Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer

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Anonymous wrote:Why does the moderator keep deleting posts with the real name of the author?

Probably trying to keep her from getting murdered by Sidwell parents.

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I don’t think anyone cares

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Well, this got boring quick.

— a Sidwell parent

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FGS the bellyaching over Sidwell by the others on this and the other thread. Anything better going on in your lives people? It’s August? Enjoy it.

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Anonymous wrote:How does she only have a 77% approval rating from her students (some of those positive reviews appear repetitive and fake like on Amazon)?

I have it on good authority she added her own book to the reading list to force the lucrative textbook sale.

This is very common practice in college and graduate schools. Nothing at all scandalous there.

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I'm enjoying the book and think it's pretty well written. But then I'm not a Sidwell parent or any private school parent, although I went to a football game at Sidwell years ago when my son played HS football at a public school that played against Sidwell. It was a lovely school and I figure it must be just peachy since the Obamas chose it. Anyway, sorry some of you are miffed about the book. As an expose I don't know how effective it is but as a peek inside a highly protected environment most don't have access to it's just fine.

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😂

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Anonymous wrote:Well, this got boring quick.

— a Sidwell parent

Real boring, real quick. But Sidwell folks will go on and on with the navel-gazing. They love talking about themselves and their school.

28 pages

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I don’t think it’s well written. That’s either extremely generous or dishonest. There are many, many glaring typos and clunky turns of phrase throughout. It’s sloppy at best.

However, to think that this author can lift the veil on Sidwell is very naive. It shows in her writing as well. She has no in, and her information is extremely outdated, not just clouded by the capital G-grudge she’s been holding for decades. This is a real poison pen mess.

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Anonymous wrote:“I realized that the last time I felt this type of anger and embarrassment was when I was in high school at Sidwell Friends”

Funny, she (presumably) reported her own medium piece about a Lululemon racist incident that wasn’t

We read it for fun (Asian family) and no one thought a frazzled salesperson repeating distancing rules sounded racist. There’s racism for sure and some behaved inexcusably during Covid but this ain’t it

Yet somehow the “professorial lecturer and writer” as it’s signed by her, worked her old school into it. Mind boggles.

To be fair, the incident in Lululemon did in fact sound racist and I have plenty of Chinese-American friends who had similar incidents occur throughout the country, even in California with a high Asian population.

To be fair what about it sounded racist to you other than Lululemon? And why did she go to Lululemon since it’s racist? And how did Sidwell get dragged into this too?!

What a weirdo

You didn't read the article did you? The store was treating an Asian customer differently than caucasian customers. That is racist, sweetheart.

DP. If what she described actually happened at Lululemon, I agree with you. It was racist. However, I don’t understand why she mentioned Sidwell in the article. I don’t believe this woman never experienced another racist incident, between high school and her 50s.

Why does she feel the need to blame Sidwell for everything? It’s a very strange fixation.

I’d love to hear from the salesperson. There is no way it happened the way she wrote it. Based on what I know about her, she wanted to write about the topic and read about all the despicable anti-Asian racism during the pandemic, went to Lululemon to manufacture some sort of outrage, went up and close to the salesperson who may have freaked out as she would with anyone else, then didn’t confront her or correct her but lurked to see if anyone else would be treated in the exactly same way, and they blew it out of all proportion

Why do I think this - because I too shopped in Lululemon during the pandemic. There’s one around the corner. Nothing ever happened at all. In fact, I appreciated their pandemic rules. And if I were to go incite someone to be a racist to an Asian and make it believable, Lululemon, whose owner is notorious for the anti- Asian naming of the stores, would be the venue of choice

I apologize in advance if I’m wrong but the story seems very manufactured and the real purpose is to drag Sidwell for the “anger and embarrassment” the author claims to still feel decades later for some undisclosed reason. Also, if it’s all true, why did she take it down?!

I believe that the Lululemon thing happened. Similar incidents happened to my Chinese-American friends multiple times.

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Anonymous wrote:“I realized that the last time I felt this type of anger and embarrassment was when I was in high school at Sidwell Friends”

Funny, she (presumably) reported her own medium piece about a Lululemon racist incident that wasn’t

We read it for fun (Asian family) and no one thought a frazzled salesperson repeating distancing rules sounded racist. There’s racism for sure and some behaved inexcusably during Covid but this ain’t it

Yet somehow the “professorial lecturer and writer” as it’s signed by her, worked her old school into it. Mind boggles.

To be fair, the incident in Lululemon did in fact sound racist and I have plenty of Chinese-American friends who had similar incidents occur throughout the country, even in California with a high Asian population.

To be fair what about it sounded racist to you other than Lululemon? And why did she go to Lululemon since it’s racist? And how did Sidwell get dragged into this too?!

What a weirdo

You didn't read the article did you? The store was treating an Asian customer differently than caucasian customers. That is racist, sweetheart.

DP. If what she described actually happened at Lululemon, I agree with you. It was racist. However, I don’t understand why she mentioned Sidwell in the article. I don’t believe this woman never experienced another racist incident, between high school and her 50s.

Why does she feel the need to blame Sidwell for everything? It’s a very strange fixation.

I’d love to hear from the salesperson. There is no way it happened the way she wrote it. Based on what I know about her, she wanted to write about the topic and read about all the despicable anti-Asian racism during the pandemic, went to Lululemon to manufacture some sort of outrage, went up and close to the salesperson who may have freaked out as she would with anyone else, then didn’t confront her or correct her but lurked to see if anyone else would be treated in the exactly same way, and they blew it out of all proportion

Why do I think this - because I too shopped in Lululemon during the pandemic. There’s one around the corner. Nothing ever happened at all. In fact, I appreciated their pandemic rules. And if I were to go incite someone to be a racist to an Asian and make it believable, Lululemon, whose owner is notorious for the anti- Asian naming of the stores, would be the venue of choice

I apologize in advance if I’m wrong but the story seems very manufactured and the real purpose is to drag Sidwell for the “anger and embarrassment” the author claims to still feel decades later for some undisclosed reason. Also, if it’s all true, why did she take it down?!

I believe that the Lululemon thing happened. Similar incidents happened to my Chinese-American friends multiple times.

and before you say anything about her being Japanese-American - a lot of white people can't (e.g. won't) tell the difference.

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Which Lululemon? Because seriously this couldn’t be farther from the truth in DC. I also can directly speak to multiple experiences

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I tried to find the Medium Lululemon article online but l couldn’t find it. Can someone provide a summary?

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Anonymous wrote:She has some unresolved issues. Too bad the book is so bad. Ok, I'm saying this without reading it but someone told me the premise and it was unimaginative and lacking creativity.

Hopefully this post was made to be ironic - how can you criticize a book without reading it? It is fiction and I found it entertaining with a typical chick lit level of writing. Anyone who actually identifies with the parents "being attacked" has an issue.

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Sidebar. The founder of Lululemon is an elitist Ayn Rand fanboy scumbag. I have relatives who know him and think he’s a great guy but they are also elitist….not as much as him but they would also get in big trouble these days if they said the quiet part out load.