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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this true:  Each year great academic students are turned away regardless of race and spots are given to students who are struggling academically

My understanding is that it was an extremely competitive school to get into especially for high school. And that no matter what you had to be able to meet the academic standards?? [/quote]

It seems like you are asking GDS to kick out students who are facing academic challenges to make space for new ones.  As an outsider, I can see where maybe this seems like a good idea. But as a member of the GDS community, I would like to be at a school where the faculty and administration care about working with a child who is facing challenges and hopefully help them to work through it.  Of course, if a student's family eventually determines that the student's needs are beyond what the school can provide, then the family should 100% consider finding a better match.

As for the second question - you have to remember that when a child is admitted at a young age, some learning challenges are not yet apparent. There will always be cases where a family finds their child may need a different school to best meet their needs.  But it is also the case that GDS will not expect every student in HS to be getting straight A's (in fact this is hard!!) and there will be students getting a wide range of grades.  Being a competitive school means it has challenging options - it doesn't mean every student will be in the hardest level classes and getting top grades.  [/quote]

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