Is Sidwell really Sadwell?

[Anonymous]

Have been hearing that high school culture at Sidwell can be toxic. That recent mental health study survey showed that majority of students felt depressed or were clinically diagnosed as such. That whole culture of school is entitled, arrogant and mean. By senior year, you want to just have the pain of this place end and move on to a better chapter of your life

[Anonymous]

It's actually Sodwell. It's a large piece of grass-covered surface soil held together by the roots of the grass.

[Anonymous]

Glad my kid's private is only occasionally mentioned here. Sometimes no posts are the best posts.

[Anonymous]

They’re not sad, they’re just waiting for the spirit to move them.

[Anonymous]

The last years of Sidwell are one giant stress-fest. Same at NCS. Same at St Albans. Same for high-achievers at all the best public schools in the area.

You need to prepare your kids to not give in to panic when they see every other kid going into conniptions.

[Anonymous]

OP is from NCS.

[Anonymous]

Sidwell was a typo.

[Anonymous]

Typo comment is clever. Kind of funny. Have to admit I laughed. Sadwell indeed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
The last years of Sidwell are one giant stress-fest. Same at NCS. Same at St Albans. Same for high-achievers at all the best public schools in the area.

You need to prepare your kids to not give in to panic when they see every other kid going into conniptions.

Don't try to universalize Sidwell’s problems to all similar schools. This is not how I would describe the environment at STA. And definitely not the experience at GDS. Kids at Sidwell and NCS are stuck in their pressure cookers.

[Anonymous]

Is Sidwell generally described as a ‘pressure cooker’ though?

[Anonymous]

By “generally described,” you mean from the 43 people on this forum that constitute 95% of the posts?

[Anonymous]

That's what my junior is telling me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
The last years of Sidwell are one giant stress-fest. Same at NCS. Same at St Albans. Same for high-achievers at all the best public schools in the area.

You need to prepare your kids to not give in to panic when they see every other kid going into conniptions.

Don't try to universalize Sidwell’s problems to all similar schools. This is not how I would describe the environment at STA. And definitely not the experience at GDS. Kids at Sidwell and NCS are stuck in their pressure cookers.

PP you replied to. I know parents of high schoolers at Sidwell, NCS and STA, and my teens were/are in MCPS (one is in college). I speak from experience. All the high-achieving kids everywhere are under a lot of pressure. They know the odds of getting into very selective colleges.

[Anonymous]

Well, you people know it is a Quake-er school. Kids and parents are quaking in their fancy boots.

[Anonymous]

Why don't you ask the administration about their recent mental health audit? The results were very very worrisome.