GDS admissions

[Anonymous]

GDS tells its parents now they can't drop off and pick up on public streets https://www.gds.org/community/hopper-transportation-program

Anonymous wrote:
Umm, just to state the obvious, neither GDS nor the ANC, nor DC can tell people that they cannot drop off or pick up on any public street. Just step back and think about that. It is ludicrous on its face.

[Anonymous]

I watched the ANC meeting video and lost a few thousand brain cells.

GDS F’d up by not reporting it’s over enrollment ASAP

ANC implies they covered it up to make $4 - $5M (never mind that they also spent more too, revenue dues but equal profit)

ANC wants them to pay with an “amenity” that will benefit the community, preferably by building low cost housing right next to the school.

ANC and GDS disagree on whether all car trips need to be counted, and how to do so. This is where l side with the ANC. Their enrollment cap is tied to trips, therefore GDS will need to find a way to count all of the trips. Maybe they will have to go so far as documenting every day how each student arrived to and was picked up from school. They say they have 46 staff helping with drop off and pickup so surely they can figure out a way to do that.

ANC is in hysterics about how they are going to handle the River School traffic. Because they used the same crappy agreement as for GDS.

Personally l’m so grateful to have GDS and their magnificent playground in the neighborhood, and am looking forward to River which is currently a wasted lot full of bamboo. But there needs to be a rethink of the admissions caps and how trips are counted and reported, because currently they’re tied in a way that doesn’t work in real life.

ANC wants everyone to bus and carpool. That can happen but there will be expensive near empty buses. So tuition goes up for no benefit to the community and environment. I wish ANC would think a but more about the big picture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GDS tells its parents now they can't drop off and pick up on public streets https://www.gds.org/community/hopper-transportation-program

Anonymous wrote:
Umm, just to state the obvious, neither GDS nor the ANC, nor DC can tell people that they cannot drop off or pick up on any public street. Just step back and think about that. It is ludicrous on its face.

Liar!!! The map is up and is accurate. You can drop anywhere except the streets on the immediate perimeter of school.

[Anonymous]

This was in response to the quoted poster who said nobody can tell people not to drop off on "any" public street.

It is true that GDS ignores the promise it made to BZA and DDOT in the CTR not to allow drop off on "any" public street. However, they do prohibit drop offs on a few public streets, so the poster who said nobody can do that should tell that to GDS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GDS tells its parents now they can't drop off and pick up on public streets https://www.gds.org/community/hopper-transportation-program

Anonymous wrote:
Umm, just to state the obvious, neither GDS nor the ANC, nor DC can tell people that they cannot drop off or pick up on any public street. Just step back and think about that. It is ludicrous on its face.

Liar!!! The map is up and is accurate. You can drop anywhere except the streets on the immediate perimeter of school.

[Anonymous]

Also that map shows drop offs prohibited way beyond the immediate perimeter of the school. GDS is comfortable enforcing restrictions down to Albemarle street but not in front of its campus on Wisconsin.

Anonymous wrote:This was in response to the quoted poster who said nobody can tell people not to drop off on "any" public street.

It is true that GDS ignores the promise it made to BZA and DDOT in the CTR not to allow drop off on "any" public street. However, they do prohibit drop offs on a few public streets, so the poster who said nobody can do that should tell that to GDS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GDS tells its parents now they can't drop off and pick up on public streets https://www.gds.org/community/hopper-transportation-program

Anonymous wrote:
Umm, just to state the obvious, neither GDS nor the ANC, nor DC can tell people that they cannot drop off or pick up on any public street. Just step back and think about that. It is ludicrous on its face.

Liar!!! The map is up and is accurate. You can drop anywhere except the streets on the immediate perimeter of school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Also that map shows drop offs prohibited way beyond the immediate perimeter of the school. GDS is comfortable enforcing restrictions down to Albemarle street but not in front of its campus on Wisconsin.

Anonymous wrote:This was in response to the quoted poster who said nobody can tell people not to drop off on "any" public street.

It is true that GDS ignores the promise it made to BZA and DDOT in the CTR not to allow drop off on "any" public street. However, they do prohibit drop offs on a few public streets, so the poster who said nobody can do that should tell that to GDS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GDS tells its parents now they can't drop off and pick up on public streets https://www.gds.org/community/hopper-transportation-program

Anonymous wrote:
Umm, just to state the obvious, neither GDS nor the ANC, nor DC can tell people that they cannot drop off or pick up on any public street. Just step back and think about that. It is ludicrous on its face.

Liar!!! The map is up and is accurate. You can drop anywhere except the streets on the immediate perimeter of school.

Nice try. To tell the truth, perhaps neither the school and the ANC had the common sense to realize that they cannot and should not seek to control where people drive. Under your view if someone drops at Target on WI that should be counted and prohbited. That is crazy for both GDS and the city.

[Anonymous]

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Elected ANC reps.

Yeah, they look really serious and threatening

This is the ANC for Cleveland Park, not Tenleytown.

Yeah same pond different bait

Nice try. At least try not to get caught lying so easily.

Thanks, Jon. At least everyone now knows that you did not read your own agreement before attacking GDS and all of its families.

Is this “Jon” actually in the photo you posted? The one that you claimed was the ANC for the GDS neighborhood? No? Busted.

[Anonymous]

For all of you going on about your "right" to drop off your kid at school however you please, enjoy this snippet from the Potomac School's website:

In order to maintain the high quality of life on campus and meet our traffic reduction commitments to our neighbors and Fairfax County, we require all students in Grades 1 through 11 to take the bus to and from school.

[Anonymous]

Potomac does not have a 6 lane commercial stop and go highway one half block away - which is where you want to prohibit drop offs, along with every other public street, autocrat. Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For all of you going on about your "right" to drop off your kid at school however you please, enjoy this snippet from the Potomac School's website:

In order to maintain the high quality of life on campus and meet our traffic reduction commitments to our neighbors and Fairfax County, we require all students in Grades 1 through 11 to take the bus to and from school.

Outrageous! Fairfax has no right to restrict my god given right to drop my kid off where and when I want. If that means you and your public school “student” has to wait..too bad.. Who do these people think they are?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Potomac does not have a 6 lane commercial stop and go highway one half block away - which is where you want to prohibit drop offs, along with every other public street, autocrat. Lol

What the hell is a “commercial stop and go highway”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Potomac does not have a 6 lane commercial stop and go highway one half block away - which is where you want to prohibit drop offs, along with every other public street, autocrat. Lol

What the hell is a “commercial stop and go highway”?

The ANC wants to pretend that Tenleytown is a rural, hushed environment such that a few parents dropping on Wisconsin is a deep interruption to their peace and tranquility.

LOL!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Also that map shows drop offs prohibited way beyond the immediate perimeter of the school. GDS is comfortable enforcing restrictions down to Albemarle street but not in front of its campus on Wisconsin.

Anonymous wrote:This was in response to the quoted poster who said nobody can tell people not to drop off on "any" public street.

It is true that GDS ignores the promise it made to BZA and DDOT in the CTR not to allow drop off on "any" public street. However, they do prohibit drop offs on a few public streets, so the poster who said nobody can do that should tell that to GDS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GDS tells its parents now they can't drop off and pick up on public streets https://www.gds.org/community/hopper-transportation-program

Anonymous wrote:
Umm, just to state the obvious, neither GDS nor the ANC, nor DC can tell people that they cannot drop off or pick up on any public street. Just step back and think about that. It is ludicrous on its face.

Liar!!! The map is up and is accurate. You can drop anywhere except the streets on the immediate perimeter of school.

Nice try. To tell the truth, perhaps neither the school and the ANC had the common sense to realize that they cannot and should not seek to control where people drive. Under your view if someone drops at Target on WI that should be counted and prohbited. That is crazy for both GDS and the city.

I have seen this before. I know how this ends. Practice writing the following:

DC Treasurer $100.

DC will crack down and start writing tickets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Also that map shows drop offs prohibited way beyond the immediate perimeter of the school. GDS is comfortable enforcing restrictions down to Albemarle street but not in front of its campus on Wisconsin.

Anonymous wrote:This was in response to the quoted poster who said nobody can tell people not to drop off on "any" public street.

It is true that GDS ignores the promise it made to BZA and DDOT in the CTR not to allow drop off on "any" public street. However, they do prohibit drop offs on a few public streets, so the poster who said nobody can do that should tell that to GDS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GDS tells its parents now they can't drop off and pick up on public streets https://www.gds.org/community/hopper-transportation-program

Anonymous wrote:
Umm, just to state the obvious, neither GDS nor the ANC, nor DC can tell people that they cannot drop off or pick up on any public street. Just step back and think about that. It is ludicrous on its face.

Liar!!! The map is up and is accurate. You can drop anywhere except the streets on the immediate perimeter of school.

Nice try. To tell the truth, perhaps neither the school and the ANC had the common sense to realize that they cannot and should not seek to control where people drive. Under your view if someone drops at Target on WI that should be counted and prohbited. That is crazy for both GDS and the city.

I have seen this before. I know how this ends. Practice writing the following:

DC Treasurer $100.

DC will crack down and start writing tickets.

Wait, what is DC writing a ticket for? If it’s 8 am and I drop my kids off on Wisconsin ave northbound in front of comminikids, what would the ticket be for?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Also that map shows drop offs prohibited way beyond the immediate perimeter of the school. GDS is comfortable enforcing restrictions down to Albemarle street but not in front of its campus on Wisconsin.

Anonymous wrote:This was in response to the quoted poster who said nobody can tell people not to drop off on "any" public street.

It is true that GDS ignores the promise it made to BZA and DDOT in the CTR not to allow drop off on "any" public street. However, they do prohibit drop offs on a few public streets, so the poster who said nobody can do that should tell that to GDS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GDS tells its parents now they can't drop off and pick up on public streets https://www.gds.org/community/hopper-transportation-program

Anonymous wrote:
Umm, just to state the obvious, neither GDS nor the ANC, nor DC can tell people that they cannot drop off or pick up on any public street. Just step back and think about that. It is ludicrous on its face.

Liar!!! The map is up and is accurate. You can drop anywhere except the streets on the immediate perimeter of school.

Nice try. To tell the truth, perhaps neither the school and the ANC had the common sense to realize that they cannot and should not seek to control where people drive. Under your view if someone drops at Target on WI that should be counted and prohbited. That is crazy for both GDS and the city.

I have seen this before. I know how this ends. Practice writing the following:

DC Treasurer $100.

DC will crack down and start writing tickets.

Wait, what is DC writing a ticket for? If it’s 8 am and I drop my kids off on Wisconsin ave northbound in front of comminikids, what would the ticket be for?

Don’t you understand? You cannot drive on any public street. Actually, the school and ANC agreed you would never drive again. Actually, you can never leave your house again.