at DeMatha, it truly was fairly working-class. Lots of Chevys and Fords in the parking lot, mostly older, mostly retrieved from salvage yards and rebuilt by the students and their dads. Now I go over there and there are plenty of kids getting dropped off from Lexuses and Cadillacs and Mercedes. But even lowly DeMatha runs $14K+ per year (to say nothing of Gonzaga’s $18.5K).
But no matter what changes, the perpetual jealousy of DeMatha’s superior sports programs is eternal in the WCAC. ;-)
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