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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, if you have a kid at GDS and feel the school‘s response was inadequate, pull your kid out. There are several kids who would be happy to take your child’s space. If you don’t have a kid at GDS, I’m not sure why you care so much about how the school responds to a particular issue. I have multiple kids at the school and while I think the school could I’ve been more transparent in their handling the issue, ultimately I know enough about the situation to feel completely confident that the investigation done was sufficient and kids are not at risk.

This is already in the works with several families

Kudos for a principled response, and best of luck to families now looking for a safe place for their children!

Are there any schools inside DC that are worth considering now? Public or private

Sidwell is amazing from what I hear.

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Anonymous wrote:If you think this board is somehow a microcosm of real life, you need to close your browser and never return.

Most schools in DC are considered extraordinary by any reasonable measure and 99% of parents nationally would love to send their kids there.

Schools are dumped on for all kinds of reason, some valid, the vast majority not. There is no shortage of parents who will “hate” a school because their kid didn’t get in, because their kid didn’t do well, because they think $12,000 tuition at a small Catholic school in Alexandria should buy them Titanium status on directory delivery, because they are batsh*t and think that Epstein was the HoS at GDS. Just ignore it.

For goodness sake, view DCUM for entertainment purposes only.

Good luck to all today.

Trying to minimize and deflect from the sexual assault of a child is what you're doing and it's unacceptable. I'm convinced that your work for GDS.

You have misconstrued my post. Why I was pointing out is that obsessed, conspiracy-spreading nutters that accuse a school of nefarious behavior without evidence is just one more rabbit hole on DCUM. Every single school has had threads lambasting aspects of its leadership over the previous months and years. That doesn’t make the insane people correct nor the schools bad, guilty or complicit. This poster is just one more nutter who presumably doesn’t even have kids at the school (and if they do, they obviously should be pulling them out).

DC independent schools are great. Not perfect, but great. Ignore the noise.

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Anonymous wrote:If you think this board is somehow a microcosm of real life, you need to close your browser and never return.

Most schools in DC are considered extraordinary by any reasonable measure and 99% of parents nationally would love to send their kids there.

Schools are dumped on for all kinds of reason, some valid, the vast majority not. There is no shortage of parents who will “hate” a school because their kid didn’t get in, because their kid didn’t do well, because they think $12,000 tuition at a small Catholic school in Alexandria should buy them Titanium status on directory delivery, because they are batsh*t and think that Epstein was the HoS at GDS. Just ignore it.

For goodness sake, view DCUM for entertainment purposes only.

Good luck to all today.

Trying to minimize and deflect from the sexual assault of a child is what you're doing and it's unacceptable. I'm convinced that your work for GDS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, if you have a kid at GDS and feel the school‘s response was inadequate, pull your kid out. There are several kids who would be happy to take your child’s space. If you don’t have a kid at GDS, I’m not sure why you care so much about how the school responds to a particular issue. I have multiple kids at the school and while I think the school could I’ve been more transparent in their handling the issue, ultimately I know enough about the situation to feel completely confident that the investigation done was sufficient and kids are not at risk.

This is already in the works with several families

Kudos for a principled response, and best of luck to families now looking for a safe place for their children!

Are there any schools inside DC that are worth considering now? Public or private

Anonymous wrote:If you think this board is somehow a microcosm of real life, you need to close your browser and never return.

Most schools in DC are considered extraordinary by any reasonable measure and 99% of parents nationally would love to send their kids there.

Schools are dumped on for all kinds of reason, some valid, the vast majority not. There is no shortage of parents who will “hate” a school because their kid didn’t get in, because their kid didn’t do well, because they think $12,000 tuition at a small Catholic school in Alexandria should buy them Titanium status on directory delivery, because they are batsh*t and think that Epstein was the HoS at GDS. Just ignore it.

For goodness sake, view DCUM for entertainment purposes only.

Good luck to all today.

Anonymous wrote:If you think this board is somehow a microcosm of real life, you need to close your browser and never return.

Most schools in DC are considered extraordinary by any reasonable measure and 99% of parents nationally would love to send their kids there.

Schools are dumped on for all kinds of reason, some valid, the vast majority not. There is no shortage of parents who will “hate” a school because their kid didn’t get in, because their kid didn’t do well, because they think $12,000 tuition at a small Catholic school in Alexandria should buy them Titanium status on directory delivery, because they are batsh*t and think that Epstein was the HoS at GDS. Just ignore it.

For goodness sake, view DCUM for entertainment purposes only.

Good luck to all today.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have ideas on how to question, complain about MPD and or hold MPD accountable? It is in the victim's interest as well as the publics' interest to know what measures they took to root out the criminals. Protect the victim at all costs and allow the public to actually have confidence they actually did an investigation instead just saying they did. Right now I have no confidence in anything MPD did and GDS is connivingly using that as an opportunity to defect and bury things.  This is how grownups in charge fail children and it's unforgivable, both of these groups.

My gut tells them there is something foul going on here. It feels like a rigged sports game where fouls are deliberately not called in order to have the predetermined team win.
This affects not only the victim but others going there. It's in the public interest that MPD show someone other than themselves what they did to work this case.

I have never found MPD reliable and found them unmotivated to solve crimes even when  everything was right in front of them. I found it even more hopeless when trying to hold anyone at MPD accountable. It really feels like they get to do whatever they feel like with no higher authority to check them. They are famous for stonewalling and evading themselves.

Does anyone have avenues for dealing with MPD? to question them?   What would an actionable process look like that can help the victim and the students at GDS who are pretty much sitting ducks. I and a lot of others don't have any confidence in what MPD did to solve this case because of what I saw or lack thereof and the fact that they provide zero details on anything other than self grading themselves.

Genuinely, what could they have done differently? The assault was not reported for 3 months and the victim could not ID the students that did this to him, and I would assume the security footage if there was cameras would not have been saved for three months. The schools can't interrogate all the middle school boys, I woul assume there would be a civil right violation in doing so and probably false confessions or accusations etc. if they did as students just would want to get out of that situation. The whole thing is obviously terrible, but I really do not know what the school or MPD could have done with literally no information.

Let me just repeat how odd it is that everyone seems to think the alleged assailants were students despite the fact that the child reported that they concealed their identities.

It's implicit in the email that the parents sent.

The point is they were disguised so there is no way to know if they are students.

Presumably they were smaller than adults. Are you claiming security of perimeter doors is so lax that non-student juveniles wander in and out?

I wouldn't be surprised given what we've seen from the current leadership

Anonymous wrote:If you think this board is somehow a microcosm of real life, you need to close your browser and never return.

Most schools in DC are considered extraordinary by any reasonable measure and 99% of parents nationally would love to send their kids there.

Schools are dumped on for all kinds of reason, some valid, the vast majority not. There is no shortage of parents who will “hate” a school because their kid didn’t get in, because their kid didn’t do well, because they think $12,000 tuition at a small Catholic school in Alexandria should buy them Titanium status on directory delivery, because they are batsh*t and think that Epstein was the HoS at GDS. Just ignore it.

For goodness sake, view DCUM for entertainment purposes only.

Good luck to all today.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have ideas on how to question, complain about MPD and or hold MPD accountable? It is in the victim's interest as well as the publics' interest to know what measures they took to root out the criminals. Protect the victim at all costs and allow the public to actually have confidence they actually did an investigation instead just saying they did. Right now I have no confidence in anything MPD did and GDS is connivingly using that as an opportunity to defect and bury things.  This is how grownups in charge fail children and it's unforgivable, both of these groups.

My gut tells them there is something foul going on here. It feels like a rigged sports game where fouls are deliberately not called in order to have the predetermined team win.
This affects not only the victim but others going there. It's in the public interest that MPD show someone other than themselves what they did to work this case.

I have never found MPD reliable and found them unmotivated to solve crimes even when  everything was right in front of them. I found it even more hopeless when trying to hold anyone at MPD accountable. It really feels like they get to do whatever they feel like with no higher authority to check them. They are famous for stonewalling and evading themselves.

Does anyone have avenues for dealing with MPD? to question them?   What would an actionable process look like that can help the victim and the students at GDS who are pretty much sitting ducks. I and a lot of others don't have any confidence in what MPD did to solve this case because of what I saw or lack thereof and the fact that they provide zero details on anything other than self grading themselves.

Genuinely, what could they have done differently? The assault was not reported for 3 months and the victim could not ID the students that did this to him, and I would assume the security footage if there was cameras would not have been saved for three months. The schools can't interrogate all the middle school boys, I woul assume there would be a civil right violation in doing so and probably false confessions or accusations etc. if they did as students just would want to get out of that situation. The whole thing is obviously terrible, but I really do not know what the school or MPD could have done with literally no information.

Let me just repeat how odd it is that everyone seems to think the alleged assailants were students despite the fact that the child reported that they concealed their identities.

It's implicit in the email that the parents sent.

The point is they were disguised so there is no way to know if they are students.

Presumably they were smaller than adults. Are you claiming security of perimeter doors is so lax that non-student juveniles wander in and out?

I wouldn't be surprised given what we've seen from the current leadership

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have ideas on how to question, complain about MPD and or hold MPD accountable? It is in the victim's interest as well as the publics' interest to know what measures they took to root out the criminals. Protect the victim at all costs and allow the public to actually have confidence they actually did an investigation instead just saying they did. Right now I have no confidence in anything MPD did and GDS is connivingly using that as an opportunity to defect and bury things.  This is how grownups in charge fail children and it's unforgivable, both of these groups.

My gut tells them there is something foul going on here. It feels like a rigged sports game where fouls are deliberately not called in order to have the predetermined team win.
This affects not only the victim but others going there. It's in the public interest that MPD show someone other than themselves what they did to work this case.

I have never found MPD reliable and found them unmotivated to solve crimes even when  everything was right in front of them. I found it even more hopeless when trying to hold anyone at MPD accountable. It really feels like they get to do whatever they feel like with no higher authority to check them. They are famous for stonewalling and evading themselves.

Does anyone have avenues for dealing with MPD? to question them?   What would an actionable process look like that can help the victim and the students at GDS who are pretty much sitting ducks. I and a lot of others don't have any confidence in what MPD did to solve this case because of what I saw or lack thereof and the fact that they provide zero details on anything other than self grading themselves.

Genuinely, what could they have done differently? The assault was not reported for 3 months and the victim could not ID the students that did this to him, and I would assume the security footage if there was cameras would not have been saved for three months. The schools can't interrogate all the middle school boys, I woul assume there would be a civil right violation in doing so and probably false confessions or accusations etc. if they did as students just would want to get out of that situation. The whole thing is obviously terrible, but I really do not know what the school or MPD could have done with literally no information.

Let me just repeat how odd it is that everyone seems to think the alleged assailants were students despite the fact that the child reported that they concealed their identities.

It's implicit in the email that the parents sent.

The point is they were disguised so there is no way to know if they are students.

Presumably they were smaller than adults. Are you claiming security of perimeter doors is so lax that non-student juveniles wander in and out?