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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"The fact of the matter is that the Palisades location meant that only family with the time and means to commute to that location were able to send their kids there--i.e., relatively wealthy families. "

This makes no sense. Only rich people are allowed to drive to Palisades? I've never noticed the signs on MacArthur Blvd, banning people with middle and low incomes.  Not to mention, GDS lower and middle school are already located in this high class section of DC - which - when I was a kid, was the last refuge of the now extinct DC redneck.[/quote]

PP, you really don't understand this?  Folks working two jobs, don't have a car, etc would need to jump through multiple hoops to get there.  The logistics require time and money and that is what makes it exclusive.[/quote]

No I dont. GDS already has 600 kids in the Palisades. Tuition is already 35k+ a year. GDS alumni road the D-4 and the D-6 to attend high school when it was located at the current River School. In addition to GDS, there are several other private schools in the palisades neighborhood. You don't want to admit GDS missed an important opportunity to secure land in a more logical area for the future of the school, but them'so the facts. Now the school is in a unfortunate situation with its campus. IF it doesn't consolidate, it will be hemmed in by commercial construction.[/quote]

If you don't have a kid at the school, I cannot understand why you would care about this at all.  If you are thinking about sending a kid to GDS, then wait until the building is completed and make a judgment then.  I (and pretty much every GDS family I know who lives in my zip code 20008, plus 20015 and 20016, which make up a really large chunk of the school) am THRILLED the school is not located on foxhall where Field is.  I am an alum with three kids at GDS and this consolidation is ideal for my family.  I HATE HATE HATE schlepping to the palisades for school events, etc.  I could give a crap whether the field is on the roof - as long as the classrooms get light and there is some type of guard rail in place so that my kids can't accidentally fall off the field, walking up a few flights of stairs to get to the field is literally no different than walking a few hundred yards to get to the field.  For bigger school events,  the high school field is on ground level.

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