Anonymous
Post 04/23/2016 14:50     Subject: Big 3 Schools and Celebrities
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Really? You got in? But turned it down because you were worried that your DC would have to "wade through protestors and deal with security threats?"


Yes. I had a "hook". But also didn't want my kids to grow up thinking it's ok to make $20,000 for the rest of their lives and work for the peace corps. Oh but then think they should vacation at the 4 seasons.


Hmm. With the exception of one tenured professor friend, my closest adult friends who went to the school all make well over $500,000 per year or are quite senior in government and revolve from government to the private sector and back, with resulting fluctuating pay. The commonality that I see is that every single one of them not only has a profession they are committed to, but also dedicates significant time, and often significant financial support, to community and charitable causes.


Right. Great place to send them if you want them to learn/network to feed off the working people of the US by mastering the revolving door principle.





How nasty and negative you are. Clearly someone with a grudge.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2016 10:55     Subject: Big 3 Schools and Celebrities
Anonymous wrote:LOL. Probably not GDS either.


Trump will give GDS a look now that its nickname has become the Greedy Developers School.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2016 10:35     Subject: Big 3 Schools and Celebrities
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Really? You got in? But turned it down because you were worried that your DC would have to "wade through protestors and deal with security threats?"


Yes. I had a "hook". But also didn't want my kids to grow up thinking it's ok to make $20,000 for the rest of their lives and work for the peace corps. Oh but then think they should vacation at the 4 seasons.


Hmm. With the exception of one tenured professor friend, my closest adult friends who went to the school all make well over $500,000 per year or are quite senior in government and revolve from government to the private sector and back, with resulting fluctuating pay. The commonality that I see is that every single one of them not only has a profession they are committed to, but also dedicates significant time, and often significant financial support, to community and charitable causes.


Right. Great place to send them if you want them to learn/network to feed off the working people of the US by mastering the revolving door principle.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2016 10:11     Subject: Big 3 Schools and Celebrities
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Really? You got in? But turned it down because you were worried that your DC would have to "wade through protestors and deal with security threats?"


Yes. I had a "hook". But also didn't want my kids to grow up thinking it's ok to make $20,000 for the rest of their lives and work for the peace corps. Oh but then think they should vacation at the 4 seasons.


Hmm. With the exception of one tenured professor friend, my closest adult friends who went to the school all make well over $500,000 per year or are quite senior in government and revolve from government to the private sector and back, with resulting fluctuating pay. The commonality that I see is that every single one of them not only has a profession they are committed to, but also dedicates significant time, and often significant financial support, to community and charitable causes.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2016 09:59     Subject: Big 3 Schools and Celebrities
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Really? You got in? But turned it down because you were worried that your DC would have to "wade through protestors and deal with security threats?"


Yes. I had a "hook". But also didn't want my kids to grow up thinking it's ok to make $20,000 for the rest of their lives and work for the peace corps. Oh but then think they should vacation at the 4 seasons.


Lol, this is funny. Where did you end up going?
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2016 07:53     Subject: Big 3 Schools and Celebrities
Anonymous wrote:Really? You got in? But turned it down because you were worried that your DC would have to "wade through protestors and deal with security threats?"


Yes. I had a "hook". But also didn't want my kids to grow up thinking it's ok to make $20,000 for the rest of their lives and work for the peace corps. Oh but then think they should vacation at the 4 seasons.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2016 07:38     Subject: Big 3 Schools and Celebrities
Really? You got in? But turned it down because you were worried that your DC would have to "wade through protestors and deal with security threats?"
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2016 07:22     Subject: Big 3 Schools and Celebrities
As someone who attended private school with celebrity children, a private like Sidwell is the best place for them, keeping them insulated. To my knowledge these children are treated no different and are allowed to grow up "normally". However, this is one reason we did not choose Sidwell for our children. I didn't want my kids having to wade through protesters or deal with security threats.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2016 19:03     Subject: Big 3 Schools and Celebrities
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:GDS boosters histrionic rending of their skirts over first family proves that at least one school cares deeply about celebrity.


I think you have it wrong. Apparently it was the first family that was disappointed when the Secret Service vetoed the GDS Macarthur Blvd campus for configuration reasons. The new, combined campus on Wisconsin will address all that, so that GDS will be a viable choice for future protectee students.


The First Lady is writing a book; I'm sure she'll discuss why she and the girls picked Sidwell.
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2015 22:58     Subject: Big 3 Schools and Celebrities
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:School has started. Where are the children of celebrities?

All at GDS?


I have it on good authority that a couple of deputy assistant attorneys general have been sighted ("cited"? ) at back to school night.


Love those lawyer jokes.
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2015 22:58     Subject: Big 3 Schools and Celebrities
Anonymous wrote:Please give it a rest. There are no celebrities in DC. This is a government town plain and simple.


If you are not interested, don't waste your time reading or posting here.
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2015 14:52     Subject: Big 3 Schools and Celebrities
Please give it a rest. There are no celebrities in DC. This is a government town plain and simple.
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2015 14:18     Subject: Big 3 Schools and Celebrities
Anonymous wrote:School has started. Where are the children of celebrities?

All at GDS?


I have it on good authority that a couple of deputy assistant attorneys general have been sighted ("cited"? ) at back to school night.
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2015 13:31     Subject: Big 3 Schools and Celebrities
School has started. Where are the children of celebrities?

All at GDS?
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2015 22:13     Subject: Re:Big 3 Schools and Celebrities
Anonymous wrote:Eleven pages, and still not one revelation about a celebrity kid in a DC school! We all already knew about the Obama girls going to Sidwell. Won't anyone please provide some gossip? What is the point of this thread if not that??!!


OP questioned why the children of celebrities received special admissions considerations, but eleven pages has shown that there are not celebrities in DC. As a result, there can be no children of celebrities to receive special admissions consideration at private schools so, as you suggest, what point can there be to this thread.