Anonymous
09/17/2021 11:49
Subject: Just realized all the presidents send their kids to Sidwell
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's just two presidents.
Nixon too
Well, he was Quaker.
Anonymous
09/17/2021 11:49
Subject: Just realized all the presidents send their kids to Sidwell
Anonymous wrote:
Yes, but they were already at NCS when their dad became VP. I went there when they were there. They had secret service but it seemed minimal. Quayle’s daughter was also there. Basically it meant a handful of guys having around campus doing annoying things like telling you you couldn’t cut through the library to get to class. Or sometimes you’d go the other route and they’d tell you you had to go through the library. It’s probably more intense now.
The secret service prefers sidwell. It’s an enclosed, fenced in block and across the street is Fannie Mae on one side and a school and park on another side. No public roads, etc.
FWIW, Fannie Mae left three years ago.
Anonymous
09/17/2021 11:47
Subject: Just realized all the presidents send their kids to Sidwell
Anonymous wrote:Sidwell recently put up new metal fencing to separate the parking area from the rest of the campus. Anyone know what that’s about?
This was done more than 2 years ago. Security because the Secret Service suggested it for future-proofing the campus.
Anonymous
09/17/2021 11:16
Subject: Re:Just realized all the presidents send their kids to Sidwell
Anonymous wrote:I think some of this is physical plant. GDS is a fantastic school, but the buildings are right up against a public sidewalk. The play spaces are separated from the public by a chain link fence. If I was secret service, I'd want a school that had those things further in the campus with a perimeter for the Secret Service to work with. And if I was president, I'd do whatever the Secret Service told me I needed to do to keep them safe.
I think that Jimmy Carter made a terrible choice sending his kid to DCPS. Not because I think DCPS is terrible. I'd send my own kid there, but because I think the safety risk in having the kid at a school where anyone can move into the neighborhood and enroll, and where the playground is right by the Street (my understanding is that Amy was kept inside at every recess for this reason) is just too high. I've heard people say that they wouldn't trust a president who doesn't use public schools, but frankly I'd find it hard to trust a president who was willing to endanger his kids' lives to make a political point. In his 4 years as President, i agreed with one choice Trump made, which was to send his kid to St. Andrew's.
I used to play in a hoops league at Sidwell with a pretty “rough” looking crew of 25-35 years olds. Many times, we would roll in and there would be a game finishing up and we were all there with bags filled with basketballs and our sneakers just feet away from CC. I was always astounded the Secret Service would let us stand right there. We could have been anyone.
Anonymous
09/17/2021 09:44
Subject: Re:Just realized all the presidents send their kids to Sidwell
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP here is your answer why. Sidwell has 16 national merit semifinalists. More than 4X any other private school in D.C.
https://patch.com/district-columbia/washingtondc/2022-national-merit-semifinalists-named-washington-dc
Lol. My kid’s public high school in what you would call “flyover country” has 12.
What was the cut score? We know is wasn't 224.
Anonymous
09/17/2021 01:21
Subject: Just realized all the presidents send their kids to Sidwell
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Except Carter who sent his daughter to DCPS, and Trump who probably got rejected.
I wonder why that is? Is Sidwell really that head and shoulders above the rest?
Side note: GW’s daughters went to public school in Austin! (They graduated before he was elected). I think that’s awesome
Op your math skills are weak. Two presidents does not equal all. Bush’s daughter attended NCS and 2 sons attended STA. Bush was on governing board od NCS.
As far as I know, H.W.'s daughter did not attend NCS (I think she attended Miss Porter's). Jenna and Barbara Jr. went to St. Andrew's (in Austin), not NCS.
Doro went to NCS, at least for a while. A couple of her brothers went to Saint Albans.
Anonymous
09/17/2021 01:20
Subject: Just realized all the presidents send their kids to Sidwell
Anonymous wrote:Trump's kid was at St. Andrews Episcopal in Potomac (one of the "Big 15"?). He is now at Oxbridge Academy, a school in West Palm Beach founded by a member of the Koch family.
Did it occur to anyone else that Melania didn't expect her husband to win, so didn't plan ahead with the applications?
I thought of this board several times on election night.
I really hope B. T. has a nice life in the future.
Anonymous
09/16/2021 19:05
Subject: Just realized all the presidents send their kids to Sidwell
Anonymous wrote:Didn’t Gore’s daughter(s?) go to NCS? Only a VP, but presumably they needed security, too?
Yes, but they were already at NCS when their dad became VP. I went there when they were there. They had secret service but it seemed minimal. Quayle’s daughter was also there. Basically it meant a handful of guys having around campus doing annoying things like telling you you couldn’t cut through the library to get to class. Or sometimes you’d go the other route and they’d tell you you had to go through the library. It’s probably more intense now.
The secret service prefers sidwell. It’s an enclosed, fenced in block and across the street is Fannie Mae on one side and a school and park on another side. No public roads, etc.
Anonymous
09/16/2021 18:50
Subject: Just realized all the presidents send their kids to Sidwell
Sidwell recently put up new metal fencing to separate the parking area from the rest of the campus. Anyone know what that’s about?
Anonymous
09/16/2021 18:34
Subject: Re:Just realized all the presidents send their kids to Sidwell
I think some of this is physical plant. GDS is a fantastic school, but the buildings are right up against a public sidewalk. The play spaces are separated from the public by a chain link fence. If I was secret service, I'd want a school that had those things further in the campus with a perimeter for the Secret Service to work with. And if I was president, I'd do whatever the Secret Service told me I needed to do to keep them safe.
I think that Jimmy Carter made a terrible choice sending his kid to DCPS. Not because I think DCPS is terrible. I'd send my own kid there, but because I think the safety risk in having the kid at a school where anyone can move into the neighborhood and enroll, and where the playground is right by the Street (my understanding is that Amy was kept inside at every recess for this reason) is just too high. I've heard people say that they wouldn't trust a president who doesn't use public schools, but frankly I'd find it hard to trust a president who was willing to endanger his kids' lives to make a political point. In his 4 years as President, i agreed with one choice Trump made, which was to send his kid to St. Andrew's.
I think that Jimmy Carter made a terrible choice sending his kid to DCPS. Not because I think DCPS is terrible. I'd send my own kid there, but because I think the safety risk in having the kid at a school where anyone can move into the neighborhood and enroll, and where the playground is right by the Street (my understanding is that Amy was kept inside at every recess for this reason) is just too high. I've heard people say that they wouldn't trust a president who doesn't use public schools, but frankly I'd find it hard to trust a president who was willing to endanger his kids' lives to make a political point. In his 4 years as President, i agreed with one choice Trump made, which was to send his kid to St. Andrew's.
Anonymous
09/16/2021 18:26
Subject: Just realized all the presidents send their kids to Sidwell
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Except Carter who sent his daughter to DCPS, and Trump who probably got rejected.
I wonder why that is? Is Sidwell really that head and shoulders above the rest?
Side note: GW’s daughters went to public school in Austin! (They graduated before he was elected). I think that’s awesome
Op your math skills are weak. Two presidents does not equal all. Bush’s daughter attended NCS and 2 sons attended STA. Bush was on governing board od NCS.
As far as I know, H.W.'s daughter did not attend NCS (I think she attended Miss Porter's). Jenna and Barbara Jr. went to St. Andrew's (in Austin), not NCS.
DP. Incorrect. His daughter did attend NCS and he was on their governing board
“NCS is closed today as we remember former President George H.W. Bush. President Bush was an NCS parent and a member of the NCS Governing Board. He also delivered the Commencement Address to graduates in 1971. We join the Bush family in mourning his passing.”
Anonymous
09/16/2021 16:57
Subject: Just realized all the presidents send their kids to Sidwell
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Except Carter who sent his daughter to DCPS, and Trump who probably got rejected.
I wonder why that is? Is Sidwell really that head and shoulders above the rest?
Side note: GW’s daughters went to public school in Austin! (They graduated before he was elected). I think that’s awesome
Op your math skills are weak. Two presidents does not equal all. Bush’s daughter attended NCS and 2 sons attended STA. Bush was on governing board od NCS.
NP. I’m pretty sure none of Bush’s children attended any high school while he was president. If the question is “what schools did children of people who later became president attend?,” then obviously it’s going to be a long list because almost every president had kids in school somewhere. If it’s what schools did kids attend when their parents came to DC to be president, the list of potential presidents is a lot shorter. Obama, trump, Carter, Nixon, Roosevelt?, Kennedy maybe but kids were really young. Here’s a list of president ages at inauguration. Not sure if any others that had school age kids when they became president.
https://www.potus.com/presidential-facts/age-at-inauguration/
FWIW, I find this a frivolous exercise and not a real point of comparison between schools.
PP again. Here is a good list of school-age kids who lived in the white house. I don't have enough interest to look up where they all went to school though. Maybe someone else does. https://tinyurl.com/495f4k7m
Anonymous
09/16/2021 16:43
Subject: Just realized all the presidents send their kids to Sidwell
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Except Carter who sent his daughter to DCPS, and Trump who probably got rejected.
I wonder why that is? Is Sidwell really that head and shoulders above the rest?
Side note: GW’s daughters went to public school in Austin! (They graduated before he was elected). I think that’s awesome
Op your math skills are weak. Two presidents does not equal all. Bush’s daughter attended NCS and 2 sons attended STA. Bush was on governing board od NCS.
NP. I’m pretty sure none of Bush’s children attended any high school while he was president. If the question is “what schools did children of people who later became president attend?,” then obviously it’s going to be a long list because almost every president had kids in school somewhere. If it’s what schools did kids attend when their parents came to DC to be president, the list of potential presidents is a lot shorter. Obama, trump, Carter, Nixon, Roosevelt?, Kennedy maybe but kids were really young. Here’s a list of president ages at inauguration. Not sure if any others that had school age kids when they became president.
https://www.potus.com/presidential-facts/age-at-inauguration/
FWIW, I find this a frivolous exercise and not a real point of comparison between schools.
Anonymous
09/16/2021 16:34
Subject: Just realized all the presidents send their kids to Sidwell
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: Jenna and Barbara Jr. went to St. Andrew's (in Austin), not NCS.
The BUsh twins only lived in DC for a year during their school-age days when they were very young. They went to Horace Mann for a year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/education/blackboard-school-choice-where-they-send-their-own.html
Had they been older, they likely would have gone to NCS or Sidwell.
Anonymous
09/16/2021 14:29
Subject: Just realized all the presidents send their kids to Sidwell
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Except Carter who sent his daughter to DCPS, and Trump who probably got rejected.
I wonder why that is? Is Sidwell really that head and shoulders above the rest?
Side note: GW’s daughters went to public school in Austin! (They graduated before he was elected). I think that’s awesome
Op your math skills are weak. Two presidents does not equal all. Bush’s daughter attended NCS and 2 sons attended STA. Bush was on governing board od NCS.
As far as I know, H.W.'s daughter did not attend NCS (I think she attended Miss Porter's). Jenna and Barbara Jr. went to St. Andrew's (in Austin), not NCS.