Come off it. Quick mental inventory: I think I know seven current Sidwell kids (including a couple of sibling pairs). None of them are in the least bit prissy. Two of them are current alter servers at our chuch, and they are the nicest girls you will ever want to meet. Two more are on my daughters' soccer team; they are pretty hard nosed soccer players, and nice girls off the field.
The boys are also into sports, although as Sidwell football players, they get beaten up pretty badly. I'm told that Sidwell refuses to recruit for athletics, and gets destroyed by prep schools that do. If I'm recalling this correctly, the Sidwell football team got whipped a year or two ago by a Virginia team of homeschooled kids; Sidwell tries manfully to find teams at a reasonable (i.e. low enough) level, but it's hard. Football apparently isn't a Quaker sport.
Half a mil plus of post tax dollars min, why that's chump change.
Funny how the DC public schools before home rule and teachers unions produced so many admirals, generals, top tier academics and business folk. My tiny HS of about 500 somehow managed to produce two astronauts along with educating various cabinet member off spring along with those of foreign embassy staff. You wouldn't happen to know how many Sidwell grads were drafted during the Viet Nam wars years would you? My memory gets fuzzy but I seem to recall that being the hot bed of HS protests against the war.