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

[Anonymous]

Who are you to tell PP above what to do? Sounds like 5th grade alone could work fine for them. Kids leave BASIS after every year. Stuff it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who are you to tell PP above what to do? Sounds like 5th grade alone could work fine for them. Kids leave BASIS after every year. Stuff it.

Who are you to tell PP what to do?

You stuff it.

[Anonymous]

Everybody who thinks parents shouldn't use BASIS for 5th grade alone can...get stuffed. We did that to burnish DD's private middle school applications. We weren't alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everybody who thinks parents shouldn't use BASIS for 5th grade alone can...get stuffed. We did that to burnish DD's private middle school applications. We weren't alone.

I actually don't recommend this practice. If you are applying to private middle schools, it's better to stay at your current elementary for 5th grade in order to get better teacher recommendations and so your kid doesn't have to switch schools twice (it's stressful to switch once as is). Plus, applying to privates is a lot of work (essays, tours, interviews, etc) to do on top of normal school work.

[Anonymous]

All depends what your DCPS or charter elementary school has to offer 5th graders. Ours wasn't worth staying for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everybody who thinks parents shouldn't use BASIS for 5th grade alone can...get stuffed. We did that to burnish DD's private middle school applications. We weren't alone.

Why/How would 1 year at BASIS "burnish" an application for a private middle school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everybody who thinks parents shouldn't use BASIS for 5th grade alone can...get stuffed. We did that to burnish DD's private middle school applications. We weren't alone.

"burnish DD's private middle applications"...lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everybody who thinks parents shouldn't use BASIS for 5th grade alone can...get stuffed. We did that to burnish DD's private middle school applications. We weren't alone.

I actually don't recommend this practice. If you are applying to private middle schools, it's better to stay at your current elementary for 5th grade in order to get better teacher recommendations and so your kid doesn't have to switch schools twice (it's stressful to switch once as is). Plus, applying to privates is a lot of work (essays, tours, interviews, etc) to do on top of normal school work.

Well, you can stuff it.

One year at BASIS DC will burnish Larla's stellar credentials to a glistening splendor, leaving Big Three admissions directors gasping and heaving with desire to admit her to 6th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everybody who thinks parents shouldn't use BASIS for 5th grade alone can...get stuffed. We did that to burnish DD's private middle school applications. We weren't alone.

Why/How would 1 year at BASIS "burnish" an application for a private middle school?[/quote

Our girl tested into BASIS math roughly two years ahead of that she was allowed to tackle at her DCPS elementary school. Private schools appreciated that. She also developed study and testing skills that have stood her in good stead elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

How do these posts go off the rails so easily?! Instead of deciding in advance you will leave BASIS after a year, come in with an open mind. You might love it and you will definitely realize there is a growing wonderful parent community that you just might want to be a part of.

[Anonymous]

BASIS parent here. There is nothing wrong for knowingly using BASIS for one year as a stepping stone for private middle school. Not the best for BASIS. Switching schools for three in three years is also not the best for a child. Parents do what they need to do. End of discussion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BASIS parent here. There is nothing wrong for knowingly using BASIS for one year as a stepping stone for private middle school. Not the best for BASIS. Switching schools for three in three years is also not the best for a child. Parents do what they need to do. End of discussion.

Yuck. Feel sorry for your kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BASIS parent here. There is nothing wrong for knowingly using BASIS for one year as a stepping stone for private middle school. Not the best for BASIS. Switching schools for three in three years is also not the best for a child. Parents do what they need to do. End of discussion.

Hmmm another BASIS parent here. On a community level, this is pretty sh*tty, because BASIS has a waitlist and doesn’t backfill.

[Anonymous]

I suspect this practice (of purposely using BASIS for a year) is fairly uncommon. I think it’s lousy behavior but rare enough not to worry about.

Far more common, though, are parents who take a leap of faith that their relatively lackluster students who needed tutoring in elementary will somehow succeed at BASIS. Such kids inevitably don’t. But typically have their morale and self-confidence damaged over one to several years of challenging middle school before departing for their IB DCPS schools, mediocre privates, where ever. It’s unfortunate.

Then the parents come onto DCUM to bash the school (as if having a gym and library would have led to their kid’s success at BASIS).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BASIS parent here. There is nothing wrong for knowingly using BASIS for one year as a stepping stone for private middle school. Not the best for BASIS. Switching schools for three in three years is also not the best for a child. Parents do what they need to do. End of discussion.

Hmmm another BASIS parent here. On a community level, this is pretty sh*tty, because BASIS has a waitlist and doesn’t backfill.

+1

Especially since these are parents who could afford private. The waitlist has many families who cannot do so. I find it selfish but I find a lot of people in DC to be selfish.