Sidwell Friends School
College-preparatory school in Washington, D.C., United StatesWikipedia
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Search complete. 14 mentions across 9 episodes found for "Sidwell Friends School".
Sep 22, 2026
Trump vs. the Media: The Battle Escalates
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6:35Larry ElderHOST
Oh, she made a big deal out of meeting with the principals and kicking the tires.
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6:39Larry ElderHOST
And ultimately, Sasha and Malia went to Sidwell Friends.
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6:44Larry ElderHOST
I think it's about $40,000 or $50,000 a year.
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6:46Larry ElderHOST
The same private school that Chelsea Clinton went to.
Trump vs. the Media: The Battle Escalates
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6:36Larry ElderHOST
Oh, she made a big deal out of meeting with the principals and kicking the tires.
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6:40Larry ElderHOST
And ultimately, Sasha and Malia went to Sidwell Friends.
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6:45Larry ElderHOST
I think it's about $40,000 or $50,000 a year.
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6:48Larry ElderHOST
The same private school that Chelsea Clinton went to.
Baratunde Thurston, Writer, Comedian, and Earthling
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2:35Baratunde ThurstonGUEST
Memory just popped into my head.
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2:37Baratunde ThurstonGUEST
So I went to a private high school and middle school in D.C. called the Sidwell Friends School.
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2:42Monica HoltHOST
And
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2:43Baratunde ThurstonGUEST
it's always special to have other Black people around.
22. History of Dyslexia Part 11: Orton Part 1
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22:04Cheryl UrbanczykHOST
So elementary school teachers, high school teachers, people can recognize these signs and then find ways to support.
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22:14Cheryl UrbanczykHOST
This has been demonstrated very successfully in certain private schools, such as the Francis Parker School in Chicago, Sidwell Friends in Washington.
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22:22Cheryl UrbanczykHOST
And the Fieldston Lower School, where Ms. Gillingham supervised problem prevention programs for a number of years.
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22:29Cheryl UrbanczykHOST
So problem prevention programs, that's a lot of alliteration.
Episode 2: College Rankings Part 1
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31:01Matt RamsbyHOST
Okay, here's one you've heard of.
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31:03Matt RamsbyHOST
Sidwell Friends.
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31:04Matt RamsbyHOST
Sidwell Friends in Bethesda, just west of, right near here? Yeah, just right near here.
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31:08Matt RamsbyHOST
Is that Sidwell? I don't know.
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31:09Matt RamsbyHOST
Top 100.
The Cottage Cheese Incident
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1:46Doug ColeHOST
Now, this is a true story.
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1:51Doug ColeHOST
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.
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2:02Doug ColeHOST
And my dad worked for the government, and my mom worked for the city.
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2:09Doug ColeHOST
And we moved there when I was 10 from Ohio.
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2:41Doug ColeHOST
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.
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2:56Doug ColeHOST
You might want to go back and listen to the woo-woo whistle because that's a popular episode.
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3:02Doug ColeHOST
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
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3:28speaker_1UNKNOWN
also it's private school
The Bongino Weekend Report - 09/05/26
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17:28Dan BonginoHOST
Don't they love higher taxes? Democrats hate school choice.
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17:32Dan BonginoHOST
BS, they send their kids to Sidwell Friends in Washington, DC, in school choice.
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17:36Dan BonginoHOST
And we won on the issues.
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17:37Dan BonginoHOST
We lost on the messaging.
Gilmore To Read: Beck Dorey Stein's Graduation Was Covered By Rory Gilmore?
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14:58Beck Dory SteinGUEST
So in 2011, I was working five part-time jobs in Washington, DC.
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15:04Beck Dory SteinGUEST
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.
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15:17Beck Dory SteinGUEST
And I was also working at a coffee shop, substitute teaching at two other schools, and folding tank tops poorly at Lululemon.
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15:28HaleyHOST
You were the Washington DC Kirk.
Ana Gasteyer: Mastering the Power of "Yes, And..."

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13:38Ana GasteyerGUEST
Yeah.
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13:39John Frank LevyHOST
And also, you went to the famous private school in Washington, D.C., Sidwell Friends.
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13:46John Frank LevyHOST
Both of my niece and nephew went there.
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13:49John Frank LevyHOST
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.
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14:02John Frank LevyHOST
Yeah.
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14:03Ana GasteyerGUEST
Oh, sorry.