Sidwell prom

[Anonymous]

There will be a prom. Great! Let the kids vote unless there are reasons such as Covid and safety that the campus is a better option. Either way it’s great! And don’t litigate tantrums on dcum every couple of weeks. Just because you don’t agree you don’t get to throw a tantrum and chip at the school’s reputation. And, no we don’t pay the tuition so that you or I get to run the show. If you think that, this may not be the right community for you

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Silver lining appears to be that our regular SFS dcum troll may be graduating from Sidwell and moving on to troll whatever college DC goes to next

The campus is gorgeous. Night for Scholars is beautiful and held in the gym so no clue why Hyatt is any better? But there’s never a good reason for the perennial grievance brigade on dcum beyond just that — letting us all know they’re still aggrieved and dragging the school for no rational reason

Please stop

Why? It’s true. Others never kick these drag-a-school-thons. You always get a push back. Read the room

You are crazy. I think you need some reflection time in the beautifully simplistic RLS meeting room. Where you can reflect and smile smugly about the beautiful campus and no one will have to listen to you.

But that’s exactly the point. No one ever agrees except for the same couple of thread-starters. Insults are only thrown one way. Those insults in your mind include calling people “teachers”. Enough said.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Silver lining appears to be that our regular SFS dcum troll may be graduating from Sidwell and moving on to troll whatever college DC goes to next

The campus is gorgeous. Night for Scholars is beautiful and held in the gym so no clue why Hyatt is any better? But there’s never a good reason for the perennial grievance brigade on dcum beyond just that — letting us all know they’re still aggrieved and dragging the school for no rational reason

Please stop

Why? It’s true. Others never kick these drag-a-school-thons. You always get a push back. Read the room

You are crazy. I think you need some reflection time in the beautifully simplistic RLS meeting room. Where you can reflect and smile smugly about the beautiful campus and no one will have to listen to you.

But that’s exactly the point. No one ever agrees except for the same couple of thread-starters. Insults are only thrown one way. Those insults in your mind include calling people “teachers”. Enough said.

You are being trolled by students and do not even know it. They are making fun of you, too. They think it is hilarious the way you talk about the school with stars in your eyes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents should just stop posting and bickering about this publicly especially when they don't know what they are talking about.

Some of the seniors are unhappy about the gym. But they are actually handling things much more responsibly than the crazy dcum parents on both sides who are arguing on a public web site. They are addressing it within the school and whatever happens will happen. Please stop.

Agree. But it never stops until they kicked themselves off with some pretty hateful language on a couple of occasions. There’s no other school that has to suffer fools with quite the regularity and mendacity as we do on this forum. Give it a rest, let the seniors handle this one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Silver lining appears to be that our regular SFS dcum troll may be graduating from Sidwell and moving on to troll whatever college DC goes to next

The campus is gorgeous. Night for Scholars is beautiful and held in the gym so no clue why Hyatt is any better? But there’s never a good reason for the perennial grievance brigade on dcum beyond just that — letting us all know they’re still aggrieved and dragging the school for no rational reason

Please stop

Why? It’s true. Others never kick these drag-a-school-thons. You always get a push back. Read the room

You are crazy. I think you need some reflection time in the beautifully simplistic RLS meeting room. Where you can reflect and smile smugly about the beautiful campus and no one will have to listen to you.

But that’s exactly the point. No one ever agrees except for the same couple of thread-starters. Insults are only thrown one way. Those insults in your mind include calling people “teachers”. Enough said.

You are being trolled by students and do not even know it. They are making fun of you, too. They think it is hilarious the way you talk about the school with stars in your eyes.

See that’s not what’s happening. Even if it were, it wouldn’t affect me. Chip - shoulder. It’s a bad look.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Parents should just stop posting and bickering about this publicly especially when they don't know what they are talking about.

Some of the seniors are unhappy about the gym. But they are actually handling things much more responsibly than the crazy dcum parents on both sides who are arguing on a public web site. They are addressing it within the school and whatever happens will happen. Please stop.

Agree. But it never stops until they kicked themselves off with some pretty hateful language on a couple of occasions. There’s no other school that has to suffer fools with quite the regularity and mendacity as we do on this forum. Give it a rest, let the seniors handle this one.

But you are one of the crazy ones. Seniors are posting here and you don’t know it. And they are laughing at you.

[Anonymous]

I’m not 12 so that doesn’t bother me. They should troll the regular dcum SFS draggers. You don’t seem to have the eloquence to argue your point without resorting to base insults. Someone has to hold up a mirror to you every once in a while in a hope you’ll go away. I hope seniors are trolling indeed — hopefully they then get how not to behave when their kids enter school

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Parents should just stop posting and bickering about this publicly especially when they don't know what they are talking about.

Some of the seniors are unhappy about the gym. But they are actually handling things much more responsibly than the crazy dcum parents on both sides who are arguing on a public web site. They are addressing it within the school and whatever happens will happen. Please stop.

Agree. But it never stops until they kicked themselves off with some pretty hateful language on a couple of occasions. There’s no other school that has to suffer fools with quite the regularity and mendacity as we do on this forum. Give it a rest, let the seniors handle this one.

But you are one of the crazy ones. Seniors are posting here and you don’t know it. And they are laughing at you.

I doubt it is Sidwell students, but if so, high school students impersonating Karens on a Board by and for Karens worse look than the actual crazy parents! Whackos all.

[Anonymous]

At least you’re not throwing out race or money put downs. Or insulting people viciously again. I wish you would so you get kicked off again, it was bliss not reading your utter nonsense about SFS on a weekly basis for a while

[Anonymous]

Lesson here is don’t start beef; it never ends well. Then you vaguely whine about the admin and oppression with nothing to back it up.

[Anonymous]

Uh I know. Start an anonymous petition again. That one was a source of much bemusement

[Anonymous]

You crazy dcummers can’t stop. 😂 You are making the school look bad. You are the joyless parents we’re laughing at.

[Anonymous]

You do you. But you know how you’re seen at school. It’s that insecurity that drives you on here on the reg to troll the SFS

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People are quick to call us Sidwell parents who pay tuition entitled, what they fail to understand is that by paying $50,000 a year in tuition we are entitled to have an opinion on how that money is spent. This is because we support the school financially and therefore have a right to be a part of (at the very least minor) school decisions (such as where a prom takes place), albeit not necessarily larger decisions such as buying a building despite remaining unable to sell the lower school building for financial reasons. For those struggling to understand this concept, think of it in the same way as to how shareholders have a say in companies they own stocks in. Personally, I have no issue with the prom being held at the gym, growing up in a developing country I was lucky to be able to attend a school at all in a place where the concept of "school dances" was as foreign as I was to this country before immigrating. Additionally, my son has had an amazing time at all the dances held at school and has no issue with the prom being held at the gym. Where I begin to take issue is when the school administration and even children attending the school, according to my son, (children who most certainly are not paying their own tuition I might add) not only disregard my fellow Sidwell parents' opinions but are also rather quick to resort to immaturely (at least to me) calling us Sidwell parents who have worked very hard in our respective fields to afford sending our children to this school names such as "spoiled" or "greedy" for wanting to have a say in our own children's education and lives. Additionally, while I personally have no need to worry about my very responsible son driving drunk or allowing a drunk student to drive him to an after-party, I understand some parents of less responsible children's concern with having prom at school where the kids cannot have an after-party directly upstairs in a hotel but rather have to drive to get to it (as I am sure they will have afterparties after the afterparty held at school), potentially doing so drunk. Is the Sidwell administration's decision to essentially (at least to the best of my understanding) detain students at school for the duration of prom and an additional afterparty an attempt to sober them up before they leave to other "after-afterparties"? Just kidding! But I do find it a little strange that holding prom at the four seasons is suddenly considered ostentatious despite such being the norm and custom for many years. I would hope this decision is not due to recent publications referencing the school as this would, at least in my opinion, demonstrate how the school may care more about how it is perceived by others than listening to the Sidwell parents who pay tuition to support the school. Ultimately, I would personally prefer if the prom was held at the gym with tuition-paying parents being reimbursed for whatever difference in cost results. Unfortunately, we all know this is next to impossible seeing as we tuition-paying Sidwell parents were forced to pay not just full tuition but increased tuition despite our children not receiving lunches or even attending the school at all during virtual and hybrid learning without reimbursement. I believe a large portion of our tuition was likely used to purchase an enormous amount of plexiglass which has since been discarded according to my son due to its tendency to worsen the spread of coronavirus as well as an HVAC ventilation system which does not allow for our children to eat indoors anymore. I was recently informed by my son that children who have cars (we personally do not believe in buying him a car as it is not the same as an education and he is therefore responsible for saving for it), are not even allowed to eat in their own cars alone for some reason and that a senior girl was administered points for doing so, despite (at least in my opinion) eating alone in one's own car not posing a threat in terms of spreading coronavirus. I find this last part especially funny given that I, as a licensed doctor myself, expect many kids to catch colds out in these conditions and therefore be forced to stay home out of fear that their symptoms are the same as those of the coronavirus. Who knows? Perhaps this is an elaborate administration plan to limit the number of kids coming to school to prevent further spread of the virus. Just kidding!

I’m a teacher and there is not enough money in the world for me to teach at this school with these parents.

The post you’re reacting to is obviously from a Sidwell student making fun of this whole thing.

Unless this is the most joyless kid there is, it is clearly not a Sidwell student. The post is not particularly funny, and devoid of any wit or sarcasm that I would expect of a Sidwell student.

Let's give our teenagers more credit.

It's a Sidwell student making fun of the crazy posters on this hell site generally, and on this discussion thread in particular. So I think in fact they nailed it.

Your wife wrote this crazy but highly identifiable post and you are ashamed, so you’re trying to convince us it’s not her.

[Anonymous]

Crazy and delusional is thinking that there are on,y 1 or 2 people who disagree with you. And then you can’t stop.