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[quote=Anonymous]Sidwell exists. Dunbar (DCPS) sucks.

If Sidwell locked it's doors, Dunbar would still suck.

Once upon a time, Dunbar didn't suck. It was an elite public African American high school that produced Dr. Charles R Drew, former DC mayor and councilman Vincent Gray, Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Nannie Helen Burroughs. How it came to suck is not the fault of GDS or Sidwell or Gonzaga. No, that's all on DCPS and the DC government. And why any DC public school is failing or whatnot has very little to do with rich people running around being rich doing annoying rich people stuff and more to do with the people who run the school and the population of students who attend. Articles and books about how rich people running around doing rich people stuff or 'resource hoarding' fail to illustrate how not running around doing annoying rich people stuff will actually uplift working class, middling class and poor people.

I know the article isn't about my dinky little Catholic school. But I think she overstates the importance of the elite schools. Education is important, but for the exception of a handful of sections in particular industries, nobody cares where you went to school. It might help get your foot in the door, but in my experience, at my govt. agency, nobody cares. I know and known people who are Harvard, Princeton and Yale graduates working for the government, at NGOs and non-profits with co-workers and supervisors who went to State U-Nowherevlle and Hudafuqcares College. Neither Biden or VP Harris went to an ivy league.

The original click bait title insinuated that all private schools are a problem, from the all-black Catholic school to the all-white Richie Rich independent school. Private schools serve a purpose. For some of my friends, they serve as a place where the public school system pays to send their neurodiverse kids. Some privates are a refuge for families where the public school has ignored students needs (ex. bullying, hostility to boy energy, etc). And seriously, do you want those of us who want daily prayer in school demanding that of your secular government schools? I doubt it.

Do what's best for your kids. Trust that other parents will try do what's best for their kids.

Well this has been entertaining.[/quote]

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