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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, my kids are at GDS and I love the school and everything it stands for. The diversity, the acceptance, the social justice that it teaches. And it is predominantly Jewish - there is no need to shy away from this! The person who writes that less than half the kids are Jewish is quibbling. Every school is predominantly something. St Albans is predominantly WASP, the Catholic schools are predominantly Catholic! I don't know why we need to run away from this and insist it isn't true. GDS is welcoming to everybody. There will also be a LOT of bar and bat mitzvahs in 7th and 8th grade! [/quote]

Saint Albans is not predominantly Protestant. There are are many Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Agnostics, Jewish, and at least one Athiest. I don't get it either why people protest so much that GDS is not overwhelmingly Jewish. It is. So is Sidwell. [/quote]

I'm an atheist, and it doesn't matter to me if GDS is predominantly Jewish or Muslim or Pastafarian, but is a fact that it isn't predominantly Jewish. It is less than 40% Jewish.[/quote]

That makes it more Jewish than any other school! I also doubt that there is 40% of anything else. In the LS, most of the so-called Christians in my kids' classes (including us) are not practicing any religion. The 40-50% Jewish kids in the class are the predominant religious group because almost all go to Sunday school and almost all take their holidays seriously in a religious sense. When its time to explain Xmas traditions, the teachers have to repeatedly ask for one of the theoretical Christians to step forward! But again, none of this matters. Every community has to be predominantly something, and I think GDS is a fabulous and open community for EVERYONE. I also think we should not need to pretend that its not a predominantly Jewish school. Perhaps its open BECAUSE of its Jewish founders who wanted an accepting community for everyone back in the day when only WASPS could enter schools and clubs.

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