How to help child succeed at BASIS

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve lived in DC since the 90s, sent my kids to charters and DCPS for the last 9 years. Turned down a BASIS spot. Admins seemed too young, inexperienced yet full of themselves, drank far too much of the Arizona Kool-aid. It’s sad to me that BASIS is the best we can do for our best and brightest EotP. Nothing like the wonderful, joyful, contrarian education I got at Hunter. To each her own.

What does that mean?

It means she drank far too much of the Hunter Kool-aid.

Hunter is wonderful, joyful, and contrarian, and everything else pales in comparison. For God's sake, people, Lin Manuel Miranda went to Hunter College!!!

Oh...except for this, of course...

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/ny-hunter-college-professor-sex-abuse-20200828-yd5hjeqfajcvbalot46m7putbi-story.html

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve lived in DC since the 90s, sent my kids to charters and DCPS for the last 9 years. Turned down a BASIS spot. Admins seemed too young, inexperienced yet full of themselves, drank far too much of the Arizona Kool-aid. It’s sad to me that BASIS is the best we can do for our best and brightest EotP. Nothing like the wonderful, joyful, contrarian education I got at Hunter. To each her own.

What does that mean?

It means she drank far too much of the Hunter Kool-aid.

Hunter is wonderful, joyful, and contrarian, and everything else pales in comparison. For God's sake, people, Lin Manuel Miranda went to Hunter College!!!

Oh...except for this, of course...

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/ny-hunter-college-professor-sex-abuse-20200828-yd5hjeqfajcvbalot46m7putbi-story.html

Mr. Randolph did a lot of good for a lot of people and was really beloved at the school. It's shocking and upsetting that he also did that. That said, two or three victims over 25 years that there is no evidence the school knew about -- and that he was forced to resign once the first victim came forward -- really has nothing to do with Hunter as a school, Basis as a school or any comparison between the school. I do think Hunter is a much better school than what I hear about Basis... not least of all because extra curricular activities and the arts curriculum at Hunter were (fairly obviously given many of its most notable alumni) some of its main strengths. Obviously the college admissions are also incredible. But Hunter does prove that facilities don't make a school because the Hunter building may actually be even worse than Basis'. Also, Basis is clearly a very good fit for some kids and considerably better than most of what the district has to offer. One of my kids seems like a perfect fit for Basis and I won't hesitate to lottery there. Ultimately, comparing a long-established gifted & talented magnet in NYC with a relatively new pure lottery school in DC is a fool's errand in any case.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve lived in DC since the 90s, sent my kids to charters and DCPS for the last 9 years. Turned down a BASIS spot. Admins seemed too young, inexperienced yet full of themselves, drank far too much of the Arizona Kool-aid. It’s sad to me that BASIS is the best we can do for our best and brightest EotP. Nothing like the wonderful, joyful, contrarian education I got at Hunter. To each her own.

What does that mean?

It means she drank far too much of the Hunter Kool-aid.

Hunter is wonderful, joyful, and contrarian, and everything else pales in comparison. For God's sake, people, Lin Manuel Miranda went to Hunter College!!!

Oh...except for this, of course...

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/ny-hunter-college-professor-sex-abuse-20200828-yd5hjeqfajcvbalot46m7putbi-story.html

Mr. Randolph did a lot of good for a lot of people and was really beloved at the school. It's shocking and upsetting that he also did that. That said, two or three victims over 25 years that there is no evidence the school knew about -- and that he was forced to resign once the first victim came forward -- really has nothing to do with Hunter as a school, Basis as a school or any comparison between the school. I do think Hunter is a much better school than what I hear about Basis... not least of all because extra curricular activities and the arts curriculum at Hunter were (fairly obviously given many of its most notable alumni) some of its main strengths. Obviously the college admissions are also incredible. But Hunter does prove that facilities don't make a school because the Hunter building may actually be even worse than Basis'. Also, Basis is clearly a very good fit for some kids and considerably better than most of what the district has to offer. One of my kids seems like a perfect fit for Basis and I won't hesitate to lottery there. Ultimately, comparing a long-established gifted & talented magnet in NYC with a relatively new pure lottery school in DC is a fool's errand in any case.

Hunter College High School was founded in 1869, and its accepted students constitute the top 1/4 of 1% of NYC students based on test scores.

BASIS DC is a decade old and 100% lottery.

Agree that any comparison is a fool's errand.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve lived in DC since the 90s, sent my kids to charters and DCPS for the last 9 years. Turned down a BASIS spot. Admins seemed too young, inexperienced yet full of themselves, drank far too much of the Arizona Kool-aid. It’s sad to me that BASIS is the best we can do for our best and brightest EotP. Nothing like the wonderful, joyful, contrarian education I got at Hunter. To each her own.

Really curious what your plan is for middle school, since you seem to care about academics. Unless you're inbound for Deal, in which case all this patting yourself on the back is really gross. Or inventing this persona, which seems more likely.

Deal isn't even that great of a middle school. If I knew my kid wouldn't fit at Basis, I'd move to the VA suburbs to get into a TJ "feeder."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve lived in DC since the 90s, sent my kids to charters and DCPS for the last 9 years. Turned down a BASIS spot. Admins seemed too young, inexperienced yet full of themselves, drank far too much of the Arizona Kool-aid. It’s sad to me that BASIS is the best we can do for our best and brightest EotP. Nothing like the wonderful, joyful, contrarian education I got at Hunter. To each her own.

Really curious what your plan is for middle school, since you seem to care about academics. Unless you're inbound for Deal, in which case all this patting yourself on the back is really gross. Or inventing this persona, which seems more likely.

Why would anybody on this thread tell you their middle school plan? So you can slam them and their plan? High-strung busybodies deserve to be ignored, however they elect to communicate.

Agree that Deal isn't much of a prize.

Please, BASIS is hardly the be and end all for MS rigor here in the Information Age. We know bookworms with math smarts who've gone from Two Rivers, Stuart Hobson and Inspired Teaching to top 5 DC privates for HS.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, that's right. A couple of this year's Ivy League-bound seniors took AP Calculus AB in 8th grade and BC in 9th grade. They scored high.

The regular trajectory at Basis is calculus in 9th grade, right? My 7th grader has algebra this year, I think pre-calc in 8th and then calc in 9th? Which still seems crazy early to me (back in the dinosaur late 80s I took calc in 12th grade - and that was the advanced track).

Wrong. The regular trajectory is Calculus AB in 10th grade. Very advanced students can do it in 9th, but it is rare to get that placement, and Basis is very upfront about that. They also have a slower track that will have you do Calculus AB in 11th grade.

It's interesting that they super accelerate only to split calculus into two years. At most of the NYC magnets, kids do either AB Calculus or BC Calculus... a advanced math student would never do both. There is roughly a 50% overlap between the two curriculums and you can easily skip right to BC Calc with a strong foundation. (In fact, the BC Calculus AP test gives a subscore for AB Calc.) So I find it an interesting decision to super accelerate math but then drag calculus out. If you're a math kid who is more interested in a facet of math other than calculus (number theory, discrete math, abstract algebra, stats, formal logic), it seems a particularly weird choice (although I've admittedly never understood the absolute obsession with calculus in HS given that engineering, comp sci, etc are actually more discrete math heavy).

You don't have to take AB and BC Calc -- you just have to take 1 AP Calc course. I know in the past they offered Game Theory and Linear Algebra, but not sure if they are going forward. It probably depends on staffing, and how many people are taking these classes.

Is AP Calc mandatory?

AP Calc AB is mandatory.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve lived in DC since the 90s, sent my kids to charters and DCPS for the last 9 years. Turned down a BASIS spot. Admins seemed too young, inexperienced yet full of themselves, drank far too much of the Arizona Kool-aid. It’s sad to me that BASIS is the best we can do for our best and brightest EotP. Nothing like the wonderful, joyful, contrarian education I got at Hunter. To each her own.

Really curious what your plan is for middle school, since you seem to care about academics. Unless you're inbound for Deal, in which case all this patting yourself on the back is really gross. Or inventing this persona, which seems more likely.

Why would anybody on this thread tell you their middle school plan? So you can slam them and their plan? High-strung busybodies deserve to be ignored, however they elect to communicate.

Agree that Deal isn't much of a prize.

Please, BASIS is hardly the be and end all for MS rigor here in the Information Age. We know bookworms with math smarts who've gone from Two Rivers, Stuart Hobson and Inspired Teaching to top 5 DC privates for HS.

We also know plenty of people who stay at Basis only for middle and then go to those same DC privates for HS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, that's right. A couple of this year's Ivy League-bound seniors took AP Calculus AB in 8th grade and BC in 9th grade. They scored high.

The regular trajectory at Basis is calculus in 9th grade, right? My 7th grader has algebra this year, I think pre-calc in 8th and then calc in 9th? Which still seems crazy early to me (back in the dinosaur late 80s I took calc in 12th grade - and that was the advanced track).

Wrong. The regular trajectory is Calculus AB in 10th grade. Very advanced students can do it in 9th, but it is rare to get that placement, and Basis is very upfront about that. They also have a slower track that will have you do Calculus AB in 11th grade.

It's interesting that they super accelerate only to split calculus into two years. At most of the NYC magnets, kids do either AB Calculus or BC Calculus... a advanced math student would never do both. There is roughly a 50% overlap between the two curriculums and you can easily skip right to BC Calc with a strong foundation. (In fact, the BC Calculus AP test gives a subscore for AB Calc.) So I find it an interesting decision to super accelerate math but then drag calculus out. If you're a math kid who is more interested in a facet of math other than calculus (number theory, discrete math, abstract algebra, stats, formal logic), it seems a particularly weird choice (although I've admittedly never understood the absolute obsession with calculus in HS given that engineering, comp sci, etc are actually more discrete math heavy).

You don't have to take AB and BC Calc -- you just have to take 1 AP Calc course. I know in the past they offered Game Theory and Linear Algebra, but not sure if they are going forward. It probably depends on staffing, and how many people are taking these classes.

Is AP Calc mandatory?

AP Calc AB is mandatory.

Can you skip it to take just BC? Because, if not, the above reply about only having to take "one AP Calc course" is accurate... but misleading. Any serious math/science major has to take BC Calc. So then my previous criticism of BASIS for rushing through acceleration only to drag out calculus stands. That suggests it really is for the AP scores, because that trajectory makes no sense for a good math student. My HS had about 50% of kids take BC Calc and they averaged a 4.6 for the AP exam in my year and NONE of those kids took AB Calc first.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, that's right. A couple of this year's Ivy League-bound seniors took AP Calculus AB in 8th grade and BC in 9th grade. They scored high.

The regular trajectory at Basis is calculus in 9th grade, right? My 7th grader has algebra this year, I think pre-calc in 8th and then calc in 9th? Which still seems crazy early to me (back in the dinosaur late 80s I took calc in 12th grade - and that was the advanced track).

Wrong. The regular trajectory is Calculus AB in 10th grade. Very advanced students can do it in 9th, but it is rare to get that placement, and Basis is very upfront about that. They also have a slower track that will have you do Calculus AB in 11th grade.

It's interesting that they super accelerate only to split calculus into two years. At most of the NYC magnets, kids do either AB Calculus or BC Calculus... a advanced math student would never do both. There is roughly a 50% overlap between the two curriculums and you can easily skip right to BC Calc with a strong foundation. (In fact, the BC Calculus AP test gives a subscore for AB Calc.) So I find it an interesting decision to super accelerate math but then drag calculus out. If you're a math kid who is more interested in a facet of math other than calculus (number theory, discrete math, abstract algebra, stats, formal logic), it seems a particularly weird choice (although I've admittedly never understood the absolute obsession with calculus in HS given that engineering, comp sci, etc are actually more discrete math heavy).

You don't have to take AB and BC Calc -- you just have to take 1 AP Calc course. I know in the past they offered Game Theory and Linear Algebra, but not sure if they are going forward. It probably depends on staffing, and how many people are taking these classes.

Is AP Calc mandatory?

AP Calc AB is mandatory.

Can you skip it to take just BC? Because, if not, the above reply about only having to take "one AP Calc course" is accurate... but misleading. Any serious math/science major has to take BC Calc. So then my previous criticism of BASIS for rushing through acceleration only to drag out calculus stands. That suggests it really is for the AP scores, because that trajectory makes no sense for a good math student. My HS had about 50% of kids take BC Calc and they averaged a 4.6 for the AP exam in my year and NONE of those kids took AB Calc first.

You should call Basis and find out, if you are that interested.

[Anonymous]

BASIS requires 6 AP exams to graduate. 1 must be in Calculus, but it doesn't specify AB or BC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve lived in DC since the 90s, sent my kids to charters and DCPS for the last 9 years. Turned down a BASIS spot. Admins seemed too young, inexperienced yet full of themselves, drank far too much of the Arizona Kool-aid. It’s sad to me that BASIS is the best we can do for our best and brightest EotP. Nothing like the wonderful, joyful, contrarian education I got at Hunter. To each her own.

What does that mean?

It means she drank far too much of the Hunter Kool-aid.

Hunter is wonderful, joyful, and contrarian, and everything else pales in comparison. For God's sake, people, Lin Manuel Miranda went to Hunter College!!!

Oh...except for this, of course...

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/ny-hunter-college-professor-sex-abuse-20200828-yd5hjeqfajcvbalot46m7putbi-story.html

Mr. Randolph did a lot of good for a lot of people and was really beloved at the school. It's shocking and upsetting that he also did that. That said, two or three victims over 25 years that there is no evidence the school knew about -- and that he was forced to resign once the first victim came forward -- really has nothing to do with Hunter as a school, Basis as a school or any comparison between the school. I do think Hunter is a much better school than what I hear about Basis... not least of all because extra curricular activities and the arts curriculum at Hunter were (fairly obviously given many of its most notable alumni) some of its main strengths. Obviously the college admissions are also incredible. But Hunter does prove that facilities don't make a school because the Hunter building may actually be even worse than Basis'. Also, Basis is clearly a very good fit for some kids and considerably better than most of what the district has to offer. One of my kids seems like a perfect fit for Basis and I won't hesitate to lottery there. Ultimately, comparing a long-established gifted & talented magnet in NYC with a relatively new pure lottery school in DC is a fool's errand in any case.

Hunter College High School was founded in 1869, and its accepted students constitute the top 1/4 of 1% of NYC students based on test scores.

BASIS DC is a decade old and 100% lottery.

Agree that any comparison is a fool's errand.

Not a fool's errand. Many of my children's elementary school peers, now at BASIS, remind me of my Hunter classmates at the same ages.

BASIS is more than 30 years old: it's a franchise, vs. a stand-alone school like Latin. Not honest to speak of BASIS as 100% lottery. The is a self-selecting group of families sold on having academic stragglers aggressively weeded out in middle school.

Plenty of BASIS students have parents with multiple graduate degrees from elite institutions, much more so than at Hunter, at least in my day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve lived in DC since the 90s, sent my kids to charters and DCPS for the last 9 years. Turned down a BASIS spot. Admins seemed too young, inexperienced yet full of themselves, drank far too much of the Arizona Kool-aid. It’s sad to me that BASIS is the best we can do for our best and brightest EotP. Nothing like the wonderful, joyful, contrarian education I got at Hunter. To each her own.

What does that mean?

It means she drank far too much of the Hunter Kool-aid.

Hunter is wonderful, joyful, and contrarian, and everything else pales in comparison. For God's sake, people, Lin Manuel Miranda went to Hunter College!!!

Oh...except for this, of course...

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/ny-hunter-college-professor-sex-abuse-20200828-yd5hjeqfajcvbalot46m7putbi-story.html

Mr. Randolph did a lot of good for a lot of people and was really beloved at the school. It's shocking and upsetting that he also did that. That said, two or three victims over 25 years that there is no evidence the school knew about -- and that he was forced to resign once the first victim came forward -- really has nothing to do with Hunter as a school, Basis as a school or any comparison between the school. I do think Hunter is a much better school than what I hear about Basis... not least of all because extra curricular activities and the arts curriculum at Hunter were (fairly obviously given many of its most notable alumni) some of its main strengths. Obviously the college admissions are also incredible. But Hunter does prove that facilities don't make a school because the Hunter building may actually be even worse than Basis'. Also, Basis is clearly a very good fit for some kids and considerably better than most of what the district has to offer. One of my kids seems like a perfect fit for Basis and I won't hesitate to lottery there. Ultimately, comparing a long-established gifted & talented magnet in NYC with a relatively new pure lottery school in DC is a fool's errand in any case.

Hunter College High School was founded in 1869, and its accepted students constitute the top 1/4 of 1% of NYC students based on test scores.

BASIS DC is a decade old and 100% lottery.

Agree that any comparison is a fool's errand.

Not a fool's errand. Many of my children's elementary school peers, now at BASIS, remind me of my Hunter classmates at the same ages.

BASIS is more than 30 years old: it's a franchise, vs. a stand-alone school like Latin. Not honest to speak of BASIS as 100% lottery. The is a self-selecting group of families sold on having academic stragglers aggressively weeded out in middle school.

Plenty of BASIS students have parents with multiple graduate degrees from elite institutions, much more so than at Hunter, at least in my day.

Basis DC is 10 years old.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve lived in DC since the 90s, sent my kids to charters and DCPS for the last 9 years. Turned down a BASIS spot. Admins seemed too young, inexperienced yet full of themselves, drank far too much of the Arizona Kool-aid. It’s sad to me that BASIS is the best we can do for our best and brightest EotP. Nothing like the wonderful, joyful, contrarian education I got at Hunter. To each her own.

What does that mean?

It means she drank far too much of the Hunter Kool-aid.

Hunter is wonderful, joyful, and contrarian, and everything else pales in comparison. For God's sake, people, Lin Manuel Miranda went to Hunter College!!!

Oh...except for this, of course...

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/ny-hunter-college-professor-sex-abuse-20200828-yd5hjeqfajcvbalot46m7putbi-story.html

Mr. Randolph did a lot of good for a lot of people and was really beloved at the school. It's shocking and upsetting that he also did that. That said, two or three victims over 25 years that there is no evidence the school knew about -- and that he was forced to resign once the first victim came forward -- really has nothing to do with Hunter as a school, Basis as a school or any comparison between the school. I do think Hunter is a much better school than what I hear about Basis... not least of all because extra curricular activities and the arts curriculum at Hunter were (fairly obviously given many of its most notable alumni) some of its main strengths. Obviously the college admissions are also incredible. But Hunter does prove that facilities don't make a school because the Hunter building may actually be even worse than Basis'. Also, Basis is clearly a very good fit for some kids and considerably better than most of what the district has to offer. One of my kids seems like a perfect fit for Basis and I won't hesitate to lottery there. Ultimately, comparing a long-established gifted & talented magnet in NYC with a relatively new pure lottery school in DC is a fool's errand in any case.

Hunter College High School was founded in 1869, and its accepted students constitute the top 1/4 of 1% of NYC students based on test scores.

BASIS DC is a decade old and 100% lottery.

Agree that any comparison is a fool's errand.

Not a fool's errand. Many of my children's elementary school peers, now at BASIS, remind me of my Hunter classmates at the same ages.

BASIS is more than 30 years old: it's a franchise, vs. a stand-alone school like Latin. Not honest to speak of BASIS as 100% lottery. The is a self-selecting group of families sold on having academic stragglers aggressively weeded out in middle school.

Plenty of BASIS students have parents with multiple graduate degrees from elite institutions, much more so than at Hunter, at least in my day.

Undeniably, many BASIS students could test into a GT magnet middle school program if given the chance. The school is jammed with UMC CH students whose parents lack confidence in the Ward 6 DCPS middle schools!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve lived in DC since the 90s, sent my kids to charters and DCPS for the last 9 years. Turned down a BASIS spot. Admins seemed too young, inexperienced yet full of themselves, drank far too much of the Arizona Kool-aid. It’s sad to me that BASIS is the best we can do for our best and brightest EotP. Nothing like the wonderful, joyful, contrarian education I got at Hunter. To each her own.

What does that mean?

It means she drank far too much of the Hunter Kool-aid.

Hunter is wonderful, joyful, and contrarian, and everything else pales in comparison. For God's sake, people, Lin Manuel Miranda went to Hunter College!!!

Oh...except for this, of course...

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/ny-hunter-college-professor-sex-abuse-20200828-yd5hjeqfajcvbalot46m7putbi-story.html

Mr. Randolph did a lot of good for a lot of people and was really beloved at the school. It's shocking and upsetting that he also did that. That said, two or three victims over 25 years that there is no evidence the school knew about -- and that he was forced to resign once the first victim came forward -- really has nothing to do with Hunter as a school, Basis as a school or any comparison between the school. I do think Hunter is a much better school than what I hear about Basis... not least of all because extra curricular activities and the arts curriculum at Hunter were (fairly obviously given many of its most notable alumni) some of its main strengths. Obviously the college admissions are also incredible. But Hunter does prove that facilities don't make a school because the Hunter building may actually be even worse than Basis'. Also, Basis is clearly a very good fit for some kids and considerably better than most of what the district has to offer. One of my kids seems like a perfect fit for Basis and I won't hesitate to lottery there. Ultimately, comparing a long-established gifted & talented magnet in NYC with a relatively new pure lottery school in DC is a fool's errand in any case.

Hunter College High School was founded in 1869, and its accepted students constitute the top 1/4 of 1% of NYC students based on test scores.

BASIS DC is a decade old and 100% lottery.

Agree that any comparison is a fool's errand.

Not a fool's errand. Many of my children's elementary school peers, now at BASIS, remind me of my Hunter classmates at the same ages.

BASIS is more than 30 years old: it's a franchise, vs. a stand-alone school like Latin. Not honest to speak of BASIS as 100% lottery. The is a self-selecting group of families sold on having academic stragglers aggressively weeded out in middle school.

Plenty of BASIS students have parents with multiple graduate degrees from elite institutions, much more so than at Hunter, at least in my day.

Basis DC is 10 years old.

No senior admin in DC is new to the franchise and neither are many of the teachers. BASIS DC is just one branch of Basis.ed. There are two dozen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve lived in DC since the 90s, sent my kids to charters and DCPS for the last 9 years. Turned down a BASIS spot. Admins seemed too young, inexperienced yet full of themselves, drank far too much of the Arizona Kool-aid. It’s sad to me that BASIS is the best we can do for our best and brightest EotP. Nothing like the wonderful, joyful, contrarian education I got at Hunter. To each her own.

What does that mean?

It means she drank far too much of the Hunter Kool-aid.

Hunter is wonderful, joyful, and contrarian, and everything else pales in comparison. For God's sake, people, Lin Manuel Miranda went to Hunter College!!!

Oh...except for this, of course...

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/ny-hunter-college-professor-sex-abuse-20200828-yd5hjeqfajcvbalot46m7putbi-story.html

Mr. Randolph did a lot of good for a lot of people and was really beloved at the school. It's shocking and upsetting that he also did that. That said, two or three victims over 25 years that there is no evidence the school knew about -- and that he was forced to resign once the first victim came forward -- really has nothing to do with Hunter as a school, Basis as a school or any comparison between the school. I do think Hunter is a much better school than what I hear about Basis... not least of all because extra curricular activities and the arts curriculum at Hunter were (fairly obviously given many of its most notable alumni) some of its main strengths. Obviously the college admissions are also incredible. But Hunter does prove that facilities don't make a school because the Hunter building may actually be even worse than Basis'. Also, Basis is clearly a very good fit for some kids and considerably better than most of what the district has to offer. One of my kids seems like a perfect fit for Basis and I won't hesitate to lottery there. Ultimately, comparing a long-established gifted & talented magnet in NYC with a relatively new pure lottery school in DC is a fool's errand in any case.

Hunter College High School was founded in 1869, and its accepted students constitute the top 1/4 of 1% of NYC students based on test scores.

BASIS DC is a decade old and 100% lottery.

Agree that any comparison is a fool's errand.

Not a fool's errand. Many of my children's elementary school peers, now at BASIS, remind me of my Hunter classmates at the same ages.

BASIS is more than 30 years old: it's a franchise, vs. a stand-alone school like Latin. Not honest to speak of BASIS as 100% lottery. The is a self-selecting group of families sold on having academic stragglers aggressively weeded out in middle school.

Plenty of BASIS students have parents with multiple graduate degrees from elite institutions, much more so than at Hunter, at least in my day.

Basis DC is 10 years old.

No senior admin in DC is new to the franchise and neither are many of the teachers. BASIS DC is just one branch of Basis.ed. There are two dozen.

Wrong.