Sidwell - 2023-24 tuition for PK-2 will be $50k

[Anonymous]

Why does it matter? It’s obvious from the language that it was drafted with the expectation it would be made public at some point.

[Anonymous]

The Sidwell parents on here getting mad at OP for posting are hilarious. WHO CARES? All the info in the email will ultimately wind up in the Washington Post, for gods sake. There is nothing offensive or upsetting in the wording of the email— people are only discussing the numbers, which will ups have come out almost immediately anyway.

Get a grip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell isn't homogeneous, fwiw. It is very diverse, both economically and racially.

It’s very diverse. In every grade they have a handful of carefully curated poors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Sidwell parents on here getting mad at OP for posting are hilarious. WHO CARES? All the info in the email will ultimately wind up in the Washington Post, for gods sake. There is nothing offensive or upsetting in the wording of the email— people are only discussing the numbers, which will ups have come out almost immediately anyway.

Get a grip.

It’s going to end up in the WP why? Because Sidwell has the name. Back to arguing amongst yourselves.

OP, check out the title of today’s newsletter.

[Anonymous]

Maybe she can copy it in full.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does it matter? It’s obvious from the language that it was drafted with the expectation it would be made public at some point.

It’s because of your eager little quivering fingers that post them all in full that we can have normal comms. Today’s newsletter is for you to reflect upon.

[Anonymous]

*can’t*
Don’t be a narc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why does it matter? It’s obvious from the language that it was drafted with the expectation it would be made public at some point.

It’s because of your eager little quivering fingers that post them all in full that we can have normal comms. Today’s newsletter is for you to reflect upon.

Not OP. Just enjoying watching the little wisps of steam coming out of your ears.

[Anonymous]

Hey, it’s the PP of the quivering fingers post, I’m actually quite enjoying it at this point. The whole thread descended into incoherent arguments but the OP is really a bit of a Karen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This thread makes me so happy my kids don't go to private school. Everyone is justifying spending all that $$ to ensure that their kids make a lot of money and are in the right social class. Those values are not my values so I am extremely glad my kids aren't a part of it.

Those aren’t the reasons we sent our kid to private. We don’t even look at report card.

This. We were both lost amid huge public schools. I was a high school valedictorian, but I was never diagnosed with ADHD because I was able to do the work. I fell apart when I got to college (yes, an Ivy for those judging.)

The progressive school we chose is teaching kids so more than academics, which are top notch.

My ADHD (and later diagnosed as ASD) kid tried Potomac Summer School Camp to get a feel for what it might be like to go to a private instead of a public and it wasn't pretty. I recognize that the staff for the camp is different but the fact that my kid couldn't handle the stress of a summer camp at the private suggested to me that we'd never be able to make it at one of these higher tier privates during the regular school year. We have the money to send our kid to one of these schools, but none that we've seen would be a better fit than the public we have.

I went to a private as a (scholarship) kid and there were no minorities there. Now there are privates with no kids on the spectrum. That was all people knew to do at the time I guess.

Other than using the facilities, the summer camps have absolutely no relationship to the host schools.

Eh. A bunch of the same kids go there. It’s not completely unrelated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This thread makes me so happy my kids don't go to private school. Everyone is justifying spending all that $$ to ensure that their kids make a lot of money and are in the right social class. Those values are not my values so I am extremely glad my kids aren't a part of it.

Those aren’t the reasons we sent our kid to private. We don’t even look at report card.

This. We were both lost amid huge public schools. I was a high school valedictorian, but I was never diagnosed with ADHD because I was able to do the work. I fell apart when I got to college (yes, an Ivy for those judging.)

The progressive school we chose is teaching kids so more than academics, which are top notch.

My ADHD (and later diagnosed as ASD) kid tried Potomac Summer School Camp to get a feel for what it might be like to go to a private instead of a public and it wasn't pretty. I recognize that the staff for the camp is different but the fact that my kid couldn't handle the stress of a summer camp at the private suggested to me that we'd never be able to make it at one of these higher tier privates during the regular school year. We have the money to send our kid to one of these schools, but none that we've seen would be a better fit than the public we have.

I went to a private as a (scholarship) kid and there were no minorities there. Now there are privates with no kids on the spectrum. That was all people knew to do at the time I guess.

Other than using the facilities, the summer camps have absolutely no relationship to the host schools.

Eh. A bunch of the same kids go there. It’s not completely unrelated.

I’ll spill the beans like the OG narc OP: you get the service hours credit

[Anonymous]

Why can’t my privileged friends and I send out major announcements about the cost of school without word getting out about it? The nerve of these people!

[Anonymous]

I know you’re being sarcastic but let’s role play this and you might feel better. So let’s say that a something somewhat headline worthy happens in your school. I don’t know, a kid brings a knife in. So instead of saying a kid brought get a knife in, your fellow parents posts the entire thing, the names and the gory details and all. How do you feel? If you feel great and think go for it, we simply will have to agree to disagree.

No issue with the privileged OP sending out her summary and interpretation of any announcement. But I do take an exception to copying an internal email. It’s uncouth and breaks an unspoken social contract. And if you don’t know it, you’re an oaf like the OP, imho. And I wasn’t even going to comment.

Not how no single fellow parent thought OP was correct in doing it in this particular way. Do it, it’s a free country and public info, but to be breathlessly sharing something internal before it’s made public, which it was, is pathetic and low

[Anonymous]

AS IF the equivalent situation is a kid bringing a knife in, and you not seeing a problem with your equivalency here is one reason why many of us don’t want to be anywhere near your privates.

Heh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know you’re being sarcastic but let’s role play this and you might feel better. So let’s say that a something somewhat headline worthy happens in your school. I don’t know, a kid brings a knife in. So instead of saying a kid brought get a knife in, your fellow parents posts the entire thing, the names and the gory details and all. How do you feel? If you feel great and think go for it, we simply will have to agree to disagree.

No issue with the privileged OP sending out her summary and interpretation of any announcement. But I do take an exception to copying an internal email. It’s uncouth and breaks an unspoken social contract. And if you don’t know it, you’re an oaf like the OP, imho. And I wasn’t even going to comment.

Not how no single fellow parent thought OP was correct in doing it in this particular way. Do it, it’s a free country and public info, but to be breathlessly sharing something internal before it’s made public, which it was, is pathetic and low

Posting personal information about a minor child is not a good example of what you are trying to illustrate.

The SFS parents really need to rein each other in. Does no one address this with this parent in person?