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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's Sidwell and nothing else. Maybe some of the schools with big football feeders are famous among sports fans who pay attention to stuff like where NFL players went to high school. But your average person has heard of Sidwell because presidents' kids go there and that's it.

People don't remember the name of the schools involved in the Kavanaugh hearings, just that the people involved went to some hoity private Catholic schools.

If you ranked all private schools in the country in terms of fame, Sidwell might crack the top 10 (might) and no other DC school would rank. It would mostly be schools like Harvard-Westlake, Phillips Exeter, Choate, Exeter, Spence -- places they've heard of because famous people send their kids there or people write books about them or lots of well known politicians, writers and celebrities attended. This is not the case with any DC school except Sidwell.[/quote]

This is completely stupid. If you think more people have heard of Choate or Spence than the big sports schools you need to get out more. That’s an insane opinion.[/quote]

Gwyneth Paltrow went to Spence. Many, many people know this. Choate gets mentioned in lots of stories as kind of a classic "rich kid private" -- it's been in Gilmore Girls and the Catcher in the Rye (yeah, yeah, no one reads -- but people over the age of 35 were probably required to read CitR in high school and forced to discuss it in class, thus more likely to know the reference).

Most sports fans do not track where players went to high school. College yes, but not high school (especially for football). Here I can prove it -- name 10 other schools outside the DMV that are well known NBA feeders. You can't. They exist, but you don't know their names because they are not local to you.[/quote]

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