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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]

NP, the immediate PP made no such statement.  Your obvious defensiveness is causing you to project something that isn't there.

It is more offensive to suggest that history has no bearing on the present.  Of course it does.  While both Sidwell and the Cathedral schools have evolved, that does not, cannot, and should not eradicate their history.

As a Christian, I can acknowledge that Christian churches -- Protestant and Catholic alike -- have supported and been part of horrific atrocities.  At the risk of quoting George Santayana, which I won't, ahistoricity enables future wrongdoing. Sidwell and the Cathedral schools have participated in advancing white Christian privilege. The fact that everyone else was doing it is not exculpatory. [/quote]

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