Talk:Sidwell Friends School

message: I realize it was just announced that Malia and Sasha would be attending the school, but isn't it a bit premature to list them under the "Alumni" listing? They haven't even started. I'd like to suggest removing them from the alumni list until they move onto other ventures. Traveliter (talk) 00:56, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree and have removed them from the alumni listing. They're already mentioned in the beginning of the article, just because of their notability doesn't necessarily mean they are alumni. Vertigo893 (talk) 00:27, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The Obamas as "alumni"???

message: User 69.245.49.140 added Robby Jenkins '03 to the list of children of famous alumni as the son of senator Rob Jenkins. I've checked and I don't think this is true. In fact, the only senator by the name of Rob or Robert Jenkins was Robert Jenkins, who helped suppress the Whiskey Rebellion and died in 1848. Accordingly, I'm removing Robby's name. Hallmark 00:11, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Robby Jenkins

message: I agree that Sidwell is a highly exclusive school. Even Ann Brashares, the great author of the Sisterhood of the traveling pants series went there. Someone should get the numbers for applications and admissions, at least to the High School--that would be good for the article. However, "exclusive" is not synonymous with "prestigious," which Sidwell also is. One word should not be used for a replacement of the other. Perhaps both thoughts could be added into the lead paragraph in some way? ("...prestigious and exclusive..." might suffice?) Thoughts? --Vijay 02:55, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Neither should be used, actually.  Wikipedia discourages the use of terminology like "one of the most prestigious..." and "among the top rated schools...".  Are there actual statistics—rankings, news articles, etc.—that confirm this statement?  For a university, you might say "School X is ranked 32nd in the U.S. News and World Report's 'America's Best Colleges.'"  It would be great if something like that existed for high schools.  Obviously the Sidwell Friends School is a very prestigious institution, but this article needs an outside source to confirm that. -Vontafeijos 03:22, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

text: I am removing the following: " It is considered to be one of the most prestigious private schools in the Washington, DC area and the US." for reasons cited above. — vijay 23:30, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Exclusive vs. Prestigious

message: The campuses are usually referred to as the Main campus and Bethesda campus, or the Upper School and Lower School campuses. The latter leaves out the Middle School, of course, so I feel it's not preferrable. However, "Main" and "Bethesda" aren't comperable to each other. I just poked around sidwell's website, and the school's website tends to say "Middle and Upper School" and "Lower School" more than anything else. So, I'm going to change the labels to those.
Also, I'm going to revert "Bethesda in Montgomery County, Maryland" back to "Bethesda, Maryland." There is only one Bethesda in Maryland. The Bethesda article, of course, says where in MD it is. It sounds awkward the way it is now, and I checked a bunch of other school articles; they all mention what city they're in, not what county. It's just odd to say what county you're in! ( :  — vijay (Talk) 22:14, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: the article provides coordinates for only the middle and upper campus, but not for lower campus.  Mulp (talk) 01:33, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Campus names

message: If the "school never releases its college admission lists" then how do we know that 30% go to Ivy League schools? --Awiseman 14:00, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: List vs 30% ivy leagues

message: Construction on the main campus has finished.  Please correct this error. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.15.62.94 (talk) 03:01, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Factual errors in this article

message: I have heard this about Sidwell before, but the information isn't sourced. If I don't find a source for that within the week, I will delete that part of the article. If you know where I might find a source, please tell me. Mmace91 21:37, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Try Mr. Sidwell's School: A Centennial History 1883-1983 by William R. MacKaye and Mary Anne MacKaye.  There's a whole chapter about integration. RogerLustig 04:52, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Racially Exclusionary?

message: First of all, the section is "children of" not "relatives of." Secondly, who, again, is Prof. Plumb? Third, when using Undo to revert a something that is not vandalism, please change the default message to explain why you're doing so. Finally, I'm now going to remove Emily from the list. I think that covers it. Thanks.  — gogobera (talk) 03:08, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Professor Emily Plumb?

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 16:09, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: WikiProject class rating

message: I'm pretty sure that his kids went there when he was VP not Prez, as the younger one had married by the time they got to the White House.--Levineps (talk) 06:41, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Richard Nixon's kids

message: Why is there an asterisk after Bill Nye's entry? ThuranX (talk) 16:51, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't claim to know for sure, but perhaps because he's actually an ME, according to the Bill Nye article. — gogobera (talk) 15:31, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Bill Nye Asterisk

message: In 2010, police in Montgomery and Queen Anne's counties (Maryland) charged a long time Sidwell Friends middle school teacher with sexual abuse of a minor and other sexual offenses, according to law enforcement officials.   Robert A. "Pete" Peterson taught seventh and eighth grades social studies at Sidwell, but was fired in 2010.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wapo012010 (talk • contribs) 20:14, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Robert A. "Pete" Peterson

message: Sidwell does not release a list of its graduates college destinations. However, it does release a list (in no particular order) to the parents of its current seniors, of the top 25 most attended institutions over the last 5 years. The most recent list had such schools listed as Yale, Michigan, Harvard, Penn, Wesleyan, George Washington, Tufts, Northwestern, UChicago, Brown, Columbia, WashU, Middlebury, Bowdoin and Duke.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.133.141.54 (talk) 17:27, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Matriculation

message: Sidwell Friends School was sued for $10 million by Arthur Newmeyer, the father of a 5-year-old student. Newmeyer says that Sidwell was negligent and inflicted emotional distress on him after he found out that his wife was having an affair with school psychologist James Huntington. Huntington was fired in February 2011 after 10 years at Sidwell.
The lawsuit was tossed out of court on summary judgment in October 2013. 24.120.159.147 (talk) 23:16, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sidwell Sued for $10M for negligence and emotional distress 

message: In the mid-1970's, there was a boy's basketball coach at Sidwell named Harry Rest who left the school very suddenly with little explanation only to end up coaching for another 30 years or so in this region.--Wapo012010 (talk) 20:34, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harry Rest 

message: The Peterson issue is not an isolated incident, Sidwell had another recent pedophile incident that was covered up – but such incidents aren’t limited to Sidwell.  Prep and Beauvoir both had recent incidents.  Most never reach the press because the schools would rather push the predator out (on onto more mischief) than take the PR hit.  Very Sad.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.205.26.5 (talk) 22:49, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pedophile incidents 

message: In its detailed report of the Newmyer case, the Washingtonian excerpted e-mails from a school official reporitng that 8th grade girls were talking about being hit on by P.E. teachers 
http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/local-news/trial-date-set-bob-woodward-subpoenaed-in-sidwell-friends-sex-counselor-case.php
Has this pattern become relevant yet?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.205.26.5 (talk) 22:54, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  More pedophilia? 

message: moving unsourced content here, support its return to mainspace once sourcing is provided. Bangabandhu (talk) 00:21, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  unsourced