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Anonymous wrote:Many private schools in the DMV and around the country have the same spike in apps and yields due to school shutdowns ranging from a few months to 18-24 mos.
Most communities understood this and the schools business model and waived the caps given the crazy situation. Any business owner or operator gets it. This is a lasting effect of the govt shutting down schools in DC for almost two years. These schools had to operated in crisis mode with tons of local govt uncertainty for two years.

So much for “community understanding” or prioritizing effective education.

You cannot be serious. They collected over $4 MILLION dollars for over enrolling and want a slap on the wrist. Why should the community take the hit because they are greedy.

You said the same thing on the call, now you’re here. Thx anc rep.

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Anonymous wrote:Many private schools in the DMV and around the country have the same spike in apps and yields due to school shutdowns ranging from a few months to 18-24 mos.
Most communities understood this and the schools business model and waived the caps given the crazy situation. Any business owner or operator gets it. This is a lasting effect of the govt shutting down schools in DC for almost two years. These schools had to operated in crisis mode with tons of local govt uncertainty for two years.

So much for “community understanding” or prioritizing effective education.

You cannot be serious. They collected over $4 MILLION dollars for over enrolling and want a slap on the wrist. Why should the community take the hit because they are greedy.

Can you articulate what “hit” the community took? Maybe the kids at GDS took a “hit” by having more kids in their classes or their resources and space divided among more people, but it’s hard to see what this did to the community.

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Anonymous wrote:What I don't get is that, if getting this report was so incredibly crucial for the ANC, then why didn't anyone ask GDS for it, when it didn't arrive on time? Yes. It would have been nice for GDS to have sent it in on time, but the crazy chairman could have asked GDS for it or given them a reminder.

GDS is obligated to provide the report. It is their responsibility. The ANC actually cut them some slack during the pandemic and they seem to have taken advantage of that good will. So the ANC had to have a meeting to see if GDS was going to fulfill its obligation. Wouldn’t it have been easier for GDS to have submitted timely? Do students at GDS get to submit reports and papers late? Is it the student’s responsibility to turn assignments in on time or the teacher’s?

Yes, and GDS admins admitted that they were late in filing the report. I truly do not understand how that turned into fodder for the bully leading the meeting to then accuse GDS of encouraging parents to commit fraud. He is off his rocker with unfounded rage. I watched the video with my husband, and we were shocked by his behavior.
And by the way, students submit papers late all the time, they get reminders from teachers, and sometimes there is a point penalty. It certainly does not turn into a teacher screaming accusations at the child of attempting to defraud the faculty and school.

The issue is that GDS visited the ANC multiple times during the time it was out of compliance and didn't say a thing about being out of compliance the first year and knowing that it would be or was out of compliance the second year. GDS board of trustees knew about both years noncompliance and they didn't notify the ANC or other agencies. When GDS actually intended to reduce its class size, like this year, it needed to send a letter to its community telling them it needed to cut back. That's what started this thread. Everything points to GDS not taking any serious steps to prevent its second year overenrollment.

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Anonymous wrote:What I don't get is that, if getting this report was so incredibly crucial for the ANC, then why didn't anyone ask GDS for it, when it didn't arrive on time? Yes. It would have been nice for GDS to have sent it in on time, but the crazy chairman could have asked GDS for it or given them a reminder.

GDS is obligated to provide the report. It is their responsibility. The ANC actually cut them some slack during the pandemic and they seem to have taken advantage of that good will. So the ANC had to have a meeting to see if GDS was going to fulfill its obligation. Wouldn’t it have been easier for GDS to have submitted timely? Do students at GDS get to submit reports and papers late? Is it the student’s responsibility to turn assignments in on time or the teacher’s?

Yes, and GDS admins admitted that they were late in filing the report. I truly do not understand how that turned into fodder for the bully leading the meeting to then accuse GDS of encouraging parents to commit fraud. He is off his rocker with unfounded rage. I watched the video with my husband, and we were shocked by his behavior.
And by the way, students submit papers late all the time, they get reminders from teachers, and sometimes there is a point penalty. It certainly does not turn into a teacher screaming accusations at the child of attempting to defraud the faculty and school.

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Anonymous wrote:Many private schools in the DMV and around the country have the same spike in apps and yields due to school shutdowns ranging from a few months to 18-24 mos.
Most communities understood this and the schools business model and waived the caps given the crazy situation. Any business owner or operator gets it. This is a lasting effect of the govt shutting down schools in DC for almost two years. These schools had to operated in crisis mode with tons of local govt uncertainty for two years.

So much for “community understanding” or prioritizing effective education.

You cannot be serious. They collected over $4 MILLION dollars for over enrolling and want a slap on the wrist. Why should the community take the hit because they are greedy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What I don't get is that, if getting this report was so incredibly crucial for the ANC, then why didn't anyone ask GDS for it, when it didn't arrive on time? Yes. It would have been nice for GDS to have sent it in on time, but the crazy chairman could have asked GDS for it or given them a reminder.

GDS is obligated to provide the report. It is their responsibility. The ANC actually cut them some slack during the pandemic and they seem to have taken advantage of that good will. So the ANC had to have a meeting to see if GDS was going to fulfill its obligation. Wouldn’t it have been easier for GDS to have submitted timely? Do students at GDS get to submit reports and papers late? Is it the student’s responsibility to turn assignments in on time or the teacher’s?

Anonymous wrote:What I don't get is that, if getting this report was so incredibly crucial for the ANC, then why didn't anyone ask GDS for it, when it didn't arrive on time? Yes. It would have been nice for GDS to have sent it in on time, but the crazy chairman could have asked GDS for it or given them a reminder.

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Anonymous wrote:Many private schools in the DMV and around the country have the same spike in apps and yields due to school shutdowns ranging from a few months to 18-24 mos.
Most communities understood this and the schools business model and waived the caps given the crazy situation. Any business owner or operator gets it. This is a lasting effect of the govt shutting down schools in DC for almost two years. These schools had to operated in crisis mode with tons of local govt uncertainty for two years.

So much for “community understanding” or prioritizing effective education.

You cannot be serious. They collected over $4 MILLION dollars for over enrolling and want a slap on the wrist. Why should the community take the hit because they are greedy.

Do you know what it costs to educate each student? That money isn’t lining anyone’s pocket. I think the ANC comes off as completely unhinged here.

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Anonymous wrote:Many private schools in the DMV and around the country have the same spike in apps and yields due to school shutdowns ranging from a few months to 18-24 mos.
Most communities understood this and the schools business model and waived the caps given the crazy situation. Any business owner or operator gets it. This is a lasting effect of the govt shutting down schools in DC for almost two years. These schools had to operated in crisis mode with tons of local govt uncertainty for two years.

So much for “community understanding” or prioritizing effective education.

You cannot be serious. They collected over $4 MILLION dollars for over enrolling and want a slap on the wrist. Why should the community take the hit because they are greedy.

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Anonymous wrote:Many private schools in the DMV and around the country have the same spike in apps and yields due to school shutdowns ranging from a few months to 18-24 mos.
Most communities understood this and the schools business model and waived the caps given the crazy situation. Any business owner or operator gets it. This is a lasting effect of the govt shutting down schools in DC for almost two years. These schools had to operated in crisis mode with tons of local govt uncertainty for two years.

So much for “community understanding” or prioritizing effective education.

You cannot be serious. They collected over $4 MILLION dollars for over enrolling and want a slap on the wrist. Why should the community take the hit because they are greedy.

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Anonymous wrote:No real dog in this fight, as my kids are in a different school and we we've only been to GDS for a couple of sports events, but what's wrong with these neighbors? Seems to me the new school building is a blessing for the neighborhood. It's a beautiful building to replace the rundown Safeway. And hey, it's not yet another fast food place perched on the Wisconsin Avenue highway.

The neighbors should be thanking God that GDS built that school.

Do you think GDS should honor it’s agreements? That’s what the neighbors want.

This all seems a little nuts. Wake up people. You live in a city. And maybe if you didn't fight every little change, then Tenleytown might not be so dumpy. Just saying. You could use some of the investment that your anc constantly fights.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:So over two years, GDS has collected an extra $5 million in tuition fees presumably with minimal increase in operating costs to cater to the extra students.

If it wanted to smooth over relations with the surrounding community, GDS could issue a mea culpa and EASILY commit a couple of million of this surplus to some sort of project that would help surrounding residents.

For a school renowned for its commitment to principles of social responsibility, I am not seeing a response that reflects these.

That’s not what the neighborhood wants. The neighborhood wants the school to honor its commitments. That’s all.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like the ANC should put their efforts towards the recent shootings, kids (not from GDS) stealing from CVS and running into the middle of the street in front of cars after school, and throwing things as middle schoolers walking home from school. Gds parents are mostly driving on major roads - there are fewer ins and outs to the campus than used to go to the rat infested Safeway and car dealerships, and I’m not sure what the neighbors would like in the space - another vape shop or bank? Look 4 blocks north to friendship heights - tons of vacant space that nobody wants to build on.

Wow! If you are a GDS parent, you sound charming.
No wonder the neighborhood hates GDS. The GDS parents clearly look down on the neighborhood and its accompanying public schools.

More blasphemy. The post you’re referring to lists a bunch of indisputable facts and trends about the immediate area, in a neutral tone, and adds a suggestion.
Yours does the opposite.

+ 100. GDS parents are not the issue. Tenley sucks and DCPS sucks as well. These are undisputed facts.

And yet GDS consolidated in Tenleytown (why - when it is so terrible?) and struck an agreement with the city government about enrollment and transportation. And proceeded to violate that agreement within two or three years. Now there are consequences. GDS and GDS families brought this on themselves.

Unless, at GDS, it’s ok to make a promise, break it and then complain when you are held accountable. Is that what they teach?

Your premises are incorrect; you are misinformed, if not uniformed.

First off - enrollment caps during Covid crisis: Fortunately the govt (unlike the ANC volunteer group) acknowledges the many ramifications of their DoH and Covid shutdown policies. The immediate flight to private schools affected most of the country, and continues too. In fact charter school and voucher support is at an all time high.

Second off- no transpo issues or violations: govt also knows how to read and understand data.

ANC need to stop incorrectly inferring that because there’s more students there must be more vehicle infractions. There are not; the data speaks for itself.

Anonymous wrote:Many private schools in the DMV and around the country have the same spike in apps and yields due to school shutdowns ranging from a few months to 18-24 mos.
Most communities understood this and the schools business model and waived the caps given the crazy situation. Any business owner or operator gets it. This is a lasting effect of the govt shutting down schools in DC for almost two years. These schools had to operated in crisis mode with tons of local govt uncertainty for two years.

So much for “community understanding” or prioritizing effective education.