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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would love to hear from Sidwell families about the sense of community (or lack thereof?) at the school.  One often hears of alpha parents who are super competitive and perhaps instill this behavior in their children. Is this really the case or is this reputation a gross generalization?  [/quote]
In lower school, whenever there is a new crop of parents at an entry year - such as K or 3rd - there will sometimes be 1-2 parents who view education as a competitive blood sport.  You may have met some parents like this on the school application circuit - they are the ones constantly name-dropping their child's accomplishments.  I believe it usually comes from a place of insecurity and fear about whether their child will fit in and whether they will be accepted by the other parents.  Whatever the reason, in my experience, those parents usually calm down after a half year or so.  The school discourages this hyper-competitiveness, and it's only a tiny number of outlier parents who act this way.[/quote]

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