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Anonymous wrote:I look forward to watching Sidwell's top-notch boys and girls hoops teams play in the DC tourney this weekend. BTW, Sidwell's best players are African-American. Shhhhh ......

PP writing. I enjoy the basketball program. I'm not making any kind of veiled statement on race. What I am calling attention to is the school's social media presence/campaigning and all the other PR the school puts out. There is a clear interest in going beyond (or substituting for) the school's historically academic identity to one more focused on sports. And maybe that's just the direction Bryan seeks to take things. This is disappointing to me. I sometimes wonder if the money crunch the school seems to have experienced during recent years may explain some of this. In fundraising circles, it is widely believed that alumni tend to be more generous when sports teams are excelling than in any other situation.

Don’t blame Sidwell because your child lacks any athletic ability. Besides, being an an academic AND athletic powerhouse is not mutually exclusive (see Stanford, Duke, UCLA, etc).

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Mens sana in corpore sano

Anonymous wrote:As a HS parent - we have heard that the MS head is subpar and that it affects much of MS experience in a negative way for students and for teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:Aside from basketball, though, Sidwell isn’t really a sports powerhouse in the more high profile sports. Football program couldn’t even field a team to play MAC games for goodness sakes. Lacrosse is terrible. I guess Tennis is pretty good and sometimes soccer?

Sidwell’s tennis program is excellent, and soccer is currently good.

I mean has any other than a parent ever attended a high school tennis match? Great for the kids on the team, but not exactly a high school glamour sport

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Anonymous wrote:I look forward to watching Sidwell's top-notch boys and girls hoops teams play in the DC tourney this weekend. BTW, Sidwell's best players are African-American. Shhhhh ......

PP writing. I enjoy the basketball program. I'm not making any kind of veiled statement on race. What I am calling attention to is the school's social media presence/campaigning and all the other PR the school puts out. There is a clear interest in going beyond (or substituting for) the school's historically academic identity to one more focused on sports. And maybe that's just the direction Bryan seeks to take things. This is disappointing to me. I sometimes wonder if the money crunch the school seems to have experienced during recent years may explain some of this. In fundraising circles, it is widely believed that alumni tend to be more generous when sports teams are excelling than in any other situation.

Don’t blame Sidwell because your child lacks any athletic ability. Besides, being an an academic AND athletic powerhouse is not mutually exclusive (see Stanford, Duke, UCLA, etc).

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Anonymous wrote:Aside from basketball, though, Sidwell isn’t really a sports powerhouse in the more high profile sports. Football program couldn’t even field a team to play MAC games for goodness sakes. Lacrosse is terrible. I guess Tennis is pretty good and sometimes soccer?

Sidwell’s tennis program is excellent, and soccer is currently good.

I mean has any other than a parent ever attended a high school tennis match? Great for the kids on the team, but not exactly a high school glamour sport

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Anonymous wrote:Oh, it’s the drag the SFS again thread; on the eve of the admission decisions. 🙄

Not at all. Nor is it a DEI-related jab, as a previous kneejerk post suggested. I have had kids at the school for more years than I care to admit (a decision I question often).

I am honestly sad about where the environment there seems to have gone. From my perspective. Not speaking for anyone else.

To that end, I will add that the expanded extent of the sports culture is alienating many families.

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Anonymous wrote:Aside from basketball, though, Sidwell isn’t really a sports powerhouse in the more high profile sports. Football program couldn’t even field a team to play MAC games for goodness sakes. Lacrosse is terrible. I guess Tennis is pretty good and sometimes soccer?

Sidwell’s tennis program is excellent, and soccer is currently good.

Anonymous wrote:Aside from basketball, though, Sidwell isn’t really a sports powerhouse in the more high profile sports. Football program couldn’t even field a team to play MAC games for goodness sakes. Lacrosse is terrible. I guess Tennis is pretty good and sometimes soccer?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I look forward to watching Sidwell's top-notch boys and girls hoops teams play in the DC tourney this weekend. BTW, Sidwell's best players are African-American. Shhhhh ......

PP writing. I enjoy the basketball program. I'm not making any kind of veiled statement on race. What I am calling attention to is the school's social media presence/campaigning and all the other PR the school puts out. There is a clear interest in going beyond (or substituting for) the school's historically academic identity to one more focused on sports. And maybe that's just the direction Bryan seeks to take things. This is disappointing to me. I sometimes wonder if the money crunch the school seems to have experienced during recent years may explain some of this. In fundraising circles, it is widely believed that alumni tend to be more generous when sports teams are excelling than in any other situation.

Anonymous wrote:I look forward to watching Sidwell's top-notch boys and girls hoops teams play in the DC tourney this weekend. BTW, Sidwell's best players are African-American. Shhhhh ......

Anonymous wrote:I can. Previous poster is a nerd and doesn’t like when athletes get attention

Anonymous wrote:I look forward to watching Sidwell's top-notch boys and girls hoops teams play in the DC tourney this weekend. BTW, Sidwell's best players are African-American. Shhhhh ......