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[quote=Anonymous]The school prohibits its parents from dropping off at lots of places on public streets.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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. [b]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. [/b]
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]

Sure. You say all the parents sign an agreement but go on to say the parents break the agreement all the time. The HOS said the same thing. He knows parents are breaking the agreement and says he will not police the parents. Your “legal evidence” shows the school and parents willfully acts to break the agreement.

I do not understand how Shaw became HOS and how he is still there. This is some real basic stuff here. Give the parents who break the agreement three warnings and kick them out after the fourth infraction. They signed an agreement as part of their enrollment agreement. 
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The ANC is out of its collective mind if it thinks it can stop people from using Wisconsin Avenue. The documents linked on this thread say NOTHING about Wisconsin Avenue, and yet they keep harping on and on about it. I know, I know - they claim that the original draft MOU included Wisconsin, and GDS's lawyer sneakily removed the reference. But I have seen no evidence of that presented by the ANC at all.

Wisconsin is a major commercial street. It can handle cars. The ANC should focus on the neighborhood streets and getting the school to enforce the rules on all the kids who (according to that Augur Bit article) drive themselves and don't have parking permits. Or redevelop the remaining lots the school has to make a gigantic parking garage, if in fact the parking and traffic are really the most important thing. In any event, this notion that GDS's profits went up by the exact amount of tuition for the kids accidentally over-enrolled is laughable. And instead of sitting down with the school administrators, as the administrators repeatedly requested during the ANC meeting on that video, they prefer to wail and gnash their teeth and demand money. It's absolutely preposterous posturing. [/quote]

Agree 100%.  And frankly, even if the ANC had been misled, they could have raised the issue with GDS immediately afterwards and tried to resolve the issue. There is no evidence at all that the ANC had this concern until very recently.  It's all pretext by the ANC.

Frankly, the ANC could not have legally have prohibited dropoffs on Wisconsin Avenue, anyway.  Maybe someone actually figured that out before the agreement was signed.   You can't stop ANYONE from legally dropping on a street where that pull over is authorized by the City.  Neither the school nor the ANC can legally control those outcomes and force them onto parents.   That proposition is insane.[/quote][/quote]

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