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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone in the 80s and 90s who thought poorly of GDS was a bigot. The school has always provided a top notch education and the biggest issue that folks had with it was and is the Jewish population.  It’s not a surprise that they always sent a bunch of kids to Ivy. That is common amongst the Jewish elite. Most of the criticisms leveled at the school have an undercurrent of anti Semitism. [/quote]

So if you don’t like Sidwell, as most GDS boosters seem to bash Sidwell, does that make you anti-Quaker?

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You realize that Sidwell, STA, and NCS all refused to accept Jewish students (and African American students, for that matter--but not the children of high-ranking African and ME diplomats, from what I understand) for years after GDS was founded? I fail to understand how such schools defended their discrimination against children based upon religion and/or race and still proudly identified as Christian/Quaker?

[b]Yes, those policies have changed, but as were are discussing the historical trends of these schools, please don't forget the ugly past in which these schools were actively complicit[/b].[/quote]

Excellent points of history.[/quote]

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