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Anonymous wrote:Something stinks here and it doesn't seem like it is the young girl. IMO if she is at Penn now, after a gap year and no substantive changes to her application (like her SAT score didn't increase exponentially), then it certainly seems to me like Sidwell played a negative role in her initial application. More power to her and her family if she pushes forward with her case.

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Agree!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has this family been involved with other lawsuits?

They brought an againt against the school concerning their older daughter. Then they filed a complaint with the DC Human Rights Cimmission about the younger daughter and they subsequently filed this crazy lawsuit.

It should be noted that the DCHR complaint resulted in a settlement. Sidwell's alleged failure to fulfill its obligations under the settlement agreement gave rise to the lawsuit. Not taking sides here, but it's important to understand the facts, right?

First, I've defended against DCHR many times -- they PUSH settlements like no other entity I have dealt with. Cases settle all the time, for all kinds of reasons, mostly related to cost and publicity.

Second, the court of appeals opinion suggests that Sidwell did meet its obligation with regard to the grades issue. Not sure because I haven't read the whole thing, but I suspect the school agreed to review the grades, and did, but that their review didn't give the result that the student and her parents expected.

This SCOTUS appeal is going nowhere... But, the bad publicity and CCO issues raised in the filing will "trigger" some people within the Sidwell community who already "suspect" that something is amiss.

Anyone who genuinely believes Sidwell singled out this family because of racism and deliberately gave lower grades to the girls out of a vendetta needs to get their heads examined. This family was downright pushy and obnoxious. There have been other families like this at other schools. It doesn't matter what the color of their skins are or their faith origins.

Anonymous wrote:Nope. If you are going to be pedantic, at least be correct. There will not be a response to the petition.

Has Sidwell waived its right to oppose the petition or not filed within the deadline?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has this family been involved with other lawsuits?

They brought an againt against the school concerning their older daughter. Then they filed a complaint with the DC Human Rights Cimmission about the younger daughter and they subsequently filed this crazy lawsuit.

It should be noted that the DCHR complaint resulted in a settlement. Sidwell's alleged failure to fulfill its obligations under the settlement agreement gave rise to the lawsuit. Not taking sides here, but it's important to understand the facts, right?

Anonymous wrote:Has this family been involved with other lawsuits?

They brought an againt against the school concerning their older daughter. Then they filed a complaint with the DC Human Rights Cimmission about the younger daughter and they subsequently filed this crazy lawsuit.

Has this family been involved with other lawsuits?

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Anonymous wrote:What surprises me about this case and situation is how the young woman missed the forest for the trees. Any future employer seeing online this history would not want to hire her or ask a lot of uncomfortable questions.

The statement in the record that really jumped out was the former head of school telling the parents that the faculty wanted the family to be "gone, gone, gone" from the school. They must have been quite a pain. Future employers may not want to take the chance on her..

Doesn’t reflect well on former head of school and feeds the retaliation narrative

I read it as either utterly untrue or a reflection on how exasperating this family is. They strike me as the kind of people who don't believe what the school was trying to tell them about their children and their abilities. I suspect they were ok students and that the math department was trying to tell the parents that they would be better off in the lower math track, but the parents kept pushing to get them in the higher level classes. I also suspect that these are the kind of people who believe that everything they don't like happens "because of" their race.

All of that said, in our age of constant outrage, we should expect more of these "something happened that I don't like, so I'll claim discrimination and sue" lawsuits.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What surprises me about this case and situation is how the young woman missed the forest for the trees. Any future employer seeing online this history would not want to hire her or ask a lot of uncomfortable questions.

The statement in the record that really jumped out was the former head of school telling the parents that the faculty wanted the family to be "gone, gone, gone" from the school. They must have been quite a pain. Future employers may not want to take the chance on her..

Doesn’t reflect well on former head of school and feeds the retaliation narrative

Perhaps there is a reason he is the former head of school?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What surprises me about this case and situation is how the young woman missed the forest for the trees. Any future employer seeing online this history would not want to hire her or ask a lot of uncomfortable questions.

The statement in the record that really jumped out was the former head of school telling the parents that the faculty wanted the family to be "gone, gone, gone" from the school. They must have been quite a pain. Future employers may not want to take the chance on her..

Doesn’t reflect well on former head of school and feeds the retaliation narrative