"The Ethicist" on Sidwell's Hospice Purchase
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Anonymous
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Bottom line: Sidwell either steps up or is a hypocrite.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/magazine/must-a-quaker-school-care-for-its-neighbors.html |
Anonymous
| Please. What is Sidwell supposed to do -- take over the operation of the home? Washington Hone does not want to continue running the home/hospice at that location. Case closed. |
Anonymous
Case closed for you. For neutral observers, not so much.
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Anonymous
This seems to be what the article is suggesting-- which is, of course, an absurd proposition. I had to laugh at "Discussing this story, my friends and I..." You really mean, "the anonymous posters on DCUM and I...." It's not ethical to lie to The Ethicist. Just saying. |
Anonymous
| It's a NY ethicist -- important qualifier... |
Anonymous
Agreed. The paper's response is empty and silly. |
Anonymous
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I liked, "There might even be opportunities for students to play a role in the lives of the residents and to learn about aging and death."
Sidwell students have been volunteering at the Washington Home for at least 40 years. |
Anonymous
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Sidwell's response is basically, "F the Poor".
Quaker Family Values is pretty underwhelming. |
Anonymous
| Also, Sidwell Friends agreed to an additional leaseback period after closing in case the Washington Home needs to extend operations to place any patients. That's basically up to 21 months from when the purchase was announced, which is a pretty long time. Do you think if a big development company had bought the Washington Home that they would have been as flexible? I doubt it very much. |
Anonymous
Qualifier? Isn't that an oxymoron? 
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Anonymous
Sidwell Friends has no more business running a nursing home and hospice than the board of Washington Home, God forbid, has in running a school. |
Anonymous
The Washington Home board decided to sell. Would it have demonstrated "Quaker Family Values" for Sidwell Friends to have passed on a chance to enhance the campus and then watched as some developers bulldozed the Washington Home to build Cathedral Commons II next door? |
Anonymous
| Will students recite the misogynist Senior Poem while demolishing the home will bulldozers? |
Anonymous
?? Has someone been drinking all afternoon? |
Anonymous
Bottom line: You're a jackass. |