Sidwell Paid a family $50K and agree to change grades??????????

[Anonymous]

If the girl’s GPA and SAT scores were within the top 15% of her class, There was a problem with the application process considering her URM status. If not, they should not blame on the school. Any vague descriptions like national Achievement scholarship can’t convince people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody on DCUM really wants to hear that Sidwell acted fairly or at worst clumsily. Doesn’t everyone hear really always want to think they acted poorly? It’s like sharks circling. Weird vibe in the whole thread.

Agreed. Also a lot of angry Sidwell defended ranging from circle to smug to offensive.@

The college counselor who is referenced by the family as being discriminatory is AA, by the way.

No, you're talking about the head of college counseling at that time; she wasn't the plaintiff's counselor.

Some of us in fact know both the counselor and college director at the time. To accuse either one of bias and discrimination is not only false, but obscene and defamatory. It’s no wonder that the lower court ordered the family to pay Sidwell over $40,000 in legal costs. This is highly unusual, and likely reflects that the court considered that their lawsuit had no well-founded basis and possibly the court’s view that the family had no credibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Long thread on this already.

Where?

[Anonymous]

Ok, I just read the entire petition for writ of cert. The Adetu family disputes grades in two courses. They think a Math II grade should have been a B instead of a C/C+, and they think a Calculus grade should have been an A instead of and A-. That’s it. They honestly think if those two grades had been different that Dayo Adetu would have suffered no harm. Also, the family’s attorney argues that she’s suffering ongoing harm from the now-corrected errors on her high school transcript.

[Anonymous]

Nigerians are not URM period

[Anonymous]

^ as an explanation- Nigerians are over represented in college and med school given their population size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ as an explanation- Nigerians are over represented in college and med school given their population size.

The lawsuit appears to be about as bogus as any other Nigerian scam.

[Anonymous]

Who was their lawyer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ as an explanation- Nigerians are over represented in college and med school given their population size.

The lawsuit appears to be about as bogus as any other Nigerian scam.

The girl is American

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who was their lawyer?

http://bakersimmonslaw.com/about_us

[Anonymous]

Hope it wasn’t a contingency arrangement. Well, actually, maybe I do hope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:^ as an explanation- Nigerians are over represented in college and med school given their population size.

The lawsuit appears to be about as bogus as any other Nigerian scam.

The girl is American

The scammers are the parents.

[Anonymous]

I've know of a couple of cases where private schools retaliated against kids with difficult, demanding parents and they wanted the family gone. It was generally done by disciplining every small infraction, not offering constructive help when it was obviously needed, then telling the parents that the child isn't a "fit."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've know of a couple of cases where private schools retaliated against kids with difficult, demanding parents and they wanted the family gone. It was generally done by disciplining every small infraction, not offering constructive help when it was obviously needed, then telling the parents that the child isn't a "fit."

It's hard when a family has been difficult, perhaps even abusive to check oneself and make sure that you are being completely fair. A lot of statements, facial expressions, and grading policies are open to interpretation. And, no, no one is happy interacting with people like this. Is it not fair to ask a a family who has taken a school to court multiple times "Are you sure you want to be here?"

[Anonymous]

But, at the end of the day, Sidwell still cant escape that it did not grade her correctly. They had a legit complaint, even if there was no discrimination.