- 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.

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.

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.