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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My understanding is that GDS may not be as diverse as so often touted.  In speaking with a current GDS parent, they noted that the GDS student population is conservatively 50% Jewish, and the the current governing Board makeup has a higher percentage.  The newly selected Head of School is Jewish and his wife is apparently a Rabbi. She felt that representation of non-white minorities was much lower than would be expected.

I am not by any means bigoted, nor is my friend, but I found it very interesting and odd that she explained the school to me in this way.   It ws as if it these demographics were a well-kept secret that most did not "see."  She likes the school says it works for her kids.

I don't know how much of this is factual.  I'm simply conveying what I was told.[/quote]

I would like to see the numbers. The new head of school's wife may be a rabbi, but he himself is coming from a Quaker school. I saw a lot of children of color the times that I have visited, so unless there's been a sudden increase in Jewish kids of South Asian or African American or East Asian descent, I would be surprised to lean that half of the school is actually Jewish. I would not be surprised that Jews make up a large minority, but 50% is doubtful.[/quote]

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