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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP also said that Sidwell "allows [certain athletes] to leave midday for outside training." Is that part also untrue?[/quote]

I asked my children if this was true. They obviously don’t keep track of other students’ schedules, but they both said the recruited athletes in their afternoon classes attend regularly. The only time they recall these students leaving early is for a game (with an early start time and a long commute). Both of my (non-recruited) children play sports at Sidwell and they have also left school early for an occasional game.

Btw, neither of them think leaving school early is a perk. The workload is heavy and everyone who misses class/assignments has to scramble to make the work up. The teachers don’t cut ANY of these students much slack. Long story short, if Sidwell’s recruited athletes are getting any preferential academic treatment, my children have not detected it (and I have one child who is particularly sensitive to perceived inequity). If anything, they think that being an athlete at Sidwell (especially basketball) is a huge time suck. According to them, none of the recruited basketball players (boys or girls) are good students. [/quote]

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