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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not so sure about academic decline, Sidwell does have a very strong academic reputation (except for the Lower School which fell decades behind it's dc counterparts, but hopefully that will change & be back on track with the ousting of the dinosaur LSH). Where it has been on the decline is in it's moral character. The school's administration spent years raising funds to build numerous state-of-the-art-facilities and somewhere along the way it  changed the profile of the type of family it accepted and attracted. It is a very different school than it was 10-15 years ago. There is a general feeling that it lost touch with it's low-key Quaker roots. The understanding is the new HOS was chosen be because he will make this a priority. [/quote]

I hope this is true and that it is what the AD meant when he said at the open house that, "having just completed a 10 year capital campaign in which 100 Million was raised and used towards improving the physical plant, emphasis could now be turned elsewhere for the next 10 year strategic plan. I hope that by "elsewhere" he means a renewed focus on the moral development of young people and a stiffening of the administration's spine in just saying "no" to pushy people and their money.[/quote]

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