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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sidwell has some kids on scholarship but come on, folks. Why are you even arguing about this? Obviously most Sidwell students come from money. If they didn't, Sidwell would not exist. They take on some scholarship students to make themselves feel good and boost their diversity, but the school exists to serve wealthy families who want a certain kind of education.

That's not an insult. It's just reality. Stop acting like a few scholarship kids somehow makes Sidwell something it is not. It's disingenuous and unbecoming.[/quote]

Correcting false statements is not unbecoming. Neither is pretending that you are in the mind of others, knowing why they send their children to a particular school, why they dedicate resources to supporting financial aid at that school.  Personally, The reason that I donate as much as I do to Sidwell is that I am extraordinarily grateful for the education that my children are receiving their period for the few years that I attended private school growing up, I received financial aid. That experience changed my life. It changed my career direction, my academic engagement across the board, my college opportunities, and most importantly it exposed me to ideas and people I hadn’t encountered before.  Paying it forward, so to speak, is important to me. So, I donate a significant (for our family) amount to Sidwell, as I also do to the high school I attended years ago.  Just like we donate to other organizations where my husband or I feel it is important to pay it forward, or where we have seen organizations make a particularly positive and strong impact using resource as well.  does it feel good to be able to support organizations we care about financially? Yes, that feels really good and I’m glad we are able to do it. I hope that everyone, whether putting a dollar into the church basket, donating through their employer community funds, donating time or money to community activities, or donating funds to things they care about, feels good about it. It’s a good thing to do. No need to state, somewhat dismissively and pejoratively, that people contribute to things they care about “to feel good”.  [/quote]

What % of Sidwell students receive financial aid? 25%? 35%. What % of Sidwell students are black?[/quote]

I'm not sure what either of those questions has to do with correcting the inaccurate statement about the school not having any students who would be FARMs eligible or the dismissive presumptions about what parents are looking for in the school or their reasons for making donations.  But to respond in part to your questions.  Based on the information posted on the school's public web site, 22% of students receive financial aid, and the average financial aid award is $32,000.  The annual financial aid budget is $8.2 million.  I do not see any numbers broken down by race, but the site states there are 56.7% students of color.  Anecdotally and based on the grades/classes I am more familiar, the more notable aspect is a loose sense that there are comparatively few LatinX students and families.  Again anecdotally, regarding the breakdown of black students, there is (as everywhere) black students who are African American and black students who are not African American.  There are a lot of international families at Sidwell, and I'd estimate that about half of the black students I know may not identify as African American.  Which of course is different from the percentage of black children/families in DC who are African American.  [/quote]

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