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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I look forward to watching Sidwell's top-notch boys and girls hoops teams play in the DC tourney this weekend.  BTW, Sidwell's best players are African-American.   Shhhhh ......[/quote]

PP writing.  I enjoy the basketball program.  I'm not making any kind of veiled statement on race.  What I am calling attention to is the school's social media presence/campaigning and all the other PR the school puts out.  There is a clear interest in going beyond (or substituting for) the school's historically academic identity to one more focused on sports. And maybe that's just the direction Bryan seeks to take things. This is disappointing to me.  I sometimes wonder if the money crunch the school seems to have experienced during recent years may explain some of this. In fundraising circles, it is widely believed that alumni tend to be more generous when sports teams are excelling than in any other situation.[/quote]

Don’t blame Sidwell because your child lacks any athletic ability. Besides, being an an academic AND athletic powerhouse is not mutually exclusive (see Stanford, Duke, UCLA, etc).  [/quote]

Mens sana in corpore sano
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You clowns missed the point. The complaint is about what the school emphasizes as it identity.  Not that the school [b]has[/b] an excellent team or two. (One of which has featured my kid as a player for the past two year). [/quote]

Calling people clowns really advancers the conversation. No wonder you feel alienated [/quote]

By providing clarification, it does advance the conversation. You clown![/quote]

This deteriorated fast, as per usual it can be summed up as u hate us cuz you ain’t us and/or a nerd.[/quote]

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