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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1100 students bring in $65 to $70 million in revenue annually from helicopter parents hoping their son or daughter will be a shoe-in to the Ivy League. From posted past results on their website most of the GDS students are not magically getting into the top 20 schools just because they went to GDS they are just not getting in at all. That's the same as any public school. So knowing that, why are helicopter parents still willing to waste all that money and take a chance with all the nonsense going on at the school. Based on how GDS has been actively and forcibly working to remove, hide, and distort things on this website, what more do these checked out parents need on how corrupt the GDS people are. You want these same corrupt people to instill good values in your kids. It makes no sense. [/quote]

It makes perfect sense. The so-called "liberal" monied class gets illiberal fast when they contemplate having to send their kids to school with the unwashed masses (read: black or hispanic people). DC aside, Gaithersburg, Germantown, Silver Spring, and Rockville are four of the most diverse cities amidst one of the most diverse metropolitan areas in the country. So much of the DCPS and MCPS-bashing you see on this forum is code for "the public schools used to be so much better until THEY moved in and became the majority." In the deepest parts of their hearts, the parents you reference aren't "wasting all that money," but rather investing it so they can have peace of mind that their kids will be sheltered from the "others." AKA: internalized racism. You see the same dynamic playing out in the various MoCo redistricting fights right now. The reality is that the public schools around here, especially in some of the most diverse areas, are quite good (in some cases, MUCH better than some of these privates that pay teachers nothing, thereby not able to attract talent) with some very excellent teaching by many veteran, unionized teachers and systems of accountability that private schools, to keep things under wraps in order to preserve themselves, actively try to suppress. [/quote]

This is a very spot on and insightful. Your explanation is very good at explaining the mindset of the typical GDS household. The majority are from one demographic (the same as usual) this particular group has a superiority complex which of course their children learn by example. Which would explain the mindset of a lot of behavioral problems, bullying, and assault problems at GDS. It has to be something like that because you look at the outcome of colleges that GDS sends students to and it is not impressive. This tells me it's like a sick cult or something that they all want in on.  I like how they try to sell the DEI BS all day long but in reality it's like an incubation center for deranged people who think they are elite. Sort of  like the deranged GDS attorney running wild on this website.
*******"liberal" monied class gets illiberal fast when they contemplate having to send their kids to school with the unwashed masses*********[/quote]

DEI programs are just a carbon tax rich white people pay so they can keep engaging in racist behaviors (intended or unintended) and still, in their fantasies, save face with those they meet at the pearly gates. You want children to grow into ethical adults? Hire good-hearted, smart, empathetic, and kind people regardless of ethnicity, take the DEI cash and other BS catnip, and pay them better than the lobbyists who live along the Potomac, engage everyone in the community actively in tangible and community-oriented teaching and learning, and encourage radical dialogue, mind-speaking, penalty-free and guaranteed shame-free reporting to of incidents when they arise. But that would be just putting lipstick on the pig that the DC private school world.

THE PROBLEM is that the capitalist imperative driving private schools (and driving all American institutions) puts institutional survival above all other considerations. Private schools, if they want to avoid situations like this terrible one, should hire HEAD TEACHERS who have been steeped in, and who have been forced to practically grapple with, community-oriented educational philosophies.... NOT corporatists, ex-lawyers, or career administrators who don't know the meaning of the term "school." The boards should be made up of at least one-half to two-thirds educators, many of whom actually teach at the school (I know, shock! horror!), complemented with expert child psychologists, crisis/grief professionals, and content experts who aren't just experts in their fields, but experts in HOW TO TEACH THEIR SUBJECT MATTER THROUGH THE DEFINED PEDAGOGY OF THE SCHOOL (preferably driven by democratic and community-strengthening ideals)... and actively exclude capitalists, lawyers, and marketing morons whose imperatives run counter to the purpose of real education... save maybe one or two bean counters who know finance, but agree to be agnostic on educational philosophies. And then they should teach to actually solve tangible, real life problems that exist in their communities. Long story short: get those who know nothing about education out of the way and let schools actually TEACH.[/quote]

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