Sidwell football article in post....what are the parents saying?

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, private school aged kids = private school kids

And Joe Paterno's heir apparent at linebacker U was not an idol? ... but, has a hand painted figure on a mural at Penn State?

Where does dcum find these illiterate, unschooled, ignorami beating their breasts about their private school football lure?

Laughable...a real joke.

LOL - nice try at a save. The previous poster is mistaking Sandusky for Joe Paterno. Was probably too much sipping her latte in the car while the story was being glossed over on NPR to really understand the story.

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Then again, maybe the poster who knows nothing about athletics IS an expert on pedophilia. After all, didn't Sidwell have a pedophile on staff for years? Who knows how about Sidwell students were raped by that guy?

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Wins and losses in kiddie football in the private league is for the pigeons. No one cares...even if Sanduski was a onetime powerful, influential and worshipped defensive coordinator at Penn State. Sidwell should not spend an additional farthing on their football program. It's absolutely not necessary. For the poster obsessed with football, wins and losses, and sports there's always Bubba.

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You lost me at "farthing."

This thread is way past its "sell by" date.

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Anonymous wrote:STA should be a model for Sidwell and a few of the IAC schools. STA has strong academics, if not the best academics in the area. They also have a strong sports program. They are certainly not DeMatha or Gonzaga (they dont have an enrollment close to 1,000 boys) but STA is always solid in football, soccer, lacrosse and of course baseball every year. I applaud the administration for maintaing academic excellence and fielding great athletic teams across all sports!

Landon and Prep do a great job with finding a balance between academics and athletics as well.

STA's academic standards really don't stack up to Sidwell's. St. Albans lags behind NCS significantly in academics, though few seem to want to admit it. My daughter, who is at NCS, talks a lot about how the St. Albans boys dread being placed into classes taught at NCS because of their significantly higher levels of academic rigor. She also told me something that shocks me; St. Albans boys cheat on tests on a regular basis. I didn't really believe me but she and her friends assured me. I, like most of you, have trouble accepting this, but my daughter wouldn't fabricate something like that. My graduated from Sidwell in '06, and he'll be the first to tell you that at Sidwell this just didn't happen. So before you hastily qualify St. Albans as the frontrunner in DC metro area academics, get the inside scoop.

Take this stuff with a grain of salt. STA boys say they are much smarter than NCS girls. Guess what? Scores, National Merit Semifinalists, college admissions--they are totally comparable at NCS/STA. I do think Sidwell is a bit ahead of STA academically but not by much and not every year.

I agree with the above. But lets be real. Half the people heading to Sidwell are doing so in order to meet certain political families. Personally, while Sidwell is a great school, I have no interest in sending my children there. Too many wanabes.

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Sidwell is not ahead of NCS/STA academically. Never has been. Don't let the recent hype of the President's daughters going there disrupt the truth. All are phenomenal institutions but STA is particular is the strongest school in the DC region. Always has been, and with their continued reinvestment into the close, likely always will be.

Sidwell is popular because the Obama girls an Chelsea went there. So what. Every private school in this region boasts impressive alumni from all walks of life.

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Sidwell was a strong school long before the Obamas, Chelsea Clinton or the Nixons went there. There is a reason these families sent their kids there, just like thousands of other families in the region.

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They seem pretty comparable on most measures. Not enough differences to get worked up about.

School Sidwell St. Albans NCS Nat'l Merit Semi- Finalist % 14.55% 14.47% 11.71% Presidential Scholar: Semi- finalist % 1.86% 1.32% 0.72% Presidential Scholar: Candidate % 9.7% 7.89% 10.41% SAT Average 1400 1350 1394 Blended College Success Rate 14.4% 14.39% 15.79% Diversity Index % 59% 42% 47% Financial Aid: $ Per Student $5000 $5000 $4000 AMC12 Math: % at Distinguished Honors + Honors 8.82% 7.46% 4.12% Intel Science Contest Semi- finalist % 0.24% 0.36% 0.24%

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is not ahead of NCS/STA academically. Never has been. Don't let the recent hype of the President's daughters going there disrupt the truth. All are phenomenal institutions but STA is particular is the strongest school in the DC region. Always has been, and with their continued reinvestment into the close, likely always will be.

Sidwell is popular because the Obama girls an Chelsea went there. So what. Every private school in this region boasts impressive alumni from all walks of life.

Love STA but wouldn't argue it is ahead of Sidwell. They are very comparable and some years Sidwell is stronger, other years STA has a stronger graduating class. For STA admission in 9th grade, Sidwell is a big competitor and some STA admits definitely pick Sidwell for the co-Ed option or for other strengths Sidwell has compared to STA. And some kids pick STA over Sidwell. I don't know the numbers but I suspect of those admitted to 9th grade at both, a slight majority does pick Sidwell (and that the co-Ed thing is the big factor). There are enough strong kids to support great cohorts at Sidwell, STA, and NCS though.

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Anonymous wrote:You lost me at "farthing."

This thread is way past its "sell by" date.

If it was past its sell-by date at Thanksgiving, it's positively spoiled by St. Patrick's Day. Give it up.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell was a strong school long before the Obamas, Chelsea Clinton or the Nixons went there. There is a reason these families sent their kids there, just like thousands of other families in the region.

There is also a reason that the Roosevelt's, Rockefeller's, Marriott's, Gore's, etc all chose STA as well.

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In the time that this thread has been going on, the writer of the City Paper piece on the Sidwell football team wrote a much more important article on Dan Synder's business dealings, including the Redskins. Snyder made the mistake of suing the writer and the paper, resulting in international news coverage of the piece. Many months later Snyder was forced to dismiss his own lawsuit when he admitted to the New York Times that he never read the article that he sued over.

And here, the tired beat of the Sidwell football thread goes on...and on....and on.

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Seems like some StA student might be trying to keep it going, so he has a place to argue his school is better. Disappointing behavior.

[Anonymous]

Sidwell is a joke.

[Anonymous]

Sidwell is ranked #202. Not nationwide - just among MD, DC and VA teams.

#202.