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[quote=Anonymous]As a current parent, I have to agree.  There are many wonderful things going on at Sidwell, but the school needs to work on morals and ethics.  The upper school administrators think they do this by throwing the book at kids for minor offenses like dress code violations or missing study hall, but they ignore more serious (and difficult to resolve) issues like drugs and bullying.  It is my great hope that the new head of school will take on this challenge.

[quote=Anonymous]"Terry" Newmyer and I were classmates at The Sidwell Friends School a half century ago.  I last saw him in 1963.  While the specifics of his lawsuit against the school are unfortunate, they serve to point out a glaring shortcoming of the school which has gone unreported and unaddressed for far too long.  In 1883 Mr. Sidwell founded a school predicated upon the principles of the highest educational, moral and ethical standards.  In the middle of the last century, at the urging of many of the influential parents from Washington's highest socioeconomic strata, the school undertook what can only be characterized as a concerted program of social engineering which sacrificed those same educational, moral and ethical standards to the prevailing ideology of the city's aristocracy to keep the student body populated with those whose parents were notable and whose acceptance into the nation's finest colleges and universities was assured by legacy and the "old boy network" rather than intellect and merit.  Having attended Quaker meetings for my fourteen years at Sidwell Friends where we were instructed to listen to our "inner voice", I would respectfully suggest that the school listen to its own inner voice and let it guide them back to the path Mr. Sidwell set nearly 130 years ago.[/quote][/quote]

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