How religious is Sidwell?

[Anonymous]

😂

You know exactly what’s going on since you started the hate. I had no idea this was the angle; just randomly fishing to see what hooks. But you hate the taste of your own medicine.

[Anonymous]

If the Sidwell applicants successfully bash Sidwell to scare away competition, won't that also decimate the reputation of the school, which is what the applicant is paying for?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't these types of basic questions be things that come up early on in the school identification process?
People who have been admitted now have the time and access to people and information to get whatever additional questions they have answered in a more direct way (as in no longer needing to use an anonymous forum like DCUM).

Yes, a million times, yes. This is non a genuine thread.

If you simply google it you will get exhaustive school and student reports

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This religious strife is in my top 3 reasons why we're keeping our kids in public school. Sad to see how easily otherwise smart successful people give up their values and family traditions to get bragging rights on where their kids go to school--even long after Obama left the house

It is weird that these smart successful selfish bigoted hateful people send their children to a school that teaches peace, integrity, service, equality, stewardship and community, and worse of all: 45 minutes of quiet contemplation! -- giving up on their cherished values and traditions of the opposite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This religious strife is in my top 3 reasons why we're keeping our kids in public school. Sad to see how easily otherwise smart successful people give up their values and family traditions to get bragging rights on where their kids go to school--even long after Obama left the house

The 21st century has an innocent questions about how you scald people who “give up their values and family traditions” to go SFS.

WTF are you talking about; you Middle Ages middle aged nutcase?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This religious strife is in my top 3 reasons why we're keeping our kids in public school. Sad to see how easily otherwise smart successful people give up their values and family traditions to get bragging rights on where their kids go to school--even long after Obama left the house

As we say in my church (the church of my own choosing), Amen!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This religious strife is in my top 3 reasons why we're keeping our kids in public school. Sad to see how easily otherwise smart successful people give up their values and family traditions to get bragging rights on where their kids go to school--even long after Obama left the house

It is weird that these smart successful selfish bigoted hateful people send their children to a school that teaches peace, integrity, service, equality, stewardship and community, and worse of all: 45 minutes of quiet contemplation! -- giving up on their cherished values and traditions of the opposite.

❤️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the Sidwell applicants successfully bash Sidwell to scare away competition, won't that also decimate the reputation of the school, which is what the applicant is paying for?

They are not successful but that never stops them.

It’s an annual Barbarians at the Gates stand off

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This religious strife is in my top 3 reasons why we're keeping our kids in public school. Sad to see how easily otherwise smart successful people give up their values and family traditions to get bragging rights on where their kids go to school--even long after Obama left the house

The 21st century has an innocent questions about how you scald people who “give up their values and family traditions” to go SFS.

WTF are you talking about; you Middle Ages middle aged nutcase?

What is this???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The biggest difference I see is that any religious or ideological affiliation does not extend to any education or teaching.

That is not true for:
Madrasas
Jewish Day
Catholic schools
GDS

Or most of the other schools. So I love SFS and delight in its values. And get comfort from the grounding it has.

That’s the difference not point out that there is an assembly room. Or that actual Quakers are few. I have a huge admiration for them; so few and yet such an outsize and positive impact on the world

Wait a sec. GDS isn't religious and never has been. I just checked their website and theyve been secular from the start.

And what is the Muslim school that you are obsessing over? Why list it first? In all of my time on dcurbanmom, i don't think i've ever seen a discussion of a Muslim school, but it's being brought up repeatedly in this chain by Sidwell parents. That's more concerning than anything else in this chain.

I should add that it's concerning because it is so wrong to highlight an already vulnerable community.

Now it’s vulnerable? But when Quakers are a minority, and it’s remarkable people should attend a meeting for 30
mins a week given they are a minority it sort of telegraphs the belief that when you are a majority you have the duty to impose your own views? It’s very confusing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This religious strife is in my top 3 reasons why we're keeping our kids in public school. Sad to see how easily otherwise smart successful people give up their values and family traditions to get bragging rights on where their kids go to school--even long after Obama left the house

The 21st century has an innocent questions about how you scald people who “give up their values and family traditions” to go SFS.

WTF are you talking about; you Middle Ages middle aged nutcase?

What is this???

I don’t know. What values and family traditions one is allegedly giving up by going to SFS? Bigotry? Unequal treatment of women? Unscientific teachings?

[Anonymous]

What is your gripe exactly, SFS bashers? Really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This religious strife is in my top 3 reasons why we're keeping our kids in public school. Sad to see how easily otherwise smart successful people give up their values and family traditions to get bragging rights on where their kids go to school--even long after Obama left the house

It is weird that these smart successful selfish bigoted hateful people send their children to a school that teaches peace, integrity, service, equality, stewardship and community, and worse of all: 45 minutes of quiet contemplation! -- giving up on their cherished values and traditions of the opposite.

The values don’t seem to stick. Have you been to athletic games vs. Sidwell. The kids can be mean and petty to the other team

[Anonymous]

Sidwell uses the tenents of Quakerism as guiding principles in the same way BVR has “Life Rules,” Maret has their handful of overarching principles - individualism/joy/etc, GDS has “social justice.” But it is not a religious school per se.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This religious strife is in my top 3 reasons why we're keeping our kids in public school. Sad to see how easily otherwise smart successful people give up their values and family traditions to get bragging rights on where their kids go to school--even long after Obama left the house

It is weird that these smart successful selfish bigoted hateful people send their children to a school that teaches peace, integrity, service, equality, stewardship and community, and worse of all: 45 minutes of quiet contemplation! -- giving up on their cherished values and traditions of the opposite.

The values don’t seem to stick. Have you been to athletic games vs. Sidwell. The kids can be mean and petty to the other team

Yes. No they are not. Cite