Sidwell Obsession
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Anonymous
Based on your own use of "sight" instead of "cite", I guess you are also on an academic decline. |
Anonymous
Based on your own use of "sight" instead of "cite", I guess you are also on an academic decline. |
Anonymous
| But yet no examples. |
Anonymous
The comma actually goes inside the quotation mark, but since no one's casting stones here, let's just let it slide. |
Anonymous
| I'm not so sure about academic decline, Sidwell does have a very strong academic reputation (except for the Lower School which fell decades behind it's dc counterparts, but hopefully that will change & be back on track with the ousting of the dinosaur LSH). Where it has been on the decline is in it's moral character. The school's administration spent years raising funds to build numerous state-of-the-art-facilities and somewhere along the way it changed the profile of the type of family it accepted and attracted. It is a very different school than it was 10-15 years ago. There is a general feeling that it lost touch with it's low-key Quaker roots. The understanding is the new HOS was chosen be because he will make this a priority. |
Anonymous
| Simply false, PP. Quit trolling. |
Anonymous
On a totally unrelated topic (because this thread doesn't inspire me anyway): I too was told that the comma goes inside the quotes. But apparently all that is changing, or so I am told by people who work in editing these days. So maybe you're both right. I just write this because I'm curious about it. |
Anonymous
Methinks this site (not sight or cite, right?) has a number of compulsive SAH former law firm proofreaders, um, associates, with too much time on their hands..... |
Anonymous
He definitely wasn't picked because of any concern over Sidwell's athletic program. Farquhar almost destroyed Bullis athletics, and it's not surprise the school has rebounded significantly after his departure. |
Anonymous
Good god, are you 7:28 on the other Sidwell thread too? http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/86362.page#2002292 Up early on Sunday to stir the pot? Give it a rest already. |
Anonymous
If by "rebound" you mean: "shipping in unqualified athletes like there's no tomorrow; waiving admissions testing requirements for athletic recruits; and dumbing down the student body," why yes, Bullis is rebounding nicely! But hey, they won a football championship (in a league of 5 teams) so it's all good. Bottom line: Bullis is back to being an academic joke. (But with good sports teams.) |
Anonymous
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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not so sure about academic decline, Sidwell does have a very strong academic reputation (except for the Lower School which fell decades behind it's dc counterparts, but hopefully that will change & be back on track with the ousting of the dinosaur LSH). Where it has been on the decline is in it's moral character. The school's administration spent years raising funds to build numerous state-of-the-art-facilities and somewhere along the way it changed the profile of the type of family it accepted and attracted. It is a very different school than it was 10-15 years ago. There is a general feeling that it lost touch with it's low-key Quaker roots. The understanding is the new HOS was chosen be because he will make this a priority. [/quote]
I hope this is true and that it is what the AD meant when he said at the open house that, "having just completed a 10 year capital campaign in which 100 Million was raised and used towards improving the physical plant, emphasis could now be turned elsewhere for the next 10 year strategic plan. I hope that by "elsewhere" he means a renewed focus on the moral development of young people and a stiffening of the administration's spine in just saying "no" to pushy people and their money. |
Anonymous
The standards change that has me the most flummoxed is the one v two spaces after a period. I still think 2 looks better, but I gather 1 is now correct. |
Anonymous
| AP Stylebook says the , goes inside the quotes. ``I think it looks better,'' said me. |
Anonymous
Aren't there various exceptions? Those are what always confuse me. |