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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe GDS struggles with the fact that it is a relatively younger school and does not have the resources of STA, NCS and Sidwell, and the board is smart to consider how to narrow that gap.   Tuition is a huge issue and if these schools want to continue to attract the best and the brightest -- instead of just the wealthiest -- they need to boost their endowments so they will be in a position to offer the amount of financial aid to support an economically diverse community.[/quote]

Spending nearly $12 million to buy the Volvo dealership and then to lease the land to a developer is not a good strategy for lowering tuition or increasing financial aid.  That's not going to yield a high rate of return.  Neither is a massive fundraising project to rebuild facilities that GDS already owns.  That's a net financial drain since the MacArthur campus will bring in less money than it costs to rebuild its facilities and pay for the land to house them.

It's one thing to announce laudable goals (or to articulate real problems).  But the key question is whether the proposed response furthers the goal or solves the problem.  And to evaluate that, you have to look at the details -- not just the rhetoric. [/quote]

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