In April 2020, the school received $5.2 million in federally backed small business loans as part of the Paycheck Protection Program. This sparked the Department of Justice to launch an antitrust investigation into the schools, which concluded in 2021 after the DOJ stated that "in light of the burden on the Schools associated with the ongoing pandemic, the division will not bring an enforcement action against the Schools". In 2018, Sidwell, along with 7 other DC Area Private schools, announced that they would be eliminating AP courses, citing the declining impact on one's college acceptance chances that AP courses were having, and a want to diversify their class offerings. He became the Head of School after the retirement of former Head of School Bruce Stewart at the end of the 2008–2009 school year. Farquhar was removed from his position as the Head of School after the 2013–2014 school year. In the decades following integration, problems faced by black students lead to the creation of two parent groups outside the school, which sought to alleviate covert prejudice. Sidwell became racially integrated in 1964. In 1963 the elementary school moved to the former Longfellow School for Boys, purchased by Sidwell Friends. Previously all grade levels were in Washington, DC.
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In 2016, students led a change to the dress code to ban clothing with the Washington Redskins football team name and logo. The dress code continued to evolve in the 1980s and by 2000 included restrictions on exposed midriffs and visible underwear. Following student proposals and negotiations, the dress code was modified in the early 1970s and by 1975 permitted jeans to be worn by students. The dress code continued to evolve to include further restrictions on hair length, skirt length, and types of shoes in the 1960s, but began to relax by 1969. In 1957, the school adopted a formal dress code policy, with requirements and recommendations for boys and girls in Kindergarten, Lower School, Middle School, and Upper School. By 1938, the transition to the new building had been completed, and the I Street property was sold. In 1934, the name of the school was changed to "Sidwell and Friends School," and began its gradual re-location to the Wisconsin Avenue building. In 1925, the school added a kindergarten, making it the first K–12 school in Washington. However, in 1923, Sidwell built a building for school dances and other social gatherings on what came to be known as the Wisconsin Avenue campus. Initially, the new property was used for athletic fields-and, with the central campus' downtown location-meant students had to shuttle between the two sites by streetcar. īeginning in 1911, Sidwell began buying property between Wisconsin Avenue and 37th St. Thomas Sidwell started a "Friends' Select School" in 1883 on I Street in downtown Washington, four blocks from the White House. President Theodore Roosevelt's son Archibald, President Richard Nixon's daughters Tricia and Julie, President Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea Clinton, President Barack Obama's daughters Sasha and Malia, the grandchildren of President Joe Biden when he was Vice President, and Vice President Al Gore's son, Albert Gore III, graduated from Sidwell Friends. The school has educated children of notable politicians, including those of several presidents. Sidwell "accepts only 7 percent of its applicants." The school accepts vouchers under the D.C. As documented on the school's website, it gives preference in admissions decisions to members of the Religious Society of Friends, but otherwise does not discriminate on the basis of religion. The school's admissions process is merit-based. All Sidwell Friends students attend Quaker meeting for worship weekly, and middle school students begin every day with five minutes of silence. Sidwell, its motto is "Eluceat omnibus lux" (English: Let the light shine out from all), alluding to the Quaker concept of inner light.
Sidwell Friends School is a Quaker school located in Bethesda, Maryland and Washington, D.C., offering pre-kindergarten through high school classes.
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