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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Legacies, athletes in $$$$$ sports, and development kids. Zero FARMS kids.

Congrats?[/quote]

[b]What's FARMS?[/b][/quote]

Exactly.[/quote]

It’s the wrong kind of diversity for Sidwell and comparable privates. [/quote]

Actually I personally know multiple families at Sidwell who would qualify for FARMs, or whose families received FARM (or siblings still do) in public school.  And as for this false public/private divide, do you really think there aren’t a huge number of families with kids at local publications whose kids are legacies at top colleges, whose families are current or potential large donors, etc.?  Wealthy families, parents with degrees from top ranked schools, and families who are major donors to charitable and educational institutions make a wide range of educational choices for their kids. Our kids are currently at Sidwell, Which we decided based on their individual interests and needs. Had they had different academic areas of interest, and for one child a different extracurricular interest, we definitely would’ve gone public. Among my pretty large group of friends through our jobs, about half of our kids are in public and private. Sometimes split with an a family based on the kids needs and interests.  We are generally socioeconomically about the same, with some differences, tend to take similar approaches to philanthropy, And went to similarly competitive colleges and professional schools. Not identical, of course.  We are not public school families or private school families, we are parents making the best decisions for our individual kids, open to changes along the way. And in this group there are just as many Kids who will have a top-ranked school legacy connection in public as on private.  All to say this great divide does not seem to exist as described or assumed.  [/quote]

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