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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But, IF your child is an outstanding athlete in one or more sports, it is much more rewarding to attend a school where he/she will have a decent team to play on in school.   My kids looked for schools that could support both their academic curiosity and desire for challenge as well as a school that offered them the opportunity to play with peers at a high level. It makes ones highschool experience much richer.  Sidwell was not a school that they would even consider.

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That's fine, not everyone rolls that way, but that's certainly a reasonable approach.  (And as far as I can tell, if the sport is basketball or wrestling or soccer, and probably some others I'm not thinking of, Sidwell works fine by your standards too.)  My kids played on relatively mediocre teams at Sidwell but achieved at a high athletic level in college (very good teams, if not national championship caliber, and good individual accomplishments), and it worked great for them.  (Among other things, we and they liked that their inner circle of friends were not only other athletes; I'm not suggesting that's the case for your kids, just saying we liked that element of the experience).  There's a good range of private schools in this area, fortunately, so people can pick and choose what's important to them.[/quote]

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