GDS for new 9th grader

[Anonymous]

Any advise? Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Advice

[Anonymous]

Join a fall sport. The preseason practices mean your DC will start school with friends across different grade levels. The cross country team is large, coed, and has a phenomenal coach who cultivates a strong sense of community. Novice runners are welcomed and encouraged. Highly, highly recommend!!

Also, GDS does a great job preparing new 9th graders. Definitely attend the Bridge program in addition to the 9th-grade orientation over the summer.

Congratulations to your DC!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Join a fall sport. The preseason practices mean your DC will start school with friends across different grade levels. The cross country team is large, coed, and has a phenomenal coach who cultivates a strong sense of community. Novice runners are welcomed and encouraged. Highly, highly recommend!!

Also, GDS does a great job preparing new 9th graders. Definitely attend the Bridge program in addition to the 9th-grade orientation over the summer.

Congratulations to your DC!

This is great advice. Our DC went into 9th grade at GDS not knowing a soul, and it took a while before they felt socially comfortable. But DC will now say that going to GDS was the best decision of their life.

And ditto about the cross country team and the coach.

[Anonymous]

Have him join a sport and remember that it can take time for a kid to find him people--especially boys. It took my son until the spring of freshman year to really fit in and he is pretty social. I talked to a lot of other moms with older kids who went to new high schools and many had sons who took until sophomore or even junior year to build solid friendships.

[Anonymous]

It is a wonderful, welcoming place. Talk to him about pronouns and how to be an ally to people who don't share his background.

[Anonymous]

Try to meet another new family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is a wonderful, welcoming place. Talk to him about pronouns and how to be an ally to people who don't share his background.

All the kids at GDS are from the same rich privileged background. Everything else is window dressing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a wonderful, welcoming place. Talk to him about pronouns and how to be an ally to people who don't share his background.

All the kids at GDS are from the same rich privileged background. Everything else is window dressing.

Ignorant and untrue. Feel sorry for your DC but glad s/he/they don't go there.

[Anonymous]

According to Ted Cruz, GDS is a hotbed of CRT and kids are taught that all white babies are racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to Ted Cruz, GDS is a hotbed of CRT and kids are taught that all white babies are racist.

Ted Cruz's criticism of GDS means that GDS must be doing something right.

[Anonymous]

I am wondering about a different post where someone talked about GDS HS as something like having separate cliques that moved in different directions but didn't really interact. Is that something your child has experienced? What is school spirit like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a wonderful, welcoming place. Talk to him about pronouns and how to be an ally to people who don't share his background.

All the kids at GDS are from the same rich privileged background. Everything else is window dressing.

Ignorant and untrue. Feel sorry for your DC but glad s/he/they don't go there.

Yeah there are so many poor kids at GDS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am wondering about a different post where someone talked about GDS HS as something like having separate cliques that moved in different directions but didn't really interact. Is that something your child has experienced? What is school spirit like?

Just asked my junior DS about kids belonging to cliques and not interacting with others. His entire response: "Huh? No."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am wondering about a different post where someone talked about GDS HS as something like having separate cliques that moved in different directions but didn't really interact. Is that something your child has experienced? What is school spirit like?

Just asked my junior DS about kids belonging to cliques and not interacting with others. His entire response: "Huh? No."

Same for my freshman.