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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]``GDS is nominally Jewish.'' 
Hey screechy...you are getting all heated up because you don't know what nominally means. ``Nomnially'' is derived from the Latin word for name. So, it's used to imply the idea ``in name only'' - the opposite  of how you used way it. This is how nominally is commonly used in sentences.  ``I'm nominally Catholic, but I don't really believe in transubstantiation.''

So, GDS is not nominally Jewish. It may have a lot of Jews there - which is, I think, your point. But its actually [b]a secular school founded by people who didn't want to participate in a school system that assigned kids to specific schools based on their skin color.[/b]  GDS is indeed, as the pp said, nominally nothing.

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Yes, and they talk and talk and talk about this as if it were just yesterday, when the country and DC private school world has changed in the last 70 years. After a while, its like using a curriculum that no longer prepares for the current job market. And to try to hang old labels on other schools that no lonher fit those schools just to prop yours up, is well, perpetuating the same type of stereotyping GDS campaigns agianst, no ?[/quote]

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