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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thread title is completely backwards.  Sidwell is to be paid BY the family due to their frivolous case.  The family LOST in court and while Sidwell agreed to REVIEW the daughter’s  grades early on in the dispute they made no promises and only changed one grade from an A- to an A due to a minor miscalculation.

So the system worked.  Sidwell upheld their standards.  Courts rewarded them for it.

So basically a probably Rich Family has a smart kid and is SHOCKED she doesn’t get into all the ivies after probably shelling out a small fortune for private schools they asssumed would get her there.  Sounds like a lot of wealthy parents everywhere and especially on DCUM.

What foolish atty agreed to take this case all the way to SCOTUS is the real crazy story.  I can’t imagine the legal fees the family racked up.  Guess legal team thought the school would cave in embarrassment.  Good for Sidwell that they held their own. [/quote]

I'm a white male who went to a private school in Atlanta for 13 years.  I graduated at the bottom half of my class with a 3.6 GPA and found it immensely difficult to get into any notable schools like UGA.  I had to write a letter each week for months to get a pity offer from a school in North Carolina.  I watched rich students be placed ahead of me the entirety of my time there in AP courses freshman year of high school that I qualified for in middle school, yet did did not get selected.  I always wondered if it was because my family was not particularly rich.  Those other students excelled while I became disillusioned.  My family was mad as all hell that I did not gain acceptance to the schools that they thought they had paid for in sending me to an acclaimed private school.  I also watched as black students of rich families were given scholarships and special opportunities, even though they performed on-par or worse than I did in the same classes.  Another black student, a best friend, came from a very poor family and was not given ANY of the opportunities that the rich whites or blacks were given and he was forced to be the first student in my living memory from that school who did NOT go to college and instead joined the Air Force.

Now - those rich students are struggling with finding an appropriate career to sustain their rich lifestyles, despite the advantages academia gave them.  I struggle with a low paying job at a local PBS station, but I am doing my art and am happy.  My best friend who joined the Air Force is able to transition to the civilian life making $80k off of a great IT education he received in the service.

I tell this story because as much as people would like to gripe about the impacts of education on a person's future - they themselves determine their success.  Not their parents.  Not their schools.  Not even their own academic performance.  THEY do.  If Dayo Adetu has a good well-rounded head on her shoulders, with a good heart, and determination to succeed - she will.  Her parent's money will never buy her life satisfaction or career success.  I hope this lawsuit doesn't teach her that threatening yields positive results.  I hope she found a good hobby that she is passionate about.  All this nonsense about "college placement" is a HUGE racket for schools to accumulate wealth and it is such a waste of money and time for frivolous lawsuits.  If ANYONE deserved a lawsuit - it would be my best friend who was completely failed by the private school system.  But, with that being said, he is in a better position in his career than anyone I knew taking out crazy loans for a degree they will most likely never actually work in the field.[/quote]

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