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Post 02/23/2015 10:40     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
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Anonymous wrote:I am from what would be considered an old money DC family. I graduated from sidwell in the mid 90s and can count on one hand the number of people who belonged to any country club. It is really disgusting what the school has become.


I always thought I would want my kids to go there, but I heard it had changed so we didn't apply. We don't want the country club set.



Same here (I'm pp). It used to be an interesting place. Now it's full of social climbing wannabes.


Can't speak for Sidwell, but as a legacy & member the club but whose family has NEVER made the "country club" set a priority, I appreciate the diversity at the Cathedral schools. My kids are in the lower school at NCS & STA (and they previously went to beauvoir), One recent trend which I find refreshing and the opposite of "social climbing," NOT ONE of ds & dd's classmates are enrolled in the "invitation only" Mrs. Simpson's, but instead opted for the all-inclusive Capital Cotillion. I know I chose Cotillion over Mrs. Simpson's. From what I've heard the stonewalling of Mrs. Simpson's is quite new. Even a few years back, there would be a handful of students in each grade who attended to Mrs. Simpson's... in this year's 4th grade there are none (ZERO) Cathedral students at Mrs. Simpsons. We felt uncomfortable with the idea of sending dc to a dancing school where not all of his/her classmates were welcome. Take that social climbers!


Parent of recent NCS grad here and I am so thrilled to read this. The whole Mrs. Simpson's thing was toxic to my DD's class. It really is a very divisive institution. It sounds like the parents themselves took care of the problem. NCS administration was certainly never going to do that. This is the best news I've heard about NCS in a long time.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2015 10:38     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
Anonymous wrote:Sidwell parent with multiple kids. I can think of one person who has a country club membership and it is for golf at one of the suburban clubs, not CCC.

1 out of the 200 or so couples I know.

Yeah, that's my experience too. I can think of only three families, but two of those have memberships through their local parents. I can think of several families who join local pools over the summer, but I don't think that's what we're talking about here. (If anyone is interested, our "exclusive" pool charges $500 per summer, and they're happy to have new families!) I'm sure there are other families with club memberships, but it's not something that people talk about.

I think this discussion might reflect a little "social engineering" by people trying to work the admissions angle as March 1 approaches.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2015 10:23     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
Sidwell parent with multiple kids. I can think of one person who has a country club membership and it is for golf at one of the suburban clubs, not CCC.

1 out of the 200 or so couples I know.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2015 10:16     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am from what would be considered an old money DC family. I graduated from sidwell in the mid 90s and can count on one hand the number of people who belonged to any country club. It is really disgusting what the school has become.


I always thought I would want my kids to go there, but I heard it had changed so we didn't apply. We don't want the country club set.



Same here (I'm pp). It used to be an interesting place. Now it's full of social climbing wannabes.


Can't speak for Sidwell, but as a legacy & member the club but whose family has NEVER made the "country club" set a priority, I appreciate the diversity at the Cathedral schools. My kids are in the lower school at NCS & STA (and they previously went to beauvoir), One recent trend which I find refreshing and the opposite of "social climbing," NOT ONE of ds & dd's classmates are enrolled in the "invitation only" Mrs. Simpson's, but instead opted for the all-inclusive Capital Cotillion. I know I chose Cotillion over Mrs. Simpson's. From what I've heard the stonewalling of Mrs. Simpson's is quite new. Even a few years back, there would be a handful of students in each grade who attended to Mrs. Simpson's... in this year's 4th grade there are none (ZERO) Cathedral students at Mrs. Simpsons. We felt uncomfortable with the idea of sending dc to a dancing school where not all of his/her classmates were welcome. Take that social climbers!
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2015 10:14     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am from what would be considered an old money DC family. I graduated from sidwell in the mid 90s and can count on one hand the number of people who belonged to any country club. It is really disgusting what the school has become.

I always thought I would want my kids to go there, but I heard it had changed so we didn't apply. We don't want the country club set.

Did you read these posts? Sidwell is not part of the country club set. In fact, it's probably the least country club set-like private school in the area.

Sshhh! You're messing up the false narrative PPs are trying to create!


These pps are the history of Sidwell. Wake up.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2015 10:13     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am from what would be considered an old money DC family. I graduated from sidwell in the mid 90s and can count on one hand the number of people who belonged to any country club. It is really disgusting what the school has become.

I always thought I would want my kids to go there, but I heard it had changed so we didn't apply. We don't want the country club set.

Did you read these posts? Sidwell is not part of the country club set. In fact, it's probably the least country club set-like private school in the area.

Sshhh! You're messing up the false narrative PPs are trying to create!
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2015 10:08     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
Anonymous wrote:I am from what would be considered an old money DC family. I graduated from sidwell in the mid 90s and can count on one hand the number of people who belonged to any country club. It is really disgusting what the school has become.


I graduated in the 70s and it was even less clubby then. Some is the make up of the school-my class was at least 40% black and Jewish. In the 70s even if clubs were technically non discriminatory they weren't far removed from it. I know I was uncomfortable at CCC when I went with a friend (who went to Beauvoir/NCS, not Sidwell).
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2015 10:04     Subject: Re:Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
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I graduated from sidwell in the mid 90s and can count on one hand the number of people who belonged to any country club. It is really disgusting what the school has become.


Agree. Country club membership goes against what Sidwell Friends use to represent.


Absolutely.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2015 10:03     Subject: Re:Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
I graduated from sidwell in the mid 90s and can count on one hand the number of people who belonged to any country club. It is really disgusting what the school has become.


Agree. Country club membership goes against what Sidwell Friends use to represent.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2015 09:56     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am from what would be considered an old money DC family. I graduated from sidwell in the mid 90s and can count on one hand the number of people who belonged to any country club. It is really disgusting what the school has become.


I always thought I would want my kids to go there, but I heard it had changed so we didn't apply. We don't want the country club set.



Same here (I'm pp). It used to be an interesting place. Now it's full of social climbing wannabes.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2015 09:55     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am from what would be considered an old money DC family. I graduated from sidwell in the mid 90s and can count on one hand the number of people who belonged to any country club. It is really disgusting what the school has become.


I always thought I would want my kids to go there, but I heard it had changed so we didn't apply. We don't want the country club set.



Did you read these posts? Sidwell is not part of the country club set. In fact, it's probably the least country club set-like private school in the area.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2015 09:44     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
Anonymous wrote:I am from what would be considered an old money DC family. I graduated from sidwell in the mid 90s and can count on one hand the number of people who belonged to any country club. It is really disgusting what the school has become.


I always thought I would want my kids to go there, but I heard it had changed so we didn't apply. We don't want the country club set.

Anonymous
Post 02/23/2015 09:30     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
Anonymous wrote:Maybe I travel in the wrong circles, but I have lived in DC for over 30 years and never seen reference to "Chevy" for that club.



Wrong circles
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2015 09:26     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
I am from what would be considered an old money DC family. I graduated from sidwell in the mid 90s and can count on one hand the number of people who belonged to any country club. It is really disgusting what the school has become.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2015 09:20     Subject: Re:Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
Chevy Chase Club has always been filled with mainly St. Albans, Landon and some Sidwell parents as well as Norwood, Primary Day, Concord Hill, and certainly St. Patricks. Their are also a fair amount of BS parents who belong to Chevy as well.

Columbia Country Club is has tons of Prep and Gonzaga parents / alums and a small faction of Landon parents. Columbia is certainly more Catholic than Chevy Chase.

Congressional is the melting pot. Its the largest club of the 3 and least exclusive. Its has parents from all of the DC private schools from what I have seen.