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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Longtime GDS parent here. Multiple kids at the school. The MS is the worst part of the GDS experience. why?

The MS just runs more poorly than LS and HS. Less organized. The MS administration (which is changing at the end of the school year) is frankly not as good as the HS or LS. Kids (not just mine but many) seem to think MS is the low point of the GDS experience

Surely some of that is endemic to MS everywhere - it's a hard and awkward age. But my kids - none  of whom were introverts - were surprised at how little control teachers exerted in classrooms to tell disruptive kids to STFU. There are often 2-3 kids in a classroom (esp 7th and 8th grade) who are chatting, having side conversations, using their laptops to game - and 2/3rds of MS teachers seem to entirely ignore this and zero consequences are faced.  Like none

The issue is that for the extroverted kids - no problem, but for an introvert, that setting can perhaps be intimidating or at least distracting.

The new building is viewed as being sterile and cramped by many of the kids who saw the old building.

There are some wonderful teachers and that is not the issue itself. I think the administration in MS is very lax on any form of discipline lest it be viewed as being unjust in some way. So lots of stuff slides in the classrooms and I know from some teachers in 1:1s that it frustrates them too

Now all of that said, the HS is wonderful. Like super duper. So you enter at MS if and only if you are confident you want to be there through HS. Else it's not worth it IMHO [/quote]

So some parents are just paying $$$$$ for their kids to play games on their laptop all day??[/quote]

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