What is the value people think that having a private school that has 50-60 percent of its students coming from out of DC brings to the neighborhood? It's not like Tenleytown isn't sought after real estate that could be better used to generate tax dollars despite efforts here to make it look like escape from NY. I live near a different school and the arms race in the morning to get in to school on time makes it so that we don't leave our house during their car pool and have taken to calling parking enforcement on the students in 60k cars parked in zone parking spaces all day. I feel like an apartment building would do much more for t he City than the private school, Numerous times parents queued back blocks from the school have refused to make space for us to come out of our alley to take our kids to school where we are not allowed by hired off duty police to block streets. Really don't see the "value" to the neighborhood that these schools bring at all

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Anonymous wrote:My kid usually takes the bus to and from GDS, but whenever I do pick up in the afternoons, there has never been any congestion whatsoever.

I have been following this thread and was also a bit surprised, because I haven't seen any congestion. I live in the neighborhood, a block down. What is the big fuss about?

Its nothing. GDS has increased their enrollment for the past few years with no problems. They will continue this till they reach their enrollment goals which is higher vs what it is now. The agreement with the ANC is not worth the paper it is written on. There is no way for the ANC to enforce anything. It is a mystery why GDS released their enrollment figures.

Ahh, yes, but they released their enrollment saying that they were perfectly within their limits. Just check NAIS data. Disingenuous, what?

GDS may release the numbers in 5 years but why do it. What’s the ANC going to do? I know maybe the ANC can send a complaint to Kenyan McDuffie office(lol)! The school can easily accommodate 1900. They plan to hit that number. They have the demand, it will take some pressure out JR and they can make more money.

The “enrollment letter” GDS sent out was just something to “show” a paper trail and get people upset with The ANC. It most likely something Kenyan McDuffie‘s staff wrote for GDS. This is good for McDuffie he can get in a fight with all the rich neighbors.

The elitism of this approach is galling. It may be exactly what GDS is thinking, but the selfishness is disgusting. So much for caring about community.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll drop my kids off wherever and however I damn well please. As long as they get to school safely and on time, it’s nobody’s business. If the city cares so much, let the city pay for special school-bus service for students.

That's the GDS spirit!

Exactly! We will say we are part of the surrounding community when it suits our own needs, but if it does not, then on with doing what we darn well please.

Anonymous wrote:serious question - why do people rank GDS so highly?

1. its in the city so "prestige" LOL
2. sends kids to Harvard (dont worry thats not for your kids - there's self selection already there)
3. virtue signaling of progressive values?

thanks but no thanks

All private schools are booming, given the disaster at DCPS schools during the pandemic.

Anonymous wrote:I would love a third party traffic report to be done on neighboring streets pre-GDS expansion and now post-GDS expansion. I'm guessing very little discernable difference

Are you joking? This was done.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid usually takes the bus to and from GDS, but whenever I do pick up in the afternoons, there has never been any congestion whatsoever.

I have been following this thread and was also a bit surprised, because I haven't seen any congestion. I live in the neighborhood, a block down. What is the big fuss about?

Its nothing. GDS has increased their enrollment for the past few years with no problems. They will continue this till they reach their enrollment goals which is higher vs what it is now. The agreement with the ANC is not worth the paper it is written on. There is no way for the ANC to enforce anything. It is a mystery why GDS released their enrollment figures.

Ahh, yes, but they released their enrollment saying that they were perfectly within their limits. Just check NAIS data. Disingenuous, what?

GDS may release the numbers in 5 years but why do it. What’s the ANC going to do? I know maybe the ANC can send a complaint to Kenyan McDuffie office(lol)! The school can easily accommodate 1900. They plan to hit that number. They have the demand, it will take some pressure out JR and they can make more money.

The “enrollment letter” GDS sent out was just something to “show” a paper trail and get people upset with The ANC. It most likely something Kenyan McDuffie‘s staff wrote for GDS. This is good for McDuffie he can get in a fight with all the rich neighbors.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid usually takes the bus to and from GDS, but whenever I do pick up in the afternoons, there has never been any congestion whatsoever.

I have been following this thread and was also a bit surprised, because I haven't seen any congestion. I live in the neighborhood, a block down. What is the big fuss about?

Its nothing. GDS has increased their enrollment for the past few years with no problems. They will continue this till they reach their enrollment goals which is higher vs what it is now. The agreement with the ANC is not worth the paper it is written on. There is no way for the ANC to enforce anything. It is a mystery why GDS released their enrollment figures.

It's something. When an organization agrees to something and it doesn't follow through, that undermines its credibility. You can just imagine the slippery slope arguments some people might make . . .

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll drop my kids off wherever and however I damn well please. As long as they get to school safely and on time, it’s nobody’s business. If the city cares so much, let the city pay for special school-bus service for students.

That's the GDS spirit!

ENTITLEMENT, while claiming to be oh so woke.

serious question - why do people rank GDS so highly?

1. its in the city so "prestige" LOL
2. sends kids to Harvard (dont worry thats not for your kids - there's self selection already there)
3. virtue signaling of progressive values?

thanks but no thanks

Anonymous wrote:I’ll drop my kids off wherever and however I damn well please. As long as they get to school safely and on time, it’s nobody’s business. If the city cares so much, let the city pay for special school-bus service for students.

That's the GDS spirit!

I’ll drop my kids off wherever and however I damn well please. As long as they get to school safely and on time, it’s nobody’s business. If the city cares so much, let the city pay for special school-bus service for students.

Anonymous wrote:What’s the address of your the chiller plant that GDS purchased and people want them to build housing on? I mean that’s pretty preposterous, GDS should have consequences but that would be very costly and complex and they’re a school, not a housing authority. I live in the neighborhood and love the GDS playground and am happy to have a great school vs vape shops and another bank on this unattractive stretch of Wisconsin.

Corner of 42nd and Ellicott. I'm sure the ANC would rather it remain as the eyesore that it is - and given everything that's gone down, this will end up being wasted capital for GDS. No way this NIMBY crew running the ANC allows zoning to let GDS develop this site

With ANC now leaking the enrollment story to Axios, this thing isn't calming down anytime soon https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2023/02/22/georgetown-day-school-traffic-enrollment-tenleytown?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslocal_dc&stream=top

https://theaugurbit.com/2021/11/21/gds-finalizes-plan-to-buy-metro-chiller-plant-property-for-future-development/

What’s the address of your the chiller plant that GDS purchased and people want them to build housing on? I mean that’s pretty preposterous, GDS should have consequences but that would be very costly and complex and they’re a school, not a housing authority. I live in the neighborhood and love the GDS playground and am happy to have a great school vs vape shops and another bank on this unattractive stretch of Wisconsin.

This entire thread is barf.

For the ANC chair and his supporters -- you all are just pissing in the wind.

I drove down Wisconsin Avenue past the old Volvo dealer waiting to be sold and developed, by the 7 story hulking building being built, looked across at the lots that have been cleared for construction (and thought of the fast food chains clamoring to join their brethren in Tenleytown), and thought . . . Wow, Tenleytown would feel so much more old fashioned quaint if there were 50 fewer GDS students.