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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP - Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like someone from the GDS PR department has recently taken a particularly active role in this thread and a few others?  It seems like any post that's less-than-glowing about GDS gets an immediate paragraph in response that reverse-flips the criticism into a statement about how wonderful GDS is.

I'm not bashing GDS by any means - it seems like a fine school, just like many other schools in the DC area.  But I do find the forced boosterism here a little oppressive.  My advice: Consider letting people weigh the pros and cons in an open way, without trying to put your thumb on the scale.  I assume we'd all want our children to learn to weigh options objectively, so people should try to model some good behavior here.

I'll go back to watching from the sidelines now.[/quote]

I've posted on a few of these types of negative comments and I'm no GDS booster or from the PR department.  I'm a GDS parent - a very happy one.  I love a lot of things about the school, including the messaging they give the kids.  There are some things I don't love about the school - but when I see posts from people with no connection to the school other than "a friend went to an open house and thought the school was ---" or "my friend who knows people with kids at GDS thinks those kids are entitled" I try to offer a different perspective.  [/quote]

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