Is BASIS McLean as good or better than the Big 3?

[Anonymous]

If you go to BIM be on the look out for suspicious balloons!!!

Are we pretending there aren’t lots of Chinese-owned products and businesses in the US?

Do we think BASIS kids are being indoctrinated to become Chinese communists and the parents are cool with that because they get good grades?

Conspiracy much? Watch The Manchurian Candidate too many times? That NICHE rating really irks you people!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would compare BASIS to a for-profit "cram" school devoid of humanity. It has customers but they are different from the Big3.

Exactly! BASIS DC is supposedly free but we know how that works too.

[Anonymous]

On what planet are you comparing the impact of a Chinese-manufactured good to a China-create multi-year education curriculum?

So no, I'm not pretending that China is a major industrial power that has their hand in my shoes, clothing, some electronics and solar panels.

However, I am not getting my news from Chinese news broadcasts nor do I want my kids getting their education from a Chinese-government affiliated school.

It's not Manchurian Candidate stuff, it's not hyperbole, the ownership structure is literally fact. You, of course, have every right to not care and send your kid there but it's disingenuous to impute that people who correctly identify the connection are hysterical, crazy, racist or xenophobic.

[Anonymous]

*not pretending that China ISN'T a major industrial power.

[Anonymous]

Okay, more to the point…

What exactly do you think they’re teaching them????

If their curriculum is so different and wrong and “communist” would no family who attends this school mention anything? They’re all okay with it?

Anonymous wrote:*not pretending that China ISN'T a major industrial power.

[Anonymous]

Major differences are everywhere including view on economics, capitalism and the autonomy of private business, the role of government, societal conformity, deference, acceptance of differing views and the role of non-academics in broader education.

Chinese education focuses on being hyper-focused on text books, rote learning, teaching to test outcomes.

Again, go for it if it works for you but don't pretend that it's not real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you go to BIM be on the look out for suspicious balloons!!!

Are we pretending there aren’t lots of Chinese-owned products and businesses in the US?

Do we think BASIS kids are being indoctrinated to become Chinese communists and the parents are cool with that because they get good grades?

Conspiracy much? Watch The Manchurian Candidate too many times? That NICHE rating really irks you people!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would compare BASIS to a for-profit "cram" school devoid of humanity. It has customers but they are different from the Big3.

Exactly! BASIS DC is supposedly free but we know how that works too.

Haha. You don't know me, but my feet are squarely planted outside the conspiracy theorist zone. There absolutely are Chinese companies, etc. in the US. I have a former Chinese client who was the head of a "private" company in China. They explained to me that there is no such thing as a "private" company there as we use that term. Officials of the Chinese government were very involved in the operation of the business - to the point that they required he manipulate standards - to increase profits for the benefit of the Chinese government.

As to a Chinese controlled educational institution in the United States, no I do not think that parents are sitting idly by as their children are indoctrinated to become Chinese communists or that they are grooming a Manchurian Candidate. Do I think, however, the curriculum could be presented in a different way at BASIS than at another school? Absolutely. If you need an example of schools/school systems taking a different view of facts covered in a curriculum, I refer you to Florida's new take on the beneficial effects of slavery on those enslaved in its new middle school curriculum. And do I think that the technology provided could be manipulated on behalf of the Chinese government. Absolutely - especially in the DC area where many parents work for the US government or organizations that work with the US government. If you believe that the wifi password your child enters on the computer they bring home from school couldn't be used to reverse engineer access to a parent's computer connected to wifi in the same home, it is you who is naive.

If BIM works for you, great. It's not for me no matter what rating it gets Niche to give it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you go to BIM be on the look out for suspicious balloons!!!

Are we pretending there aren’t lots of Chinese-owned products and businesses in the US?

Do we think BASIS kids are being indoctrinated to become Chinese communists and the parents are cool with that because they get good grades?

Conspiracy much? Watch The Manchurian Candidate too many times? That NICHE rating really irks you people!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would compare BASIS to a for-profit "cram" school devoid of humanity. It has customers but they are different from the Big3.

Exactly! BASIS DC is supposedly free but we know how that works too.

Haha. You don't know me, but my feet are squarely planted outside the conspiracy theorist zone. There absolutely are Chinese companies, etc. in the US. I have a former Chinese client who was the head of a "private" company in China. They explained to me that there is no such thing as a "private" company there as we use that term. Officials of the Chinese government were very involved in the operation of the business - to the point that they required he manipulate standards - to increase profits for the benefit of the Chinese government.

As to a Chinese controlled educational institution in the United States, no I do not think that parents are sitting idly by as their children are indoctrinated to become Chinese communists or that they are grooming a Manchurian Candidate. Do I think, however, the curriculum could be presented in a different way at BASIS than at another school? Absolutely. If you need an example of schools/school systems taking a different view of facts covered in a curriculum, I refer you to Florida's new take on the beneficial effects of slavery on those enslaved in its new middle school curriculum. And do I think that the technology provided could be manipulated on behalf of the Chinese government. Absolutely - especially in the DC area where many parents work for the US government or organizations that work with the US government. If you believe that the wifi password your child enters on the computer they bring home from school couldn't be used to reverse engineer access to a parent's computer connected to wifi in the same home, it is you who is naive.

If BIM works for you, great. It's not for me no matter what rating it gets Niche to give it.

You better put your tin foil hat on. The commies may be listening to your brain waves.

Four years ago, the Basis private schools (totally separate from non-profit public charter schools like Basis DC) were sold to the Spring Education Group. The SEG is a portfolio company of the Primavera Capital Group, a Hong Kong-based global investment firm that is one of the largest private equity firms in Asia.

The founder of Primavera is on various United States boards and councils including at the Nature Conservancy, Council on Foreign Relations, Columbia, and Harvard. (Gee, I guess those institutions must be controlled by the Chinese government.)

Oh, and Primavera just bought Princeton Review. (So, you better cross that off your list too; the Chinese government may be reviewing your kids practice SAT exams.)

BTW, one reason why Chinese investment firms are buying up private schools is that China is the top country of origin for international students studying in the US. About 2 in 5 international students enrolled in US high schools are from China, and the number of Chinese students studying in US high schools has skyrocketed in the last 10 years. There are lots of Chinese students at private schools in the DMV and around the country. The firms are just following the market.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you go to BIM be on the look out for suspicious balloons!!!

Are we pretending there aren’t lots of Chinese-owned products and businesses in the US?

Do we think BASIS kids are being indoctrinated to become Chinese communists and the parents are cool with that because they get good grades?

Conspiracy much? Watch The Manchurian Candidate too many times? That NICHE rating really irks you people!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would compare BASIS to a for-profit "cram" school devoid of humanity. It has customers but they are different from the Big3.

Exactly! BASIS DC is supposedly free but we know how that works too.

Haha. You don't know me, but my feet are squarely planted outside the conspiracy theorist zone. There absolutely are Chinese companies, etc. in the US. I have a former Chinese client who was the head of a "private" company in China. They explained to me that there is no such thing as a "private" company there as we use that term. Officials of the Chinese government were very involved in the operation of the business - to the point that they required he manipulate standards - to increase profits for the benefit of the Chinese government.

As to a Chinese controlled educational institution in the United States, no I do not think that parents are sitting idly by as their children are indoctrinated to become Chinese communists or that they are grooming a Manchurian Candidate. Do I think, however, the curriculum could be presented in a different way at BASIS than at another school? Absolutely. If you need an example of schools/school systems taking a different view of facts covered in a curriculum, I refer you to Florida's new take on the beneficial effects of slavery on those enslaved in its new middle school curriculum. And do I think that the technology provided could be manipulated on behalf of the Chinese government. Absolutely - especially in the DC area where many parents work for the US government or organizations that work with the US government. If you believe that the wifi password your child enters on the computer they bring home from school couldn't be used to reverse engineer access to a parent's computer connected to wifi in the same home, it is you who is naive.

If BIM works for you, great. It's not for me no matter what rating it gets Niche to give it.

You better put your tin foil hat on. The commies may be listening to your brain waves.

Four years ago, the Basis private schools (totally separate from non-profit public charter schools like Basis DC) were sold to the Spring Education Group. The SEG is a portfolio company of the Primavera Capital Group, a Hong Kong-based global investment firm that is one of the largest private equity firms in Asia.

The founder of Primavera is on various United States boards and councils including at the Nature Conservancy, Council on Foreign Relations, Columbia, and Harvard. (Gee, I guess those institutions must be controlled by the Chinese government.)

Oh, and Primavera just bought Princeton Review. (So, you better cross that off your list too; the Chinese government may be reviewing your kids practice SAT exams.)

BTW, one reason why Chinese investment firms are buying up private schools is that China is the top country of origin for international students studying in the US. About 2 in 5 international students enrolled in US high schools are from China, and the number of Chinese students studying in US high schools has skyrocketed in the last 10 years. There are lots of Chinese students at private schools in the DMV and around the country. The firms are just following the market.

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Every three years in the worldwide education systems, OECD conducts a test to measure the critical thinking of 15-year-olds in math, science, and reading in over 65 countries that make up 90% of the world’s economies.

The last time the test was administered, China came in #1 and the US came in #22.

Part of the reason for the founding of the Basis schools was because the US does a bad job educating kids compared to other countries such as China.

So, no surprise that a China-based private equity fund would recognize the success of private Basis schools and want to invest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you go to BIM be on the look out for suspicious balloons!!!

Are we pretending there aren’t lots of Chinese-owned products and businesses in the US?

Do we think BASIS kids are being indoctrinated to become Chinese communists and the parents are cool with that because they get good grades?

Conspiracy much? Watch The Manchurian Candidate too many times? That NICHE rating really irks you people!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would compare BASIS to a for-profit "cram" school devoid of humanity. It has customers but they are different from the Big3.

Exactly! BASIS DC is supposedly free but we know how that works too.

Haha. You don't know me, but my feet are squarely planted outside the conspiracy theorist zone. There absolutely are Chinese companies, etc. in the US. I have a former Chinese client who was the head of a "private" company in China. They explained to me that there is no such thing as a "private" company there as we use that term. Officials of the Chinese government were very involved in the operation of the business - to the point that they required he manipulate standards - to increase profits for the benefit of the Chinese government.

As to a Chinese controlled educational institution in the United States, no I do not think that parents are sitting idly by as their children are indoctrinated to become Chinese communists or that they are grooming a Manchurian Candidate. Do I think, however, the curriculum could be presented in a different way at BASIS than at another school? Absolutely. If you need an example of schools/school systems taking a different view of facts covered in a curriculum, I refer you to Florida's new take on the beneficial effects of slavery on those enslaved in its new middle school curriculum. And do I think that the technology provided could be manipulated on behalf of the Chinese government. Absolutely - especially in the DC area where many parents work for the US government or organizations that work with the US government. If you believe that the wifi password your child enters on the computer they bring home from school couldn't be used to reverse engineer access to a parent's computer connected to wifi in the same home, it is you who is naive.

If BIM works for you, great. It's not for me no matter what rating it gets Niche to give it.

You better put your tin foil hat on. The commies may be listening to your brain waves.

Four years ago, the Basis private schools (totally separate from non-profit public charter schools like Basis DC) were sold to the Spring Education Group. The SEG is a portfolio company of the Primavera Capital Group, a Hong Kong-based global investment firm that is one of the largest private equity firms in Asia.

The founder of Primavera is on various United States boards and councils including at the Nature Conservancy, Council on Foreign Relations, Columbia, and Harvard. (Gee, I guess those institutions must be controlled by the Chinese government.)

Oh, and Primavera just bought Princeton Review. (So, you better cross that off your list too; the Chinese government may be reviewing your kids practice SAT exams.)

BTW, one reason why Chinese investment firms are buying up private schools is that China is the top country of origin for international students studying in the US. About 2 in 5 international students enrolled in US high schools are from China, and the number of Chinese students studying in US high schools has skyrocketed in the last 10 years. There are lots of Chinese students at private schools in the DMV and around the country. The firms are just following the market.

Why are you posting facts to discredit a wacko? Not allowed for BIM threads.

[Anonymous]

Then go for it! Send your kids there. Hopefully, someday they will not be a salaryman that is replaced by AI. They’ll be a highly differentiated adult, encouraged to think outside the box, to challenge authority and to really make a mark. They’ll think of their close friendships, their prom, their high school jobs, going to HS games and some great years!

Admittedly, their differentiation could be their ability to communicate with the CCP.

[Anonymous]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primavera_Capital_Group
Primavera was an anchor pre-IPO investor of Alibaba. It has also invested in multiple subsidiaries of it including Alipay, Ant Group and Cainiao.[2][3][4][7][9]

Primavera and Ant Group acquired a $460 million stake in Yum China before it was spun off from Yum! Brands as an independent company and listed on the NYSE on November 1, 2016.[3][4][7][8][9][15][16]

Primavera has been acquiring private schools in the United States. In December 2017, it acquired Stratford Schools, which operates pre-k through 8th grade schools in California, for $500 million from Warburg Pincus in a leveraged buyout using $220 million in loans from Macquarie Group.[17][18]

In June 2021, Reckitt announced it would be selling its infant-formula and child-nutrition business in China to Primavera for $1.3 billion.[19]

In May 2023, Primavera received attention after it was reported it had acquired The Princeton Review and its subsidiary Tutor.com from Korean education company ST Unitas back in January 2022.[2][3]