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"Sidwell Friends School: Clinton Administration II Rolls On"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wowm the school was 11K a year in 1992 and now it's 28K? I need to open a private school.

11/21/08, 7:37 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sidwell Friends's intense diversity according to http://schools.privateschoolsreport.com (in 2005):

Native American: 1
Asian: 92
Hispanic: 41
African-American: 184
Opressor-American: 743

The chickens have come home ... TO ROOST!

11/21/08, 9:02 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

SFS has an endowment of $37 Million for 1100 kids. Do you think they IQ test for admissions? Do they take race into account to achieve balance?

Tick question fools! Race and IQ are only social constructs! They don't exist!!

Hail Victory! Hail Obama!

11/21/08, 9:30 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

that is too funny. i agree that richardson's goatee is probably one of the most pathetic attempt at crafting an ethnic identify i've ever seen.

11/21/08, 9:59 PM

Anonymous Lucius Vorenus said...

Steve Sailer: Besides wooing Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State, the Obamas announced today that they were sending their daughters to Sidwell Friends School, the same pricey ($28,000+) school where the Clintons sent Chelsea.

Howard Kurtz: Equally revealing was media response to the Clintons's announcement that they were sending their daughter, Chelsea, to Sidwell Friends, an $11,000-a-year private school in northwest Washington.

Hmmm... Let's see:

1993: $11,000
2009: $28,000

Call it 16 years, so

([1 + x] ^ 16) * 11,000 = 28,000
[1 + x] ^ 16 = 28/11
16 * ln[1 + x] = ln[28/11]
ln[1 + x] = ln[28/11] / 16
1 + x = exp[ln[28/11] / 16]
1 + x = 1.0601329527
x = 0.0601329527

So about a 6% annual increase in price every year for 16 straight years.

Not bad.

I wonder how long that bubble will last before it bursts.

11/21/08, 10:06 PM

Anonymous Ben Franklin said...

Don’t you just love the fact that David Axelrod and the rest of the Obama crew are now on TV telling us that they want to ex-Clinton administration folks because and I quote, “Experience matters.”

Gosh, experience didn’t matter for Obama as a candidate…but the Obama folks can get away with any about face.

11/21/08, 10:23 PM

Anonymous flyingbird said...

For a laugh, sir. :)

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11/21/08, 10:34 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

To be fair they could make the argument that experience in a President matters less because he can rely on the experience of appointees.

I hate Richardson’s guts after his campaign wasn’t going anyway as the “moderate” Democrat, desperately proposed leaving heavy equipment behind in Iraq so America could run away faster. No matter what you think about the War the idea of having Arab terrorist victoriously dancing on top of US Tanks on television just so this idiot could be president should make you sick.

11/22/08, 12:10 AM

Anonymous Henry Canaday said...

Sidwell Friends used to be known as the Quaker school for Jewish kids in Washington. But its real virtue is that it has tennis courts right on Wisconsin Avenue, one of the main commuting routes for power Washingtonians. So an Assistant Secretary or Senator who has a kid at Sidwell can rip off a set on the way to work in the morning.

Fifty years ago, when Washington still had a Southern pace, weekend golf was the game of choice. Most people who had important jobs were far too hung-over for morning tennis.

Maybe that is why Washington functioned better under Eisenhower. Hangovers encourage shorter and fewer bills, and golf encourages humility.

11/22/08, 4:18 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

From fastcompany.com

Obama and McCain Fight Over A Woman

By Jeff Chu
When D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee got a shout-out from Barack Obama in the third presidential debate on Wednesday night, she was asleep. "I was trying to watch it," she tells Fast Company. "But it was so boring. Then, all of a sudden, my phone and BlackBerry start blowing up. Someone sent me a link to the transcript, and I saw what they said, and I was like, 'Oh, good Lord!'"

It wasn't a surprise that both candidates, who have used the words "reform" and "change" about a million times in an effort to be seen as forces of reform and change, tried to align themselves with the only woman in Washington who can unmistakably be called a maverick and a reformer. Obama praised her as a "wonderful new superintendent"
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/jeff-chu/inquisition/michelle-rhees-wake-call-obama-vs-mccain-education

Michelle "Nurture Yes!; Nature, No!" Rhee joins Grammy Dunham ... UNDER THE BUS!!

11/22/08, 12:09 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve, remember your article about a Russian who said that hypocrisy was better than mass hallucinations? That's the proper response to the Obamas' sending their daughters to DC public schools. Anyone who'd inflict DC public schools on his kids to be philosophically consistent would be psychologically unfit to be President.

11/22/08, 4:01 PM

Blogger Acilius said...

I supported Richardson for president, for three reasons. First, he was against military intervention in Darfur. Second, his Mexican connections would make it impossible for a President Richardson to mobilize any kind of coalition for further opening of the southern border. Third, he has proven that he is so ineffective as an executive that he would be unlikely to put more than a few of his really stupid ideas into practice.

Also, he has good ideas about cleaning up boxing. And however supervillain-ish his beard might look, he seems like a much less creepy, plastic person than any of the others did. Richardson seemed like he'd get a bigger thrill from seducing an attractive woman than from ordering air raids.

11/24/08, 8:07 AM

Anonymous Half Sigma said...

Caring about your children's education is a proper CONSERVATIVE trait. If only Palin could muster the same concern about her children.

11/24/08, 10:50 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Pretending that you care about other people's children's education is a ... stuff whiteRpeople like.

In 1972, campaigning as George McGovern’s running mate, Sargent Shriver made a stop in Youngstown, Ohio. Tip O’Neill was campaigning along with him.
After a visiting with some steelworkers after their shift ended, O’Neill teased Shriver that his brothers-in-law always were too cheap to buy a round of drinks at rallies. Shriver agreed, and invited everyone to a nearby bar. He ordered beers for "the house" and then announced “Make mine a Courvoisier!"

11/24/08, 4:09 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Do any iSteve readers buy the notion that Siddy Friendz is really a good school if one applies the iSteve patented "educational value added" analysis?

Seems like they take high IQ kids, season with some celebrity offspring, bake in the usual curricula, and serve. That the Siddy Friendz admin seems really good at bootlicking is a nice bonus, specially for Queen Michelle I.

P.S. Maybe Uncle Craig could coach the hoop teams?

11/24/08, 8:03 PM

Anonymous AS said...

Steve Sailer: I always thought that it was ironic that Barack Obama was running on "hope" and "change" because those two vague mantras are exactly what Bill Clinton ran on in 1992, what with being from Hope, Arkansas and all.

Then why didn't you say so before? You have a habit of saying "I told you so" even when you haven't in fact said that.

You used to say that you didn't know how Obama would rule, with his head or with his heart.

Now, after Obama started appointing Clintonites, you say, in a knowing way, that you knew this was going to happen all along; that Obama has always played ball with the Chicago machine; that Obama doesn't really have any presentable liberal allies outside the Chicago machine; that Obama isn't going to implement an idealistic foreign policy. I suppose Obama will not push us into Darfur?

It was after the appointment of Rahm Emmanuel that you said that Jewish people are in the big leagues and Palestinean supporters are not. So of course the Emmanuel appointment makes total sense.

You behaved similarly with regards to the Iraq War. You sat on the fence during the debate on whether to go war, making critical comments about both sides. Then after the occupation commenced (disastrously), you started saying "I told you so" as though you were Pat Buchanan.

11/25/08, 9:01 AM

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