Sidwell vs GDS upper school

[Anonymous]

"campus envy" is the "penis envy" of the DCUM private school locker room. Just ell yourself that size doesn't matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you explain how having more grass makes a school better?

Joke too easy ... have to pass on responding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Can you explain how having more grass makes a school better?

Depends. Is it real, or fake?

[Anonymous]

I think the word the authorities use is "synthetic"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve wondered about the importance of campus environment too. With the exception of GDS (and perhaps Sidwell) the elite private schools of this area are sitting on real estate gold mines. I was shocked when Georgetown Prep leased less than four acres of a corner of the Prep campus for $888 million over the course of the 99-year lease. That deal (which affected less than 5% of the Prep campus allowed Prep to build a $23 million athletic center. If campus open space isn’t important (as some seem to think), but don’t these schools just sell the open space to bolster the endowment and retreat to a micro campus model like GDS? Unthinkable most would say – but why? What is it about a spacious campus that justifies foregoing the money that could be raised from the land? Prep didn’t even have to sell the land – they leased it.

"micro campus model?"

[Anonymous]

seriously, if you want acres you should go to Green Acres School!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:seriously, if you want acres you should go to Green Acres School!

Despite the name, Green Acres also has what would be considered a "micro-campus," but maybe you were trying to make a joke. Even so, little Green Acres school has a bigger "campus" than GDS - 15 acres.

[Anonymous]

The coed aspect of Sidwell impacts the boys much more than the girls. IMHO Sidwell has the feel/vibe of a girls school. The girls compete against elite girl athletes in the ISL and the school has a very soft (some might say emasculated) feel, but the internal competition is a bit "mean girls" like and there is no feeling of brotherhood among the boys. For girls I think Sidwell is comparable to NCS, but for boys the comparison is GDS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The coed aspect of Sidwell impacts the boys much more than the girls. IMHO Sidwell has the feel/vibe of a girls school. The girls compete against elite girl athletes in the ISL and the school has a very soft (some might say emasculated) feel, but the internal competition is a bit "mean girls" like and there is no feeling of brotherhood among the boys. For girls I think Sidwell is comparable to NCS, but for boys the comparison is GDS.

Give me a break. You're just trying to pick a fight, right?

[Anonymous]

Ah yes, now I see the 14:10 post on this page - http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/155390.page;jsessionid=38A752326C011DA22DC53EC95B24E81C.dcum2#4245891 - and it's clear some STA goofball is beating his chest. "UnBEARable" indeed.

[Anonymous]

I found the first couple of pages of this thread quite helpful and wonder if anyone could offer similar evaluations from a more recent perspective. Thanks.