Possible Rape at Sidwell?

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Anonymous wrote:There are no details and a lot of stupid comments.

There won't be any details assuming both are minors. I guess you are just here for the juicy details or afraid to realize you pay so much to protect your sweet innocent kids from such awful things yet they happen.

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Anonymous wrote:There are no details and a lot of stupid comments.

There won't be any details assuming both are minors. I guess you are just here for the juicy details or afraid to realize you pay so much to protect your sweet innocent kids from such awful things yet they happen.

...which of course makes some people feel better, in recesses of their twisted minds.

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Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, Sidwell is currently searching for a Director of Communications, and the old one seems to have been rather suddenly disappeared from the school's website. That all happened before this story, but it made me wonder what had happened to bring about her displacement. Now this happens - definitely a bad time not to have a Communications person.

People get new jobs all the time.

This is true. Although in the independent school world, it's relatively uncommon for a high-ranking administrator to leave in the middle of the school year. Usually they wait until the end of the year, or at least until a search is well underway.

Communications is about more than "spin." There needs to be communication with the parents about what's going on - including whether or not an accused rapist is going to be walking the halls of the school alongside their kids. And there needs to be a strategy developed for how the school is going to handle matters if one of their seniors is arrested and charged with rape. If you're interested in reading about how a poor communications strategy can impact a school, check out this month's Vanity Fair about the St. Paul's sexual assault.

Sorry, but a school director of communications is not a "high ranking administrator." Not even at Sidwell Friends.

Actually a Director of Communications is a very important position at a private school like Sidwell, especially when something like this happens.

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Has the school told the student body anything officially?

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Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, Sidwell is currently searching for a Director of Communications, and the old one seems to have been rather suddenly disappeared from the school's website. That all happened before this story, but it made me wonder what had happened to bring about her displacement. Now this happens - definitely a bad time not to have a Communications person.

People get new jobs all the time.

This is true. Although in the independent school world, it's relatively uncommon for a high-ranking administrator to leave in the middle of the school year. Usually they wait until the end of the year, or at least until a search is well underway.

Communications is about more than "spin." There needs to be communication with the parents about what's going on - including whether or not an accused rapist is going to be walking the halls of the school alongside their kids. And there needs to be a strategy developed for how the school is going to handle matters if one of their seniors is arrested and charged with rape. If you're interested in reading about how a poor communications strategy can impact a school, check out this month's Vanity Fair about the St. Paul's sexual assault.

Sorry, but a school director of communications is not a "high ranking administrator." Not even at Sidwell Friends.

Actually a Director of Communications is a very important position at a private school like Sidwell, especially when something like this happens.

It may be important, but it's not a mission-critical, "high ranking administrator" position. Either you or a PP suggested there was some underlying cause, perhaps something untoward, that would cause a mid-year vacancy. This isn't a head of school or even principal position; it's not even on par with a director of development or admissions. So there's neither something unusual nor troubling about the position being open.

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Anonymous wrote:Has the school told the student body anything officially?

The school is on spring break.

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My kids says it is already a big deal even though they are not in school. Expects much discussion at meeting and advisories. Pretty sad situation but then a teaching moment too.

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Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, Sidwell is currently searching for a Director of Communications, and the old one seems to have been rather suddenly disappeared from the school's website. That all happened before this story, but it made me wonder what had happened to bring about her displacement. Now this happens - definitely a bad time not to have a Communications person.

People get new jobs all the time.

This is true. Although in the independent school world, it's relatively uncommon for a high-ranking administrator to leave in the middle of the school year. Usually they wait until the end of the year, or at least until a search is well underway.

Communications is about more than "spin." There needs to be communication with the parents about what's going on - including whether or not an accused rapist is going to be walking the halls of the school alongside their kids. And there needs to be a strategy developed for how the school is going to handle matters if one of their seniors is arrested and charged with rape. If you're interested in reading about how a poor communications strategy can impact a school, check out this month's Vanity Fair about the St. Paul's sexual assault.

Sorry, but a school director of communications is not a "high ranking administrator." Not even at Sidwell Friends.

Actually a Director of Communications is a very important position at a private school like Sidwell, especially when something like this happens.

It may be important, but it's not a mission-critical, "high ranking administrator" position. Either you or a PP suggested there was some underlying cause, perhaps something untoward, that would cause a mid-year vacancy. This isn't a head of school or even principal position; it's not even on par with a director of development or admissions. So there's neither something unusual nor troubling about the position being open.

I'm a new poster and I'd like to respectfully suggest that you are significantly understating the importance of communications director at a school like Sidwell in today's world of instant media. Let's face it, Sidwell is going to turn away scores of qualified applicants regardless of who is reading the applications. Is an admissions director that vital? Meanwhile, it can be reasonably argued that Sidwell took a significant misstep in communicating its purchase of the Washington Home, both to the public and to audiences like the alumni who have been very unhappy with the process.

And now Sidwell has every TV station in town camped out on their sidewalk. You don't think the way they communicate this to their current parents and to the public, as well as the alumni, is mission-critical?

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Agree with the pp about the importance of a communications director. Heads of School rely on their expertise. I am not saying that the vacancy at Sidwell means anything. People do move on to other positions. However, it is important that these positions are filled with experienced, high quality professionals. They do much more than the earlier pp realizes.

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Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, Sidwell is currently searching for a Director of Communications, and the old one seems to have been rather suddenly disappeared from the school's website. That all happened before this story, but it made me wonder what had happened to bring about her displacement. Now this happens - definitely a bad time not to have a Communications person.

People get new jobs all the time.

This is true. Although in the independent school world, it's relatively uncommon for a high-ranking administrator to leave in the middle of the school year. Usually they wait until the end of the year, or at least until a search is well underway.

Communications is about more than "spin." There needs to be communication with the parents about what's going on - including whether or not an accused rapist is going to be walking the halls of the school alongside their kids. And there needs to be a strategy developed for how the school is going to handle matters if one of their seniors is arrested and charged with rape. If you're interested in reading about how a poor communications strategy can impact a school, check out this month's Vanity Fair about the St. Paul's sexual assault.

Sorry, but a school director of communications is not a "high ranking administrator." Not even at Sidwell Friends.

Actually a Director of Communications is a very important position at a private school like Sidwell, especially when something like this happens.

It may be important, but it's not a mission-critical, "high ranking administrator" position. Either you or a PP suggested there was some underlying cause, perhaps something untoward, that would cause a mid-year vacancy. This isn't a head of school or even principal position; it's not even on par with a director of development or admissions. So there's neither something unusual nor troubling about the position being open.

I'm a new poster and I'd like to respectfully suggest that you are significantly understating the importance of communications director at a school like Sidwell in today's world of instant media. Let's face it, Sidwell is going to turn away scores of qualified applicants regardless of who is reading the applications. Is an admissions director that vital? Meanwhile, it can be reasonably argued that Sidwell took a significant misstep in communicating its purchase of the Washington Home, both to the public and to audiences like the alumni who have been very unhappy with the process.

And now Sidwell has every TV station in town camped out on their sidewalk. You don't think the way they communicate this to their current parents and to the public, as well as the alumni, is mission-critical?

Then it's a good thing that all of the students and faculty are gone on break.

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Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, Sidwell is currently searching for a Director of Communications, and the old one seems to have been rather suddenly disappeared from the school's website. That all happened before this story, but it made me wonder what had happened to bring about her displacement. Now this happens - definitely a bad time not to have a Communications person.

People get new jobs all the time.

This is true. Although in the independent school world, it's relatively uncommon for a high-ranking administrator to leave in the middle of the school year. Usually they wait until the end of the year, or at least until a search is well underway.

Communications is about more than "spin." There needs to be communication with the parents about what's going on - including whether or not an accused rapist is going to be walking the halls of the school alongside their kids. And there needs to be a strategy developed for how the school is going to handle matters if one of their seniors is arrested and charged with rape. If you're interested in reading about how a poor communications strategy can impact a school, check out this month's Vanity Fair about the St. Paul's sexual assault.

Sorry, but a school director of communications is not a "high ranking administrator." Not even at Sidwell Friends.

Actually a Director of Communications is a very important position at a private school like Sidwell, especially when something like this happens.

+1 Sure, the Head of school and Director of Development may outrank the communications director, but I think you're totally downplaying that persons importance and place in the heirarchy. Now that doesn't at all mean that in this case the departure has anything to do with anything else, but it's silly to pretend that the director of communications isn't part of the high ranking administration.

It may be important, but it's not a mission-critical, "high ranking administrator" position. Either you or a PP suggested there was some underlying cause, perhaps something untoward, that would cause a mid-year vacancy. This isn't a head of school or even principal position; it's not even on par with a director of development or admissions. So there's neither something unusual nor troubling about the position being open.

I'm a new poster and I'd like to respectfully suggest that you are significantly understating the importance of communications director at a school like Sidwell in today's world of instant media. Let's face it, Sidwell is going to turn away scores of qualified applicants regardless of who is reading the applications. Is an admissions director that vital? Meanwhile, it can be reasonably argued that Sidwell took a significant misstep in communicating its purchase of the Washington Home, both to the public and to audiences like the alumni who have been very unhappy with the process.

And now Sidwell has every TV station in town camped out on their sidewalk. You don't think the way they communicate this to their current parents and to the public, as well as the alumni, is mission-critical?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, Sidwell is currently searching for a Director of Communications, and the old one seems to have been rather suddenly disappeared from the school's website. That all happened before this story, but it made me wonder what had happened to bring about her displacement. Now this happens - definitely a bad time not to have a Communications person.

People get new jobs all the time.

This is true. Although in the independent school world, it's relatively uncommon for a high-ranking administrator to leave in the middle of the school year. Usually they wait until the end of the year, or at least until a search is well underway.

Communications is about more than "spin." There needs to be communication with the parents about what's going on - including whether or not an accused rapist is going to be walking the halls of the school alongside their kids. And there needs to be a strategy developed for how the school is going to handle matters if one of their seniors is arrested and charged with rape. If you're interested in reading about how a poor communications strategy can impact a school, check out this month's Vanity Fair about the St. Paul's sexual assault.

Sorry, but a school director of communications is not a "high ranking administrator." Not even at Sidwell Friends.

Actually a Director of Communications is a very important position at a private school like Sidwell, especially when something like this happens.

It may be important, but it's not a mission-critical, "high ranking administrator" position. Either you or a PP suggested there was some underlying cause, perhaps something untoward, that would cause a mid-year vacancy. This isn't a head of school or even principal position; it's not even on par with a director of development or admissions. So there's neither something unusual nor troubling about the position being open.

I'm a new poster and I'd like to respectfully suggest that you are significantly understating the importance of communications director at a school like Sidwell in today's world of instant media. Let's face it, Sidwell is going to turn away scores of qualified applicants regardless of who is reading the applications. Is an admissions director that vital? Meanwhile, it can be reasonably argued that Sidwell took a significant misstep in communicating its purchase of the Washington Home, both to the public and to audiences like the alumni who have been very unhappy with the process.

And now Sidwell has every TV station in town camped out on their sidewalk. You don't think the way they communicate this to their current parents and to the public, as well as the alumni, is mission-critical?

It was more the Washington Home that took mishandled the announcement of the sale and closure of its facility, not so much Sidwell -- although Sidwell got tarred with it somewhat. It's understandable why the Wash Home wanted to keep its sale process secret until the due diligence period had lapsed, to prevent an exodus of staff and patients when there was a distinct possibility that the sale might fall through. Still, some residents of the Home and their families were caught by surprise by the announcement. I'd wager that most in the Sidwell community, including alumni, support the purchase, as does most of the immediate neighborhood who sees Sidwell as a dependable neighbor that tries to work out issues. No one is happy to see the storied Washington Home close, but most people understand that it was Wash Home's board that made the decision to sell and get out of the in-facility care model, and Sidwell then did what makes sense for it, by consolidating the campus and offering a fair and attractive price and terms to the Home. A sale of Wash Home to a big developer would have done the Home, the Home's patients, Sidwell and the neighborhood no good. You can't blame Sidwell for acting in its best interests given that the Home was up for sale, and the school has offered an extending closing time frame (up to almost two years from announcement) for Home residents to be placed. It's highly unlikely that any developer would have been as flexible in providing such a lengthy transition period or would have committed to preserving treasured green space on the Home's grounds.

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Update via NY Post- Sidwell School Rape

http://nypost.com/2016/03/18/obama-girls-school-rocked-by-rape-claim/

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It was more the Washington Home that took mishandled the announcement of the sale and closure of its facility, not so much Sidwell -- although Sidwell got tarred with it somewhat. It's understandable why the Wash Home wanted to keep its sale process secret until the due diligence period had lapsed, to prevent an exodus of staff and patients when there was a distinct possibility that the sale might fall through. Still, some residents of the Home and their families were caught by surprise by the announcement. I'd wager that most in the Sidwell community, including alumni, support the purchase, as does most of the immediate neighborhood who sees Sidwell as a dependable neighbor that tries to work out issues. No one is happy to see the storied Washington Home close, but most people understand that it was Wash Home's board that made the decision to sell and get out of the in-facility care model, and Sidwell then did what makes sense for it, by consolidating the campus and offering a fair and attractive price and terms to the Home. A sale of Wash Home to a big developer would have done the Home, the Home's patients, Sidwell and the neighborhood no good. You can't blame Sidwell for acting in its best interests given that the Home was up for sale, and the school has offered an extending closing time frame (up to almost two years from announcement) for Home residents to be placed. It's highly unlikely that any developer would have been as flexible in providing such a lengthy transition period or would have committed to preserving treasured green space on the Home's grounds.

If you are going to be a part of a situations like that, with a much bigger name and reputation than Washington Home, you need to know that it's going to reflect on you. They can try to spin in any number of ways, it still looks like the Quakers are throwing old ladies out into the street. That's not fair of course, but they had to have known that was the way it was going to look.

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http://nypost.com/2016/03/18/obama-girls-school-rocked-by-rape-claim/

Apparently ex-boyfriend. I thought we were not going to find out anything peeps?