Anonymous
Post 04/09/2013 17:20     Subject: Sidwell Sex Scandal
Anonymous wrote:Why do people think that Sidwell isn't settling?

Their lawyers probably told them this would never get to trial. Lots of reasons: because of a "mandatory" arbitration clause or because the plaintiff would never subject his family to that publicity or because Sidwell doesn't want to cave to a disgruntled parent--on any grounds and set unhelpful precedent. Take your pick.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2013 17:11     Subject: Sidwell Sex Scandal
Is anyone else thinking there's a player involved in all of this who has MAD sex skills? Or a magnetic vagina possibly?
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2013 17:09     Subject: Sidwell Sex Scandal
Anonymous wrote:Hit piece? No trial date, no Woodward emails, no Washingtonian article. This is how journalism works.


There was no need to quote the statement about the 8th grade girls being hit on by male P.E. teachers. Same with the Sidwell bullying issue.

There are basically using private e-mails of a school official to publicize scandals that had been kept secret.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2013 17:06     Subject: Sidwell Sex Scandal
Reports get more salacious:

Washington City Paper

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2013/04/09/sidwell-friends-cuckolding-lawsuit-has-everything-sex-creepy-p-e-teachers-bob-woodward/

Anonymous
Post 04/09/2013 17:05     Subject: Sidwell Sex Scandal
Anonymous wrote:Plaintiff seems like a vindictive bastard, whose primary goal is to trash the everyone involved, so maybe quiet settlement was not a viable option. If that's how it's going down, then as a private school parent, I'd want my school to fight rather than cave in to that kind of trash.


I think he has plenty to be pissed about.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2013 17:00     Subject: Sidwell Sex Scandal
Hit piece? No trial date, no Woodward emails, no Washingtonian article. This is how journalism works.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2013 16:57     Subject: Sidwell Sex Scandal
Anonymous wrote:The casual treatment of 8th grade girls complaining about their female P.E. teachers hitting on them - right at the time that Sidwell was dealing with a same sex pedophile issue involving an 8th grade teacher is absolutely shocking.

Male pe teachers--not that it's any better.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2013 16:56     Subject: Sidwell Sex Scandal
The Washingtonian hit piece just came out today. Settlement is imminent.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2013 16:51     Subject: Sidwell Sex Scandal
Why do people think that Sidwell isn't settling?
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2013 16:33     Subject: Sidwell Sex Scandal
Anonymous wrote:Plaintiff seems like a vindictive bastard, whose primary goal is to trash the everyone involved, so maybe quiet settlement was not a viable option. If that's how it's going down, then as a private school parent, I'd want my school to fight rather than cave in to that kind of trash.


This guy is far from trash. Vindictive - sure. But the family is very well-known, especially at Sidwell and in upper-crust DC circles, and very well-regarded.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2013 16:33     Subject: Sidwell Sex Scandal
The casual treatment of 8th grade girls complaining about their female P.E. teachers hitting on them - right at the time that Sidwell was dealing with a same sex pedophile issue involving an 8th grade teacher is absolutely shocking.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2013 16:26     Subject: Sidwell Sex Scandal
Anonymous wrote:I just saw that. I just read through to the end. I love the three judges having to recuse themselves because of Sidwell connections. The mother lost custody of her daughters, who live with their father in Florida. That's extreme in the age of shared custody. I bet Sidwell settles now. How stupid can Sidwell be? Now this publicity is going to force the school to have to settle for more.


+1. Especially on the judges.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2013 16:26     Subject: Sidwell Sex Scandal
16:13 Mixed metaphors, anyone? A full-blown trial would register more than a small aftershock on the PR Richter scale.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2013 16:20     Subject: Sidwell Sex Scandal
Huh. Upper Caucasia types really do have anal sex, it seems.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2013 16:13     Subject: Sidwell Sex Scandal
Anonymous wrote:I just saw that. I just read through to the end. I love the three judges having to recuse themselves because of Sidwell connections. The mother lost custody of her daughters, who live with their father in Florida. That's extreme in the age of shared custody. I bet Sidwell settles now. How stupid can Sidwell be? Now this publicity is going to force the school to have to settle for more.

Publicity storm already occurred two years ago. This is just a small aftershock.