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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was hilarious! Shaw has been head of school for 14 years and has no understanding of how pickups and drop off impact the neighborhood. Also he does not understand “DC transportation” drop off rules for a school! Guess he never read the agreement he signed?  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[quote] In an interview last week, Shaw told me he wants more clarity from D.C. transportation officials about the dropoff rule. GDS is already responsible for  counting each car that pulls up to deliver or retrieve a kid.

“If somebody drops their child off at Mazza Gallerie and walks here, are we meant to be able to police the five miles of Wisconsin Avenue?”
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[b]He is telling parents to drop off anywhere[/b] but not at the school so the school can lower their car count? That is pretty slimy! He does not even report the drop off numbers for years and no one is checking the car count. I am sure the count is always well below the allowed number  :wink:

Dude just report the numbers- enrollment and car count. Make sure you do it on time and [b]make the numbers match what is in the agreement[/b]. There is no independent audit and you have an at large council member on your board to run interference. How incompetent are you to let it get to this point?

A woman HOS would have read the agreement and been proactive with the neighbors. [/quote]

This is a pretty hateful interpretation of Shaw's words. Once again, the ANC is twisting words and making assumptions that GDS administrators and parents have only the worst intentions. Russell is NOT telling parents to drop off anywhere. No one with any objectivity would interpret that response in that way except for someone who seems to have a chip on his shoulder about the school. The school reminds parents in every single weekly communication about transportation rules. The school requires parents to sign off on a transportation agreement every year upon enrollment. The school give every single family an individualized transportation plan every year. These would all be admissible legally as evidence that the school is not shirking its duties to comply with the MOU.
And, btw, there are a lot of reasons why parents might drop off a student at Friendship or Tenley, including dropping off a spouse at the metro. 
The ANC head appears full of spite and hatred and ill-will. It's really ugly and unbecoming. I truly do not understand how he got elected by the good people of our neighborhood. It's a terrible look. He lacks any semblance of class or decorum. [/quote]

Who is giving hateful interpretations now?  You sling insults at the ANC head like nothing but then expect the neighborhood to look at the GDS HoS like some saint because he opens what - the playgrounds to community use every now and again? The facts are the HoS did not keep his word and hold the school's part of the agreement. [/quote]

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