"11. GDS putatively gained millions of dollars of revenue from the overenrollment." The operative word is revenue, not profit. What were the added expenses caused by overenrollment? Where does/did the surplus (revenue minus expenses) go? The ANC's chair is distorting reality, perhaps intentionally, perhaps ignorantly. GDS is a non-profit, not a private company. I suspect that if there has been any surplus, much of it has been/will be earmarked for scholarships to those with financial need. It beggars belief that GDS is nefarious. "12. If GDS is not held accountable it would be incentivized to repeat its misconduct and would set an example for other schools like it, such as the River School. The extra car trips generated would impose harm on the residents of the ANC and the broader environment by, among other things, contributing to congestion, danger to pedestrians, and climate change." This statement is irrational. Enrolling 50 more students does not create more climate change, unless one can prove that the average driving distance to GDS is higher than the average of the cumulative distances to the schools these children would have otherwise attended. "Danger to pedestrians?" Show the proof that this is the case, rather than just accuse. I don't think you can. To describe GDS as "misconduct", and as a corollary malevolence is just not credible. GDS made a mistake, and it has admitted as such, repeatedly. Why not read its mistake generously and sit down at the table and resolve the issue rather than threatening lawsuits and heavy fines. To do otherwise is to act in bad faith. Litigiousness rather than citizen diplomacy just creates further mistrust. #13: I guess this is your "smoking gun" of malicious intent. That accusation seems rather puerile to me: the ANC found the omission and brought it up. I suspect that the amendment wasn't redlined, because it is an amendment, not an edited version of the main document. All I can say is that after watching the video, GDS HOS, Russ Shaw, comes across as a person dedicated to his school and Tenleytown. I just don't believe he is trying to pull the wool over anyone's eyes.

#13 is slimy. Well, really all of it is slimy.

Now ANC is attempting to list its demands on DCUM after their 90 minute helter skelter rant session call where they lost all credibility and trust?

Classy retrade attempt. Go DCUM! What a platform indeed.

Maybe next time y’all prep, get on the same page, and cut out the lies/slander/made up stuff BEFORE your calls ANC.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is the video of the ANC meeting
https://vimeo.com/797699219

Here is the resolution passed against GDS
https://anc3e.org/wp-content/uploads/Draft-Resolution-Re-GDS-Violations-V4.pdf

Wow does not look very good for GDS. Head of school, staff, GDS’s lawyers and the board of trustees all in on it. It was not a mistake but an active and intentional increasing of enrollment in violation of the agreement. The ANC were suckers to trust GDS. Guest the ANC should have had a lawyer review the agreement? Maybe they would have undercover the subterfuge by GDS’s lawyers? That’s on the ANC but I can see why they are upset.

I can not see any change in GDS’s enrollment as long as the same people are leadership. They will increase enrollment this year again. The ANC can’t do diddly squat. This is much to do about nothing. The current 9th grade class size will be the standard size going forward. Everything will be fine!

I just wonder how big they want to go…maybe 1400 total enrollment?

It seems as if you haven’t watched the video or read the documents. Because this take is bizarrely unhinged.

This is what the ANC has said. It is you who are unhinged..

Georgetown Day School (GDS) received a special exception in 2017 to greatly expand its campus on land predominantly zoned as residential. BZA No. 19599-A.
2. The zoning order from the case (“Order”) includes a scheme designed to minimize one of the chief harms associated with private schools, abundant automobile trips.
3. Under the Order, which was based in material part both on a District Department of Transportation (DDOT) report and a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the ANC, GDS must reduce car trips to a specified cap for two years consecutively to increase its enrollment from 1075 to 1125. It must meet the same cap for two more years consecutively to increase its enrollment to 1200.
4. Unfortunately, even before GDS sought to expand its campus, GDS exceeded its enrollment cap at its current site without promptly disclosing the overenrollment. To ensure this never happened again, the BZA required GDS to provide a letter to this ANC and DDOT each year by no later than November 15 specifying whether it is in compliance with its enrollment cap and providing evidence of same.
5. GDS enrolled approximately 1125 students for the 2021-2022 school year without meeting its trip cap for one year, much less the required two years that would have permitted such an enrollment.
6. GDS chose not to file the very letter the BZA ordered it to file to prevent the school from again overenrolling in violation of its zoning order.
7. The ANC had grown to trust GDS, and neither the ANC nor DDOT noticed the absence of the letter.
8. GDS then again enrolled approximately 1125 students for the 2022-2023 school year, again without meeting its trip caps for a single year, much less the required two years that would have permitted such an enrollment.
9. GDS waited until mid-November 2022 to report to the ANC that it had overenrolled its school significantly for two school years. By then the 2022-23 school year was well underway and the second year’s overenrollment was a fait accompli.
10. GDS’ board of trustees was aware from the beginning that GDS was violating its legal obligations but did not direct GDS’ Head of School or others to notify the ANC, DDOT, or the Zoning Administrator.
11. GDS putatively gained millions of dollars of revenue from the overenrollment.
12. If GDS is not held accountable it would be incentivized to repeat its misconduct and would set an example for other schools like it, such as the River School. The extra car trips generated would impose harm on the residents of the ANC and the broader environment by, among other things, contributing to congestion, danger to pedestrians, and climate change.
13. On November 28, 2017, on the eve of the BZA hearing and after a report in support from DDOT and a resolution in support from ANC 3E, counsel for GDS filed an amended Traffic Management Plan (TMP), a lengthy and dense document, that removed a key provision regarding pick up and drop of on public streets both parties relied on for their support, but failed to identify the removal with “track changes” or a reference to the deletion in a cover note. The removal of that provision effectively rendered meaningless the subsequent trip counts and goals the school was required to meet before increasing enrollment.
14. ANC 3E favors negotiated resolutions with applicants for zoning relief and has almost always been able to achieve such resolutions. To date, ANC 3E has not been able to achieve a satisfactory negotiated resolution with GDS. Such a resolution should provide, among other things, significant deterrence to GDS and other similarly-situated schools such as the River School, from repeating such conduct or engaging in it in the first place.

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Anonymous wrote:Here is the video of the ANC meeting
https://vimeo.com/797699219

Here is the resolution passed against GDS
https://anc3e.org/wp-content/uploads/Draft-Resolution-Re-GDS-Violations-V4.pdf

Wow does not look very good for GDS. Head of school, staff, GDS’s lawyers and the board of trustees all in on it. It was not a mistake but an active and intentional increasing of enrollment in violation of the agreement. The ANC were suckers to trust GDS. Guest the ANC should have had a lawyer review the agreement? Maybe they would have undercover the subterfuge by GDS’s lawyers? That’s on the ANC but I can see why they are upset.

I can not see any change in GDS’s enrollment as long as the same people are leadership. They will increase enrollment this year again. The ANC can’t do diddly squat. This is much to do about nothing. The current 9th grade class size will be the standard size going forward. Everything will be fine!

I just wonder how big they want to go…maybe 1400 total enrollment?

It seems as if you haven’t watched the video or read the documents. Because this take is bizarrely unhinged.

Anonymous wrote:Here is the video of the ANC meeting
https://vimeo.com/797699219

Here is the resolution passed against GDS
https://anc3e.org/wp-content/uploads/Draft-Resolution-Re-GDS-Violations-V4.pdf

Wow does not look very good for GDS. Head of school, staff, GDS’s lawyers and the board of trustees all in on it. It was not a mistake but an active and intentional increasing of enrollment in violation of the agreement. The ANC were suckers to trust GDS. Guest the ANC should have had a lawyer review the agreement? Maybe they would have undercover the subterfuge by GDS’s lawyers? That’s on the ANC but I can see why they are upset.

I can not see any change in GDS’s enrollment as long as the same people are leadership. They will increase enrollment this year again. The ANC can’t do diddly squat. This is much to do about nothing. The current 9th grade class size will be the standard size going forward. Everything will be fine!

I just wonder how big they want to go…maybe 1400 total enrollment?

This entire thread makes me relieved we didn't apply.

Draft agreement with ANC from 2017. I think this is the final too.
https://anc3e.org/wp-content/uploads/MOU-between-GDS-and-ANC-3E-Nov-2017-2-JB.pdf

Here is the video of the ANC meeting
https://vimeo.com/797699219

Here is the resolution passed against GDS
https://anc3e.org/wp-content/uploads/Draft-Resolution-Re-GDS-Violations-V4.pdf

How can I find the video of the hearing? And anyone have a link to the agreement?

Can't be that hard to figure out what the restricted area is.

GDS will never be a Big 3 in this town.

What a joke of a school.

Anonymous wrote:Another day goes by and still neither Jon nor his allies can back up their bald assertion that the adjustment has been or will be violated when anyone drops on any street other than those immediately adjacent to the school -- using the document's text. Clearly WI and many other streets are just fine.

Looks like he did a good job on his homework before the rampage! An F. Maybe he should redo and concede serious and harmful error.

You are embarrassing yourself and your school. Unless you aren’t actually a GDS family. Which would be better for GDS at this point.

Another day goes by and still neither Jon nor his allies can back up their bald assertion that the adjustment has been or will be violated when anyone drops on any street other than those immediately adjacent to the school -- using the document's text. Clearly WI and many other streets are just fine.

Looks like he did a good job on his homework before the rampage! An F. Maybe he should redo and concede serious and harmful error.

Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. I play a lot of money for the school and I need to drop my kid off there. I will continue to do what I’m doing and if I have to pay a parking ticket here or there or whatever the hell you people are talking about fine. I will not not stop and drop. And if TDS can’t support this dead a lot of parents are gonna be furious. How can you run a school and not have a place to drop kids off. You ain’t all that. And don’t even get me started on these graceless neighbors. Mr. Rogers would be ashamed of all of you.

Just go into the carpool lane! You’re ruining it for the rest of us!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So stopping to let someone out of a car does not meet the definition of standing? I thought the point of those rush hour signs is to keep traffic moving. (Not in the anc or a school parent but honest question..)

Correct. That's stopping and is not prohibited in those blocks of Wisconsin Avenue. Parking is getting out and leaving your car on the side of the road and that is prohibited in some places on those blocks and prohibited elsewhere. Standing is the carvis occupied and the driver is waiting. Again, prohibited some places, but allowed other places.

But stopping isn't prohibited anywhere.

But of course, this whole discussion is irrelevant anyway, because Wisconsin Avenue is entirely outside the scope of GDS's agreement with the district.

because wisconsin avenue isn't a public street as listed in the order. smh. for some highly educated people you sure do seem to be missing that. or just avoiding the obvious to suit your own selfish needs.

Good morning, Jon. I am looking at rhe agreement and order. Please quote directly from it and let me know where "public street" appears?

GDS parents calling out individuals on this forum does the school no favors. Pls stop making us look bad.

Don't assume that they're actually GDS parents. You can be anyone you want to be on dcum