5th grade -Capitol Hill

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Anonymous wrote:...the hope that your kid is the BASIS type.

Serious question from a Hill mom with a 2.5 year old trying to understand the possible roads ahead -- what does it mean to be a BASIS type of kid?

I will bite but am sure to get bitten.

BASIS type of kids are very academic even to the point of being nerds and either have no extracurricular interests/sports ability or very esoteric extracurricular interests, like gymnastics, ice skating, making solar-powered vehicles, writing plays.

How’s that, Ward 6 school-hive?

Latin is considered the “more rounded” fit, since it has more sports and not as much of an academic focus. If you send your child to BASIS, you are a weird/ nerd/tiger parent and your kids are weird/nerds/overpowered and protected by you. All I know is that the drug culture at Latin high school rivals SWW.

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Some of the Hill people are spending so much on image and mortgage that they are as broke as the FARM students. Some are so pretentious and cliquish. Such phony snobs. Hope they don’t pass that down to their kids and hope they weren’t like that where they came from.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of the Hill people are spending so much on image and mortgage that they are as broke as the FARM students. Some are so pretentious and cliquish. Such phony snobs. Hope they don’t pass that down to their kids and hope they weren’t like that where they came from.

What does this have to do with middle school?

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Anonymous wrote:I heard about 10 SWS kids are going to Latin for 5th grade, and about the same from each Watkins and Brent, and Maury has 3 or 4.

I would so love it if we could have actual facts about how many kids from CH schools go to Latin, Basis, etc instead of having to rely on word of mouth. Couldn't the CH elementary schools get together and share this info and then send out via their school list-serves?

Aren’t there maps that show this info? I have seen one for our charter school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard about 10 SWS kids are going to Latin for 5th grade, and about the same from each Watkins and Brent, and Maury has 3 or 4.

I would so love it if we could have actual facts about how many kids from CH schools go to Latin, Basis, etc instead of having to rely on word of mouth. Couldn't the CH elementary schools get together and share this info and then send out via their school list-serves?

Aren’t there maps that show this info? I have seen one for our charter school.

There are maps that show where kids attending charters live, but they don't tell you what elementary school those kids attended.

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Anonymous wrote:I know in the past SWS has not admitted kids for 5th and I hope that remains the case. But can SWS operate a 5th grade class with less than 15 kids staying, maybe less? If so, that would be one exceedingly small grade.

that was the case in 2016-7

There has yet to be an SWS 5th grade with < 15 kids. For the past two years - it has been 20 - 25. Maybe around 15 will happen in 18-19 but too soon to tell.

no -- it was more like 17 in 2016-7. Don't know where you got your info but it's wrong. It was 22 this past year. there's never been a class of 25 at any grade level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:...the hope that your kid is the BASIS type.

Serious question from a Hill mom with a 2.5 year old trying to understand the possible roads ahead -- what does it mean to be a BASIS type of kid?

From what I've heard from parents with kids there, it means reasonably intelligent, but more importantly so willing to do more work - including homework - than is typically required at other schools, and in a self-directed way. So if you have to sit over your kid to get her to do a math worksheet, Basis might not be the best fit.

But if you have a 2.5 year old, PLEASE don't obsess. You have little idea of what your child or the schools will be like in 8 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:...the hope that your kid is the BASIS type.

Serious question from a Hill mom with a 2.5 year old trying to understand the possible roads ahead -- what does it mean to be a BASIS type of kid?

From what I've heard from parents with kids there, it means reasonably intelligent, but more importantly so willing to do more work - including homework - than is typically required at other schools, and in a self-directed way. So if you have to sit over your kid to get her to do a math worksheet, Basis might not be the best fit.

But if you have a 2.5 year old, PLEASE don't obsess. You have little idea of what your child or the schools will be like in 8 years.

Understood, and I absolutely hope that the schools may change along our path to middle school. But it's still very helpful for a FTM to have some type of rough framing / reference point for various school characteristics as try to follow threads and figure out how we may chart our kids educational course. I appreciate you, the PP upthread, giving some insight into what being a BASIS type of kid may mean...just helps make sense with some of the comments and references thrown out on the various school threads.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know in the past SWS has not admitted kids for 5th and I hope that remains the case. But can SWS operate a 5th grade class with less than 15 kids staying, maybe less? If so, that would be one exceedingly small grade.

that was the case in 2016-7

There has yet to be an SWS 5th grade with < 15 kids. For the past two years - it has been 20 - 25. Maybe around 15 will happen in 18-19 but too soon to tell.

no -- it was more like 17 in 2016-7. Don't know where you got your info but it's wrong. It was 22 this past year. there's never been a class of 25 at any grade level.

Sorry - you are incorrect about the number of kids in 5th grade in 16-17. We were at SWS in 16-17 and are still at SWS, and there were somewhere betweeen 20-25 kids in that 5th grade class.

Where are you getting your info from?

For all those thinking about SWS, just ask the school at an Open House. Knowing Burst, he won't recall the exact number, but he'll give you the range (and for the past two years, it will be between 20-25 - don't know about the coming year yet; I do hear that it's on the smaller side).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:...the hope that your kid is the BASIS type.

Serious question from a Hill mom with a 2.5 year old trying to understand the possible roads ahead -- what does it mean to be a BASIS type of kid?

From what I've heard from parents with kids there, it means reasonably intelligent, but more importantly so willing to do more work - including homework - than is typically required at other schools, and in a self-directed way. So if you have to sit over your kid to get her to do a math worksheet, Basis might not be the best fit.

But if you have a 2.5 year old, PLEASE don't obsess. You have little idea of what your child or the schools will be like in 8 years.

Current BASIS parent here - I'd say this is pretty accurate. Also fairly accurate that there is more of a nerdy vibe rather than a focus on sports, simply because BASIS doesn't have the typical sports facilities. There are no Friday night football or basketball games in a school gym or field, no culture of jocks and cheerleaders and in or out crowds like I experienced in my middle school and high school years ago. I will say they are actively working on and improving extracurriculars, including soccer, cross country, track, musical theatre, debate, science club, and others. And plenty of current students are involved in extracurricular activities outside of the school. I've heard kids talking about swim team, hockey, theatre, volleyball, instrumental and vocal music to name a few. Also agree from our own experience it's hard to predict what your kid will be into, what a school will be like some years from now, or what the lottery situation will be when you're at that point. But good to gather information!