Big GDS news

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think that some of those who trash GDS and its ambitious plans just have a grudge, maybe because a DS or DD didn't receive a coveted admission letter.

Is GDS still a school for troubled students? If so, will the school agree to any restrictions on letting the students out into the neighborhood?

It never was. And the HS already has an open campus policy.

GDS is a school for highly gifted and talented students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think that some of those who trash GDS and its ambitious plans just have a grudge, maybe because a DS or DD didn't receive a coveted admission letter.

Is GDS still a school for troubled students? If so, will the school agree to any restrictions on letting the students out into the neighborhood?

It never was. And the HS already has an open campus policy.

GDS is a school for highly gifted and talented students.

They may have an open campus policy now. Neighbors will use it as a bargaining chip.

All children are highly gifted and talented. My understanding is the GDS took the 'differently' talented.

[Anonymous]

it's a lefty nerd school where kids have a broad range of interests and generally feel empowered to pursue them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think that some of those who trash GDS and its ambitious plans just have a grudge, maybe because a DS or DD didn't receive a coveted admission letter.

Is GDS still a school for troubled students? If so, will the school agree to any restrictions on letting the students out into the neighborhood?

It never was. And the HS already has an open campus policy.

GDS is a school for highly gifted and talented students.

They may have an open campus policy now. Neighbors will use it as a bargaining chip.

All children are highly gifted and talented. My understanding is the GDS took the 'differently' talented.

Uber-gifted and talented.

[Anonymous]

The new campus will be transformative for GDS and the development will add needed buzz to the neighborhood. The community should embrace this gift, not attack it.

[Anonymous]

It's not a gift. GDS hopes to build 2-3x what the zoning allows on the Martens site. And it wants to significantly increase the population density of its own campus.

[Anonymous]

GDS has always seen itself as an urban school. It just wants to make its neighborhood more urban.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The new campus will be transformative for GDS and the development will add needed buzz to the neighborhood. The community should embrace this gift, not attack it.

"Buzz" for the neighborhood? In that the line of cars waiting to get in and out of campus will be buzzing on the streets during rush hour? Or is that the buzz of 1200 kids on a 400 kid campus? What is this buzz you speak of? And the gift, what is the gift? The one the developers are reaping themselves? Of the one the school will be receiving in 40k chunks from the parents each year to pay for it.

Laughable post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GDS has always seen itself as an urban school. It just wants to make its neighborhood more urban.

If they're really that urban they should move to Petworth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GDS has always seen itself as an urban school. It just wants to make its neighborhood more urban.

If they're really that urban they should move to Petworth.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new campus will be transformative for GDS and the development will add needed buzz to the neighborhood. The community should embrace this gift, not attack it.

"Buzz" for the neighborhood? In that the line of cars waiting to get in and out of campus will be buzzing on the streets during rush hour? Or is that the buzz of 1200 kids on a 400 kid campus? What is this buzz you speak of? And the gift, what is the gift? The one the developers are reaping themselves? Of the one the school will be receiving in 40k chunks from the parents each year to pay for it.

Laughable post.

Agree. Just talk with the Evermay residents about The Potomac School in McLean. Sheer hell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can call the plans ambitious, but face reality, the school is wedging many more kids on to a campus, that as compared to any of its peers, will be sub-standard. Add to that the financing mechanism that is wholly dependent on its Board member-developers and the whole thing is fishy.

As to the local neighbors, they rightfully pushed back against the 50's style grocery/parking lot and were on a track with Safeway that everyone seemed to be happy with, until Safeway sold the lot.

The GDS proposal is worse for the neighbors because they are getting all of the negatives without any benefits.

Not to mention that this neighborhood already has the largest public high school(1600+), middle school (1300+) and two of the largest elementary schools (almost 700 each) in the city just blocks away -- with all of these students arriving and leaving at the same time. And Murch is about to go from a 400 student building to a 700 student building just across Ft. Reno Park from GDS.

No one in the city government ever seems to look at the big picture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can call the plans ambitious, but face reality, the school is wedging many more kids on to a campus, that as compared to any of its peers, will be sub-standard. Add to that the financing mechanism that is wholly dependent on its Board member-developers and the whole thing is fishy.

As to the local neighbors, they rightfully pushed back against the 50's style grocery/parking lot and were on a track with Safeway that everyone seemed to be happy with, until Safeway sold the lot.

The GDS proposal is worse for the neighbors because they are getting all of the negatives without any benefits.

Not to mention that this neighborhood already has the largest public high school(1600+), middle school (1300+) and two of the largest elementary schools (almost 700 each) in the city just blocks away -- with all of these students arriving and leaving at the same time. And Murch is about to go from a 400 student building to a 700 student building just across Ft. Reno Park from GDS.

No one in the city government ever seems to look at the big picture.

And if you thought the Red Line was rowdy now...

[Anonymous]

GDS HS has been there for years. So the only new Red Line riders would be L/MS students -- probably not many.

[Anonymous]

Exactly- they will be driven.