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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Both Walls and J-R get more grads to Ivies each year than BASIS does.

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Given that walls is around 3x and JR nearly 9x the size of basis, I would hope so.

lol

The ratios are even bigger than that. basis has a very small senior class.

[Anonymous]

If only it were all so lol hilarious. BASIS wants a very small senior class where at least a few students get to colleges admitting in the single digits. Many parents want BASIS as is. A few want a better education than AP test prep and superior leadership. Nothing will change because demand will remain sky high. Move on.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like you need to move on…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If only it were all so lol hilarious. BASIS wants a very small senior class where at least a few students get to colleges admitting in the single digits. Many parents want BASIS as is. A few want a better education than AP test prep and superior leadership. Nothing will change because demand will remain sky high. Move on.

That's absurd.

Why would they *want* a small senior class? There's no basis for that assertion.

The reality is that the class size shrinks because 1) you can't transfer in and 2) kids (and their parents) self-select out of the system if they don't like it. Some go to Walls in 9th grade, and some go other places and there's nothing wrong with that.

Still, a very good acceptance list for around 60 graduating seniors in a non-application charter school in DC.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like everybody does. Four years in, when I read posts suggesting constructive conversations with admins, I roll my eyes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If only it were all so lol hilarious. BASIS wants a very small senior class where at least a few students get to colleges admitting in the single digits. Many parents want BASIS as is. A few want a better education than AP test prep and superior leadership. Nothing will change because demand will remain sky high. Move on.

That's absurd.

Why would they *want* a small senior class? There's no basis for that assertion.

The reality is that the class size shrinks because 1) you can't transfer in and 2) kids (and their parents) self-select out of the system if they don't like it. Some go to Walls in 9th grade, and some go other places and there's nothing wrong with that.

Still, a very good acceptance list for around 60 graduating seniors in a non-application charter school in DC.

You have a student at BASIS? That's indeed what the BASIS franchise wants in DC. Students could transfer into BASIS' HS if the franchise were to work that out with DCPSCB. They don't even try to work it out. The Arizona campuses have always let high school students transfer in.

IMHO far more kids would stay for HS in DC if the program was better led and managed, if the curriculum was a little more flexible and intelligently implemented, and if enrichment and ECs were better, particularly at the HS level.

I have a sibling in Arizona who's had at least one kid in a BASIS program for over a decade. Things sound much better there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If only it were all so lol hilarious. BASIS wants a very small senior class where at least a few students get to colleges admitting in the single digits. Many parents want BASIS as is. A few want a better education than AP test prep and superior leadership. Nothing will change because demand will remain sky high. Move on.

That's absurd.

Why would they *want* a small senior class? There's no basis for that assertion.

The reality is that the class size shrinks because 1) you can't transfer in and 2) kids (and their parents) self-select out of the system if they don't like it. Some go to Walls in 9th grade, and some go other places and there's nothing wrong with that.

Still, a very good acceptance list for around 60 graduating seniors in a non-application charter school in DC.

You have a student at BASIS? That's indeed what the BASIS franchise wants in DC. Students could transfer into BASIS' HS if the franchise were to work that out with DCPSCB. They don't even try to work it out. The Arizona campuses have always let high school students transfer in.

IMHO far more kids would stay for HS in DC if the program was better led and managed, if the curriculum was a little more flexible and intelligently implemented, and if enrichment and ECs were better, particularly at the HS level.

I have a sibling in Arizona who's had at least one kid in a BASIS program for over a decade. Things sound much better there.

So you don't have a student at BASIS DC?

[Anonymous]

We enrolled at the urging of my sibling. My kid got straight As but was unhappy. We left eventually for another charter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If only it were all so lol hilarious. BASIS wants a very small senior class where at least a few students get to colleges admitting in the single digits. Many parents want BASIS as is. A few want a better education than AP test prep and superior leadership. Nothing will change because demand will remain sky high. Move on.

That's absurd.

Why would they *want* a small senior class? There's no basis for that assertion.

The reality is that the class size shrinks because 1) you can't transfer in and 2) kids (and their parents) self-select out of the system if they don't like it. Some go to Walls in 9th grade, and some go other places and there's nothing wrong with that.

Still, a very good acceptance list for around 60 graduating seniors in a non-application charter school in DC.

You have a student at BASIS? That's indeed what the BASIS franchise wants in DC. Students could transfer into BASIS' HS if the franchise were to work that out with DCPSCB. They don't even try to work it out. The Arizona campuses have always let high school students transfer in.

IMHO far more kids would stay for HS in DC if the program was better led and managed, if the curriculum was a little more flexible and intelligently implemented, and if enrichment and ECs were better, particularly at the HS level.

I have a sibling in Arizona who's had at least one kid in a BASIS program for over a decade. Things sound much better there.

I have two - one is graduating this year. They both have been there since 5th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If only it were all so lol hilarious. BASIS wants a very small senior class where at least a few students get to colleges admitting in the single digits. Many parents want BASIS as is. A few want a better education than AP test prep and superior leadership. Nothing will change because demand will remain sky high. Move on.

That's absurd.

Why would they *want* a small senior class? There's no basis for that assertion.

The reality is that the class size shrinks because 1) you can't transfer in and 2) kids (and their parents) self-select out of the system if they don't like it. Some go to Walls in 9th grade, and some go other places and there's nothing wrong with that.

Still, a very good acceptance list for around 60 graduating seniors in a non-application charter school in DC.

You have a student at BASIS? That's indeed what the BASIS franchise wants in DC. Students could transfer into BASIS' HS if the franchise were to work that out with DCPSCB. They don't even try to work it out. The Arizona campuses have always let high school students transfer in.

IMHO far more kids would stay for HS in DC if the program was better led and managed, if the curriculum was a little more flexible and intelligently implemented, and if enrichment and ECs were better, particularly at the HS level.

I have a sibling in Arizona who's had at least one kid in a BASIS program for over a decade. Things sound much better there.

I have two - one is graduating this year. They both have been there since 5th grade.

NP. I call BS. No one who actually had a kid at BASIS would feel the need to say "they have been there since 5th grade."

[Anonymous]

"We enrolled at the urging of my sibling. My kid got straight As but was unhappy. We left eventually for another charter."

"I have two - one is graduating this year. They both have been there since 5th grade."

Are both of these responses to the same question? which one is the truth??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If only it were all so lol hilarious. BASIS wants a very small senior class where at least a few students get to colleges admitting in the single digits. Many parents want BASIS as is. A few want a better education than AP test prep and superior leadership. Nothing will change because demand will remain sky high. Move on.

That's absurd.

Why would they *want* a small senior class? There's no basis for that assertion.

The reality is that the class size shrinks because 1) you can't transfer in and 2) kids (and their parents) self-select out of the system if they don't like it. Some go to Walls in 9th grade, and some go other places and there's nothing wrong with that.

Still, a very good acceptance list for around 60 graduating seniors in a non-application charter school in DC.

You have a student at BASIS? That's indeed what the BASIS franchise wants in DC. Students could transfer into BASIS' HS if the franchise were to work that out with DCPSCB. They don't even try to work it out. The Arizona campuses have always let high school students transfer in.

IMHO far more kids would stay for HS in DC if the program was better led and managed, if the curriculum was a little more flexible and intelligently implemented, and if enrichment and ECs were better, particularly at the HS level.

I have a sibling in Arizona who's had at least one kid in a BASIS program for over a decade. Things sound much better there.

I have two - one is graduating this year. They both have been there since 5th grade.

NP. I call BS. No one who actually had a kid at BASIS would feel the need to say "they have been there since 5th grade."

Well, think whatever you want. If my kids didn't go there, I wouldn't know things like where the "multi-purpose room" is located, or the location of the senior prom (hotel monaco, across from portrait gallery), or how the outgoing head of school has a new last name (Cobalt), or when "0 period" starts (7:30am).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"We enrolled at the urging of my sibling. My kid got straight As but was unhappy. We left eventually for another charter."

"I have two - one is graduating this year. They both have been there since 5th grade."

Are both of these responses to the same question? which one is the truth??

Two different people. I said the second item. I don't know about the first one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We enrolled at the urging of my sibling. My kid got straight As but was unhappy. We left eventually for another charter.

Which charter? Did you get into Latin via a younger sibling?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If only it were all so lol hilarious. BASIS wants a very small senior class where at least a few students get to colleges admitting in the single digits. Many parents want BASIS as is. A few want a better education than AP test prep and superior leadership. Nothing will change because demand will remain sky high. Move on.

That's absurd.

Why would they *want* a small senior class? There's no basis for that assertion.

The reality is that the class size shrinks because 1) you can't transfer in and 2) kids (and their parents) self-select out of the system if they don't like it. Some go to Walls in 9th grade, and some go other places and there's nothing wrong with that.

Still, a very good acceptance list for around 60 graduating seniors in a non-application charter school in DC.

You have a student at BASIS? That's indeed what the BASIS franchise wants in DC. Students could transfer into BASIS' HS if the franchise were to work that out with DCPSCB. They don't even try to work it out. The Arizona campuses have always let high school students transfer in.

IMHO far more kids would stay for HS in DC if the program was better led and managed, if the curriculum was a little more flexible and intelligently implemented, and if enrichment and ECs were better, particularly at the HS level.

I have a sibling in Arizona who's had at least one kid in a BASIS program for over a decade. Things sound much better there.

No, that is just wrong. BASIS DC would love to cherry pick top students for high school like Walls but they can't under their charter.

Your argument doesn't even make sense. If BASIS Arizona schools allow transfers in (at the appropriate grade level after a placement test), why wouldn't BASIS DC do the same if it could? The fact is that they can't in DC.