Sasha and Malia Obama’s middle school, Sidwell Friends, in Washington D.C., was rocked by accusations of sexual misconduct in 2011. The Daily Mail reported that one of the pupil’s fathers, Arthur Newmyer, slapped the establishment with a $10 million lawsuit, claiming the school’s psychologist, James Huntington, slept with his wife, Tara Newmyer, with the school’s full knowledge, while he was counseling pupils about a sex scandal involving a teacher having inappropriate relations with a pupil.
Court documents allege that Huntington also taught sex education to sixth graders from 2009-2011, which would have included Malia’s class. In addition, it claims Huntington “sent sexually explicit messages from his school email address” and slept with Tara in a hotel while Arthur’s 5-year-old daughter, who was his student, was in the next room.
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It’s not the only time the elite school has hit the headlines. The Washington Post ran a story in 2019 claiming parents of Sidwell Friends were sabotaging students to give their kids a better chance of placing at an Ivy League school. Director of college counseling Patrick Gallagher was forced to email parents, informing them that anonymous complaints would not be tolerated. “If a parent ever feels the need to inform me or my colleagues regarding the actions of a child that is not their own — I will ask you to leave my office or end the phone conversation,” Gallagher wrote.
