Sidwell student (and parents) sue school after rejected from all 13 colleges including Ivies

[Anonymous]

And the SCOTUS will hear the case (!)

Are you kidding me with this?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/13/politics/sidwell-friends-supreme-court/index.html

The entitlement!

Dayo Adetu and her parents, Titilayo and Nike Adetu, say that the private Sidwell Friends School -- the elite school attended by a who's who of Beltway families, including presidential daughters Sasha and Malia Obama and Chelsea Clinton as well as former Vice President Joe Biden's granddaughter Maisy -- breached a settlement with the family after it allegedly discriminated against Adetu, an African-American, in the grades she received while in high school and then in materials Sidwell submitted as she applied to colleges.

[Anonymous]

I should be more clear that the student wasn't "immediately admitted" to any of the 13 colleges she applied to, not necessarily rejected by all of them. Sounds like she got wait-listed by some.

[Anonymous]

Doesn't this article say the opposite? or what you wrote (And the SCOTUS will hear the case (!) )??


it says : The petition is unlikely to be accepted by the Supreme Court, which takes only about 70 of the over 7,000 cases that it receives for consideration each year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't this article say the opposite? or what you wrote (And the SCOTUS will hear the case (!) )??


it says : The petition is unlikely to be accepted by the Supreme Court, which takes only about 70 of the over 7,000 cases that it receives for consideration each year.

Huh, CNN needs to make up its mind then since it says in the headline the case "may" go to the SCOTUS.

Separately, sounds like this kid wanted special accommodation since she was a black athlete:

when Adetu was a junior, she and her parents filed a claim with the DC Office of Human Rights, alleging discrimination and retaliation largely related to her math classes. The complaint specifically accused a math teacher of allegedly using "biased, improper scoring" to grade Adetu's tests and of having "steadfastly refused" to make accommodations for her athletic commitments while doing so for other students.

[Anonymous]

I guess OP missed the billion page thread on this from before

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/807033.page

[Anonymous]

This kid's parents ruined whatever chances she had for employment after college. No employer will hire her after seeing her name associated with this lawsuit.

And the helicopter crashed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess OP missed the billion page thread on this from before

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/807033.page

Yes, I did, sorry. The CNN story just popped.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't this article say the opposite? or what you wrote (And the SCOTUS will hear the case (!) )??


it says : The petition is unlikely to be accepted by the Supreme Court, which takes only about 70 of the over 7,000 cases that it receives for consideration each year.

Huh, CNN needs to make up its mind then since it says in the headline the case "may" go to the SCOTUS.

Separately, sounds like this kid wanted special accommodation since she was a black athlete:

when Adetu was a junior, she and her parents filed a claim with the DC Office of Human Rights, alleging discrimination and retaliation largely related to her math classes. The complaint specifically accused a math teacher of allegedly using "biased, improper scoring" to grade Adetu's tests and of having "steadfastly refused" to make accommodations for her athletic commitments while doing so for other students.

CNN = joke

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't this article say the opposite? or what you wrote (And the SCOTUS will hear the case (!) )??


it says : The petition is unlikely to be accepted by the Supreme Court, which takes only about 70 of the over 7,000 cases that it receives for consideration each year.

Huh, CNN needs to make up its mind then since it says in the headline the case "may" go to the SCOTUS.

Separately, sounds like this kid wanted special accommodation since she was a black athlete:

when Adetu was a junior, she and her parents filed a claim with the DC Office of Human Rights, alleging discrimination and retaliation largely related to her math classes. The complaint specifically accused a math teacher of allegedly using "biased, improper scoring" to grade Adetu's tests and of having "steadfastly refused" to make accommodations for her athletic commitments while doing so for other students.

CNN = joke

Not really. It just popped up on my phone. CNN is better than most outlets posing as news organizations these days anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess OP missed the billion page thread on this from before

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/807033.page

Yes, I did, sorry. The CNN story just popped.

Who cares. Entitled brats and entitled parents (even black African ones like Adeto) are in wash dc schools in full force.

[Anonymous]

Crap. She runs at Penn now. Where I went. Ugh.

[Anonymous]

I read the complaint and I feel sorry for the girl. It looks like Sidwell made many "mistakes", in retaliation or otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I read the complaint and I feel sorry for the girl. It looks like Sidwell made many "mistakes", in retaliation or otherwise.

Yep. You want to feel sorry for the girl and want to bash Sidwell. That's all that matters. Not that the girl and her parents were pushy and arrogant. I've seen this many times.

[Anonymous]

Thirteen schools isn't a big number when those schools are Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Penn, Duke, Johns Hopkins, CalTech, MIT, UVA, McGill, and Spelman.

[Anonymous]

I don't get this. She's an engineering major at Penn now. She ended up just fine.