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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of you who think that GDS parents have nefarious intent need to get a hold of yourselves.  I am a GDS parent and I find your rants to be completely offensive.   You have no idea what you are talking about.

First, you have to separate the issues out from each other.  As a parent, I can't of course speak to what happened with the enrollment caps.  The school is obviously responsible for answering for that.

But that is a distinct issue from the attacks against PARENTS to the trrip count.   THERE IS NO VIOLATION OF THE TRIP COUNT, as the ANC alleges.  There isn't even a definition of trip count in the agreement.  The ANC chair has posited his version of that in the hearing, but it has no basis in the agreement at all.  Dear friends, you haven't violated anything if there isn't anything in the agreement that specifies the terms to tell us what a violation is.  All the agreement focuses on is the adjacent streets.  It says NOTHING about any other street.

Think about yourselves in your daily lives -- if you want to park on a street for example, you do it and you can do it unless there is a sign that says you cannot.  The same is true here.  There is nothing in the agreement about Wisconsin Avenue, for example.  This means that people can drop on Wisconsin Avenue if general traffic rules permit that.  It isn't complicated, and it isn't bad intent to do what you are totally permitted to do.  It also is not a lack of respect for anyone in the community to do what you are permitted to do.  That is what you do yourselves.

The Head of GDS NEVER encouraged parents to drop nearby; that is totally idiotic and baseless.  As others have said, GDS has encouraged the opposite.  But we should be clear at the same time that the ANC has been totally misleading on the rules.  The Chair spent a ton of time in the hearing saying that drop offs on Wisconsin and east of that are violations.  THEY ARE NOT VIOLATIONS.  His assertion is totally baseless.

Finally, I find it totally offensive that some of you think that anyone legally dropping their child nearby doesn't care about anyone else or is violating something.  Neither is true.  People have a lot of different, important reasons why they may have to drive.   We are entitled to try to get our kids dropped safely and nearby the school if we have to take that approach.  You would want the same for your kids.  It isn't wrong -- it's being a supportive and caring parent.  And many of us do not have the wealth, frankly, that many people have who live right by GDS.  Please stop the assertions that everyone going to GDS is rich and doesn't care about anyone else.  It is not even remotely true, and you just are showing what jerks you are.[/quote]

What do you suggest should be the definition of a trip count?  That’s the heart of the matter.  [/quote]

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