Basis -- How many kids per 5th grade class?

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Anonymous wrote:Nonsense that new admits would necessarily have “trouble catching up.” We left Basis for a suburban GT program with far more humanities rigor and equal rigor for math and science in 6th grade. BASIS parents tend to buy into the program’s exceptionalism hook line and sinker. Silly.

This isn't relevant to the original question. We get it, you don't like BASIS. Please stop your BASIS bashing and hang out on the VA or MD schools forum instead please.

Post what you want, PP and let others do the same. Ludicrous to claim that bright, well-prepared students would have a "hard time" catching up in 6th grade at BASIS.

Fair comment.

Ditto. One of my kids went from DCPS to Sidwell and another from DCPS to NCS (making the switch for high school). These schools are as rigorous (if not more so) than Basis and they are happy to take DCPS kids.

Only Basis has this "no one will ever catch up with us" mentality.

[Anonymous]

I have no connection to Basis DC but think that this thread is hysterical.

OP asks how many kids will be in a 5th grade class in Basis DC next year. Another poster answers this question, noting that Basis generally doesn’t admit kids after 5th grade and explaining why.

We then see a litany of posters declaiming how their precious snowflakes were at Basis for a year and were top students, that they are straight A students at their in-bounds DC school and far smarter than anyone else, that they are at a suburban school in MD or VA and excelling in their gifted classes, that they were admitted to a Basis school in Arizona or someplace based on a placement test and are getting top grades, or they are at a private school and doing wonderfully. The parents then go on to conclude that, based on their subjective experience, Basis DC is not so exceptional. Seriously, non-Basis DC parents, why do you get so triggered? Why are you bothering to comment here? Are you that defensive or insecure?

I guess that you need to convince yourself that you made the best choice for your kid. As result, you monitor the DCUM DC public school threads (even if you don't have a kid in DC public school) and spend your time bragging about smart your child is and how you made the best educational choice for him or her.

You know what? No one in this thread, or any other Basis DC thread, cares that your kid is at some other school and is--in your personal, unverified opinion--a budding genius effortlessly achieving perfect grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have no connection to Basis DC but think that this thread is hysterical.

OP asks how many kids will be in a 5th grade class in Basis DC next year. Another poster answers this question, noting that Basis generally doesn’t admit kids after 5th grade and explaining why.

We then see a litany of posters declaiming how their precious snowflakes were at Basis for a year and were top students, that they are straight A students at their in-bounds DC school and far smarter than anyone else, that they are at a suburban school in MD or VA and excelling in their gifted classes, that they were admitted to a Basis school in Arizona or someplace based on a placement test and are getting top grades, or they are at a private school and doing wonderfully. The parents then go on to conclude that, based on their subjective experience, Basis DC is not so exceptional. Seriously, non-Basis DC parents, why do you get so triggered? Why are you bothering to comment here? Are you that defensive or insecure?

I guess that you need to convince yourself that you made the best choice for your kid. As result, you monitor the DCUM DC public school threads (even if you don't have a kid in DC public school) and spend your time bragging about smart your child is and how you made the best educational choice for him or her.

You know what? No one in this thread, or any other Basis DC thread, cares that your kid is at some other school and is--in your personal, unverified opinion--a budding genius effortlessly achieving perfect grades.

Bravo! Nailed it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They have 5 "elements" in 5th grade. So, that has been 27 kids per element.

With 150 kids, you could have 5 elements with 30 kids or 6 elements with 25 kids.

Basis DC generally doesn't let in kids after 5th grade (new admits would have a hard time catching up), so kids don't get replaced if they leave. So, the overall student/teacher ratio is 14:1.

Not sure what the plan will be in the fall. Rumors are that Basis DC will open full time, every day.

The Basis Head of School just sent out an email confirming five days a week, full time school next year. Hurrah!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:..that they were admitted to a Basis school in Arizona or someplace based on a placement test and are getting top grades, or they are at a private school and doing wonderfully. The parents then go on to conclude that, based on their subjective experience, Basis DC is not so exceptional. Seriously, non-Basis DC parents, why do you get so triggered? Why are you bothering to comment here? Are you that defensive or insecure?

I'm the parent with a kid at a non-DC BASIS. You misunderstood my point. I think BASIS is pretty exceptional. The implication was that BASIS parents or BASIS admin were snobby about how exceptional the kids and program are, and this simply isn't true. The reason BASIS DC won't admit kids after 5th is probably a legal thing (like maybe placement tests are not legal for charters in DC) and not a snobbiness thing, since other BASIS charters will admit kids after 5th.

[Anonymous]

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Post what you want, PP and let others do the same. Ludicrous to claim that bright, well-prepared students would have a "hard time" catching up in 6th grade at BASIS.

Fair comment.

DP. Other BASIS schools allow kids to enter in 6th, 7th, and 8th. They just have to pass a placement test before being given a spot for that grade. My DD entered in 7th and is a straight A student.

Charter schools are not allowed to have admissions tests.