Maret or GDS
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Anonymous
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Isn’t gds play-based in lower school?
Maybe look at the class schedule for a few grades and ask about reading, math, spelling method? |
Anonymous
| Maret. We applied and got into both. I found Maret much warmer and a smaller school suited our child. I also found GDS insufferable! Their ‘call teachers by their first name’ even if you are a kindergartner was too woke! Actually I’m not sure why we even applied to GDS - that’s how turned off I was. |
Anonymous
We looked at GDS and ended up sending our kids elsewhere, but I really wonder if parents who criticize the "first names" policy at GDS are actually racist. Everyone who has looked into the school seriously knows that the reason for the first names policy was to defy the Jim Crow laws and culture that were still in place. White children and adults had to be addressed as "Miss/Mrs./Mr." by Black people regardless of age; Black children and adults were not given that respect. Even Black adults had to call young white children "Miss X" or "Mr. X" and white children were allowed to call a Black man "boy." If you understand why those "honorifics" were eliminated, I don't understand why you would think that custom to be too "woke." Instead, I kinda wonder if maybe you're actually racist or think that's OK. Also, FWIW, my kids' Jewish preschool also didn't use "Mr." or "Mrs." or "Ms." so you had a bunch of 2 year olds calling adults by their first names, too. |
Anonymous
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Yes that’s right. I’m racist.
From the schoo: At GDS, we call each other by our first names, signaling that we have access to each other—regardless of our age, title, or station No mention of race. |
Anonymous
The origins of the first-name custom is often explained during school tours. And it's been explained frequently on DCUM. |
Anonymous
And I see that you still haven't changed your mind about the first names being "too woke," even though you now know the reasons for it. |
Anonymous
It’s ok it’s ok, the lower school kids also call their own parents by their first names. It’s a glorious molding of minds. |
Anonymous
| No need for honorifics like Mrs. Smith or Mr. Shaw. Only in Spanish, French and chinese class do those come up. |
Anonymous
| What nonsense. Talk about creating a sense of entitlement. |
Anonymous
| I really love GDS. The bigger grade size provides more options for friendships, less exclusion, and fewer cliques. |
Anonymous
Can you elaborate more on this? New to the private school search and still learning reputations. TIA |
Anonymous
It’s funny that this person thinks politics doesn’t dominate everything at Maret. |
Anonymous
LITERALLY EVERYTHING |
Anonymous
| If you think politics dominates everything at Maret, you must not have visited GDS. GDS takes it to a whole other level. Maret more similar to Sidwell in this regard. |
Anonymous
Correct that’s why we didn’t even bother. We are desperately trying to keep at least one of our children’s feet in the real world. |