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Anonymous wrote:Yes. I do. I am mentoring a kid that will not be a D1 player. You mean if he was amazing violinist? Yes. I think they would have.

If he was a under the radar kid nobody ever knew or heard about because he went to school, went home and nobody really knew who he was, who was not involved in any afterschool activities and he was dismissed, then probably not.

It hard to understand when you just meet that kid that has something you can't teach and you see that potential and you want to help. It really amazing.

Spin city. As a PP mentioned, it was the other basketball families who put this campaign together. Farquhar has no spine.

Anonymous wrote:If this kid wasn't a basketball player, do you really think the community would have rallied behind him?

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I do. I am mentoring a kid that will not be a D1 player. You mean if he was amazing violinist? Yes. I think they would have.

If he was a under the radar kid nobody ever knew or heard about because he went to school, went home and nobody really knew who he was, who was not involved in any afterschool activities and he was dismissed, then probably not.

It hard to understand when you just meet that kid that has something you can't teach and you see that potential and you want to help. It really amazing.

Anonymous wrote:I don't think this story is isolated or that it only happens at Sidwell. There was an article in the news paper about a parent who took a student under his wing and provided mentors so he could be successful a few weeks ago for another school. I have done this for a boy in yet another school and that story will never be in the paper.

The Washington Jesuit School does this for all their students.

I think the lesson should be that yes we should foster kids that are not "making the grade" instead of getting rid of them. This should be a lesson to all schools and it should not be categorized as "lowering standards".

It takes a lot more than just being able to put a ball in a basket to be a basketball player recruited by Syracuse, but few understand that. It takes dedication, a passion for something, hard work, leadership skills, etc.

People in DC just don't like to hear that an athlete is successful.

It is disgrassful that annonymous adults are specificially calling a child out and saying they "lowered their standards". Just becaues he is black, plays basketball and grew up in Wheaton. You are pathetic.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think this story is isolated or that it only happens at Sidwell. There was an article in the news paper about a parent who took a student under his wing and provided mentors so he could be successful a few weeks ago for another school. I have done this for a boy in yet another school and that story will never be in the paper.

The Washington Jesuit School does this for all their students.

I think the lesson should be that yes we should foster kids that are not "making the grade" instead of getting rid of them. This should be a lesson to all schools and it should not be categorized as "lowering standards".

It takes a lot more than just being able to put a ball in a basket to be a basketball player recruited by Syracuse, but few understand that. It takes dedication, a passion for something, hard work, leadership skills, etc.

People in DC just don't like to hear that an athlete is successful.

It is disgrassful that annonymous adults are specificially calling a child out and saying they "lowered their standards". Just becaues he is black, plays basketball and grew up in Wheaton. You are pathetic.

If this kid wasn't a basketball player, do you really think the community would have rallied behind him? Sidwell's academic reputation takes another hit.

Anonymous wrote:I don't think this story is isolated or that it only happens at Sidwell. There was an article in the news paper about a parent who took a student under his wing and provided mentors so he could be successful a few weeks ago for another school. I have done this for a boy in yet another school and that story will never be in the paper.

The Washington Jesuit School does this for all their students.

I think the lesson should be that yes we should foster kids that are not "making the grade" instead of getting rid of them. This should be a lesson to all schools and it should not be categorized as "lowering standards".

It takes a lot more than just being able to put a ball in a basket to be a basketball player recruited by Syracuse, but few understand that. It takes dedication, a passion for something, hard work, leadership skills, etc.

People in DC just don't like to hear that an athlete is successful.

It is disgrassful that annonymous adults are specificially calling a child out and saying they "lowered their standards". Just becaues he is black, plays basketball and grew up in Wheaton. You are pathetic.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think this story is isolated or that it only happens at Sidwell. There was an article in the news paper about a parent who took a student under his wing and provided mentors so he could be successful a few weeks ago for another school. I have done this for a boy in yet another school and that story will never be in the paper.

The Washington Jesuit School does this for all their students.

I think the lesson should be that yes we should foster kids that are not "making the grade" instead of getting rid of them. This should be a lesson to all schools and it should not be categorized as "lowering standards".

It takes a lot more than just being able to put a ball in a basket to be a basketball player recruited by Syracuse, but few understand that. It takes dedication, a passion for something, hard work, leadership skills, etc.

People in DC just don't like to hear that an athlete is successful.

It is disgrassful that annonymous adults are specificially calling a child out and saying they "lowered their standards". Just becaues he is black, plays basketball and grew up in Wheaton. You are pathetic.

He is going to Villanova not Syracuse.

Anonymous wrote:I don't think this story is isolated or that it only happens at Sidwell. There was an article in the news paper about a parent who took a student under his wing and provided mentors so he could be successful a few weeks ago for another school. I have done this for a boy in yet another school and that story will never be in the paper.

The Washington Jesuit School does this for all their students.

I think the lesson should be that yes we should foster kids that are not "making the grade" instead of getting rid of them. This should be a lesson to all schools and it should not be categorized as "lowering standards".

It takes a lot more than just being able to put a ball in a basket to be a basketball player recruited by Syracuse, but few understand that. It takes dedication, a passion for something, hard work, leadership skills, etc.

People in DC just don't like to hear that an athlete is successful.

It is disgrassful that annonymous adults are specificially calling a child out and saying they "lowered their standards". Just becaues he is black, plays basketball and grew up in Wheaton. You are pathetic.

Anonymous wrote:It reinforces that both Farquhar and Sidwell are a joke.

Anonymous wrote:Pathetic article. The school should be embarrassed.
How often does a headmaster retract a dismissal?
I wonder about the other academically qualified applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds that got bumped by this kid's acceptance.
If this was happening at Maret, GDS or STA, all you Sidwell boosters would be crying foul big time.