Basis families: talk to me about the building

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03/11/2023 09:34

Subject: Re:Basis families: talk to me about the building

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Anonymous wrote:My child is at BASIS. I would not make the decision about whether to go to BASIS on the building, but I find it depressing, dark, and somewhat cramped-feeling.

I just toured Basis last month. I made the decision not to consider it because of the building. IMO, the good academics just can’t compensate enough for the terrible facilities.

I realize we are privileged in that we have other options while some families don’t.

They can take your clothes, they can take your riches, they can even take your freedom, but one thing they cannot take is your education. I'll go for the academics. You can't take the pretty buildings and manicured lawns with you but your knowledge and skills will travel with you everywhere. This famous quote comes from my mother.

if the education at BASIS were worth missing out on much in way of natural light for 8 years, I’d agree with your mother 100%. We weren’t impressed impressed by at least half of my kid’s classes in 5th and 6th grades, along with the ban on modern language instruction until 8th and along with the requirement that students learn languages at the beginning level (some sort of 80s throwback). We hired an English tutor to ensure that our kid wrote weekly essays that were corrected. His parochial doesn’t require half as much memorization but offers a much better/livelier education overall. But if DCPS is your only viable alternative,sure, BASIS is terrific.

If you want your opinion to be taken seriously then take a more serious approach. It is laughable that you refer to this as a "ban". It is a curriculum choice. It is clearly one with which you disagree. My kid is at BASIS now and I also wish they offered a foreign language. I knew when we chose BASIS that foreign language was not going to happen until 8th grade. My eyes were wide open. Were you not paying attention to the 40 different ways they described the curriculum before you enrolled? Did your sense of entitlement cause you to believe that the rules didn't apply to you and yours? If I was designing the curriculum I would not have assigned chemistry, physics and biology in 6th grade, but that has turned out to be a great fit for my science inclined kid who never took a real science class until they got to BASIS.

There's a difference between deficiencies (the building is not great) and choices with which you disagree. The idea that anyone who doesn't make the same affirmative choices you would make is somehow "banning you" or "canceling you" is weak sauce reserved for Tucker and Fox & Friends.

I’m a different PP and agree that BASIS is transparent with their curriculum for the most part. However, they did “cancel” Latin this year for 5th and 6th graders and added Linguistics in its place. We were not given a heads up prior to enrollment about this so they do make changes without advance notice from time to time. (My kid misses Latin, Linguistics is not a good substitute fwiw.)

You are entitled to your opinion. I personally think Latin is a waste of time. I wish they'd replace that actual foreign language. Reasonable people can disagree (as we are). BASIS has the right to make changes (even if I disagree with them). Anyone who claims to have sent their kid to BASIS to focus on foreign language needs to stop blaming others and look in the mirror. If I send my kid to Duke Ellington and complain there's too much focus on the arts then I deserve to be ignored and ridiculed.