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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GDS has serious problems right now -- some structural and some related to leadership (both the top administrators and the Board).  [b]It's a school that is trading on its past rather than building on it and it risks losing its strongest African-American students (especially but not exclusively boys) if it doesn't make significant changes. [/b] It's also losing good teachers (especially younger ones) over some of these issues.

The events of this year have put the Board and the Administration on notice regarding the nature and severity of the problems.  And some  structures (e.g. a taskforce on discipline) have been put in place  to consider reforms.  Whether GDS does the soul searching and the hard work necessary to fix what's broken and to live up to its mission is really an open question at this point.  The need for massive fundraising to pull off the campus consolidation project complicates the picture because it seems to be producing a kind of desperate boosterism that's at odds with a candid assessment of what's going wrong (or not working) and why.  [/quote]

I am curious about the bolded statement. I think a lot of private schools (and public schools as well) have an issue with unfair discipline towards AA kids especially boys. I know GDS is a popular option for AA families, but is it doing something specific towards AA kids? I can see that maybe white kids because they have more money may get away things.[/quote]

To tell the truth, my impression is that private schools, if anything, tend to bend over backwards the other way.  They are very careful about discipline unless the facts are 100% clear and after having given every benefit of the doubt in the past.  In today's climate, schools which see themselves as progressive are very skittish about being perceived as somehow being "insensitive."[/quote]

Yup!![/quote]

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