Anonymous
Post 03/01/2024 17:03     Subject: SFS MS teachers
Do parents at these academically-oriented schools allow their kids to play football? With what we know about CTE, I find that hard to believe. I have a middle school boy, and no one I know would let their kid near a football field.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2024 16:32     Subject: SFS MS teachers
Anonymous wrote:And leave if you are not happy.


Tired of people saying leave like it’s super easy to transfer. Literally people are waiting with bated breath to find out if they were accepted to begin with. Then, you want people to uproot their children, when children need stability.

No, the school should check to make sure its division heads are doing a good job and its teachers are not being mean, angry, curmudgeons.

Anonymous
Post 03/01/2024 16:00     Subject: SFS MS teachers
And leave if you are not happy.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2024 16:00     Subject: SFS MS teachers
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As a HS parent - we have heard that the MS head is subpar and that it affects much of MS experience in a negative way for students and for teachers.


Could not agree more with what you have heard.


+2 The MS head is definitely the weak link in the Sidwell administration. She’s been there what- 6 or 7 years now, at least, and still seems to be in over her head.


Everyone at every school complains about their MS! Not unique to Sidwell
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2024 14:40     Subject: SFS MS teachers
OMG people are messing with you. Most Sidwell folk know we’re the best all around and just laugh at all of this stuff
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2024 14:13     Subject: SFS MS teachers
Anonymous wrote:😂


It's true. Bullis boys' basketball and T and F are excellent, but not much else athletically. The head is concentrating on academics, much to the chagrin of some.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2024 14:02     Subject: SFS MS teachers
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This thread is pretty funny on the basketball part. Sidwell is good at boys basketball because they recruit Takeover and Team Durant to get 1-2 kids a year - grades don’t matter at all if a top player in 9th or 10th wants to come over. This isn’t homegrown talent from the Sidwell program with few exceptions.


The student needs to be able to do the work. The faculty and administration are not going to pass kids through academically. So your assumption there is pretty insulting. These kids have busted their butts for years honing their craft, no different than a musician or actor...and, they are good in the classroom as well. Who are you to make such outrageous assumptions?


The point is that Sidwell brings in a couple of kids each year outside the normal admissions process for basketball so parents feel better about the athletic programs and then parents deny this is what is happening. There is a reason that basketball is the one program that is good because a couple of recruits each year can make the difference. Football would take 10-15 recruits each year at the very minimum.


This is funny - this is not driven by Sidwell parents but by the SFS Athletic Department - which is often out in left field with respect to Quakerly. We hold everyone in the light and do not highlight anyone's personal achievements seems to go out the window for basketball and senior athletic awards. Sure, there are probably parents who enjoy having a good basketball team and maybe parents of football players wish for more....but in general...I have never heard the broader group of parents pushing for this as you are suggesting.


Give me a break! I’m sorry but Sidwell parents and kids have not absorbed the Quaker values. The school is only superficially Quaker.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2024 12:14     Subject: SFS MS teachers
God bleeds purple
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2024 12:12     Subject: SFS MS teachers
In The DC tourney: Sidwell girls varsity hoops v Carroll this afternoon. Sidwell boys varsity v. Gonzaga tonight.

Let's go Quakers, time to take names and kick some popish ass.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2024 12:01     Subject: SFS MS teachers
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This thread is pretty funny on the basketball part. Sidwell is good at boys basketball because they recruit Takeover and Team Durant to get 1-2 kids a year - grades don’t matter at all if a top player in 9th or 10th wants to come over. This isn’t homegrown talent from the Sidwell program with few exceptions.


The student needs to be able to do the work. The faculty and administration are not going to pass kids through academically. So your assumption there is pretty insulting. These kids have busted their butts for years honing their craft, no different than a musician or actor...and, they are good in the classroom as well. Who are you to make such outrageous assumptions?


The point is that Sidwell brings in a couple of kids each year outside the normal admissions process for basketball so parents feel better about the athletic programs and then parents deny this is what is happening. There is a reason that basketball is the one program that is good because a couple of recruits each year can make the difference. Football would take 10-15 recruits each year at the very minimum.


And longitudinal analysis of the curriculum shows a correlative increase in course offerings at the less challenging end of the spectrum relative to advanced, especially in math, as athletic recruiting has been prioritized. Not trying to be pejorative -- its simply true. Possibly, there are other explanations, but there is a clear correlation


I agree this is true...for math. But there's no levels in english/history so it's still tough.