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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lit and arts are strong at GDS, but history is not.  [/quote]

Curious why you say this. GDS does not have a traditional Europe-heavy curriculum, but the choice to focus on "doing" local history and then focusing on modern conflicts in 9th grade seems like an innovative way to get students to understand what historians do and how history is written and to set the stage for future discussions of how the past affects and illuminates the present.

-Parent of child considering GDS for HS[/quote]

As the parent of a student in the Upper School I disagree on this point.  Again, I have the comparison of my other children at top private schools, to compare them to.  Like my other children, DC has taken:

10th Grade:  European History, or World History;

11th Grade:  AP U.S. History, U.S. History, or American Studies;

12th Grade: Numerous Electives, including AP U.S. Government and Politics, AP Comparative World Politics, Economics, the Middle East Since World War I, Politics and Policy, Civil Rights Movement, Mediterranean World Since World War II, American Civil War, Law & Constitutional Rights, Contemporary Issues in a Changing World: Responding to the Present through Traditional and New Media, Cultural Anthropology, and Introduction to Women’s Studies: From Feminism to Womanism.

https://www.gds.org/page/hs-curriculum-detail?fromId=203490&LevelNum=787&DepartmentId=15138[/quote]

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