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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?

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]

Ok.  But how does that support the claims (whether you wrote them or not): "Anyone in the 80s and 90s who thought poorly of GDS was a bigot" and "Most of the criticisms leveled at the school have an undercurrent of anti Semitism."  Is GDS beyond criticism?  If so, what are we going to talk about this forum for the next 20 years? [/quote]

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