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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1 -- Of COURSE Big 3 schools let in children of "connected" parents.  So do non-Big 3s.  So for that matter do Langley and Whitman, if the families live in the right neighborhood and the school is attractive.  News flash -- they let in athletes and nerds and artistic types, too.  Private schools are NOT bound to let in the 14 or 27 or 38 students with the highest test scores each year; they look for a mix of types, and some of those will be "connected".

2 -- Many of those "connected" parents have money and your precious "HYP" alumni connections and all private schools need money.  However, the schools do not need or want to be letting in kids who cannot make the cut and seem to do a good job at not letting the kids get in over their heads.

3 -- If security is a potential issue, in fact, (i.e., Obama daughters, Queen Noor's kids, ambassadors' kids), there are few other reasonable places to even consider sending your child (and none of those are public; the days of Amy Carter going to Jefferson JHS are long gone).  Having seen the Secret Service presence at Sidwell -- well managed, BTW -- there is no way you could do that at any public school in the area and [b]many private schools wouldn't even make that cut[/b].  Those few that do are in high demand, but it is a very small group of families that fall into that category.

4 -- Although we did not/do not currently send DC to a Big 3, we have been in child care centers and schools with senators' kids and lobbyist kids and Postie kids and other "connected" kids.  They live in our neighborhoods, after all.  Parents may or may not be nice, just as with "unconnected" parents.  Kids seem to be just as all the others are, though, some nice, some dreadful, and do not seem to be getting obvious special breaks.

All of this is a completely ridiculous line of discussion anyway, though -- none of these folks (except the Obama daughters, who didn't ask for this after all) are even remotely "celebrity" anywhere in the real world outside the Beltway.  They are "connected", yes, but we all come from places where the factory owners' kids or the lawyers' kids or the doctors' kids seemed to always get in the right places, this is no different from that....[/quote]

The backstory is that when President Obama was first elected, the Obamas' first choice for their daughters was Georgetown Day.  But the Secret Service vetoed their choice because they felt that egress and other security issues at the Macarthur Bdvd campus were not ideal.  So they settled on Sidwell, where the USSS felt more comfortable because Chelsea Clinton had gone there.  GDS' new campus on Wisconsin Ave is being planned with security considerations in mind so that the school will be very competitive if a future president or vice president wants to send children there.[/quote]

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