Reply to Don't understand the crazy about sidwell friend

Forum Index » Private & Independent Schools

Reply to "Don't understand the crazy about sidwell friend"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Before the Clintons, and certainly after the Obamas chose the school for their children, it went from being on par with the others and somewhat less insider-ish than either STA and NCS, to being the most overtly concerned with money, connections, and insider status of the bunch.  Somewhere along the way, the real meaning and spirit of our Quaker values as practiced in the old days was lost.  Sometimes too much popularity and too many connections morph into a less healthy pretense and over concern with the status markets of a material world.  I used to consider among the most values driven school, but not so today.  [b]GDS today is probably more akin to the Sidwell of old.  I wish it could go back to the way it was.[/b][/quote]

The interesting thing is that GDS supposedly was the Obamas' top choice school.  But the Secret Service basically vetoed it because they had reservations about security on the GDS lower-middle campus in the Palisades.  The Secret Service knew Sidwell from the Clinton years, so it was just easier to go with Sidwell in the end.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics