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

[Anonymous]

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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.”

I think you intended that as some sort of dig. It isn't. BASIS is opening K-12 because that's what the established model is. They have curricula policies and training for K+. They are not trying to reinvent the wheel here.

[Anonymous]

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?

Your Google (and spelling) skills aren't very good.

Here you go: https://basiscurriculumschools.com/home.php.

[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.

No. They aren't. Setting aside that you are looking at for profit, tuition schools in NYC, McLean and Silicon Valley (not the charter schools), the charter schools are located in places like Mesa ($61k), Tucson ($45k), Phoenix ($60k), Baton Rouge ($44k), Peoria ($76k).

What do people like you get from just making up sh*t on anonymous forums?

[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?

Whole Foods is a for-profit business, not a school.

[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?

Your Google (and spelling) skills aren't very good.

Here you go: https://basiscurriculumschools.com/home.php.

That's the wrong link. That link shows the schools using the BASIS curriculum. It is apples and oranges to suggest a private school that charged $50k/yr in tuition is the same thing and in the same category as tuition free charter schools. The charter schools are here: https://enrollbasis.com/about-basis-charter-schools/contact-basis-charter-schools/

[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?

Your Google (and spelling) skills aren't very good.

Here you go: https://basiscurriculumschools.com/home.php.

Corrected link: https://basiscurriculumschools.com/home.php

[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?

Your Google (and spelling) skills aren't very good.

Here you go: https://basiscurriculumschools.com/home.php.

That's the wrong link. That link shows the schools using the BASIS curriculum. It is apples and oranges to suggest a private school that charged $50k/yr in tuition is the same thing and in the same category as tuition free charter schools. The charter schools are here: https://enrollbasis.com/about-basis-charter-schools/contact-basis-charter-schools/

No, the link is right, it just has an extra period.

Just go here and click on the yellow bar: https://basiscurriculumschools.com/home.php

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Your Google (and spelling) skills aren't very good.

Here you go: https://basiscurriculumschools.com/home.php.

That's the wrong link. That link shows the schools using the BASIS curriculum. It is apples and oranges to suggest a private school that charged $50k/yr in tuition is the same thing and in the same category as tuition free charter schools. The charter schools are here: https://enrollbasis.com/about-basis-charter-schools/contact-basis-charter-schools/

No, the link is right, it just has an extra period.

Just go here and click on the yellow bar: https://basiscurriculumschools.com/home.php

Nope. Reading is fundamental my friend. You linked to all schools that use the BASIS curriculum. That includes private for profit schools. The relevant discussion is BASIS charter schools. These are the schools that are lottery, open to all and free to attendees.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are they planning to offer that is in any way innovative, interesting, or different? Other than a willingness to push out low performers, of course.

They really dont push out the lowest performers - they dont help the bright kids excel and spend all of their effort dragging the kids who are behind. it would be a better place if they let more of the weaker kids go to different schools

That's actually illegal to do but ok.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Because they are taking PUBLIC school money so yea it concerns anyone with a child in public school.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Because they are taking PUBLIC school money so yea it concerns anyone with a child in public school.

They aren't "taking" anything. They are getting a capitated payment for educating kids that DCPS doesn't have to. Your ire would be more sincere if it was aimed at charters with bad educational and testing outcomes. Instead you come here day after day and how at the moon and rail against the top performing school in DC. You and yours aren't actually interested in educating kids outside of JKLM and JR, you desire only to protect an entrenched WTU, bloated public school infrastructure.

Charters are here. Deal with it. Now go back to your WTU meeting and make some more unreasonable demands.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Your Google (and spelling) skills aren't very good.

Here you go: https://basiscurriculumschools.com/home.php.

That's the wrong link. That link shows the schools using the BASIS curriculum. It is apples and oranges to suggest a private school that charged $50k/yr in tuition is the same thing and in the same category as tuition free charter schools. The charter schools are here: https://enrollbasis.com/about-basis-charter-schools/contact-basis-charter-schools/

No, the link is right, it just has an extra period.

Just go here and click on the yellow bar: https://basiscurriculumschools.com/home.php

Nope. Reading is fundamental my friend. You linked to all schools that use the BASIS curriculum. That includes private for profit schools. The relevant discussion is BASIS charter schools. These are the schools that are lottery, open to all and free to attendees.

Can't believe I am responding to this dumb response but no, you are incorrect. You are the one that is functionally illiterate when it comes to websites.

The link shows Basis charter schools (yellow bar), Basis private schools (red bar), and Basis international schools (blue bar).

If you click on the yellow bar, you get Basis charter schools--just as PP stated above.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Because they are taking PUBLIC school money so yea it concerns anyone with a child in public school.

Too bad your opinion is less than worthless and there's nothing you can do about it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Your Google (and spelling) skills aren't very good.

Here you go: https://basiscurriculumschools.com/home.php.

That's the wrong link. That link shows the schools using the BASIS curriculum. It is apples and oranges to suggest a private school that charged $50k/yr in tuition is the same thing and in the same category as tuition free charter schools. The charter schools are here: https://enrollbasis.com/about-basis-charter-schools/contact-basis-charter-schools/

No, the link is right, it just has an extra period.

Just go here and click on the yellow bar: https://basiscurriculumschools.com/home.php

Nope. Reading is fundamental my friend. You linked to all schools that use the BASIS curriculum. That includes private for profit schools. The relevant discussion is BASIS charter schools. These are the schools that are lottery, open to all and free to attendees.

Can't believe I am responding to this dumb response but no, you are incorrect. You are the one that is functionally illiterate when it comes to websites.

The link shows Basis charter schools (yellow bar), Basis private schools (red bar), and Basis international schools (blue bar).

If you click on the yellow bar, you get Basis charter schools--just as PP stated above.

You fed a link with private schools to a bunch of people who don't understand the difference between charter and tuition for profit schools. You did this after several people already chimed in to say BASIS had charter schools in NY and Silicon Valley (they don't). Just own that what you posted wasn't exactly on point. You are like a child who can't just accept even the most mild criticism.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Your Google (and spelling) skills aren't very good.

Here you go: https://basiscurriculumschools.com/home.php.

That's the wrong link. That link shows the schools using the BASIS curriculum. It is apples and oranges to suggest a private school that charged $50k/yr in tuition is the same thing and in the same category as tuition free charter schools. The charter schools are here: https://enrollbasis.com/about-basis-charter-schools/contact-basis-charter-schools/

No, the link is right, it just has an extra period.

Just go here and click on the yellow bar: https://basiscurriculumschools.com/home.php

Nope. Reading is fundamental my friend. You linked to all schools that use the BASIS curriculum. That includes private for profit schools. The relevant discussion is BASIS charter schools. These are the schools that are lottery, open to all and free to attendees.

Can't believe I am responding to this dumb response but no, you are incorrect. You are the one that is functionally illiterate when it comes to websites.

The link shows Basis charter schools (yellow bar), Basis private schools (red bar), and Basis international schools (blue bar).

If you click on the yellow bar, you get Basis charter schools--just as PP stated above.

You fed a link with private schools to a bunch of people who don't understand the difference between charter and tuition for profit schools. You did this after several people already chimed in to say BASIS had charter schools in NY and Silicon Valley (they don't). Just own that what you posted wasn't exactly on point. You are like a child who can't just accept even the most mild criticism.

Just admit you were wrong, dumsh*t.