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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many student families are back for sports pre-season today and the EXCITEMENT over the expanded Wisconsin campus is palpable!!  This is a major game changer for the school.  The community has nothing to worry about.[/quote]

Are you kidding? My high schooler and all his friends think it is terrible. He is so glad he will graduate before the place us overrun by the little kids. Right now the HS feels autonomous. The new configuration is going to change the culture of GDS big time.[/quote]

Similar reactions here.  (Too small for both, real loss to the HS, DC glad to be gone before this happens.)  And none of the parents (mostly of kids in HS who have been at GDS since LS) I've spoken with are happy about it.

Then again, GDS will just admit new families who want to buy what they'll be selling.   Not what we came for, but we'll be gone soon.[/quote]

High school kids don't like construction projects from which they won't benefit directly.  It's human nature.  High school kids, even those at a place like GDS, are also generally quite small c conservative when it comes to [b]proposed[/b] changes in institutions like their school.  (Unlike many adults, however, once the change actually comes they adjust quite easily, of course.)[/quote]

Oh I see -- it's a heads I win, tails you lose kind of analysis.  First, everybody's so happy.  Then, when two different posters say, no -- not really, the response is why did you expect them to be happy? -- of course they're not happy, but they'll come around.  No, actually, they'll have graduated.  The kids I'm talking to won't be (and know they won't be) affected by the construction (no financing or plans yet).  They just point out that, from their POV, something they valued very much about the school will disappear.  I think that they're right (although from my parental POV, the middle school loses even more than the HS), but YMMV.   And, ultimately, people who share your opinion will constitute the majority at the school.  Doesn't mean everybody's happy or it was a good decision, just that school's temporary and private schools are choices (expensive choices), so people move on and schools change.[/quote]

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