BASIS charter expansion is up for public comment
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Anonymous
+1. Families posting on here are not in the burbs. I’ve posted on this thread and live in DC and I’m sure many others who have done so do too. That is why we are in the DC school thread. Sorry but the overwhelming majority of people in the burbs are not reading the DC thread. Why should they? No one in the burbs are moving to the city for the schools. It’s valid to compare DC schools like Basis to the burbs because as a poster has said above, many DC families are looking at schools in DC and also potentially the burbs. It’s so weird to say the all these posters are trolls. |
Anonymous
No that is not the decision for many families. Many families are deciding if they should stay in DC for certain schools or move to the burbs. |
Anonymous
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The Stockholm syndrome mentality at BASIS took hold under the previous bizarre head and has been compounded under this one. You face a difficult choice as a BASIS parent. You can face up to the fact that the DC branch is run by controlling young halfwits, and the academics are nothing special in the grand scheme of things. Alternatively, you can deny reality. Many here have chosen the second, feel-good option for whatever it's worth.
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Anonymous
Why do I assume posters live in the burbs? Because multiple posters say they live in the suburbs… including the one I was responding to, who then responded to me. Have you actually read the thread or just dropping in your talking points to yet another thread? |
Anonymous
I’m in this forum and on this thread because I want BASIS to open an elementary school. |
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Which they're going to do.
An elementary school that feeds into a middle school run by controlling young halfwits. |
Anonymous
You know that people can just click the link in your post to view the whole thread, right? And that they'll see that nobody said they live in the suburbs, including the person you were responding to? You assume that people live in the suburbs because they're pointing out that suburban schools have the same math and science tracks as BASIS. That doesn't mean they live there. It means they know how to use Google. |
Anonymous
Zero chance this PP does not live in the burbs. |
Anonymous
| Wrong. I’m the PP and I’ve lived on the Hill since the 90s. We’ve only stayed because grandparents offered to pay for a private. Otherwise, we’d have moved to VA by now. We turned down a BASIS spot after much deliberation. |
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As a Basis parent, I will tell you as a matter of fact that curriculums are not that important. The Basis DC high school has a reasonably good curriculum but the school falls down to mediocre in other areas:
1) Quality of teachers - typically inexperienced and prone to leave (underpaid, high cost city, often using teaching as a stopgap) 2) Quality of Students -- the high school has bright kids but there is quite a brain drain in 7th and 8th grades as kids and parents go to alternatives....good thing is few kids are troublemakers 3) Quality of Extracurriculars --- no funding 4) Quality of Facilities --- terrible 5) Quality of Administration --- few true educators on staff, lazy and arrogant admins We stuck with it knowing some of these things but would do otherwise if had the choice again
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Anonymous
What would you have done? Asking bc we are enrolled at BASIS for 5th next year, but will likely get a spot at Ross (to SWWFS) and Hyde Addison (to Hardy and MacArthur) and will have to make a decision. The problem is that my son is really excited about it. He loves his shadow day, and the 5th grade dean, and what he has heard of the curriculum. |
Anonymous
middle school is ok at basis but you should have an exit plan in place prior to high school
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Anonymous
What would you have done? Asking bc we are enrolled at BASIS for 5th next year, but will likely get a spot at Ross (to SWWFS) and Hyde Addison (to Hardy and MacArthur) and will have to make a decision. The problem is that my son is really excited about it. He loves his shadow day, and the 5th grade dean, and what he has heard of the curriculum. Yes this is very much a middle school decision -- high school seems like it will be an independent thought process, with BASIS as the backup plan. |
Anonymous
NP. 5th grade was a good year for our kid. The 5th grade dean is kind and tries her best to make it a good environment. The problem is that BASIS stops trying after 5th. The 6th/7th grade dean and the administration in general are awful. Teacher quality is very hit or miss and the administration seems incapable of providing adequate support for teachers who are in over their head. This leads to a fairly chaotic learning environment. The problem for our family is that BASIS has a solid reputation for not making any effort to change for the better, as is reflected by the “take it or leave it” attitude you see from some parents in this thread. We don’t have a lot of hope that these core problems (inexperienced and floundering teachers and inability to deal with behavior problems) is going to get any better. We are giving BASIS one more year, to see if things improve under the new HOS. If not, we will pull our kids and move. |
Anonymous
So you're in the BASIS thread but your kid never went to BASIS? |