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[quote=Anonymous][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?

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.[/quote]

In the "ugly past" such discrimination was the norm in all types of organizations, both public and private.  To suggest that is relevant to attitudes at those schools today is offensive.[/quote]

Well, it wasn't the norm for ALL institutions, clearly, since there was at least one school that did not discriminate against Jews or African Americans. Also, please read the post--"these policies have changed." Would you rather just forget the past? Confronting the past is not offensive, it is a stark look at history. If you find true statements about our history "offensive," I take it you cannot empathize with the many Jews and African American for whom the "offensive" past is still indeed relevant.[/quote]

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