Where do the people in the $6/7/8m+ mansions in send their kids?

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Anonymous wrote:The richest people I know don’t send their kids to “big 3” or similarly recognizable schools. Idk why, and I was surprised by it.

Maybe they did not get admitted. Things have changed. Being wealthy is not an automatic in.

That’s sometimes true. The other explanation seems to be that the “big 3” type schools are rigorous. Super rich doesn’t mean super hard working, and often these families don’t have any interest in that. They have tons of money, so why have your kids work so hard.

Or super smart. Just because you were able to buy a big house doesn’t mean the kids have the intelligence to swing it in the most academically rigorous schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell recruits aggressively for some sports, has a two track system of classes for athletes, and allows them to leave midday for outside training. Very few schools make such exceptions.

Must be new because it wasn't true a few years ago

That’s because it’s not true. People constantly post lies about Sidwell on DCUM. It’s the school (almost) everyone loves to hate.

You would have us believe that Sidwell has had nationally ranked basketball teams without aggressive recruiting?

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell recruits aggressively for some sports, has a two track system of classes for athletes, and allows them to leave midday for outside training. Very few schools make such exceptions.

Must be new because it wasn't true a few years ago

That’s because it’s not true. People constantly post lies about Sidwell on DCUM. It’s the school (almost) everyone loves to hate.

You would have us believe that Sidwell has had nationally ranked basketball teams without aggressive recruiting?

Sidwell obviously recruits for basketball, tennis, and soccer. However, Sidwell does not have “a two track system of classes for athletes.” The only classes that have lower and upper “levels” are foreign language (5-7 levels, depending on the language), math (3 levels), and science (2 levels). The recruited athletes are in higher or lower levels of these three classes, just like some non-athletes at Sidwell. All students take the same English and history classes.

I have two children in the US, and they are both top students. They have had English, history, and language classes with some of the recruits (including basketball recruits). Were the recruits generally great students? No, not the ones my children had as class mates. However, the athletes were not
given special treatment (that my children were aware of). Some of those athletes received D’s and F’s on assignments and tests, and one of my children witnessed a recruited basketball player begging for an extension on a paper, after class. The teacher told him that he waited too long to make the request, so his paper would go down a letter grade for each day it was late.

Coach Singletary has been quoted in various newspaper articles saying that it’s actually more difficult for him to recruit basketball players because of Sidwell’s academic standards. Anecdotally, one of Sidwell’s girl basketball recruits told one of my children that she should have gone to St. John’s “because it would have been easier” academically.

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PP also said that Sidwell "allows [certain athletes] to leave midday for outside training." Is that part also untrue?

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Anonymous wrote:PP also said that Sidwell "allows [certain athletes] to leave midday for outside training." Is that part also untrue?

I asked my children if this was true. They obviously don’t keep track of other students’ schedules, but they both said the recruited athletes in their afternoon classes attend regularly. The only time they recall these students leaving early is for a game (with an early start time and a long commute). Both of my (non-recruited) children play sports at Sidwell and they have also left school early for an occasional game.

Btw, neither of them think leaving school early is a perk. The workload is heavy and everyone who misses class/assignments has to scramble to make the work up. The teachers don’t cut ANY of these students much slack. Long story short, if Sidwell’s recruited athletes are getting any preferential academic treatment, my children have not detected it (and I have one child who is particularly sensitive to perceived inequity). If anything, they think that being an athlete at Sidwell (especially basketball) is a huge time suck. According to them, none of the recruited basketball players (boys or girls) are good students.

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The tennis players leave early, which is why some people of them attend Sidwell. No other private school makes such accommodations. This is not a secret.

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Anonymous wrote:The tennis players leave early, which is why some people of them attend Sidwell. No other private school makes such accommodations. This is not a secret.

Sucks for them. I would hate to have to leave early and then still have to keep up with Sidwell’s school/homework.

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Anonymous wrote:The tennis players leave early, which is why some people of them attend Sidwell. No other private school makes such accommodations. This is not a secret.

That’s a lie. My daughter was admitted to Holton a few years ago. She shadowed a girl who played a sport at a very high/competitive level. The girl told her that she left school every day at 2 pm to practice at her training facility in Maryland. That girl had two friends that my daughter ate lunch with that day. They played a different sport and they said they left Holton early everyday to train.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell recruits aggressively for some sports, has a two track system of classes for athletes, and allows them to leave midday for outside training. Very few schools make such exceptions.

Must be new because it wasn't true a few years ago

That’s because it’s not true. People constantly post lies about Sidwell on DCUM. It’s the school (almost) everyone loves to hate.

You would have us believe that Sidwell has had nationally ranked basketball teams without aggressive recruiting?

Sidwell obviously recruits for basketball, tennis, and soccer. However, Sidwell does not have “a two track system of classes for athletes.” The only classes that have lower and upper “levels” are foreign language (5-7 levels, depending on the language), math (3 levels), and science (2 levels). The recruited athletes are in higher or lower levels of these three classes, just like some non-athletes at Sidwell. All students take the same English and history classes.

I have two children in the US, and they are both top students. They have had English, history, and language classes with some of the recruits (including basketball recruits). Were the recruits generally great students? No, not the ones my children had as class mates. However, the athletes were not
given special treatment (that my children were aware of). Some of those athletes received D’s and F’s on assignments and tests, and one of my children witnessed a recruited basketball player begging for an extension on a paper, after class. The teacher told him that he waited too long to make the request, so his paper would go down a letter grade for each day it was late.

Coach Singletary has been quoted in various newspaper articles saying that it’s actually more difficult for him to recruit basketball players because of Sidwell’s academic standards. Anecdotally, one of Sidwell’s girl basketball recruits told one of my children that she should have gone to St. John’s “because it would have been easier” academically.

I know an ex Sidwell BB player turned high level NCAA player. She was also an excellent soccer player and could have gone that direction if she chose. She could absolutely hack it academically, so didn’t need exceptional treatment in that respect. But she definitely left school at 2 multiple days a week for private training. Lots of schools will not let you do that.

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So basically this is a douchebag hub of entitled dbag parents. Sounds rough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell recruits aggressively for some sports, has a two track system of classes for athletes, and allows them to leave midday for outside training. Very few schools make such exceptions.

Must be new because it wasn't true a few years ago

That’s because it’s not true. People constantly post lies about Sidwell on DCUM. It’s the school (almost) everyone loves to hate.

You would have us believe that Sidwell has had nationally ranked basketball teams without aggressive recruiting?

Sidwell obviously recruits for basketball, tennis, and soccer. However, Sidwell does not have “a two track system of classes for athletes.” The only classes that have lower and upper “levels” are foreign language (5-7 levels, depending on the language), math (3 levels), and science (2 levels). The recruited athletes are in higher or lower levels of these three classes, just like some non-athletes at Sidwell. All students take the same English and history classes.

I have two children in the US, and they are both top students. They have had English, history, and language classes with some of the recruits (including basketball recruits). Were the recruits generally great students? No, not the ones my children had as class mates. However, the athletes were not
given special treatment (that my children were aware of). Some of those athletes received D’s and F’s on assignments and tests, and one of my children witnessed a recruited basketball player begging for an extension on a paper, after class. The teacher told him that he waited too long to make the request, so his paper would go down a letter grade for each day it was late.

Coach Singletary has been quoted in various newspaper articles saying that it’s actually more difficult for him to recruit basketball players because of Sidwell’s academic standards. Anecdotally, one of Sidwell’s girl basketball recruits told one of my children that she should have gone to St. John’s “because it would have been easier” academically.

I know an ex Sidwell BB player turned high level NCAA player. She was also an excellent soccer player and could have gone that direction if she chose. She could absolutely hack it academically, so didn’t need exceptional treatment in that respect. But she definitely left school at 2 multiple days a week for private training. Lots of schools will not let you do that.

Holton will definitely let you do that.
Btw, why are you acting like it’s great to leave school early to go train for several additional hours, then go home to do 2-3 hours of homework? That doesn’t sound like fun at all.