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[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]

Wow. This is exactly how I think and feel but haven’t been able to articulate it as well as you did. Thank you for this. It is so, so true. Sometimes I feel crazy in this city with all this internalized racism with the liberal class that puts all their signs in their front yards. I’m glad others see it too. [/quote]

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