Sidwell Friends ED results amazing this year
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Anonymous
Let me use small words for your benefit (it’s a shame we can’t use pictures). I wrote: Check any thread on this board and see how many parents whine about their unhooked white UMC kid not getting into college when all these hooked kids are stealing their spots. And your response is to ask for all the threads about these amazing college results?!? It’s really quite simple so even you can grasp it. Public school parents both ritualistically complain about their more deserving children being denied admission and how the college admissions game is totally skewed against the average unhooked applicant and then with the same breath say that their public school admissions are better than Sidwell and all without hooks. All we want is for you to pick a position and stick to it. Frankly I think it’s true that public schools get plenty of kids into great colleges (although not all as unhooked as you’d like to believe), it’s the constant whining that is completely irritating. |
Anonymous
Uhh. I find these social media postings creepy. Why would these schools do this? It's one thing to list the schools where your students got accepted, but it's another to post poofed up pictures of young men and women for the entire universe to gawk over. I expect children to do this stuff. Not grown adults. It almost feels like some creepy modeling agency. By the way, my kid's MCPS high school could post a bunch of Ivy and T20 ED accepted posts too, but they don't. |
Anonymous
There are more lower middle class students at your big 3 private school than at Whitman or Langley. You’re really trying to paint these kids as scrappers rising above their social status? Half their parents also went to elite colleges. |
Anonymous
No, I don't live in a bubble. Perhaps my phrasing was confusing. My private school kids are typical DCUM kids--children of two professional parents. I'm not comparing my kids to impoverished kids, etc. Professional class DCUM kids in private are resourced the same as professional class DCUM kids in public. T Their school does not hand them any other opportunities or coddling. That's what I'm saying. I was either confusing or you are choosing to be obtuse. |
Anonymous
| So no 12 students applying ED to Princeton this year? That should improve ED results tremendously. |
Anonymous
LOL, I’m a MCPS parent and most of the MCPS high schools have the exact same IG pages. And btw, it’s the kids/SGA who organize these pages (at least at our public), not the parents. |
Anonymous
You mean like @vikingdestinations.2023? That surely doesn’t exist. |
Anonymous
You don’t understand. Having to fight for a parking spot for their Land Rover in the morning prepares them for the real world. |
Anonymous
No, you were clear but can't seem to understand that there are public schools outside of your bubble that aren't resourced the same. |
Anonymous
If you opened the links you would see that they are "student run". AND the MCPS W schools all have Instagram links as well. Frankly, you are not all that with it. |
Anonymous
My kids went to DCPS for 10 years each (and one for 14). I understand under resourced.  NEXT.
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Anonymous
 Is the poster you quoted a parent of an ES or MS student and doesn't realize ALL high schools (public, private, even schools outside MCPS) now have these Instagram pages?
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Anonymous
No, you're not "generally happy for your friend's DD." You are jealous and bitter because you are making this all about you. Heaven forbid you can actually be happy for someone else's good news. I really hope you're not a Sidwell parent. |
Anonymous
+1. This is such a poor taste I don't know where to begin. DC's MCPS school had a fair share of Ivy and T10 too last year. They don't do this. In fact one of the teachers gently reminds kids to take his peers' emotions into account. |