NP... tongue in cheek comments aside, it really is true that GDS has handled their expansion/consolidation in a much more community friendly way than Sidwell. If you've followed the respective ANC processes, you know this is true. I think this is why so many people refer to GDS as the most authentically "Quaker" school in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this construction related to building where they razed the home that housed elderly people?

Kicking old people out. Quaker values.

They never kicked anyone out.
They never razed the building.

But otherwise, your post is fully factual.

They displaced the elderly and kicked them to the curb.

Nope, no one got kicked out.

Keep telling that to yourself. Anything to make sure rich families aren't inconvenienced.

No old and sick people were impacted by the new enhanced GDS campus.

Didn’t someone kill himself in the Martens Building?

That is unclear. In any case the former Martens site is not part of the enhanced GDS campus proper. It is the location of an exciting mixed use development, which will bring vibrancy to a dreary part of Wisconsin Ave, and spin off money for GDS financial aid. Unfortunately some old, change-resistant NIMBYs don’t want renewal of the community. Once the campus project is completed, the expectation is that GDS will resubmit the application for the mixed use center, as the DC government is very pro-growth right now.

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Anonymous wrote:It will be many, many years before it is complete. That's what I understood from the plans.

GDS has a strong first mover advantage over its Big Three competitors in integrating its various divisions on a single campus. This matters to families who don’t want to drove all over, and is more environmentally responsible.

I’m not sure how you define “first mover” but the Cathedral schools and Maret have been on a single campus for decades or more. Nice try though.

It’s more how one defines Big Three and consolidated divisions. Maret is not by any stretch in the Big Three. The “Cathedral schools” in fact are not divisions of one school but rather separate legal entities each with their own board of trustees, with separate admissions, widely separated from each other but in general proximity to the National Cathedral. The schools not really integrated with one other. So the point made about GDS is irrefutable.

Other than not being a Big Three, of course.

Sidwell parents are psyched to don flimsy plastic helmets and drive the bulldozers.

Put the sick and elderly on the curb in order to have more parking.

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Anonymous wrote:It will be many, many years before it is complete. That's what I understood from the plans.

GDS has a strong first mover advantage over its Big Three competitors in integrating its various divisions on a single campus. This matters to families who don’t want to drove all over, and is more environmentally responsible.

I’m not sure how you define “first mover” but the Cathedral schools and Maret have been on a single campus for decades or more. Nice try though.

It’s more how one defines Big Three and consolidated divisions. Maret is not by any stretch in the Big Three. The “Cathedral schools” in fact are not divisions of one school but rather separate legal entities each with their own board of trustees, with separate admissions, widely separated from each other but in general proximity to the National Cathedral. The schools not really integrated with one other. So the point made about GDS is irrefutable.

I'm pretty sure the prior poster meant "physically integrated." Your post is weird. Did your kid get into one of the upper schools but not Beauvoir (or vice versa)? Are you just that big a GDS booster? Otherwise, why are you being so purposely obtuse. The cathedral schools are physically integrated. Further, most kids go from Beauvoir to the cathedral schools. And while they have different heads, so do GDS and Sidwell (lower school, middle, and upper). Yes, they have different boards, but they're all under the same PECF umbrella. They also have joint meetings about PECF issues (e.g., the latest meeting about the investigation into protecting students from sexual misconduct by teachers).

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Anonymous wrote:It will be many, many years before it is complete. That's what I understood from the plans.

GDS has a strong first mover advantage over its Big Three competitors in integrating its various divisions on a single campus. This matters to families who don’t want to drove all over, and is more environmentally responsible.

As if anyone actually cares about an integrated campus. If that were the case, Maret would be the most popular school in the region.

That's ridiculous for many reasons. First, Maret is very popular. Second, the cathedral schools are on an integrated campus and are very popular. Third, most people at GDS are thrilled that the campus is integrating, for lots of reasons. Finally, with Sidwell in particular, at least for people who live and/or work in DC, the location of that lower school is often a deal-breaker. It seems like it won't be too bad until you try to get all the way over there and back in rush hour, and then the commute just becomes intolerable. These schools are rational actors. They aren't making integration decisions for the heck of it.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this construction related to building where they razed the home that housed elderly people?

Kicking old people out. Quaker values.

They never kicked anyone out.
They never razed the building.

But otherwise, your post is fully factual.

They displaced the elderly and kicked them to the curb.

Nope, no one got kicked out.

Keep telling that to yourself. Anything to make sure rich families aren't inconvenienced.

No old and sick people were impacted by the new enhanced GDS campus.

Didn’t someone kill himself in the Martens Building?

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Anonymous wrote:It will be many, many years before it is complete. That's what I understood from the plans.

GDS has a strong first mover advantage over its Big Three competitors in integrating its various divisions on a single campus. This matters to families who don’t want to drove all over, and is more environmentally responsible.

I’m not sure how you define “first mover” but the Cathedral schools and Maret have been on a single campus for decades or more. Nice try though.

It’s more how one defines Big Three and consolidated divisions. Maret is not by any stretch in the Big Three. The “Cathedral schools” in fact are not divisions of one school but rather separate legal entities each with their own board of trustees, with separate admissions, widely separated from each other but in general proximity to the National Cathedral. The schools not really integrated with one other. So the point made about GDS is irrefutable.

Where are they going to put everyone on that tiny campus? Where will sports teams practice? Where will faculty and staff park? Will HS students try to park in the neighborhood? What will the pick up and drop lines be like? Will GDS try to take over neighborhood streets like they tried to appropriate 42d St? Will they try to get a sweetheart deal to monopolize a city athletic field for their teams like Maret has done?

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Anonymous wrote:Is this construction related to building where they razed the home that housed elderly people?

Kicking old people out. Quaker values.

They never kicked anyone out.
They never razed the building.

But otherwise, your post is fully factual.

They displaced the elderly and kicked them to the curb.

Nope, no one got kicked out.

Keep telling that to yourself. Anything to make sure rich families aren't inconvenienced.

No old and sick people were impacted by the new enhanced GDS campus.

What is their plan for the Martens parcel? Are families paying taxes on that while GDS figures it out?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this construction related to building where they razed the home that housed elderly people?

Kicking old people out. Quaker values.

They never kicked anyone out.
They never razed the building.

But otherwise, your post is fully factual.

They displaced the elderly and kicked them to the curb.

Nope, no one got kicked out.

Keep telling that to yourself. Anything to make sure rich families aren't inconvenienced.

No old and sick people were impacted by the new enhanced GDS campus.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this construction related to building where they razed the home that housed elderly people?

Kicking old people out. Quaker values.

They never kicked anyone out.
They never razed the building.

But otherwise, your post is fully factual.

They displaced the elderly and kicked them to the curb.

Nope, no one got kicked out.

The reality is that Washington Home no longer is operating there and Sidwell several years later is sitting on a big empty building.

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Anonymous wrote:It will be many, many years before it is complete. That's what I understood from the plans.

GDS has a strong first mover advantage over its Big Three competitors in integrating its various divisions on a single campus. This matters to families who don’t want to drove all over, and is more environmentally responsible.

I’m not sure how you define “first mover” but the Cathedral schools and Maret have been on a single campus for decades or more. Nice try though.

It’s more how one defines Big Three and consolidated divisions. Maret is not by any stretch in the Big Three. The “Cathedral schools” in fact are not divisions of one school but rather separate legal entities each with their own board of trustees, with separate admissions, widely separated from each other but in general proximity to the National Cathedral. The schools not really integrated with one other. So the point made about GDS is irrefutable.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this construction related to building where they razed the home that housed elderly people?

Kicking old people out. Quaker values.

They never kicked anyone out.
They never razed the building.

But otherwise, your post is fully factual.

They displaced the elderly and kicked them to the curb.

Nope, no one got kicked out.

Keep telling that to yourself. Anything to make sure rich families aren't inconvenienced.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this construction related to building where they razed the home that housed elderly people?

Kicking old people out. Quaker values.

They never kicked anyone out.
They never razed the building.

But otherwise, your post is fully factual.

They displaced the elderly and kicked them to the curb.

Nope, no one got kicked out.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this construction related to building where they razed the home that housed elderly people?

Kicking old people out. Quaker values.

They never kicked anyone out.
They never razed the building.

But otherwise, your post is fully factual.

They displaced the elderly and kicked them to the curb.