Posted on 06/07/2019 7:07:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
At Sidwell Friends, the high school of Chelsea Clinton and the Obama children, college counselors find themselves besieged by Ivy-obsessed families.
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Updated at 2:47 p.m. ET on June 6, 2018.
The motto of Sidwell Friends School, the hyperselective “Harvard of Washington’s private schools,” is simple and lofty. “Eluceat omnibus lux”—Latin for “Let the light shine out from all.” But bright lights sometimes illuminate the worst in people. Last month, shocking behavior by parents may have led two of the school’s three college counselors to leave their jobs.
School officials have repeatedly warned parents, who represent the pinnacle of elite Washington, about their offensive conduct. In January, the head of the school, Bryan Garman, sent a remarkable letter to parents of seniors in which he demanded that they stop “the verbal assault of employees.” He also reiterated a policy banning them from recording conversations with counselors and making calls to counselors from blocked phone numbers. Garman also suggested that some parents were responsible for the “circulation of rumors about students.”
Anger, vitriol, and deceptiveness have come to define highly selective college admissions. In the now notorious Varsity Blues scandal, the desire from wealthy parents to get their children into such elite institutions as Yale and the University of Southern California led them to lie on applications and obtain fake SAT scores. At Sidwell Friends, one of America’s most famous Quaker schools, the desire manifested itself in bad behaviors—including parents spreading rumors about other students, ostensibly so that their children could get a leg up, the letter said.
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Remember, it’s not about how educated you are but WHERE you got your education that really matters.
We have a ruling class in this country. And the ruling class hates the peasants.
These kids wouldn’t be lashing out if they had quality food to eat at school!
*SMIRK*
Why do I have a feeling this ‘College Admissions Scandal’ will get bigger?.............
You would think that with the College Admissions Scandal going on they would be a little more circumspect.
And the school having to send out a letter [letter at link] telling them to essentially ‘COOL IT!’ is hilarious. Read it!...............
This is becoming more and more obvious, and the Deep State coup attempt on Trump is part and parcel of this. It’s long past time to dump the Ivies as a must-have ticket punch for high FedGov officials.
As the Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds, likes to state we might have the worst ruling class in human history.
Trump’s Fault again!
“Let the money flow from all parents”
Since this is from the Atlantic with maybe 12 paid subscribers, is this Fake News, Semi Fake News?
Or just some preemptive bs, when some really bad news comes out about Sidwell Friends/Students and their parents.
The average schlub is fine.
It’s our leaders who are nuts.
“The desire manifested itself in bad behaviors”
Dear Parents: please do not threaten to “run your teachers through a sausage grinder”. Hillary Clinton already used that threat. We were hoping for more creativity from the parents of our students.
The Administration
we might have the worst ruling class in human history
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Prolly a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much.
Remember, it’s not about how educated you are, but WHERE your parents bought and paid for your education that really matters.
William F. Buckley, Jr. was right. We would be better served by government of the first 500 names in the phone book..........
It looks like the admissions scandal is a runaway train.
It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for...... William F. Buckley, Jr.
Elitist students, namely govt. Worker kids.
Screw them all!
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