2023 Niche results: Basis McLean #1 in VA in 3 categories: best private HS in VA, best college prep…

[Anonymous]

Where does the Academies of Loudoun rank?

[Anonymous]

BASIS McLean is ranked among the top in the whole DC area:
#2 best high school for stem (only after TJ)

Impressive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BASIS McLean is ranked among the top in the whole DC area:
#2 best high school for stem (only after TJ)

Impressive.

Do you have a bot program that reposts the same hype every day or two? Sure looks like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BASIS McLean is ranked among the top in the whole DC area:
#2 best high school for stem (only after TJ)

Impressive.

Yes. But it’s the first time rank number 1 private in VA.
#3 for K-12 private and #4 for private high in the whole dc area.
Hope it can keep it for many years to come.

[Anonymous]

I’m sure the previous post made more sense in its native Mandarin.

[Anonymous]

Someone is getting paid to keep Basis in the news. Seems like it is a campaign with the number of ads I have seen on my Facebook page. The Basis discussion is revived every few days even though there is nothing to discuss.

Better to buy space on Google to advertise on this page and pay Jeff then this guerrilla marketing campaign on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

PP here who is a parent and happy with BASIS. These booster posts are admittedly embarrassing and having the opposite effect of what it’s trying to achieve. Please let this thread RIP.

[Anonymous]

No parent would ever spam this thread with so many ridiculous anti-BIM posts. If you didn't like the school, you would just pull your kids out and move on. You wouldn't churn out a steady stream of negative posts almost every day.

All these posts are by the same guy: a disgruntled teacher who was fired from BIM. He spends his time haunting this thread attacking anyone who posts anything positive about the school. It is weird and pathetic

[Anonymous]

No, it's filled with parents who find it patently humorous to see a Chinese for-profit school that has failed to retain a HoS, let alone teaching staff, for more than a year or two. The same school that advertises aggressively, is funded by CCP-aligned private equity and that sits on empty real estate because it can't fill its classrooms with interested families. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and tastes like a duck, toss on some Hoisin sauce, roll it in a pancake and enjoy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No parent would ever spam this thread with so many ridiculous anti-BIM posts. If you didn't like the school, you would just pull your kids out and move on. You wouldn't churn out a steady stream of negative posts almost every day.

All these posts are by the same guy: a disgruntled teacher who was fired from BIM. He spends his time haunting this thread attacking anyone who posts anything positive about the school. It is weird and pathetic

Since all of these posts are anonymous, how is that anything except the deluded fantasy that you invented to serve your own purposes?

You literally have no evidence beyond our own assertion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No parent would ever spam this thread with so many ridiculous anti-BIM posts. If you didn't like the school, you would just pull your kids out and move on. You wouldn't churn out a steady stream of negative posts almost every day.

All these posts are by the same guy: a disgruntled teacher who was fired from BIM. He spends his time haunting this thread attacking anyone who posts anything positive about the school. It is weird and pathetic

You are right… no one parent would spam the thread. There are innumerable parents who are sorry that they subjected their children to this environment and many have posted about it. If you want to refute this statement, provide the student turnover number. It has to be in the thousands since the school opened, which is many times the current enrollment rate.

It’s been said over and over again. The school is very good at some things (advanced academics) and incredibly poor at others (administration, culture, extracurricular activities, teacher turnover), but if you only care about academics, it will work for you. Niche obviously doesn’t take the other factors into consideration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No parent would ever spam this thread with so many ridiculous anti-BIM posts. If you didn't like the school, you would just pull your kids out and move on. You wouldn't churn out a steady stream of negative posts almost every day.

All these posts are by the same guy: a disgruntled teacher who was fired from BIM. He spends his time haunting this thread attacking anyone who posts anything positive about the school. It is weird and pathetic

You are right… no one parent would spam the thread. There are innumerable parents who are sorry that they subjected their children to this environment and many have posted about it. If you want to refute this statement, provide the student turnover number. It has to be in the thousands since the school opened, which is many times the current enrollment rate.

It’s been said over and over again. The school is very good at some things (advanced academics) and incredibly poor at others (administration, culture, extracurricular activities, teacher turnover), but if you only care about academics, it will work for you. Niche obviously doesn’t take the other factors into consideration.

Can you provide the turnover number?
What I see is that the student headcount grew by 27% YOY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No parent would ever spam this thread with so many ridiculous anti-BIM posts. If you didn't like the school, you would just pull your kids out and move on. You wouldn't churn out a steady stream of negative posts almost every day.

All these posts are by the same guy: a disgruntled teacher who was fired from BIM. He spends his time haunting this thread attacking anyone who posts anything positive about the school. It is weird and pathetic

You are right… no one parent would spam the thread. There are innumerable parents who are sorry that they subjected their children to this environment and many have posted about it. If you want to refute this statement, provide the student turnover number. It has to be in the thousands since the school opened, which is many times the current enrollment rate.

It’s been said over and over again. The school is very good at some things (advanced academics) and incredibly poor at others (administration, culture, extracurricular activities, teacher turnover), but if you only care about academics, it will work for you. Niche obviously doesn’t take the other factors into consideration.

Can you provide the turnover number?
What I see is that the student headcount grew by 27% YOY.

BASIS doesn't furnish accurate, up to date student enrollment numbers to track. Some parents think that an internal message board has the right number, but it has many non-student members too.

As far as faculty, between 1/3 and 1/2 of the faces now on their Web page weren't there three years ago. Several who opened the school in 2016 departed after a year or less of a new HOS last year. So any past ratings are based on many teachers who now teach elsewhere.

If you could get the year to year numbers they would show a build to the 400s the first few years, a 100-student drop into fall 2021, then slow rebuilding since then. That is unofficial data from past front office people. Their goal was to hit 500+ in five years then build out the empty half of the building they now lease. No news on that buildout, so it's presumably years away still, or they would be crowing about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No parent would ever spam this thread with so many ridiculous anti-BIM posts. If you didn't like the school, you would just pull your kids out and move on. You wouldn't churn out a steady stream of negative posts almost every day.

All these posts are by the same guy: a disgruntled teacher who was fired from BIM. He spends his time haunting this thread attacking anyone who posts anything positive about the school. It is weird and pathetic

You are right… no one parent would spam the thread. There are innumerable parents who are sorry that they subjected their children to this environment and many have posted about it. If you want to refute this statement, provide the student turnover number. It has to be in the thousands since the school opened, which is many times the current enrollment rate.

It’s been said over and over again. The school is very good at some things (advanced academics) and incredibly poor at others (administration, culture, extracurricular activities, teacher turnover), but if you only care about academics, it will work for you. Niche obviously doesn’t take the other factors into consideration.

Can you provide the turnover number?
What I see is that the student headcount grew by 27% YOY.

BASIS doesn't furnish accurate, up to date student enrollment numbers to track. Some parents think that an internal message board has the right number, but it has many non-student members too.

As far as faculty, between 1/3 and 1/2 of the faces now on their Web page weren't there three years ago. Several who opened the school in 2016 departed after a year or less of a new HOS last year. So any past ratings are based on many teachers who now teach elsewhere.

If you could get the year to year numbers they would show a build to the 400s the first few years, a 100-student drop into fall 2021, then slow rebuilding since then. That is unofficial data from past front office people. Their goal was to hit 500+ in five years then build out the empty half of the building they now lease. No news on that buildout, so it's presumably years away still, or they would be crowing about it.

The website may not be updated recently. But parent square has the student enrollment numbers and names/grades associated with. All real students. It’s accurate and updated. It grew from high 400 to low 600 YOY.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No parent would ever spam this thread with so many ridiculous anti-BIM posts. If you didn't like the school, you would just pull your kids out and move on. You wouldn't churn out a steady stream of negative posts almost every day.

All these posts are by the same guy: a disgruntled teacher who was fired from BIM. He spends his time haunting this thread attacking anyone who posts anything positive about the school. It is weird and pathetic

You are right… no one parent would spam the thread. There are innumerable parents who are sorry that they subjected their children to this environment and many have posted about it. If you want to refute this statement, provide the student turnover number. It has to be in the thousands since the school opened, which is many times the current enrollment rate.

It’s been said over and over again. The school is very good at some things (advanced academics) and incredibly poor at others (administration, culture, extracurricular activities, teacher turnover), but if you only care about academics, it will work for you. Niche obviously doesn’t take the other factors into consideration.

Can you provide the turnover number?
What I see is that the student headcount grew by 27% YOY.

BASIS doesn't furnish accurate, up to date student enrollment numbers to track. Some parents think that an internal message board has the right number, but it has many non-student members too.

As far as faculty, between 1/3 and 1/2 of the faces now on their Web page weren't there three years ago. Several who opened the school in 2016 departed after a year or less of a new HOS last year. So any past ratings are based on many teachers who now teach elsewhere.

If you could get the year to year numbers they would show a build to the 400s the first few years, a 100-student drop into fall 2021, then slow rebuilding since then. That is unofficial data from past front office people. Their goal was to hit 500+ in five years then build out the empty half of the building they now lease. No news on that buildout, so it's presumably years away still, or they would be crowing about it.

The website may not be updated recently. But parent square has the student enrollment numbers and names/grades associated with. All real students. It’s accurate and updated. It grew from high 400 to low 600 YOY.

Yes enrollment increased but it would be very eye opening to know the number of students that have left the school. It is a lot. Even when enrollment increases many of the new students are replacing those that exit.