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[quote=Anonymous]Georgetown Day School (GDS) was established in 1945 as DC’s first integrated school, with a focus on both academic excellence and equality.  The school provided a private school option for Jewish and Black families that were closed out of the traditional private schools. When it was founded, GDS met a need that no longer exists.  Today GDS serves an entirely different function: serving as an escape path from the atrocious DC public schools for smart kids who would not fit in to traditional private schools.  GDS is the private school for smart kids who don’t want to attend private school.  GDS lacks the distinctive character, traditions and campus of traditional private schools. Instead GDS is much more like a smaller version of elite publics such as Whitman or Churchill than it is like STA, Sidwell or NCS.  If you take the top 1/3 or ¼ of Whitman or Churchill you have GDS.  A school like today’s GDS could never survive in Montgomery County or Northern Virginia where there is a very strong public school option.  But in DC where the public schools are subpar there is a need for a school that serves smart kids that don’t want to attend a traditional private school.[/quote]

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