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Anonymous wrote:Can we also stop with the narrative that it's just one or two parents "endlessly carping" about the school on these threads? Sounds to me like we haven't heard from Stockholm Syndrome mom before. Fact is, BASIS DC always loses more than half the families who started in 5th grade by 9th, and at least 60% by 12th. Please stop telling the BASIS families who point out glaring problems with the program on DCUM to shut up and go away. No DC taxpayer needs to listen to an obnoxious jerk advising them to send their kid to a crappy neighborhood school if a poorly run charter hasn't worked out. Pipe down, particularly middle school parents waxing enthusiastic about a "highly rated" high school they haven't used yet.
All you do is endlessly sh*t on BASIS and then complain when people call you out. What is your goal here? Do you have a kid at the school and just want to vent? Did your kid drop out and you want to get revenge? What is the point of your posts? So, yeah, I have zero problem labeling you the Carping Mom and dismissing your completely unhelpful rants. You have added absolutely nothing constructive to this conversation.
Given the Basis charter, advanced curriculum, inability to do do placement tests, and no-social-promotion policy, the school has to follow an attrition model. As kids drop out (for whatever reason), they aren’t replaced. Most of the kids who drop out are struggling academically; some drop out because they move out of the area or go overseas; and some go to other schools such as Walls, Duke, Coolidge, or private. I’m sure Basis would love to replace the kids who leave with high-fliers but they can’t under their charter. Plenty of top kids stay at Basis and the ones who go to Walls, Duke, or private are not necessarily the top ones. I would say that the handful of students who decamp to Walls every year are generally good students but they are hardly all at the top of the class. Similarly, kids who go to Duke are often not top students and go to Duke for non-academic reasons. Finally, kids that go private are not necessarily top students either--some of them are talented athletes who who rather go to a school where they shine in that area.
For example, here are last year’s high school 4+ PARCC scores for Walls and BASIS:
Walls
ELA 94.07
Math 67.44
BASIS
ELA 92.06
Math 66.12
In other words, BASIS a 100% lottery school, basically has the same PARCC results as Walls, which supposedly selects the top students in the city for the school. So, you are absolutely wrong to think that the best students leave for Walls. Those that remain for high school are just as good as Walls.
Lastly, you really think Basis is poorly run compared to, say, Walls? You have no clue.
So, maybe you should pipe down Carping Mom. We are tired of your constant BS.