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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a GDS alumni. I don't see how the school is going to make the Tenleytown campus work as a joint campus. I can see moving the middle school up but not all 1,000 kids. [/quote]

As a former parent I agree that GDS has a number of very good teachers and a strong curriculum.  We were quite happy with it but I assume that some other schools are equally strong.  What distinguished GDS is that, from the earliest grades, they teach the kids to believe that they can do much and to be confident -- if not always self-aware.  While there are some amazing and quite talented students there, I've endured my fair share of painful musical and other performances to know that a number are not.  And yet these kids thought they were great because people told them that.  And they learn to put themselves out there, which counts for a lot.  The expression goes. "If you can't make it, fake it."  Some kids make it, others may fake it more, but  their self-assurance likely  will take them far and enable them to be successful in selective colleges and in their careers beyond.  Perhaps GDS should really stand for Great Degree of Self-confidence, which can be carried too far but is mostly a good thing.  Be assured though that if someone from GDS tells you that their sh&$ doesn't stink, not only do they believe it but may well convince you it is so.[/quote]

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