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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a Sidwell alum who was also a "lifer," the majority of the pressure that caused my own and my peer's mental health decline wasn't the school. It was our parents. [/quote]

+100. This is the real answer! My children are US Sidwell students. The number of stories they’ve shared about friends being forced to take classes by their parents would make your head spin. These are classes that don’t reflect the students’ interests (some of these kids are desperately trying to hang onto a B- in Math I). There are Sidwell students crying and stressed out by Math I-IV, and some of the 1A sciences classes. My children have asked why don’t they just drop the class. The answer is almost always “because my parents won’t let me.”

How should Sidwell fix that problem?[/quote]

Choose different families.

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What if the children from those different families can’t handle Sidwell’s academic workload?[/quote]

Of course they can. Sheesh.[/quote]

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