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Welcome to GDS.
We are so excited to welcome all of our students to GDS. Please notice that our starting time is 8:00am, and we finish at 3:15pm. Our doors will open for breakfast at 7:30am.
Traffic patterns remain the same as last year. If you drive your child to school, you must pull all the way forward when you are near door 1. If your child rides a bike to school, the bike racks are in the back of the building.
We understand that students in middle school feel all different sorts of feelings about school. We are here and ready to support them in every way possible. On the first day our staff wore blue tie dye t-shirts and let students know that any person in one of those shirts was here to help them. We helped with directions, lockers and locker combinations and got students what they needed. We will not rush students the first few days of school, and will teach them how to be successful, especially these first few days.
I would just like to remind everyone that we can not make schedule changes. Our staffing was created based on student requests and we have done our very best to honor as many student requests as possible from last spring. If your child does not get something they want, no worries, there is always next year. Our master schedule for students has calmed down a bit from last year, as the only classes that rotate A/B days are core, music, Spanish and French A and some PE. Every other encore class will run every day for a quarter. Students will all have 1 advisory class, 2 core classes and 3 encore classes everyday.
I will put together my next YouTube video in the next week or so focusing on how things are going. I also plan to send out resources on why we are going “Away for the Day” with cell phones.
If your child struggles with the first few days of school, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. We are here and will do all we can to make GDS a good place for all of our students.
Kris Langer
Principal
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