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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.

And I’m pretty sure the fencing and gates just went up during the pandemic. Campus had been pretty open for many years before that. The “security system” was the school sending out regular emails asking parents to speak up if they saw someone wandering campus who they didn’t recognize. This whole DCUM story about the relative security of different campuses 15 years ago being the deciding factor for which school various political types picked is a complete fiction; these schools were never fortresses. The real protection was the SS agents placed nearby, not the buildings or the random fences.

Nope, they went up as Sasha Obama was finishing up. That was 3 years ago.

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.

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is a great school.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard that the Obamas preferred GDS but the secret service asked them to chose Sidwell b/c they were already familiar with the school and knew how to work with it.

I recall this was reported in news stories at the time.

Really? Do you have a cite?

Obviously, security issues were important (eg, Biden's grandkids were at Sidwell) but where is the reporting that they preferred GDS?

https://www.nbcwashington.com/local/obama-family-chooses-sidwell-friends-school/1844476/

You really think they are going to search for your news cite from 13 years ago? lol.

It was a rumor posted in this forum at the time. It has never been validated, but it makes the GDS crowd feel better about things.

If you say that it is clear that you do not the “GDS crow” very well.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard that the Obamas preferred GDS but the secret service asked them to chose Sidwell b/c they were already familiar with the school and knew how to work with it.

I recall this was reported in news stories at the time.

Really? Do you have a cite?

Obviously, security issues were important (eg, Biden's grandkids were at Sidwell) but where is the reporting that they preferred GDS?

https://www.nbcwashington.com/local/obama-family-chooses-sidwell-friends-school/1844476/

You really think they are going to search for your news cite from 13 years ago? lol.

It was a rumor posted in this forum at the time. It has never been validated, but it makes the GDS crowd feel better about things.

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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.

And I’m pretty sure the fencing and gates just went up during the pandemic. Campus had been pretty open for many years before that. The “security system” was the school sending out regular emails asking parents to speak up if they saw someone wandering campus who they didn’t recognize. This whole DCUM story about the relative security of different campuses 15 years ago being the deciding factor for which school various political types picked is a complete fiction; these schools were never fortresses. The real protection was the SS agents placed nearby, not the buildings or the random fences.

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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 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