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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Went to Sidwell.
No desire to be part of the current community of parents and I don't think the environment is great for kids.
Going public.[/quote]

Op here. Interesting. Would you mind saying more about what bothers you about the community? [/quote]
When I went there, it was a unique and diverse environment. The recent culture of celebrity has made it a hotbed of social climbers and other types that we don't feel comfortable associating with. Many of my classmates feel the same way. It's a culture of elitism and snobbiness that I don't feel is outweighed by the quality of the education.[/quote]

Our youngest is about to graduate from SFS, and we've had kids there for just over a decade.  The school has changed in that time, definitely, though I think there's still a core of folks who are down-to-earth and genuinely interested in the education, rather than just the networking opportunities (gag).  In any case, when we meet SFS alums who don't send their kids there we don't blink an eye -- there are just so many factors that go into the decision about where children would be best off.

This thread is really interesting to me because DH and I both went to public schools (not in this part of the country) and never anticipated sending our kids to private.  We feel like there were a lot of good things that came out of our decision to send them to SFS, but I do hope they won't feel obligated to send their own kids to private school (doubtful that it would be SFS  in any case since they're probably not going to come back to the DMW after college).

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