NAIS Recognizes GDS as a 2004 Leading Edge School for Equity and Justice

Known for its outstanding faculty and student body, as well as its historic and present commitment to creating an inclusive, bias free school, Georgetown Day School was recently honored by the National Association of Independent Schools. One of only three schools nationwide designated as a Leading Edge School in the field of equity and justice, Georgetown Day has enjoyed phenomenal growth and success since its founding in 1945 as an integrated school in a segregated city. The School is particularly proud to receive the recognition as it looks towards its sixtieth anniversary and as the country remembers the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's monumental decision striking down the separate but equal doctrine in its ruling in Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. In its application to the Leading Edge program the school quoted the words of Dr. David Jackson, Head of the Park School in Baltimore and Chair of the AIMS/Middle States Association team that recently recommended renewal of the School's accreditation. In his covering letter, Dr Jackson wrote, "In many ways, Georgetown Day School is a beacon for other independent schools who wish to fulfill the ideals of diversity and inclusiveness." The School went on to say that it hopes as well to serve as a beacon to the larger community. Independent schools such as Georgetown Day have a unique opportunity to create in Ralph Ellison's words, "rafts of hope and perception ... that might help us keep afloat as we try to negotiate the snags and whirlpools that mark our nation's vacillating course toward and away from the democratic ideal."

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Posted March 5, 2004

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