Would you pull your kids if you found out something offensive in your school's history?

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Anonymous wrote:Things change. None of those people are involved. I wouldn’t think twice but I also would have looked into the school my kids attend far more than you appear to have done. How did you NOT know? I typically research things before entrusting my kids to them and spending tens of thousands.

It's the best-rated school in the area and was highly recommended by the transient crowd we hang around with (which explains why THEY didn't appear to know). Thought we couldn't go wrong.

“Best” by what metrics?

Graduation and college attendance rates, plus reading scores. They're abysmal in the local public schools (85% 4-year graduation rate and 30% of 3rd graders reading at grade level).

Private schools don’t do reading assessments so you likely don’t know the reading levels. Also, since is a private school with families of privileged, you aren’t really comparing apples to apples. Do you really think sending your kids to a public school with some kids that are economically disadvantaged would somehow not allow them to read at grade level?

Did you not Google the school before you cut them a check?

You're really telling a parent to CHOOSE the district with those numbers?

No. I’m saying there’s no way to tell what levels the 3rd graders are reading on at her private school.

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Anonymous wrote:Things change. None of those people are involved. I wouldn’t think twice but I also would have looked into the school my kids attend far more than you appear to have done. How did you NOT know? I typically research things before entrusting my kids to them and spending tens of thousands.

It's the best-rated school in the area and was highly recommended by the transient crowd we hang around with (which explains why THEY didn't appear to know). Thought we couldn't go wrong.

“Best” by what metrics?

Graduation and college attendance rates, plus reading scores. They're abysmal in the local public schools (85% 4-year graduation rate and 30% of 3rd graders reading at grade level).

Private schools don’t do reading assessments so you likely don’t know the reading levels. Also, since is a private school with families of privileged, you aren’t really comparing apples to apples. Do you really think sending your kids to a public school with some kids that are economically disadvantaged would somehow not allow them to read at grade level?

Did you not Google the school before you cut them a check?

You're really telling a parent to CHOOSE the district with those numbers?

Do you have reason to believe that your child wouldn’t graduate from high school?

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Anonymous wrote:Things change. None of those people are involved. I wouldn’t think twice but I also would have looked into the school my kids attend far more than you appear to have done. How did you NOT know? I typically research things before entrusting my kids to them and spending tens of thousands.

It's the best-rated school in the area and was highly recommended by the transient crowd we hang around with (which explains why THEY didn't appear to know). Thought we couldn't go wrong.

“Best” by what metrics?

Graduation and college attendance rates, plus reading scores. They're abysmal in the local public schools (85% 4-year graduation rate and 30% of 3rd graders reading at grade level).

Private schools don’t do reading assessments so you likely don’t know the reading levels. Also, since is a private school with families of privileged, you aren’t really comparing apples to apples. Do you really think sending your kids to a public school with some kids that are economically disadvantaged would somehow not allow them to read at grade level?

Did you not Google the school before you cut them a check?

You're really telling a parent to CHOOSE the district with those numbers?

Yes. Lots of kids go to the “district with those numbers.” Is your kid going to put on a college app that they were too good and too special to go school with THOSE KIDS, so they had “no choice” to attend a segregation academy instead?

I sure hope you attack Sidwell parents the same way.

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Anonymous wrote:Things change. None of those people are involved. I wouldn’t think twice but I also would have looked into the school my kids attend far more than you appear to have done. How did you NOT know? I typically research things before entrusting my kids to them and spending tens of thousands.

It's the best-rated school in the area and was highly recommended by the transient crowd we hang around with (which explains why THEY didn't appear to know). Thought we couldn't go wrong.

“Best” by what metrics?

Graduation and college attendance rates, plus reading scores. They're abysmal in the local public schools (85% 4-year graduation rate and 30% of 3rd graders reading at grade level).

Private schools don’t do reading assessments so you likely don’t know the reading levels. Also, since is a private school with families of privileged, you aren’t really comparing apples to apples. Do you really think sending your kids to a public school with some kids that are economically disadvantaged would somehow not allow them to read at grade level?

Did you not Google the school before you cut them a check?

You're really telling a parent to CHOOSE the district with those numbers?

Lots of parents choose that district.

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Anonymous wrote:Things change. None of those people are involved. I wouldn’t think twice but I also would have looked into the school my kids attend far more than you appear to have done. How did you NOT know? I typically research things before entrusting my kids to them and spending tens of thousands.

It's the best-rated school in the area and was highly recommended by the transient crowd we hang around with (which explains why THEY didn't appear to know). Thought we couldn't go wrong.

“Best” by what metrics?

Graduation and college attendance rates, plus reading scores. They're abysmal in the local public schools (85% 4-year graduation rate and 30% of 3rd graders reading at grade level).

Private schools don’t do reading assessments so you likely don’t know the reading levels. Also, since is a private school with families of privileged, you aren’t really comparing apples to apples. Do you really think sending your kids to a public school with some kids that are economically disadvantaged would somehow not allow them to read at grade level?

Did you not Google the school before you cut them a check?

You're really telling a parent to CHOOSE the district with those numbers?

Yes. Lots of kids go to the “district with those numbers.” Is your kid going to put on a college app that they were too good and too special to go school with THOSE KIDS, so they had “no choice” to attend a segregation academy instead?

I sure hope you attack Sidwell parents the same way.

There was no attack.

But own your decisions.

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Anonymous wrote:Things change. None of those people are involved. I wouldn’t think twice but I also would have looked into the school my kids attend far more than you appear to have done. How did you NOT know? I typically research things before entrusting my kids to them and spending tens of thousands.

It's the best-rated school in the area and was highly recommended by the transient crowd we hang around with (which explains why THEY didn't appear to know). Thought we couldn't go wrong.

“Best” by what metrics?

Graduation and college attendance rates, plus reading scores. They're abysmal in the local public schools (85% 4-year graduation rate and 30% of 3rd graders reading at grade level).

Private schools don’t do reading assessments so you likely don’t know the reading levels. Also, since is a private school with families of privileged, you aren’t really comparing apples to apples. Do you really think sending your kids to a public school with some kids that are economically disadvantaged would somehow not allow them to read at grade level?

Did you not Google the school before you cut them a check?

You're really telling a parent to CHOOSE the district with those numbers?

Lots of parents choose that district.

No, lots of parents had no other choice.

[Anonymous]

So, you are going to blame the current school admin and staff for something that happened 50-100 years ago when they weren't even alive and it was a very different time?

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Anonymous wrote:Just like the question says. Not in the DMV anymore, but we learned something distasteful about the kids' school. They love it and are doing well, but apparently this information is well-known in town, and I'm worried about what it says about us.

No I wouldn’t pull my kid if it was an excellent school academically, socially and the ECs and student body.

Digging up stuff is easy to do on anyone or anything. I suppose we all have a bar to pass so unclear what is going on with your example.

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Anonymous wrote:So, you are going to blame the current school admin and staff for something that happened 50-100 years ago when they weren't even alive and it was a very different time?

It depends. What have they done to reckon with the past? What steps have they taken to diversify? How do they teach their students about that time? What do they teach their children about the continuing impacts of the choices of the school's founders and families? Do they talk about racism or is their attitude, that was then and it's over now?

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Lol

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Anonymous wrote:Things change. None of those people are involved. I wouldn’t think twice but I also would have looked into the school my kids attend far more than you appear to have done. How did you NOT know? I typically research things before entrusting my kids to them and spending tens of thousands.

....if only everyone could be as perfect a$$ you...

[Anonymous]

No I wouldn’t.

And no I don’t need to see reparations.

It happened in the past with totally different people. Move on.

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Anonymous wrote:No I wouldn’t.

And no I don’t need to see reparations.

It happened in the past with totally different people. Move on.

Of course you don’t care.

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Anonymous wrote:How does the school talk about its history? How do its history class talk about that era? I would be concerned that the school is inclined to whitewash history, which would make me pull my child because that's not the education I want for them.

What school talks about their history?

Many private schools in the DMV talk about their history so I would assume schools in other parts of the country do the same.

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Anonymous wrote:Former segregation academy in the south?

yes

I would leave. That’s why I wouldn’t even consider applying to Flint Hill.