Obama Brings Good Cheer to Sidwell Friends
Portis/Zorn isn't the only rivalry to heat up around here lately: For Sidwell Friends/Maret, it's on.
On Saturday, Maret's basketball boys were leading Sidwell Friends on the road when the home crowd taunted the visitors with a chant ripped from the headlines:
"The Sidwell kids started yelling 'O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma!' at us," a Maret parent who attended the game tells me.
The First Family Elect's first major post-election decision, of course, dealt with where to send daughters Malia and Sasha to school. Most reports had Maret and Sidwell as the finalists in the Obama sweepstakes.
After tours of both, Sidwell landed the kids for next year. So while Malia and Sasha aren't even enrolled there yet, they're already cheerleaders. And what the Sidwell fans were telling Maret with their "O-ba-ma!" chant was: "Even if you whup us at hoops, we still beat you in a bigger game!"
The Maret parent says Maret's administrators looked confused, and Sidwell's bemused, as "O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma!" rained down from the grandstand.
Just words? Hardly.
"On the Maret side, that was insulting and incendiary," says the Maret parent, who requested anonymity. "How crass!"
Maret's side eventually responded by yelling "Oatmeal sucks!" -- a play on Sidwell's nickname, the Quakers.
To add insult to insult: Perhaps inspired by the clever nastiness of the home fans, Sidwell came back and beat Maret by a point, 47-46.
A call to Sidwell's athletic director to get a comment on the fans' alleged un-Friendly chant hasn't yet been returned. But we'll follow this story and do everything journalistically possible to build the Sidwell/Maret rivalry into something that can last two terms.
The big news for now: There's a Sidwell/Maret rematch tomorrow night at Maret.
Come game time, the Maret kids will have had almost a week to come up with something better, or at least something bitterer, than "Oatmeal Sucks!"
The whole world is watching!
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3:55 pm
Actually, Maret got knocked out of the running before the girls visited SFS and GDS, so Maret was the "bronze medalist" in the Obama school sweepstakes.
6:33 pm
sidwell sucks....
8:16 pm
Maret lost in the running for the Obama kids and in Basketball, and lets not be little winers and start saying the chants were harsh and uncalled for. this is highschool. DEAL WITH IT!!!!
8:18 pm
*whiners
8:26 pm
I take offense at this article. First off, there is one large falsification. At no point in time during the basketball game was Maret beating Sidwell by a margin of more than 7 points, and in the end we won. So the first part of this statement "Even if you whup us at hoops, we still beat you in a bigger game!” is in fact false. Furthermore, the cheers between the two cheering sections went on throughout the entire game and it is not like the Sidwell cheering section out of nowhere "attacked" the Maret section with these words. Lastly, I believe that in no way were these words meant to be anything more than cheerful taunting between fan sections at a game. In my opinion, to interpret them to be anything else is a little childish.
p.s. I must say, Sidwell Friends Basketball does have one of the BEST cheering sections I have ever seen. I really enjoyed the "whiteout".
8:35 pm
I am in the poop business, and for me, MARET outpoops sidwell by a mile. I mean, really just another level. Sidwell may have won the B-ball, yet to me, Maret are the real winners here...
8:49 pm
wow. straight up. maret fucking sucks dick at basketball. they have one good player, who throws up gang signs after he makes baskets. he is so cocky, i'm surprised the refs didn't T him up. our obama chant wasn't as pathetic as the fact that the maret fan section started chanting 'football scores' at us as they quietly filed out of the gym, while we jumped around in jubilation. you missed free throws down the stretch, and you payed the price thanks to my boy peter. we're gonna win again tomorrow night, and its all gonna be set right. again. wow, it must suck to lose a game you lead for so long. we knew we were gonna win the whole game hence the "i believe chant." and dave mckenna, wow, you agree with this sensitive tool maret parent, who claims its insulting to chant 'obama' at a highschool basketball game, maybe he/she should've stayed home. no one is interested in their pathetic comments.
straight up, it must suck to go to maret.
we're gonna chant SAT scores tomorrow night.
8:50 pm
fried.
8:53 pm
amir, i would like to agree with you... while disagreeing with poopmeister or shit face or whatever...
how did you guys end the real winners? darian was crying...
in my opinion, maret should never be allowed to step onto sidwell's campus, in case they get scared by our obama apparel, fucking republicans.
9:18 pm
May I make a comment about the Maret:
Who gay?
Y'all gay
Who gay?
Y'all gay
Which ones?
All Y'all
Point 'em out:
You You You You and Especially You
9:20 pm
I would like to agree with joesixpack- we got rockafella rockin the headband on maret and then we got this little bitch who thinks hes the shit. Sidwells gonna come out goin DARIAN DARIAN DARIAN. and a little note, maybe yall should make some free throws and you can talk shit to us. I noticed your little bitch in the ski goggles talkin a big game but after the game, he left pretty quick.
9:24 pm
why can't all you sidwell kids take a second and realize that you're not the best at everything? You take yourselves around town like nobody else matters because you go to Sidwell, but out in the real world people don't care where you're from, they care how you act. There's a world outside the walls of your school and i wish you kids could recognize that. Kids at sidwell think theat they're the best at everything but all the rest of us, seemingly besides you guys, know that thats not true, nor is it possible. I wish that instead of taking your time to insult and put down everyone else who doesn't belong to your "sidwell elite" you would take the time to look at your own school and the major faults that it has itself. The majority of the people I've met from sidwell despise, or have despised it, and i know that your social hierarchy is extremely exclusive. So you can gloat in your obama and maret vistory all you want but your school's pride needs a makeover.
9:33 pm
Well we won the basketball and have the obama kids coming to our school, what else more could you want? It must suck to go anywhere other than sidwell.
9:33 pm
I went to sidwell for 16 years and I am more proud of my school than anything. So please, before you challenge Sidwell's "school pride", know what you're talking about. I couldn't imagine a better place for anyone to go to school and the majority of students agree.
9:37 pm
wow. does it matter, you took this to a whole other level,
now in these rhymes, you will have to revel.
our boys on the sidwell boys varsity basketball team
are classy athletes who are just so fresh and so clean.
they didn't taunt you guys after the game,
and not only cuz your school is so lame,
but becuase they've got class,
even after whooping your ass.
the team played with heart and determination,
everyone watching felt the sensation
of that last and-one that peter completed,
it left your team utterly depleted.
you think you're mature making this into something bigger,
but now you've put my finger to the trigger,
if you think we're gonna let your comment humble us,
you're completely wrong, we love to discuss,
situations with inferiors like yourself,
darian looks like a goddamn elf.
insult the sidwell elite all you want,
but our pride is something we'll always flaunt.
so don't try to make this into some kind of moral issue,
you're better off at home crying, want a tissue?
9:39 pm
thanks jake for proving "does it matter's point", and "yes it does", you must not have much of an imagination then... and how does one go to sidwell for 16 years?
9:41 pm
this is the scoop of the century.
9:53 pm
i just wanna say that this article is incredibly misleading. the obama chant was not completely out of the blue, like a substitute for "defense" or something. instead, it was at a timeout and came just after maret fans were being equally obnoxious. sidwell was in no way planning to use the obama chant before the game. it was a friendly jab at maret after they had a friendly jab at us. nothing more should be made of it.
9:56 pm
i was in the sidwell section, chanting along with everyone else, and i assure you that it was only in good fun. we were down by a couple of points and maret was not letting us ignore them. so we came back with something tight. i think this article makes it seem like sidwell was doing something outright awful, but we really weren't.
9:56 pm
you can go to sidwell for 16 years cause there is a lower school you dumb bitch. i can see someone from maret saying stupid ass, ma fuckin shit like that.
9:57 pm
to the punk talkin bout the dude in the ski goggles, that was me. Come to maret tmrw and see me after the game, back ur words up and say it to my face and see what happens...
9:59 pm
jrp, u a dumbass fool who wearing ski goggles inside, what the hell u gone do. i talk shit to u all day every day
10:01 pm
As a Sidwell alum, I've got to say I'm disgusted at some of the Sidwell comments on here. I know most of the commenters are generally just trying to bother the Maret kids, but it reflects poorly on your school when you go out there and post stuff like this. Even in jest, the elitist nonsense comes off as crass (as the whiny Maret parent said in the article).
The Obama's picked Sidwell. Leave it at that. Sidwell is a better basketball team than Maret. Leave it at that. Don't speak for other people or your school. The basketball team hasn't lost to Maret since the 2004-2005 season, they don't need you backing them up. President Obama was simply picking a school for his daughters, he doesn't need you backing him up.
So please, Sidwell kids, stop acting like internet tough guys. Let the basketball team do the talking on the court tomorrow night, show up, be loud and support your team.
(And as for the football chants, let's be real, Maret has never won a football conference championship, so any football victory is really just a tiny moral victory in the larger scheme of things.)
10:02 pm
yeah i agree with the alum
10:03 pm
aight "bitches be crazy" talk shit to my face tomorrow and see where that gets you, you clearly don't understand what that means because u continue to do it under the safety of ur little computer screen.
10:03 pm
who cares about it, we say all this stuff at games and to their faces anyway, we aren't acting like internet tough guys.
10:04 pm
i see tomorrow, bring yo crusty goggles tomorrow.
10:05 pm
hahahahahaha this is dumb
10:07 pm
different theme, no goggles. You'll know who i am though don't worry
10:08 pm
...still no word from trader joe says...
10:09 pm
what you be wearing this time. clown suit
10:09 pm
Haha this is material is not news! don't you guys have more important stuff to do in the nations capitol? and why does someone have ski googles in D.C.???
10:15 pm
fuck nh
10:19 pm
To Amir- If the refs were to T someone up for getting cocky I guess they'd have to T up your mother. And thats not a gang sign, but your ignorance is quite humorous.
To "Busta Rhymes"- That was pathetic. Just really really pathetic.
Nobody at Maret, with the exception of that parent, had a problem with the Obama chant. Don't get your panties bunched up. As long as you keep starting Plebanis at quarterback, Maret will be just fine. 5 ints...35-14. A few years ago...5 ints again...Football is a fun sport, you guys should form a team.
Instead of being internet badasses why not check the box score in the paper on Saturday.
Oh and your Oatmeal is straight up disgusting.
10:21 pm
how are you gonna bring football into this?
we could just as easily bring up soccer...
where we've probably outscored you guys 20-0 or 20-1 over the past two years.
plebani would kill you in a fight darian.
10:21 pm
....i wish i was a frog to anonymous....
10:23 pm
i see said the blind man
10:25 pm
kingergarten-1 year @ the school
1st grade-2
2nd grade-3
3rd grade-4
4th grade-5
5th grade-6
6th grade-7
7th grade-8
8th grade-9
9th grade-10
10th grade-11
11th grade-12
12th grade-13
if you went to sidwell starting at kindergarten and graduated you wuold spend 13 years at the school. your an idiot
10:29 pm
that oatmeal joke is horrendous...idk why you keep repeating it
10:29 pm
Comparing Soccer to Football? Really? Winning the world series is a little different than winning your county tee ball league. I think thats fairly comparable.
10:31 pm
It would be sort of like comparing 6 straight conference championships to none, right? or am I off target with that one?
10:31 pm
winning the world cup vs winning the world, oh wait, there isn't a world anything for football
10:36 pm
If i just brushed off the importance of the sport, why exactly would I care about conference championships? We live in America. We play Football.
10:38 pm
Soccer is a fine sport, very enjoyable, congrats on all your success. But it's not exactly bragging rights. I could easily bring up Volleyball, but its not exactly a bragging rights sport now is it?
10:38 pm
.....this is america...no one gives a damn about soccer, its all about football n baseball......n i know yall sidwell dudes r gonna mention ur one win against us in baseball, we started our outfielder who hadnt ever pitched because we rested our ace to play you the following week for the city tournament....we didnt care at all about the mac tournament and proved it when we played you while starting an actual pitcher in the city tourney
10:38 pm
Yes, and Sidwell had a streak of 6 straight conference championships in football. Maret, meanwhile, has never won a conference championship in football, not one. Maybe you should get your history straight kiddo
10:39 pm
dude, im pretty sure we beat you last year, during the 2006-2007 season. And i love how you guys call Maret a one man team when one kid is talking about a different person than the other. some people are talking bout darian and someone was talkin bout the "kid who was putting up gang symbols" who was a different kid. and btw, your football comment is dumb as shit cuz since the coach change maret has been second in the mac every year to the clear dominate team when sidwell has no players from their time when they were good.
enjoy your victory, cuz you know maret is takin you tomorrow
10:41 pm
We have two very good African American players who you guys seem to think is the same person, I guess? Sidwell should work on its tolerance and avoid such racist conduct.
10:42 pm
next year we end the season with u in football, bring it on suckas. we gonna end with a W
10:43 pm
w/e no bullshit tho, enough with the comments we'll settle it tmrw....can we at least agree on that?
10:43 pm
Funny, because you guys have one very good african american player, and an assortment of other players from different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds that almost assuredly did not include the playing of any sort of organized basketball.
10:44 pm
and i guarantee yall do not beat maret in football next year...hahaha like actually you must be joking if you think thats true
10:44 pm
stopping the comments is not going to change the fact maret will loose tomorrow
10:45 pm
who u got next year, edmund? thats it?
10:50 pm
more like who do we not have....we lose 3 seniors who got legit pt
10:50 pm
if i could just say ine more thing about poop....
10:51 pm
Stop this shit, its getting stupid now, save it for the game
10:52 pm
then u need 3 players to fill 3 spots of players who were good
10:55 pm
I go to sidwell, and whoever is using the pen name "sidwell", shut the fuck up, no joke, you sound like an idiot, football is another 9 months away, shut up
10:57 pm
who the fuck is anon, u are arguing with the wrong person, people at our school set up meetings and shit already for football, sidwell takes it serious
10:58 pm
Its also funny how after last year when maret lost more than 2/3 of their starters and you said after they lost mulroy they would suck cuz he was their whole team they came back with taking 4 picks on you and putting up 35 pts. now your saying that they cant cover 3 spots?
10:59 pm
exactly beesh
11:05 pm
There is absolutely zero chance Sidwell beats Maret next year in football.
11:08 pm
For Everyone's Consideration:
Maret has never won a MAC championship in football, and is 2-6 against Sidwell in the last 8 years.
In the last 3 seasons, Maret soccer has allowed 33 goals against Sidwell and has scored 3. They are 0-6 since 2006.
Maret wrestling had three team members last year. None of them even made it to the MAC finals. Sidwell had all wrestlers in the finals and had 8 MAC champs and another all-league selection. So 9 all-league wrestlers.
Maret has not beaten Sidwell in lacrosse for several decades.
....
So before you talk shit, look at the whole picture.
11:09 pm
i am from georgetown prep and deep down, everybody knows who the better sports school is, so just stop arguing.
ask anyone outside of school: sidwell athletics are superior to maret athletics.
just accept it. sorry but its true.
11:14 pm
Great, Sidwell used to be better than Maret at football...recently you guys have been getting dominated by us. So don't talk shit about football, there's nothing to talk shit about.
11:22 pm
btw, maret has beat sidwell 3 straight years, so your 2-6 record is clearly wrong
12:03 am
I don't get all this football talk by the Maret kids. I guess when you lose for so long it gets exciting to finally be able to talk some trash. Nothing wrong with that. Maret has done a good job building their program.
With that said, it's foolish for Maret kids to start talking smack about football or basketball. With regard to football, Maret hasn't EVER won a conference championship. Are you simply bragging about beating a team that came in 4th in the league this year, when you still came in 2nd? It just doesn't make sense. If this were Flint Hill talking trash, then it would at least have SOME basis.
Sidwell's basketball team won a conference title just one year ago, going 14-0 in conference, which has never been done before. However, you don't see Sidwell basketball players on here talking about how much Maret sucks or how badly they've beaten Maret seemingly every game over the course of the past 5 seasons.
Let the football talk die down, kids. It's foolish.
1:14 am
I think you'll find most of the Football talk directed not towards the history of each respective program but rather towards the successes and failures of the last few seasons, a time during which the Maret program has been under new leadership. To say that a rivalry or the importance of a game is diminished simply because one of the two teams is not number one in the conference is a ridiculous claim which has no basis of reality in the sports world. The games between the Red Sox and the Yankees this past season did not matter less to the fans or to the players just because the Devil Rays were in first. In fact the rivalry remained very heated.
And if the football talk should "die down" then how on earth can any talk of wrestling or...soccer...be justified?
1:41 am
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1:41 am
Greatest... Post... Ever.
City Desk should just be all high school shit talking, all the time. Forget about actual news and whatnot. The City Paper should just be a place where backne-infested teenagers can do some anonymous saber rattling about utterly pointless bullshit they'll forget about nine nanoseconds after setting foot in the Ivy League. Wemple, this could be your new business model! Think about it.
1:48 am
both yo schools suck.
9:02 am
Amir,
Your writing clearly indicates the solid education you are receiving at Sidwell.
9:59 am
"And if the football talk should “die down” then how on earth can any talk of wrestling or…soccer…be justified?"
The football talk was started long before the wrestling or soccer talk. Those sports were only responses to the concept of a football victory over a 4th place team by the 2nd place team being a big deal. The truth is, Maret's "Let's play football" chants are short sighted and seem almost funny in retrospect, considering it's a team with only moderate success and no conference championships trying to taunt Sidwell, a team with a good football history, but little success as of late.
No one at Sidwell, or Maret even, considers Sidwell-Maret a big football rivalry, so what's the point? It wasn't even a competitive series for many years, and now Maret has won both games by a large margin in the past two years. That's like Georgia Tech trying to taunt Georgia after their first win over UGA in 7 years (while neither were conference champs and UGA didn't even win their division). It seems like the only thing the Maret kids have to hold onto while at a BASKETBALL game where their BASKETBALL team is losing.
You don't see the Sidwell kids chanting "Let's play Soccer (or Cross Country, or Wrestling, or Swimming, or Lacrosse, or Track, or Tennis)". Let's play basketball. That's what these games are about.
10:46 am
I think what everyone is overlooking here is that Sidwell has a better basketball team than Maret. Why are we talking about all of this other stuff? Last year Maret came in last in the MAC. Granted, it's a new year, but nothing has really changed for Maret. If anything, Maret lost players. While, on the other hand, Sidwell is only one year removed from the only perfect MAC season in conference history, and now has one of the best freshman in the country (according to the HoopScoop Class of 2012 rankings) in Jamal Lewis.
The truth is, for all this talking, the game shouldn't even be close on Friday night.
12:01 pm
16 years...rite about that
pk-14th year
2 yrs baby group-15th, 16th yrs
i went through the same timeline as jake
you think your so smart, but your really fake
oh and suck it
1:59 pm
On the behalf of the Sidwell seniors, we would like to apologize for some of the comments left on this site. They do not represent the views of the Sidwell community as a whole. We ask you not to generalize about the views of the entire Sidwell community based on these comments. We apologize if anyone was offended by the comments made on this site, and regret how this projects on the Sidwell community, as it clearly does not reflect our community views.
We are looking forward to a good game tonight. Good luck Sidwell Basketball.
2:39 pm
As a Sidwell parent I would appreciate it if you would all consider that people all over the country are linking on to this story; sometimes strength is the restraint of force and violence, an idea every Sidwell student should be well acquainted with.
Smack talking is cool, but cursing and smearing is not cool.
If you cheer Obama, cheer his example.
High road kids, high road.
2:40 pm
BTW I know "force and violence" are a bit strong for cursing and demeaning insults but its the thoughts that count.
And there's some really ugly thoughts being posted here.
2:45 pm
Some of the comments made on this board by the Sidwell students are outrageous and shows what future behavior we can expect from the Obama girls in the future if they attend this school.
I hope the Obamas read some of the rude and obnoxious remarks made by these spoiled kids and pull their girls out of the school.
2:58 pm
Not too late to send 'em to GDS!
3:16 pm
Both Sidwell and Maret stink. Obnoxious private school junkies.
Go Lawrenceville!
heh heh
3:30 pm
I think it's unfair to generalize any group of students when we have no idea who is actually making these comments. Notice that they're pretty much all anonymous. For all we know, all the comments could be by one Sidwell or Maret student.
If there wasn't this anonymity, I doubt 90% of what is being said would be said. (especially the threats by Joe Powden)
3:51 pm
Be for real. The only reason the Obama children will be going to Sidwell is because the security has already been set up there. Watch out, the words you put on the internet lets the world know that security was the only reason they chose that school. It can't be because there are such ladies and gentlemen who attend there.
3:53 pm
Again, if you're letting a couple of anonymous commenters influence your views on two great schools, then you're just about as intelligent as they are.
4:29 pm
Anonymous,
You are absolutely right about not being sure who is making those comments. IF any genuine Sidwell students are getting caught up in the back and forth, I do hope they will take some of our cautions to heart.
5:20 pm
the only reason sidwell got obama is because many other politiacal leaders sent their kids there as well.
we lost the battle but we'll win the war
TONIGHT
5:28 pm
Anonymous Says:
December 12th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Again, if you’re letting a couple of anonymous commenters influence your views on two great schools, then you’re just about as intelligent as they are
I agree wholeheartedly.
Honestly, there are many things about all of these comments, the story, and the game that are absurd. Since im sitting at home bored with some time before the game tonight, these are my opinions on it.
1. First of all, stop judging collective groups of people and schools based on almost nothing. EVERYONE. Annie's remark (82), i cannot believe you would even say that based on these comments, and many of the other comments echo these unfounded sentiments. to me it seems like an excuse to call us elitist, but this last remark is just what it seems like to me.
2. About the main issue - us chanting obama at the game. What i honestly personally believe about this is that taken lightheartedly and jokingly the chant is somewhat humorous and a joke. I guess the reason that people are outraged about the chant is that you harbor some belief that through the chant we were communicating that because the Obama kids selected Sidwell we are better than all of the other schools.
this is NOT THE CASE.
it was a joke. seriously. any sidwell kid who says that we are actually "better" (for the record, the word better is completely meaningless when comparing schools) because the Obamas selected us, and is not joking, is an idiot. Said jokingly however, ITS HUMOROUS.
As an analogy for how i see it, its like being happy and gloating to your friend because a puppy ran to you instead of them. like "WHOO RUDOLPH SELECTED ME." haha I just realised i compared Obama to a dog but that is in no way what i intended, my point is that it is a COMPLETELY ARBITRARY criteria that was chanted because it is HUMOROUS that we would claim our school is better based on SUCH AN ARBITRARY CRITERIA. literally what you are accusing us of is SO ABSURD that we (or I at least) thought it was ironic and silly enough to be funny.
also, what do kids do all the time? MAKE FUN OF EACH OTHER. seriously, its a joke. not elitist. Simply calling us elitist is a little too easy of a conclusion.
At least thats how i see it. I obviously can't speak for anyone else, JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE ON THIS SITE.
but thats how i feel about it. i realize this discussion is really stupid and I don't know why i spent time on this response. It probably doesn't warrant such a long reply, but eh. thats what i think.
stupid people were annoying me. i had to respond
(and good luck to both teams tonight, although sidwell will win because we are better)
(also, that last comment? LIGHTHEARTED RIVALRY JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE)
8:46 pm
Wow, this is good humor! What I enjoy seeing is the healthy school spirit between these 2 schools. What I am surprised about (but maybe because I'm older now) is the street language used by intelligent, well schooled kids who are trying hard to sound just the opposite. I had a good friend who went to Sidwell many, many years ago when the Quaker spirit seemed to be more in evidence than on this board. I liked comments # 79 and 80, although many readers will probably feel they are a little stuffy - so what, good points! As far as the Obama girls; they seem to be a higher level of spirit and decorum than some on here - maybe the trash talkers will learn from their new school mates. As far as the Larry promoting Lawrencville, we used to kick your butts in hockey - go PDS! (just had to!) Anyway, good lcuk to all in the hoops game - keep up your school spirit and Merry Christmas!
8:46 pm
Bunch of rich kids trash talking. How Pathetic.
9:06 pm
50-41. thats all needs to be said
9:16 pm
So it's even.
Good to see that there wasn't any whining over chants tonight.
9:27 pm
We're gonna forget about this in 10 years anyway. Both parties seem to be acting, for the most part, a bit immaturely. I do think the Obama chant was all in good fun, but c'mon fellow Sidwellians - let's not make people think we're elitist snobs when we mention where we went to high school.
10:21 pm
Good game. Can't wait til round 3.
10:41 pm
After reading this, I have never been so proud of my public school education. The way students, alumni, and parents on both sides are demeaning themselves with childish and profane comments is horrifying. The spelling is atrocious. The ineptitude with a semi-colon is staggering. And you pay for this??? I can't imagine being around a whole school of you. We public school kids may not be rich, but we at least have a basic sense of respect and common decency. I guess you can't buy that.
11:35 pm
Dear all readers,
We would like to apologize for our previous comments, which were completely ridiculous, rude, offensive and uncalled for. The comments were originally made with the intention of being funny; however, in retrospect, we can all agree that they were far beyond appropriate. While some readers urge the Obama's to reconsider their decision in choosing Sidwell for their daughters, we (though we have no credibility on this forum thanks to previous comments) do not believe that comments posted purely anonymously on this website can possibly be taken to represent the true Sidwell community. Maret played an excellent game tonight, and we congratulate them on a hard-fought victory.
Sincerely, Jake, Amir and Busta Rhymes
12:13 am
Dear Sidwell: YOU'RE STILL BUSH LEAGUE!
NOW let's talk baseball!
2:32 am
Hi Kids!
I stumbled across this conversation and just had to comment! You all took me back to my high school basketball days and the things we would chant...I think the Obama chant was funny and creative and I love all y'alls school spirit on both sides. Don't get to uptight about it. We used to say much worse back in the 80's. I do have to ask though: ski goggles?
Shout with me now...U-G-L-Y You ain't got no alibi YOU UGLY!
3:29 am
I knew nothing of either school until the Obama's began searching for a school for their girls, but I can clearly see that Sidwell would be the school for me and my girls if we were in the market for a school in the D.C. area. In my opinion, Sidwell represents Obama during the Presidentila campaign and Maret represents old whining ass McCain and we know who lost the presidential race don't we! Sidwell will win everytime. Crying ass Maret, bunch of sissys.
4:04 am
Dear Sidwell,
I am not going to lie but your school is ok. I tried to apply but I was not accepted freshmen year so i settled for Maret. Nevertheless, we beat you guys last night so boo-ya. You can suck my chode mutha truckaaassss.
anonymous
5:07 am
LOL. Come on kids, show some grace like our incoming president.
8:57 am
u want 2 talk baseball maret
nick plebani nd sam coolidge will b fryin u guys this spring
just thot id say that
good game tho
11:05 am
Again, people, the whole other sports argument is pointless and stupid.
This was about basketball. Not any other sports.
11:12 am
for all of those sidwell fans who just commented on how stupid maret was....
TOO BAD Y'ALL JUST LOST LAST NIGHT!!!!
yepp, thats right.
SUCK IT
11:35 am
Haha. Maret finally wins a basketball game against Sidwell. Watch all the fans come out of the woodwork now.
12:29 pm
maret started the other sports talk by talking about football
now that they finnaly win 1 basketball game they only want to talk about basketball which is what we wanted to do
no team is perfectly good or bad, so maret is bound to beat sidwell in basketball once
but sidwell is better than maret in every sport right now except football and maret sucks at football anyway
12:44 pm
To the kid above me: Just stop. Please.
6:35 pm
just stop
7:19 pm
Adults that take youth sports this seriously disgust me. Grow up.
12:59 am
This is very funny. This article is written by a maret parent, and anyone at the game knows it is extremely baised. I guess thats just how maret does stuff.
9:31 am
I'm guessing the Obamas may be reconsidering their decision in light of the way the school and students seem to want to exploit their daughters. Maret would seem to have taken themselves out of the running if the school decision is revisited.
12:39 pm
It's amazing how seriously people take the littlest things.
Oh yeah, I'm sure the Obamas are going to reconsider their school decision for their daughters because of a funny chant by that school's basketball fans.
1:02 pm
on da real sidwell is a school for some bamas, Maret gave yall da business friday night leave it at dat, none of yo fans wanted to hang around afta da game cuz dey knew they couldn't back up anything they had to say dey rolled up out of da skool quick as mug and on for da record Maret's Football is gona continue doggin Sidwell
10:13 pm
Why is this even an issue? it was a funny, light-hearted creative chant. Everybody needs to relax and take a deep breath. And stop commenting about everybody's grammar. This is not an english paper.
5:50 pm
To Public School Lackey: (number 98)
Wow. It seems as if you feel you need to assert yourself as a decent speller.
It's funny that you're drawing such a gross generalization about the education at a certain private school by "internet-spelling." I'd say it's pretty common knowledge that many people do not take the time to punctuate or spell correctly when writing on the computer.
"We public school kids may not be rich, but at least we have a basic sense of respect and common decency."
.....Hmm, I don't want to say you're bitter, but that could be the case. I know many, many public school kids, and to say that all of them are more respectful and "decent" than all private school kids is simply laughable. Maybe you should have been at the Wilson-Sidwell football game, where Wilson beat Sidwell in a good game, but disgraced themselves with gratuitous remarks and countless insults, coupled with raucous chanting.
Think it over. You're wrong.
8:31 pm
SHAKE IT SHAKE IT! SHAKE DEEZ NUTS!!!!!
7:15 pm
This was not that big of a deal- - It was blown out of proportion by many people.
11:14 pm
Everyone here needs to take a step back for a second to cool off. You're ranting over a sports chant.
So I'd like to point out a few things:
- The entire Sidwell school was not at the game; this should not represent all of Sidwell. Most of the people there were probably just swept up with the spirit of school competitiveness. Do not base your opinion of hundreds of people off of the actions of an excited few.
- Sidwell is not just a fancy campus full of arrogant and sheltered rich kids, as it is being give the reputation of. There are many student families on financial aid and scholarships. To top that off, each and every student at Sidwell has worked extremely hard to be accepted into SFS, and still is.
- You cannot definitely say that anyone who goes to a public school is better than someone from a private school, or vice-versa. That is a matter of opinion (how do you define "better"? Through decency, grades, morals, history, or generosity? Who can say?), and it depends wholly upon those being spoken of.
- Just because some of the Sidwell-supporting commenters on this chat board have used innappropriate profanities, it does not mean that SFS will 'corrupt', 'use', 'brainwash', or do anything of the sort with the Obama daughters.
- Keep in mind that this is an anonymous board. People may not be who they are, and may be using their anonymity to trash the other schools' reputations.
- Put more faith in the choices of our future president! It's not like he signed up his daughters to be brainwashed with money, politics, discrimination, and superiority-complexes. I highly doubt that Obama will remove his daughters from Sidwell over a petty basketball game.
- This article was obviously written by a highly biased author. (Somewhere above, I believe someone actually called the author an Maret parent, which would would make him extremely biased. I have not researched into this, though, and have no proof of that statement's turhtfulness.) Both groups of students that attended the game and threw insults at one another were at fault, with neither side more or less guilty than the other.
- Actual sports scores are irrelevent to the issue presented.
And to top it all off...
- The Quaker Oats brand of oatmeal is originally Jewish, and has never actually reflected anything specifically Quaker-like.
So please do not use this highly-questionable article or any of its crude, attached comments to it in your view of either Maret or Sidwell, or even Barack Obama and his family.
2:08 am
i am the parent of an applicant to both sidwell and maret, and frankly i'm horrified at the language and attitude of some of the sfs students. i know that this does not represent the entire school, but it does make a parent wonder. you really have no idea who is reading all of this posts. maybe your school administrators?!?
7:47 pm
Oh pacifism and equanimity abounds in the Quaker community. That game was nonconference and Maret beat Sidwell handily the next week in MAC play.