culture at GDS high school?

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The GDS model seems like it would be an easy transition to college

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Anonymous wrote:The GDS model seems like it would be an easy transition to college

It is.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. my daughter is a freshman. Pretty mainstream as are her friends. You will have a mix of ppl. Some chill and some cut throat. One parent was recently reported to the counselor bc she was trying to play a game by starting a nonprofit and saying her kids did it. This was in the context of resume padding. But that was unusual at gds. my daughter works hard but has a busy social life.

Wtf? Spill more deets?

More interesting to me is that she was tattled on by another parent...Sounds like a very nice community you have there.

I agree. We are at another top school and the parents most certainly created a foundation and/or social work and put it on their kids name. People do this all the time. The kids still did most of the work and did volunteer but the parents help set it up. What’s the big deal? It was so obvious to be as this was a few years ago but it would never ever ever occur to me to tattle on them. Omg.

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Anonymous wrote:PP must not be part of the GDS community for asking the question about Wednesdays.

So is it true or not?

[Anonymous]

Does upper school have a ton of 10am starts next school year like the pk-8 does? Maybe they can babysit all the lower school kids those random days.

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Meh, I'm fine with the seven 10 am starts given that the number of in-service days is going down from four to two.

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Anonymous wrote:Meh, I'm fine with the seven 10 am starts given that the number of in-service days is going down from four to two.

But are they? When looking at the revised calendar, I didn't see two school days added to the calendar.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. my daughter is a freshman. Pretty mainstream as are her friends. You will have a mix of ppl. Some chill and some cut throat. One parent was recently reported to the counselor bc she was trying to play a game by starting a nonprofit and saying her kids did it. This was in the context of resume padding. But that was unusual at gds. my daughter works hard but has a busy social life.

Wtf? Spill more deets?

More interesting to me is that she was tattled on by another parent...Sounds like a very nice community you have there.

I agree. We are at another top school and the parents most certainly created a foundation and/or social work and put it on their kids name. People do this all the time. The kids still did most of the work and did volunteer but the parents help set it up. What’s the big deal? It was so obvious to be as this was a few years ago but it would never ever ever occur to me to tattle on them. Omg.

I also didn't understand the issue. I don't think kids who are not of legal age can actually do any of that paperwork anyway so an adult would have to do it. If it was the child's idea and the child is doing a lot of work to organize and run it what is the problem? It's really disappointing to hear that some parents decided this was their business and made accusations when they really can't possibly know anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Meh, I'm fine with the seven 10 am starts given that the number of in-service days is going down from four to two.

But are they? When looking at the revised calendar, I didn't see two school days added to the calendar.

1. First day of school in September is the Wednesday after Labor Day. This year it was Thursday.
2. The Monday after Thanksgiving is no longer a day off.
3. The Tuesday after Spring Break is no longer a day off.

My guess is two of those (most likely 2 and 3) were previously full in-service days.

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Anonymous wrote:Meh, I'm fine with the seven 10 am starts given that the number of in-service days is going down from four to two.

But are they? When looking at the revised calendar, I didn't see two school days added to the calendar.

Same 4 day weekends every month plus the late starts. Have the print out from a couple months ago and the new one.

When did half day get added to this week? That was not clear early dismissal for months! Then suddenly last week it’s early dismissal half day.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meh, I'm fine with the seven 10 am starts given that the number of in-service days is going down from four to two.

But are they? When looking at the revised calendar, I didn't see two school days added to the calendar.

Same 4 day weekends every month plus the late starts. Have the print out from a couple months ago and the new one.

When did half day get added to this week? That was not clear early dismissal for months! Then suddenly last week it’s early dismissal half day.

It wasn’t suddenly last week. There have been emails for a few weeks now. For MS, it’s basically a play day, anyway.

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NP here. in terms of the culture at gds, is is not very cut throat but the kids work hard. I heard about the same new parent who appears very cut throat but that is not the norm at gds. her kids r new to the school so maybe she thinks thats typical, but I can assure u it is not. and I did hear that the counselors know which kids are self starters and which are parent-driven and their letters of recommendation reflect that.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. my daughter is a freshman. Pretty mainstream as are her friends. You will have a mix of ppl. Some chill and some cut throat. One parent was recently reported to the counselor bc she was trying to play a game by starting a nonprofit and saying her kids did it. This was in the context of resume padding. But that was unusual at gds. my daughter works hard but has a busy social life.

Wtf? Spill more deets?

More interesting to me is that she was tattled on by another parent...Sounds like a very nice community you have there.

I agree. We are at another top school and the parents most certainly created a foundation and/or social work and put it on their kids name. People do this all the time. The kids still did most of the work and did volunteer but the parents help set it up. What’s the big deal? It was so obvious to be as this was a few years ago but it would never ever ever occur to me to tattle on them. Omg.

I also didn't understand the issue. I don't think kids who are not of legal age can actually do any of that paperwork anyway so an adult would have to do it. If it was the child's idea and the child is doing a lot of work to organize and run it what is the problem? It's really disappointing to hear that some parents decided this was their business and made accusations when they really can't possibly know anything.

The fact that other parents (adults!) felt the need to put their nose in a student’s business (a minor) is unbelievable and tells a lot about how competitive the parents at GDS are with each other—using their kids as their measure they are judged on, I guess? Oy

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Anonymous wrote:I did hear that the counselors know which kids are self starters and which are parent-driven

Good thing my kid is not the latter, but how would the GDS counselors have any way of knowing?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meh, I'm fine with the seven 10 am starts given that the number of in-service days is going down from four to two.

But are they? When looking at the revised calendar, I didn't see two school days added to the calendar.

Same 4 day weekends every month plus the late starts. Have the print out from a couple months ago and the new one.

When did half day get added to this week? That was not clear early dismissal for months! Then suddenly last week it’s early dismissal half day.

It wasn’t suddenly last week. There have been emails for a few weeks now. For MS, it’s basically a play day, anyway.

They change the school year schedule the last month of school, really?

That’s poor form. Or else they assume no one’s busy or the staff can handle it.