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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I could not have my kids apply to GDS because the focus on social justice seems hypocritical and over the top. Instead of just talking about it to the pampered elite, take the kids on a field trip to almost any DCPS school east of the park. Kids will get a visceral sense of how segregation is still alive in DC. I remember walking into Dunbar HS not too long ago as I had left something at the school at a weekend science fair. It felt incredibly jarring as all the kids were black. You didn't see a single white kid. Most of the teachers and admin milling around were black too. It was a sad feeling that we are pretty much still stuck with "separate but unequal". Ivy obsession is a privilege and talking about social justice while doing nothing about it just feels cheap to me. [b]How about partnering with a DCPS school in Anacostia or somewhere else, raise funds for them, try to do some joint projects with their students, just do something real.[/b]

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This already happens in abundance. As well as tutoring, mentoring, trash pick-ups and you name it.[/quote]

No it’s not “in abundance.”  It’s periodic at best, enough to give the kids something to put on their resumes and pontificate to others about. And then they go home to their lily white neighborhoods patting themselves on the back as they go. [/quote]
While you all were arguing this point, GDS students spent the weekend rebuilding homes, cleaning up trash and serving meals in Puerto Rico.[/quote]

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