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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The reason why more presidential and vice presidential children have attended Sidwell is because the Secret Service found it easier to secure.[/b].

Sidwell may be better known because of the Obama girls but that doesn’t make it a better school. It’s cruising on its reputation. It has serious issues including a weak college counseling office. STA has its issues, too, but it is overall a better run school with stronger teachers in the Upper School.

I say that as a parent with kids at both schools. Sidwell needs to get its administrative act together and the HOS needs to stop with the blatant favoritism for politically connected families.[/quote]

[b]And yet the Secret Service managed to successfully secure St. Andrews for FOUR years[/b][b].

The truth is the Clintons, Obamas, Nixons, Gores, Bidens, etc all chose the school that was best for their children. If they had wanted St. Andrews, GDS, Maret, etc the Secret Service would have made it work. 
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Are you stupid or something?  St. Andrew’s is suburban and does not have the National Cathedral - which on purpose welcomes thousands of people to the Cathedral Close- sitting on its campus..

The Obamas wanted GDS but the Secret Service found the campuses difficult to secure because of the private housing that abuts both the Upper and what used to be the Lower School campus.

Security in the age of Nixon was a little different. Tricia Nixon attended Horace Mann, a public school. Amy Carter attended Stevens and Hardy. The Bidens have no school-age children. [/quote]

Ah, the urban myth resurfaces. “The Obamas wanted GDS.”

If the Obamas had wanted GDS, the Obamas would have gotten GDS. They did not make that choice. [/quote]

I heard they actually wanted NCS for their girls but security is difficult. [/quote]

GDS and NCS boosters are still pushing these myths. Michelle Obama stated in several interviews that they wanted a coed school for their daughters (like the one they attended in Chicago).

Al Gore’s daughters attended NCS while he was a sitting VP—with Secret Service protection. If the Obamas had wanted NCS, they would have selected NCS. [/quote]

Nope things changed and became more dangerous and the Close is open and public and very difficult to contain.  Clinton’s and Obamas wanted NCS. NCS and STA have long been the most prestigious schools in the area. [/quote]

LOL, the Clintons always preferred Sidwell.  Hillary is/was best friend with Marian Wright Edelman who sent her kids there. This is common knowledge. Let's not pull a Trumpian memory hole with such easily verifiable facts.

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/06/us/new-presidency-president-elect-clintons-pick-private-school-capital-for-their.html[/quote]

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