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Sidwell Friends School

Sidwell Friends School

College-preparatory school in Washington, D.C., United StatesWikipedia

Search complete. 14 mentions across 9 episodes found for "Sidwell Friends School".

Sep 22, 2026

Larry ElderHOST
6:35
Oh, she made a big deal out of meeting with the principals and kicking the tires.
Larry ElderHOST
6:39
And ultimately, Sasha and Malia went to Sidwell Friends.
Larry ElderHOST
6:44
I think it's about $40,000 or $50,000 a year.
Larry ElderHOST
6:46
The same private school that Chelsea Clinton went to.
Larry ElderHOST
6:36
Oh, she made a big deal out of meeting with the principals and kicking the tires.
Larry ElderHOST
6:40
And ultimately, Sasha and Malia went to Sidwell Friends.
Larry ElderHOST
6:45
I think it's about $40,000 or $50,000 a year.
Larry ElderHOST
6:48
The same private school that Chelsea Clinton went to.
Baratunde ThurstonGUEST
2:35
Memory just popped into my head.
Baratunde ThurstonGUEST
2:37
So I went to a private high school and middle school in D.C. called the Sidwell Friends School.
Monica HoltHOST
2:42
And
Baratunde ThurstonGUEST
2:43
it's always special to have other Black people around.
Cheryl UrbanczykHOST
22:04
So elementary school teachers, high school teachers, people can recognize these signs and then find ways to support.
Cheryl UrbanczykHOST
22:14
This has been demonstrated very successfully in certain private schools, such as the Francis Parker School in Chicago, Sidwell Friends in Washington.
Cheryl UrbanczykHOST
22:22
And the Fieldston Lower School, where Ms. Gillingham supervised problem prevention programs for a number of years.
Cheryl UrbanczykHOST
22:29
So problem prevention programs, that's a lot of alliteration.
Matt RamsbyHOST
31:01
Okay, here's one you've heard of.
Matt RamsbyHOST
31:03
Sidwell Friends.
Matt RamsbyHOST
31:04
Sidwell Friends in Bethesda, just west of, right near here? Yeah, just right near here.
Matt RamsbyHOST
31:08
Is that Sidwell? I don't know.
Matt RamsbyHOST
31:09
Top 100.
Doug ColeHOST
1:46
Now, this is a true story.
Doug ColeHOST
1:51
When I was in high school, I went to a school called Sidwell Friends, which is a kind of fancy private school in Washington, D.C., where I grew up.
Doug ColeHOST
2:02
And my dad worked for the government, and my mom worked for the city.
Doug ColeHOST
2:09
And we moved there when I was 10 from Ohio.
Doug ColeHOST
2:41
And if you listen to some of my other podcasts, like the Woo Woo Whistle, all about the naughty boys that were in my fifth and sixth grade class who blew up the teacher's whistle.
Doug ColeHOST
2:56
You might want to go back and listen to the woo-woo whistle because that's a popular episode.
Doug ColeHOST
3:02
But my parents moved me from that school and they took me to a school called Sidwell Friends, which was more fancy and more difficult, like more challenging, I would say, as far as... academically more challenging if you know what i mean like it was hard the work was harder more homework and stricter teachers and you had to wear get this a uniform
speaker_1UNKNOWN
3:28
also it's private school
Dan BonginoHOST
17:28
Don't they love higher taxes? Democrats hate school choice.
Dan BonginoHOST
17:32
BS, they send their kids to Sidwell Friends in Washington, DC, in school choice.
Dan BonginoHOST
17:36
And we won on the issues.
Dan BonginoHOST
17:37
We lost on the messaging.
Beck Dory SteinGUEST
14:58
So in 2011, I was working five part-time jobs in Washington, DC.
Beck Dory SteinGUEST
15:04
I had moved down there to be, um, the temporary upper writing school teacher at Sidwell Friends, and it's this independent school where the Obama girls attended, a lot of senators' children attend.
Beck Dory SteinGUEST
15:17
And I was also working at a coffee shop, substitute teaching at two other schools, and folding tank tops poorly at Lululemon.
HaleyHOST
15:28
You were the Washington DC Kirk.
Ana GasteyerGUEST
13:38
Yeah.
John Frank LevyHOST
13:39
And also, you went to the famous private school in Washington, D.C., Sidwell Friends.
John Frank LevyHOST
13:46
Both of my niece and nephew went there.
John Frank LevyHOST
13:49
And actually, when I told my sister-in-law that I was going to be talking to you today, she said that she had been on some committee that asked you to come back to Sidwell Friends and you weren't available or you turned her down.
John Frank LevyHOST
14:02
Yeah.
Ana GasteyerGUEST
14:03
Oh, sorry.

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