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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a Sidwell parent, but my kids have many friends who attend or have graduated from GDS.  It's a great school; in fact, I would have loved to send my youngest there, but she wanted to go to the school her sibs attended.  Academics at the two schools are certainly on par, but I get the sense that GDS has more kids who are out-of- the-box thinkers and that there's more inclusion and appreciation of kids with non-traditional learning styles.  For those trying to stir up some sort of GDS-Sidwell rivalry-to-the-death, I really don't think it's there among the kids except in terms of certain sports, and it's certainly not there among parents.    [/quote]

GDS parent and I've got to agree.  Most people I know in DC (obviously a limited universe), see the two as comparable schools that you'd choose between (and choose based on personalities/learning styles).  By contrast, someplace like Landon isn't even in the mix for most of us.

I think that the math comments come up not from insecurity but because/when someone (often, I suspect someone who isn't from Sidwell but just reads DCUM and recirculates the site's conventional wisdom) asserts that GDS's math isn't up to snuff.  At which point people who know the math team at GDS respond.  IMO, it's pretty irrelevant to the vast majority of parents and the parents/kids who are into that scene presumably already know who's where.  Math curriculum at both places seems pretty similar, judging both from website and from comparing notes with  Sidwell families.  Probably not a coincidence.  T[/quote]

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