When did GDS become so well regarded?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the GDS/Harvard thing is just a tongue-in-cheek inside joke that traces back several years on this board. As a GDS booster myself, even I chuckle at it and use it from time to time.

Number of times GDS-Harvard claim is made seriously >>>>>>>>>>> Number of times GDS-Harvard claim is made tongue in cheek

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure how anyone can visit the two US campuses (especially the athletic facilities) and conclude that SFS better embodies the Quaker value of simplicity. Certainly on environmental stewardship, it's indisputable that GDS has committed to transportation limitations with the ANC that SFS is currently unwilling to similarly commit/propose. Both schools are great, but I can't think of how SFS walks the walk of Quaker values in any meaningful way that GDS does not to at least an equal or greater degree.

My point is not to criticize SFS, but simply to note that it's absurd to suggest that GDS is anti-Quaker.

You've totally missed the point of the anti-Quaker comment. And the rest of your post just reinforces the perception that GDS-related posts are so ridiculous that they must come from a single troll. Seriously, if that's the defense of these posts, then consider how dumb they appear to everyone else.

Sometimes pointing out the truth isn't going to be popular. I'm sure the behavior of the SFS teacher who yelled at Scott Pruitt might be unpopular with a lot of people, but in that case, I applaud her courage for dropping a needed truth bomb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Number of times GDS-Harvard claim is made seriously >>>>>>>>>>> Number of times GDS-Harvard claim is made tongue in cheek

No chance that this is true. Many folks, including myself, have already copped to making the joke often on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Number of times GDS-Harvard claim is made seriously >>>>>>>>>>> Number of times GDS-Harvard claim is made tongue in cheek

No chance that this is true. Many folks, including myself, have already copped to making the joke often on DCUM.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure how anyone can visit the two US campuses (especially the athletic facilities) and conclude that SFS better embodies the Quaker value of simplicity. Certainly on environmental stewardship, it's indisputable that GDS has committed to transportation limitations with the ANC that SFS is currently unwilling to similarly commit/propose. Both schools are great, but I can't think of how SFS walks the walk of Quaker values in any meaningful way that GDS does not to at least an equal or greater degree.

My point is not to criticize SFS, but simply to note that it's absurd to suggest that GDS is anti-Quaker.

You've totally missed the point of the anti-Quaker comment. And the rest of your post just reinforces the perception that GDS-related posts are so ridiculous that they must come from a single troll. Seriously, if that's the defense of these posts, then consider how dumb they appear to everyone else.

Sometimes pointing out the truth isn't going to be popular. I'm sure the behavior of the SFS teacher who yelled at Scott Pruitt might be unpopular with a lot of people, but in that case, I applaud her courage for dropping a needed truth bomb.

Scott Pruitt was a sleazy, environmentally harmful jerk, but the Sidwell head of school also should have dismissed that teacher.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone in the 80s and 90s who thought poorly of GDS was a bigot. The school has always provided a top notch education and the biggest issue that folks had with it was and is the Jewish population. It’s not a surprise that they always sent a bunch of kids to Ivy. That is common amongst the Jewish elite. Most of the criticisms leveled at the school have an undercurrent of anti Semitism.

So if you don’t like Sidwell, as most GDS boosters seem to bash Sidwell, does that make you anti-Quaker?

No, because GDS lives Quaker values more than SFS.

That’s just stupid.

Which school's students demonstrate simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship most?

You forgot 'social justice.'

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone in the 80s and 90s who thought poorly of GDS was a bigot. The school has always provided a top notch education and the biggest issue that folks had with it was and is the Jewish population. It’s not a surprise that they always sent a bunch of kids to Ivy. That is common amongst the Jewish elite. Most of the criticisms leveled at the school have an undercurrent of anti Semitism.

So if you don’t like Sidwell, as most GDS boosters seem to bash Sidwell, does that make you anti-Quaker?

No, because GDS lives Quaker values more than SFS.

That’s just stupid.

Which school's students demonstrate simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship most?

You forgot 'social justice.'

The PP was talking about the Quaker "SPICES." I think integrity is now inclusion?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GDS is well self-regarded. And a PP is correct, there’s no lack of confidence among the students.

Yes. Indeed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure how anyone can visit the two US campuses (especially the athletic facilities) and conclude that SFS better embodies the Quaker value of simplicity. Certainly on environmental stewardship, it's indisputable that GDS has committed to transportation limitations with the ANC that SFS is currently unwilling to similarly commit/propose. Both schools are great, but I can't think of how SFS walks the walk of Quaker values in any meaningful way that GDS does not to at least an equal or greater degree.

My point is not to criticize SFS, but simply to note that it's absurd to suggest that GDS is anti-Quaker.

You've totally missed the point of the anti-Quaker comment. And the rest of your post just reinforces the perception that GDS-related posts are so ridiculous that they must come from a single troll. Seriously, if that's the defense of these posts, then consider how dumb they appear to everyone else.

Sometimes pointing out the truth isn't going to be popular. I'm sure the behavior of the SFS teacher who yelled at Scott Pruitt might be unpopular with a lot of people, but in that case, I applaud her courage for dropping a needed truth bomb.

Scott Pruitt was a sleazy, environmentally harmful jerk, but the Sidwell head of school also should have dismissed that teacher.

In 30 years, I think people will be more concerned about the devastating effects of climate change than whether or not Scott Pruitt got yelled at in a restaurant. I'd rather that the HoS focus on creating a better carpooling plan than firing a teacher for letting her life speak.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure how anyone can visit the two US campuses (especially the athletic facilities) and conclude that SFS better embodies the Quaker value of simplicity. Certainly on environmental stewardship, it's indisputable that GDS has committed to transportation limitations with the ANC that SFS is currently unwilling to similarly commit/propose. Both schools are great, but I can't think of how SFS walks the walk of Quaker values in any meaningful way that GDS does not to at least an equal or greater degree.

My point is not to criticize SFS, but simply to note that it's absurd to suggest that GDS is anti-Quaker.

You've totally missed the point of the anti-Quaker comment. And the rest of your post just reinforces the perception that GDS-related posts are so ridiculous that they must come from a single troll. Seriously, if that's the defense of these posts, then consider how dumb they appear to everyone else.

Sometimes pointing out the truth isn't going to be popular. I'm sure the behavior of the SFS teacher who yelled at Scott Pruitt might be unpopular with a lot of people, but in that case, I applaud her courage for dropping a needed truth bomb.

Scott Pruitt was a sleazy, environmentally harmful jerk, but the Sidwell head of school also should have dismissed that teacher.

Have you ever heard of proportionate response? Firing a teacher for advocacy, however uncivil and perhaps inappropriate, is not proportionate.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure how anyone can visit the two US campuses (especially the athletic facilities) and conclude that SFS better embodies the Quaker value of simplicity. Certainly on environmental stewardship, it's indisputable that GDS has committed to transportation limitations with the ANC that SFS is currently unwilling to similarly commit/propose. Both schools are great, but I can't think of how SFS walks the walk of Quaker values in any meaningful way that GDS does not to at least an equal or greater degree.

My point is not to criticize SFS, but simply to note that it's absurd to suggest that GDS is anti-Quaker.

You've totally missed the point of the anti-Quaker comment. And the rest of your post just reinforces the perception that GDS-related posts are so ridiculous that they must come from a single troll. Seriously, if that's the defense of these posts, then consider how dumb they appear to everyone else.

Sometimes pointing out the truth isn't going to be popular. I'm sure the behavior of the SFS teacher who yelled at Scott Pruitt might be unpopular with a lot of people, but in that case, I applaud her courage for dropping a needed truth bomb.

Scott Pruitt was a sleazy, environmentally harmful jerk, but the Sidwell head of school also should have dismissed that teacher.

In 30 years, I think people will be more concerned about the devastating effects of climate change than whether or not Scott Pruitt got yelled at in a restaurant. I'd rather that the HoS focus on creating a better carpooling plan than firing a teacher for letting her life speak.

Letting her life speak? More like letting it all hang out there, unfiltered and uncouth.. Teachers should set an example of civil behavior for their students. Sidwell can do better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up here in the 80s and it was considered a school where kids went that didn't "get in" - things have changed - what happened and when?

Everything changed when the Pope and the Obamas sent their kids there.

[Anonymous]

The Pope?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure how anyone can visit the two US campuses (especially the athletic facilities) and conclude that SFS better embodies the Quaker value of simplicity. Certainly on environmental stewardship, it's indisputable that GDS has committed to transportation limitations with the ANC that SFS is currently unwilling to similarly commit/propose. Both schools are great, but I can't think of how SFS walks the walk of Quaker values in any meaningful way that GDS does not to at least an equal or greater degree.

My point is not to criticize SFS, but simply to note that it's absurd to suggest that GDS is anti-Quaker.

You've totally missed the point of the anti-Quaker comment. And the rest of your post just reinforces the perception that GDS-related posts are so ridiculous that they must come from a single troll. Seriously, if that's the defense of these posts, then consider how dumb they appear to everyone else.

Sometimes pointing out the truth isn't going to be popular. I'm sure the behavior of the SFS teacher who yelled at Scott Pruitt might be unpopular with a lot of people, but in that case, I applaud her courage for dropping a needed truth bomb.

Ok - so when people point things out about GDS, should they be called anti-Semitic? That dissonance (that it's ok for GDS boosters to bash everyone, but anyone who criticizes GDS gets tarred) was the point of the anti-Quaker comment. As you say, 'sometimes pointing out the truth isn't going to be popular'. That's true, and it's also not anti-Semitic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Number of times GDS-Harvard claim is made seriously >>>>>>>>>>> Number of times GDS-Harvard claim is made tongue in cheek

No chance that this is true. Many folks, including myself, have already copped to making the joke often on DCUM.

+1

Let's test this theory:

GDS has no greater ability to get kids in Harvard than other schools in this area.

Thoughts?