BASIS Incoming 5th Grade

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not really. Have you ever visited an in-demand public middle schools in Fairfax, Arlington or MoCo? Many of those schools have significant high SES, low SES, white, Asian, AA and Latino representation. They also offer strong music and fine arts programs, fine libraries and computer labs, green playing fields, a great variety of competitive and non-competitive extra-curriculars, flexibility on language instruction for bilingual students...all sorts of things BASIS doesn't offer. What BASIS does offer are small, tight-knit high school cohorts and decent college counseling, I'll grant you that.

Can you name a few? We had a hard time finding high performing schools that were diverse and those that had some diversity had pretty concerning achievement gaps.

[Anonymous]

Our Latina cleaning lady, who lives in Silver Spring, sends one son to the Tacoma Park MD MS test-in magnet math program and another to the Eastern MS (Silver Spring) test-in humanities program. The county provides her with all sorts of GT inputs for her boys, including tuition free summer enrichment and school supplies. I tutor an AA student who lives in public housing in Arlington. He attends the seriously diverse Jefferson MS in Arlington where he qualifies for GT services for math. Hint: VA and MA have laws mandating GT education. DC doesn't.

BASIS boosters love to claim that their program is head and shoulders above the best suburban programs academically for both low and high SES students. Oh really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our Latina cleaning lady, who lives in Silver Spring, sends one son to the Tacoma Park MD MS test-in magnet math program and another to the Eastern MS (Silver Spring) test-in humanities program. The county provides her with all sorts of GT inputs for her boys, including tuition free summer enrichment and school supplies. I tutor an AA student who lives in public housing in Arlington. He attends the seriously diverse Jefferson MS in Arlington where he qualifies for GT services for math. Hint: VA and MA have laws mandating GT education. DC doesn't.

BASIS boosters love to claim that their program is head and shoulders above the best suburban programs academically for both low and high SES students. Oh really?

Are you white?

[Anonymous]

We are not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not really. Have you ever visited an in-demand public middle schools in Fairfax, Arlington or MoCo? Many of those schools have significant high SES, low SES, white, Asian, AA and Latino representation. They also offer strong music and fine arts programs, fine libraries and computer labs, green playing fields, a great variety of competitive and non-competitive extra-curriculars, flexibility on language instruction for bilingual students...all sorts of things BASIS doesn't offer. What BASIS does offer are small, tight-knit high school cohorts and decent college counseling, I'll grant you that.

Might want to remove the decent college counseling part - they get good results because the kids are top-notch.

[Anonymous]

Really? We've heard that college counseling at BASIS is excellent, with the kids focus senior year applying to college. Don't traditional academics basically end with junior year?

[Anonymous]

Fifth grade enrollment is up to 113 people (from 101 on Monday). But I have no idea what the overall target number is this year (especially in light of improved upper grade retention not to mention COVID).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fifth grade enrollment is up to 113 people (from 101 on Monday). But I have no idea what the overall target number is this year (especially in light of improved upper grade retention not to mention COVID).

My kids are enrolled at Basis as 5th graders. How do we view the directory or see if we are included?

[Anonymous]

Oops never mind, found the directory.

[Anonymous]

Originally #112. Got a call yesterday. Probably will turn down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Originally #112. Got a call yesterday. Probably will turn down.

I had a lower number and still haven’t gotten a call or an email. I’m wondering how they are calling people off the waitlist. I’m sensing that something isn’t right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Originally #112. Got a call yesterday. Probably will turn down.

I had a lower number and still haven’t gotten a call or an email. I’m wondering how they are calling people off the waitlist. I’m sensing that something isn’t right.

Have you logged into MySchoolDC? Where does it show you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Originally #112. Got a call yesterday. Probably will turn down.

Where are you headed off to or staying?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Originally #112. Got a call yesterday. Probably will turn down.

I had a lower number and still haven’t gotten a call or an email. I’m wondering how they are calling people off the waitlist. I’m sensing that something isn’t right.

Have you logged into MySchoolDC? Where does it show you?

As number 4!!! I think there is something shady about this process. They made offers above me but not to me? I confirmed my telephone number and email address with MySchoolDC. I’ve tried to reach out to the school but it keeps going to voicemail. Sent an email and left a vm. Let’s see if anyone returns my inquiry.

@#112- Did you accept or turn down the spot?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Originally #112. Got a call yesterday. Probably will turn down.

I had a lower number and still haven’t gotten a call or an email. I’m wondering how they are calling people off the waitlist. I’m sensing that something isn’t right.

Have you logged into MySchoolDC? Where does it show you?

As number 4!!! I think there is something shady about this process. They made offers above me but not to me? I confirmed my telephone number and email address with MySchoolDC. I’ve tried to reach out to the school but it keeps going to voicemail. Sent an email and left a vm. Let’s see if anyone returns my inquiry.

@#112- Did you accept or turn down the spot?

Or the ppp is an anonymous poster making things up to stir the pot...