BASIS attrition after middle school- why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some parents seem quite happy to ignore how their children fail to thrive at BASIS. They don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, presumably to cling to their hip row houses-dwelling lives downtown.

I've seen this story play out many times, particularly with Ward 6 families with multiple siblings at BASIS.

We need far better public middle school options in this city. We don't get them because city pols come under little pressure to deliver them.

You seem upset. My kids both do quite well at BASIS, and I'm happy to have the option.

In addition, while I have a row house in Ward 6, it's not very hip.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your post is hard to follow. We left BASIS for a suburban school in 9th grade without telling DC public where we were going. Easily done.

When you leave and don't enroll withing DCPS/PCS you show up in "Not in Audit". You seem a scary combination of ignorant and condescending.

I’m not the person you’re lashing out at but I can tell you that the data on leaving BASIS for other DC public options doesn’t always provide a full picture. Take a BASIS student we know who left after 6th, allegedly for Stuart Hobson. The parents enrolled her in a DCPS program with no intention of sending her there. They didn’t want community flak for their true plan, to homeschool her for 7th. We know another family that left BASIS after 7th for Hardy, only to leave a week in after they got off a WL at a private. Hint: enrolling in by-right public schools is free and v. easy to do if you have an IB address.

I think the audited enrollment data in edscape and elsewhere is reporting students who were enrolled in the next school on count day which is in October. Those students may have just registered and then left but they aren't counted if they leave before the October count. At least in the charters, they have to prove that the student has been regularly attending through count day to be counted as enrolled. I believe this is the same for DCPS.

I don't think you're right about this. A friend who works on audits for OSSE has told me that most of the Edscape data is collected in early Sept.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your post is hard to follow. We left BASIS for a suburban school in 9th grade without telling DC public where we were going. Easily done.

When you leave and don't enroll withing DCPS/PCS you show up in "Not in Audit". You seem a scary combination of ignorant and condescending.

I’m not the person you’re lashing out at but I can tell you that the data on leaving BASIS for other DC public options doesn’t always provide a full picture. Take a BASIS student we know who left after 6th, allegedly for Stuart Hobson. The parents enrolled her in a DCPS program with no intention of sending her there. They didn’t want community flak for their true plan, to homeschool her for 7th. We know another family that left BASIS after 7th for Hardy, only to leave a week in after they got off a WL at a private. Hint: enrolling in by-right public schools is free and v. easy to do if you have an IB address.

I think the audited enrollment data in edscape and elsewhere is reporting students who were enrolled in the next school on count day which is in October. Those students may have just registered and then left but they aren't counted if they leave before the October count. At least in the charters, they have to prove that the student has been regularly attending through count day to be counted as enrolled. I believe this is the same for DCPS.

I don't think you're right about this. A friend who works on audits for OSSE has told me that most of the Edscape data is collected in early Sept.

Okay, but at the bottom of the page https://edscape.dc.gov/page/student-enrollment-pathways it does say "Source: OSSE Audited Enrollment, SY21-22 to SY22-23"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some parents seem quite happy to ignore how their children fail to thrive at BASIS. They don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, presumably to cling to their hip row houses-dwelling lives downtown.

I've seen this story play out many times, particularly with Ward 6 families with multiple siblings at BASIS.

We need far better public middle school options in this city. We don't get them because city pols come under little pressure to deliver them.

You seem upset. My kids both do quite well at BASIS, and I'm happy to have the option.

In addition, while I have a row house in Ward 6, it's not very hip.

My kids knocked it out of the park at BASIS academically. We even kept up their Spanish immersion skills on the side.

We left just the same for a school with strong, autonomous leadership we had confidence in, a stable, experienced teaching faculty and much better humanities and language instruction. We were lucky to get good fi aid at a private from 8th grade. Happy is not a descriptor I'm buying in conjunction with BASIS after around 6th.

[Anonymous]

Families tend to stay if the like the admins, or can at least tolerate them. If they lose faith, they leave. That’s what it boils down to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some parents seem quite happy to ignore how their children fail to thrive at BASIS. They don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, presumably to cling to their hip row houses-dwelling lives downtown.

I've seen this story play out many times, particularly with Ward 6 families with multiple siblings at BASIS.

We need far better public middle school options in this city. We don't get them because city pols come under little pressure to deliver them.

You seem upset. My kids both do quite well at BASIS, and I'm happy to have the option.

In addition, while I have a row house in Ward 6, it's not very hip.

My kids knocked it out of the park at BASIS academically. We even kept up their Spanish immersion skills on the side.

We left just the same for a school with strong, autonomous leadership we had confidence in, a stable, experienced teaching faculty and much better humanities and language instruction. We were lucky to get good fi aid at a private from 8th grade. Happy is not a descriptor I'm buying in conjunction with BASIS after around 6th.

BASIS is not as good as the private school you had to beg, borrow and steal to be able to afford, even with financial aid? Quite the revelation. To quote Usual Suspects, "You got a team of monkeys working round the clock on this?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Happy is not a descriptor I'm buying in conjunction with BASIS after around 6th.

Person isn't happy, and refuses to believe anyone else could be.

[Anonymous]

HoS is an unmitigated jackass who doesn’t give a hoot what parents think. I say this as a parent who once thought a lot of him. If you’re happy with him at the helm, you’re not thinking clearly.

[Anonymous]

Why cannot a DCPS middle school be “greener pastures”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why cannot a DCPS middle school be “greener pastures”?

It can be. Just like parents who choose to keep the kids at BASIS aren’t deliberately ignoring their kids failure to thrive. There seems to be a lot of people with low self esteem making crazy arguments in this thread. Pick the school that works best for your kid and don’t worry about what anyone else is doing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why cannot a DCPS middle school be “greener pastures”?

It can be. Just like parents who choose to keep the kids at BASIS aren’t deliberately ignoring their kids failure to thrive. There seems to be a lot of people with low self esteem making crazy arguments in this thread. Pick the school that works best for your kid and don’t worry about what anyone else is doing.

The lesson of all life lessons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HoS is an unmitigated jackass who doesn’t give a hoot what parents think. I say this as a parent who once thought a lot of him. If you’re happy with him at the helm, you’re not thinking clearly.

Agree with this. He is a clown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why cannot a DCPS middle school be “greener pastures”?

Because outside of two of them, they’re either bad or a dead end?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HoS is an unmitigated jackass who doesn’t give a hoot what parents think. I say this as a parent who once thought a lot of him. If you’re happy with him at the helm, you’re not thinking clearly.

Agree with this. He is a clown.

He is a massive part of the reason we left!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HoS is an unmitigated jackass who doesn’t give a hoot what parents think. I say this as a parent who once thought a lot of him. If you’re happy with him at the helm, you’re not thinking clearly.

Agree with this. He is a clown.

He is a massive part of the reason we left!

Why is he a clown? Would you like to elaborate?

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