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Anonymous
That's horrible, maybe this is where the children learn this kind of behavior. |
Anonymous
| No, try ESPN, MTV and other fine sources. This has been going on for decades across all sectors of society. If people weren't outraged in 1975, why should there be outrage now? |
Anonymous
| From a Prep Landon lax game many years ago, I particularly liked the Prep cheer: "What's that smell, smells like brown..." directed at Landon (colors brown & white). |
Anonymous
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The posters who say that "kids will be kids" is right. But the teacher who said that she ripped into her students for this behavior is also very, very right.
I would hope that the teachers are trying to correct this behavior, if Sidwell wants to prove that it is about Quaker values like humility and modesty (and not just which ex-Clinton Administration people they accept, but I digress). We can't know what goes on inside the school. But I'd be sorry to see this behavior repeated.... |
Anonymous
| It would be better if I could proofread. That should be "are" and not "is" in the first sentence. |
Anonymous
Are you for real? hmmm 1975, I was only 4 years old, so I wasn't name calling. Just because shameful behavior was going on for decades doesn't make it right. Just like segregation wasn't right. Please evolve. We know what happened to dinosaurs when.... |
Anonymous
| Even in college, my school fell into the lame game chants game: we'd chant "SAT" at the Ole Miss football game (went to small private school that didn't have a chance of winning the game... guess we felt that's all we had). I remember the local private school chanting "you'll work for us one day!" at a soccer game when playing my public high school. Sports will always fuel dumb, meaningless chants. I don't think it's a big deal. |
Anonymous
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The real tragedy of this is that there was no way to see it coming. I mean, maybe, maybe, if these kids' parents got really fired up and competitive about the schools, and ran around comparing the kids' pre-k aptitude tests, and talked trash to one another on bulletin boards about whose kid got in where, and designated a "big three" school set that was for the very "best" kids in town, and let their children know that they were among these kids, and made clear to the kids at every turn that any indicia of superiority is to be flaunted and glorified, MAYBE then we could have all seen this coming.
As it is, we'll just have to acknowledge that their snotty attitude is a great mystery of our time. |
Anonymous
Greatest. Post. Ever. |
Anonymous
Absolutely perfect!! |
Anonymous
| bravo 22:28! well done. |
Anonymous
| Exactly right, 22:28. Finally something we can all agree on! |
Anonymous
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BFD... In school rivalry lingo, that's tame!!! If I had children @ Sidwell, I would hope they would be proud of the fact that Leaders of the free world's children attend the same school. Jeez... it is a big deal. BTW... my kids are going public so no chip on the shoulder here...
O-ba-ma... 
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Anonymous
 Well all right 22:28...!
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Anonymous
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This hatred toward private schools is quite impressive.
I'm from a very, very urban public school background. Everyone thought that kids from our school were dumb, in gangs, during drugs, or general miscreants. There was a kernel of truth, but definitely not all true. (I ended up going to Harvard, go figure.) The same has got to be the case with private schools. There is a kernal of truth - yes, certain families for the "wrong reason" want their kids to be at Sidwell - solely becuase its Sidwell and has the cache. But other families (that are fortunate to be able to afford it or get in) want their kids to get an amazing education with small classroom sizes, individualized attention, great inspiring curriculums, and tremendous family and community involvement. Say what you want about Sidwell, but it still will always be a great school with a focus on providing tremendous educational opportunities. For full disclosure, our kids are in neither public or privarte schools, they are still wee little ones and I don't know what we are going to do. I always thought public - I mean hey, I turned out okay - or at least I think I did.
But. I didn't have the oppportunity to attend schools like Sidwell, Maret, GDS and all the other excellent private schools that D.C. has to offer. As a kid where I grew up, I would have LOVED the great activities that these schools provide. I craved the type of classroom environment where I could be a smart kid and not have to hide it. |