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[quote=Anonymous]I was at that open house where the HOS told that story about the GDS graduate and the professor's syllabus.  It fell pretty flat, and I'd be surprised if he is still telling that joke at open houses.  There may have been some nervous titters.  I inwardly cringed at the story, and my husband and I both thought it was a very odd story, but in the context of everything else the HOS and the other presenters said that day, it was the only off-moment during the open house.

To the extent that other posters are judging GDS parents because some parents may have laughed or smiled and nodded at the anecdote, I suspect that they were the nervous applicant parents who didn't want to be seen as doing anything "wrong" during the open house.  And some parents at open houses can be surprisingly awful or tone-deaf.  I saw plenty of obnoxious parent behavior during open houses at several schools - parents asking questions in a group setting that were very specific to their child and designed to advertise their kid's superiority.  But I suspect those parents didn't wind up at GDS, or at least I haven't met those types of people during the 6 years my kids have been at GDS.

In short, I would advise people to not judge GDS based on questionable parent behavior at open houses because those parents' kids don't necessarily wind at GDS.   The vast majority of parents I've met at GDS over the years have been wonderful - down-to-earth, friendly, kind, engaged, and supportive of all kids. [/quote]

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