BASIS DC will seek to expand to include K to 4th grade

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Anonymous wrote:Would a BASIS elementary school also be part-owned by Chinese investors? What would the children be taught about China in this school?

You post this all the time. It has been explained to you over and over that the investment was NOT made into BASIS charter schools. The BASIS Independent Private schools took the investment. If you were actually concerned with Chinese investment you'd grasp this concept and move on. But you are a troll.

Sorry but there are just too many stories of weird essay assignments about China at BASIS DC for me to feel comfortable with. And ultimately, it's all one organization even if it has two distinct parts.

So you won't let facts get in the way of what you believe? Hard to argue with crazy. Why are so many DCUM posters so similar to MAGA nit jobs?

With which of my assertions do you disagree? Kids were assigned weird slanted essay prompts. BASIS is one organization with two parts.

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Anonymous wrote:Again, BASIS DC isn’t allowed to backfill. The Arizona BASIS schools do backfill. They also administer a placement test at every grade, and have no qualms about making your child repeat several grades if necessary, whether your kid enters in kindergarten or 11th grade.

Why would it not be allowed?

Because the BASIS network requires that, if you backfill, you must administer a placement test at every grade & have kids repeat however many grades the testing seems necessary. Regardless of the grade the student is attempting to enter.

Do you really think that would fly around here?

So you're saying that BASIS headquarters is *choosing* not to allow BASIS DC to backfill in a way that DC charter governance will allow. BASIS headquarters could make an exception to their rule, and they're choosing not to.

BASIS is a charter school. It can basically do what it wants. If you don't like it, go to your local in-boundary DCPS school. Nobody is forcing you to go to BASIS.

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Anonymous wrote:Again, BASIS DC isn’t allowed to backfill. The Arizona BASIS schools do backfill. They also administer a placement test at every grade, and have no qualms about making your child repeat several grades if necessary, whether your kid enters in kindergarten or 11th grade.

Why would it not be allowed?

Because the BASIS network requires that, if you backfill, you must administer a placement test at every grade & have kids repeat however many grades the testing seems necessary. Regardless of the grade the student is attempting to enter.

Do you really think that would fly around here?

So you're saying that BASIS headquarters is *choosing* not to allow BASIS DC to backfill in a way that DC charter governance will allow. BASIS headquarters could make an exception to their rule, and they're choosing not to.

Why would they do that? It would ruin their model. Their model is tracking & competency. Allowing the school to backfill without requiring placement tests & grade repetition defeats the purpose of the school.

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Anonymous wrote:Again, BASIS DC isn’t allowed to backfill. The Arizona BASIS schools do backfill. They also administer a placement test at every grade, and have no qualms about making your child repeat several grades if necessary, whether your kid enters in kindergarten or 11th grade.

Why would it not be allowed?

Because the BASIS network requires that, if you backfill, you must administer a placement test at every grade & have kids repeat however many grades the testing seems necessary. Regardless of the grade the student is attempting to enter.

Do you really think that would fly around here?

So you're saying that BASIS headquarters is *choosing* not to allow BASIS DC to backfill in a way that DC charter governance will allow. BASIS headquarters could make an exception to their rule, and they're choosing not to.

Why would they do that? It would ruin their model. Their model is tracking & competency. Allowing the school to backfill without requiring placement tests & grade repetition defeats the purpose of the school.

+1 The fixation from these people is so weird. Don't like it, don't enroll. If these people spent a fraction of their energy making their own schools better they'd be better off. I cannot imagine being this fixated on a place my kids doesn't attend. The strangest part of it all is that these people seem conflicted: they see to be both jealous of and thirsty for BASIS while they complain incessantly about BASIS.

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Anonymous wrote:As a BASIS parent, I don’t like this because I’ve seen the chaos that results when DCPCSB takes a solid school and has it replicate/expand. Mundo Verde was an amazing, highly sought after school and then it opened a second campus (that current parents fought and delayed because they knew what would happen) and now it’s a total mess. Two Rivers - same thing - second campus. People are bailing because it’s too much to manage and it’s a chaotic disaster. LAMB: opened new campuses and realized it was a shitshow after the school basically fell apart - then consolidated.

There is no denying that this elementary school project is going to draw time and resources away from the current school. It seems wholly unnecessary given that we have a wealth of solid elementary DCPS and charter school options already in the city. BASIS really should not get cocky, given that much of their success is based on being able to draw kids who have the resources and support to keep up with the BASIS model, and those folks are unlikely to leave their elementary schools (but are willing to leave for middle).

I think this is a bad call, and it makes me second guess choosing BASIS.

Apples and oranges. I too suffered from another charter school that tried to replicate and instead destroyed what they had and created something not nearly as good as the original. That is not what is happening here. BASIS isn't duplicating or replicating anything. They are not expanding the current classes or replicating the school. They are creating K-4, which logically comes before 5-12. The teachers who teach 7th grade aren't going to be also teaching 1st. This is also (unlike MV, TR) not an experiment in the unknown. BASIS has @40 other K-12 charter schools; they know how to do this.

Disagree. Here’s an apples to apples example: Cap Hill Mont at Logan. Highly sought after fairly strong program. Expanded into middle school. Now its a mess.

Anytime you’re taking existing resources and stretching them more thin, you risk f’ing up what you have. Standing up an entirely new school *AND* a new facility is a huge project, that is going to pull a ton of resources from the existing school. Resources that are already stretched very thin.

This isn’t good for the city and it isn’t good for BASIS families, faculty or staff.

Nope, you missed the mark again. CHML added on a MS in a Montessori model that was failing in upper ES to begin with. The model was designed for ECE and the MS addition was a matter of first impression. They were trying something new. As has been explained several times on this thread, BASIS operates @40 other K-12 charter schools across the country. This is not an expansion that requires them to build something new.

You seem to be trying very hard to make a case for why this is bad for DC and/or BASIS. This in only bad for the Hill ES that use BASIS as their god given right of passage.

Lady, just because the BASIS franchise operates elementary schools in other jurisdictions, doesn’t mean opening one in DC is a good idea for either the already existing middle/high school or the educational landscape in the city. BASIS opening an elementary school in DC is just as much “trying something new” as CHML opening a middle school (you think Montessori middle schools are a new thing???) or Mundo Verde opening a new campus.

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The last thing this city needs is another middling elementary. We already have that. And middling is exactly what BASIS is. It *looks* impressive, but if it were assessed relative to demographics and taking into account the refusal to backfill, to serve students with high-level IEPs, or to take a fair share of kids moving into the city, it would not look impressive at all. If you compared only the subset of JR students that attended a well-performing starting in 5th, had been at JR since 9th, have no significant special needs, and are on or above grade level, then JR would look really good too. That is why people complain about BASIS, and that is why we don't need any more BASIS schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Again, BASIS DC isn’t allowed to backfill. The Arizona BASIS schools do backfill. They also administer a placement test at every grade, and have no qualms about making your child repeat several grades if necessary, whether your kid enters in kindergarten or 11th grade.

Why would it not be allowed?

Because the BASIS network requires that, if you backfill, you must administer a placement test at every grade & have kids repeat however many grades the testing seems necessary. Regardless of the grade the student is attempting to enter.

Do you really think that would fly around here?

So you're saying that BASIS headquarters is *choosing* not to allow BASIS DC to backfill in a way that DC charter governance will allow. BASIS headquarters could make an exception to their rule, and they're choosing not to.

BASIS is a charter school. It can basically do what it wants. If you don't like it, go to your local in-boundary DCPS school. Nobody is forcing you to go to BASIS.

Taking public dollars.

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Anonymous wrote:Again, BASIS DC isn’t allowed to backfill. The Arizona BASIS schools do backfill. They also administer a placement test at every grade, and have no qualms about making your child repeat several grades if necessary, whether your kid enters in kindergarten or 11th grade.

Why would it not be allowed?

Because the BASIS network requires that, if you backfill, you must administer a placement test at every grade & have kids repeat however many grades the testing seems necessary. Regardless of the grade the student is attempting to enter.

Do you really think that would fly around here?

So you're saying that BASIS headquarters is *choosing* not to allow BASIS DC to backfill in a way that DC charter governance will allow. BASIS headquarters could make an exception to their rule, and they're choosing not to.

BASIS is a charter school. It can basically do what it wants. If you don't like it, go to your local in-boundary DCPS school. Nobody is forcing you to go to BASIS.

Taking public dollars.

Yes, it’s a public charter school. That fight was over 20 years ago. If you want to ban public charter schools in DC, you have to ban all of them.

Meanwhile, charters were supposed to provide competition that would make DCPS better. Still waiting 20 years for that.

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Wow, I just googled the locations of BASIS schools. They’re all in NYC, DC, Sillicon Valley, Phoenix & Scottsdale. If their model is go great, why aren’t there any in some rural industrial town in Pa, Detroit, St. Louis, Memphis or Buffalo?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, I just googled the locations of BASIS schools. They’re all in NYC, DC, Sillicon Valley, Phoenix & Scottsdale. If their model is go great, why aren’t there any in some rural industrial town in Pa, Detroit, St. Louis, Memphis or Buffalo?

WTF does this even mean? And what makes you think it won’t be in any of those cities one day? Maybe they will?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, I just googled the locations of BASIS schools. They’re all in NYC, DC, Sillicon Valley, Phoenix & Scottsdale. If their model is go great, why aren’t there any in some rural industrial town in Pa, Detroit, St. Louis, Memphis or Buffalo?

WTF does this even mean? And what makes you think it won’t be in any of those cities one day? Maybe they will?

That all BASIS schools are currently in wealthy areas where the median HHI is over $100k.

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Why would BASIS open a school starting in K when the best thing about DC is free PK? Why not start in PK?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, I just googled the locations of BASIS schools. They’re all in NYC, DC, Sillicon Valley, Phoenix & Scottsdale. If their model is go great, why aren’t there any in some rural industrial town in Pa, Detroit, St. Louis, Memphis or Buffalo?

WTF does this even mean? And what makes you think it won’t be in any of those cities one day? Maybe they will?

That all BASIS schools are currently in wealthy areas where the median HHI is over $100k.

Why doesn’t Whole Foods locate EOTR?

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Anonymous wrote:Why would BASIS open a school starting in K when the best thing about DC is free PK? Why not start in PK?

It’s not “the Basis model.”

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, I just googled the locations of BASIS schools. They’re all in NYC, DC, Sillicon Valley, Phoenix & Scottsdale. If their model is go great, why aren’t there any in some rural industrial town in Pa, Detroit, St. Louis, Memphis or Buffalo?

You are confusing for profit BASIS Independent Schools (NY, Silicon Valley) with the free, pure lottery charter schools. The latter are in DC, Mesa, Phoenix, Baton Rouge and a bunch of other urban environments. Troll better.