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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would love to hear more about the Upper School experience. What are parent teacher conferences like? [/quote]

At gds, there are parent teacher conferences in the fall. You can sign up for meetings with all teachers/whichever teachers you want. I think they were 10 minutes per teacher.[/quote]

How do the incoming 9th graders typically perform? I could see an argument for them doing well as they had to jump through more hoops/had to have a track record to be admitted. I could also see an argument for them struggling to adjust to a different culture and workload demands that may have differed from the previous school. Any advice/observations?

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I only know how my student is doing. He was at gds for MS. I was worried about the transition because the MS has far lower expectations and less work, but he's risen to the occasion wonderfully.[/quote]

Do kids receive letter grades in MS?[/quote]

No. I grew to like the description grades they do give in middle school: several topics in each class, with information about whether the child is above, at, or below expectations for each. This gave much more information than an A or a B in English, for example.

It did mean that my child had to learn what "A" work looks like, but that wasn't hard.[/quote]

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