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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GDS[/quote]

It's a mess right now.  Not clear how or when or whether it'll get back on track.[/quote] are you actually a parent at the school?[/quote]

Was for many years -- just left.[/quote]

Her daughter just graduated. She is one of the Queen resident NIMBYs who has been waiting for this time to blast the school publicly on its redevelopment plans.

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Oh please!  Stop!  Can the crazed neighbors opposing GDS's construction plans just get all their vitriol out in one big ass post on DCUM, rather than troll every chain, waiting for someone to mention GDS so they can say something nasty?

My kids don't go there, but GDS, of course, is an amazingly great school for parents to consider if looking for a school with excellent academics and that applies the progressive model----and PP should be able to provide GDS as the answer to the OP's question without triggering the predictable troll reaction.  No school is perfect (and Lord knows there are pages and pages of posts on every foible of GDS, NCS, Sidwell, Holton, and one or two others that have their own dedicated trolls out to get them), but [b]it's beyond silly to not answer GDS to the OP's question. [/b] [/quote]

No, it's a difference of opinion.  Rooted in experience and observation, as well as a recognition that there's a difference between PG kids (who are rare) and high SES type-A kids who are gifted but not exceptionally so.  The latter category is well-represented at GDS and the most verbal, aggressive, and self-confident of them are often very happy at the school.  But if you're a PG kid, especially one who is introverted or whose perceptions, experiences, values or goals don't sync with the school's, it can be a very frustrating, sometimes infuriating, and somewhat lonely place.  There are some great teachers and that matters.  But the school culture, under the current administration, has become increasingly smug, self-promoting, and intolerant of dissent.  Not a great intellectual atmosphere for kids who are deep thinkers and who tend to be self-critical.

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