Does anyone know the status of the Proposed BASIS Expansion

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Anonymous wrote:BASIS kids commute in from all 8 Wards, and there is currently a culture of using public transit. Of course they want to find a central location.

Riiiiight and the wealth of the area is purely coincidental.

What are you trying to say?

I'm trying to say that choice of location, both now and in the past, is part of how BASIS shapes its student body to avoid having a lot of low-income students.

Is it really so wrong to have one school in the charter system that is popular with kids from all Wards and of all income levels (including upper) who want accelerated math and science work? When there are many in the system that do very well with lower income students (DC Prep and KIPP)? And to realize that kids are coming from literally all over, including Ward 3 and Ward 6, and that they need to be centrally located? And have priority spots set aside for at-risk kids who want to go, too?

Dupont cannot reasonably described as central to students in DC.

Dupont Circle is literally 3 metro stops to BASIS DC on the red line.

Current basis location is also close to orange, blue, yellow, and green - Dupont/the red line is far less accessible to most of the city.

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Anonymous wrote:BASIS kids commute in from all 8 Wards, and there is currently a culture of using public transit. Of course they want to find a central location.

Riiiiight and the wealth of the area is purely coincidental.

What are you trying to say?

I'm trying to say that choice of location, both now and in the past, is part of how BASIS shapes its student body to avoid having a lot of low-income students.

Is it really so wrong to have one school in the charter system that is popular with kids from all Wards and of all income levels (including upper) who want accelerated math and science work? When there are many in the system that do very well with lower income students (DC Prep and KIPP)? And to realize that kids are coming from literally all over, including Ward 3 and Ward 6, and that they need to be centrally located? And have priority spots set aside for at-risk kids who want to go, too?

Dupont cannot reasonably described as central to students in DC.

Dupont Circle is literally 3 metro stops to BASIS DC on the red line.

Current basis location is also close to orange, blue, yellow, and green - Dupont/the red line is far less accessible to most of the city.

You know you can transfer between lines, right?

And that Basis draws lots of kids from NW?

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Anonymous wrote:BASIS kids commute in from all 8 Wards, and there is currently a culture of using public transit. Of course they want to find a central location.

Riiiiight and the wealth of the area is purely coincidental.

What are you trying to say?

I'm trying to say that choice of location, both now and in the past, is part of how BASIS shapes its student body to avoid having a lot of low-income students.

Is it really so wrong to have one school in the charter system that is popular with kids from all Wards and of all income levels (including upper) who want accelerated math and science work? When there are many in the system that do very well with lower income students (DC Prep and KIPP)? And to realize that kids are coming from literally all over, including Ward 3 and Ward 6, and that they need to be centrally located? And have priority spots set aside for at-risk kids who want to go, too?

Dupont cannot reasonably described as central to students in DC.

Dupont Circle is literally 3 metro stops to BASIS DC on the red line.

Current basis location is also close to orange, blue, yellow, and green - Dupont/the red line is far less accessible to most of the city.

You know you can transfer between lines, right?

And that Basis draws lots of kids from NW?

Depends what you mean by NW. Not that many kids who are IB for J-R or MacArthur, if that's what you're asking.

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Anonymous wrote:BASIS kids commute in from all 8 Wards, and there is currently a culture of using public transit. Of course they want to find a central location.

Riiiiight and the wealth of the area is purely coincidental.

What are you trying to say?

I'm trying to say that choice of location, both now and in the past, is part of how BASIS shapes its student body to avoid having a lot of low-income students.

Is it really so wrong to have one school in the charter system that is popular with kids from all Wards and of all income levels (including upper) who want accelerated math and science work? When there are many in the system that do very well with lower income students (DC Prep and KIPP)? And to realize that kids are coming from literally all over, including Ward 3 and Ward 6, and that they need to be centrally located? And have priority spots set aside for at-risk kids who want to go, too?

Dupont cannot reasonably described as central to students in DC.

Dupont Circle is literally 3 metro stops to BASIS DC on the red line.

Current basis location is also close to orange, blue, yellow, and green - Dupont/the red line is far less accessible to most of the city.

You know you can transfer between lines, right?

And that Basis draws lots of kids from NW?

I'm unclear on how BASIS would afford Dupont real estate. Can you explain?

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Anonymous wrote:BASIS kids commute in from all 8 Wards, and there is currently a culture of using public transit. Of course they want to find a central location.

Riiiiight and the wealth of the area is purely coincidental.

What are you trying to say?

I'm trying to say that choice of location, both now and in the past, is part of how BASIS shapes its student body to avoid having a lot of low-income students.

Is it really so wrong to have one school in the charter system that is popular with kids from all Wards and of all income levels (including upper) who want accelerated math and science work? When there are many in the system that do very well with lower income students (DC Prep and KIPP)? And to realize that kids are coming from literally all over, including Ward 3 and Ward 6, and that they need to be centrally located? And have priority spots set aside for at-risk kids who want to go, too?

Dupont cannot reasonably described as central to students in DC.

Dupont Circle is literally 3 metro stops to BASIS DC on the red line.

Current basis location is also close to orange, blue, yellow, and green - Dupont/the red line is far less accessible to most of the city.

You know you can transfer between lines, right?

And that Basis draws lots of kids from NW?

Depends what you mean by NW. Not that many kids who are IB for J-R or MacArthur, if that's what you're asking.

Plenty from NW, according to DCPS and Edscape.

Both J-R and McA are mediocre.

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Anonymous wrote:BASIS kids commute in from all 8 Wards, and there is currently a culture of using public transit. Of course they want to find a central location.

Riiiiight and the wealth of the area is purely coincidental.

What are you trying to say?

I'm trying to say that choice of location, both now and in the past, is part of how BASIS shapes its student body to avoid having a lot of low-income students.

Is it really so wrong to have one school in the charter system that is popular with kids from all Wards and of all income levels (including upper) who want accelerated math and science work? When there are many in the system that do very well with lower income students (DC Prep and KIPP)? And to realize that kids are coming from literally all over, including Ward 3 and Ward 6, and that they need to be centrally located? And have priority spots set aside for at-risk kids who want to go, too?

Dupont cannot reasonably described as central to students in DC.

Dupont Circle is literally 3 metro stops to BASIS DC on the red line.

Current basis location is also close to orange, blue, yellow, and green - Dupont/the red line is far less accessible to most of the city.

You know you can transfer between lines, right?

And that Basis draws lots of kids from NW?

And you know that the city has four quadrants, right?

And that the red line doesn’t go through wards 7 and 8, right?

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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BASIS kids commute in from all 8 Wards, and there is currently a culture of using public transit. Of course they want to find a central location.[/quote]

Riiiiight and the wealth of the area is purely coincidental.[/quote]

What are you trying to say?[/quote]

I'm trying to say that choice of location, both now and in the past, is part of how BASIS shapes its student body to avoid having a lot of low-income students. [/quote]

Is it really so wrong to have one school in the charter system that is popular with kids from all Wards and of all income levels (including upper) who want accelerated math and science work? When there are many in the system that do very well with lower income students (DC Prep and KIPP)? And to realize that kids are coming from literally all over, including Ward 3 and Ward 6, and that they need to be centrally located? And have priority spots set aside for at-risk kids who want to go, too?[/quote]

Dupont cannot reasonably described as central to students in DC.[/quote]

Dupont Circle is literally 3 metro stops to BASIS DC on the red line.[/quote]

Current basis location is also close to orange, blue, yellow, and green - Dupont/the red line is far less accessible to most of the city.[/quote]

You know you can transfer between lines, right?

And that Basis draws lots of kids from NW?[/quote]

Depends what you mean by NW. Not that many kids who are IB for J-R or MacArthur, if that's what you're asking.[/quote]

Not as many as from Capitol Hill but there are certainly some from J-R. Such as my child. Basis is a pretty good fit for us, so though we debated walls (and decided against) for a while, we have never considered J-R, as it hasn’t seemed as good of a fit. It was great to have it as a back up of course.

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Anonymous wrote:BASIS kids commute in from all 8 Wards, and there is currently a culture of using public transit. Of course they want to find a central location.

Riiiiight and the wealth of the area is purely coincidental.

What are you trying to say?

I'm trying to say that choice of location, both now and in the past, is part of how BASIS shapes its student body to avoid having a lot of low-income students.

Is it really so wrong to have one school in the charter system that is popular with kids from all Wards and of all income levels (including upper) who want accelerated math and science work? When there are many in the system that do very well with lower income students (DC Prep and KIPP)? And to realize that kids are coming from literally all over, including Ward 3 and Ward 6, and that they need to be centrally located? And have priority spots set aside for at-risk kids who want to go, too?

Dupont cannot reasonably described as central to students in DC.

Dupont Circle is literally 3 metro stops to BASIS DC on the red line.

Current basis location is also close to orange, blue, yellow, and green - Dupont/the red line is far less accessible to most of the city.

You know you can transfer between lines, right?

And that Basis draws lots of kids from NW?

Depends what you mean by NW. Not that many kids who are IB for J-R or MacArthur, if that's what you're asking.

Are you at the school? We are and know MANY people who live in upper NW and are IB for JR or MacArthur. Flooded with capitol Hill people, and we are Ward 2 people, and I feel like I've talked to parents from all over (including both white and black parents from EOTR.) it truly draws from all over.

Agree that being near all the lines, not just Red, seems more convenient.

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Anonymous wrote:BASIS kids commute in from all 8 Wards, and there is currently a culture of using public transit. Of course they want to find a central location.

Riiiiight and the wealth of the area is purely coincidental.

What are you trying to say?

I'm trying to say that choice of location, both now and in the past, is part of how BASIS shapes its student body to avoid having a lot of low-income students.

Is it really so wrong to have one school in the charter system that is popular with kids from all Wards and of all income levels (including upper) who want accelerated math and science work? When there are many in the system that do very well with lower income students (DC Prep and KIPP)? And to realize that kids are coming from literally all over, including Ward 3 and Ward 6, and that they need to be centrally located? And have priority spots set aside for at-risk kids who want to go, too?

Dupont cannot reasonably described as central to students in DC.

Dupont Circle is literally 3 metro stops to BASIS DC on the red line.

Current basis location is also close to orange, blue, yellow, and green - Dupont/the red line is far less accessible to most of the city.

You know you can transfer between lines, right?

And that Basis draws lots of kids from NW?

Depends what you mean by NW. Not that many kids who are IB for J-R or MacArthur, if that's what you're asking.

Are you at the school? We are and know MANY people who live in upper NW and are IB for JR or MacArthur. Flooded with capitol Hill people, and we are Ward 2 people, and I feel like I've talked to parents from all over (including both white and black parents from EOTR.) it truly draws from all over.

Agree that being near all the lines, not just Red, seems more convenient.

Ok but would a BASIS elementary be that different from Ward 3 elementaries, enough that parents would undertake a longer commute for it? That's the real question.

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Anonymous wrote:BASIS kids commute in from all 8 Wards, and there is currently a culture of using public transit. Of course they want to find a central location.

Riiiiight and the wealth of the area is purely coincidental.

What are you trying to say?

I'm trying to say that choice of location, both now and in the past, is part of how BASIS shapes its student body to avoid having a lot of low-income students.

Is it really so wrong to have one school in the charter system that is popular with kids from all Wards and of all income levels (including upper) who want accelerated math and science work? When there are many in the system that do very well with lower income students (DC Prep and KIPP)? And to realize that kids are coming from literally all over, including Ward 3 and Ward 6, and that they need to be centrally located? And have priority spots set aside for at-risk kids who want to go, too?

Dupont cannot reasonably described as central to students in DC.

Dupont Circle is literally 3 metro stops to BASIS DC on the red line.

Current basis location is also close to orange, blue, yellow, and green - Dupont/the red line is far less accessible to most of the city.

You know you can transfer between lines, right?

And that Basis draws lots of kids from NW?

Depends what you mean by NW. Not that many kids who are IB for J-R or MacArthur, if that's what you're asking.

Are you at the school? We are and know MANY people who live in upper NW and are IB for JR or MacArthur. Flooded with capitol Hill people, and we are Ward 2 people, and I feel like I've talked to parents from all over (including both white and black parents from EOTR.) it truly draws from all over.

Agree that being near all the lines, not just Red, seems more convenient.

Ok but would a BASIS elementary be that different from Ward 3 elementaries, enough that parents would undertake a longer commute for it? That's the real question.

Well for starters, the BASIS K-4 won’t be wasting any space or time on a playground or soccer field.

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Anonymous wrote:BASIS kids commute in from all 8 Wards, and there is currently a culture of using public transit. Of course they want to find a central location.

Riiiiight and the wealth of the area is purely coincidental.

What are you trying to say?

I'm trying to say that choice of location, both now and in the past, is part of how BASIS shapes its student body to avoid having a lot of low-income students.

Is it really so wrong to have one school in the charter system that is popular with kids from all Wards and of all income levels (including upper) who want accelerated math and science work? When there are many in the system that do very well with lower income students (DC Prep and KIPP)? And to realize that kids are coming from literally all over, including Ward 3 and Ward 6, and that they need to be centrally located? And have priority spots set aside for at-risk kids who want to go, too?

Dupont cannot reasonably described as central to students in DC.

Dupont Circle is literally 3 metro stops to BASIS DC on the red line.

Current basis location is also close to orange, blue, yellow, and green - Dupont/the red line is far less accessible to most of the city.

You know you can transfer between lines, right?

And that Basis draws lots of kids from NW?

Depends what you mean by NW. Not that many kids who are IB for J-R or MacArthur, if that's what you're asking.

Are you at the school? We are and know MANY people who live in upper NW and are IB for JR or MacArthur. Flooded with capitol Hill people, and we are Ward 2 people, and I feel like I've talked to parents from all over (including both white and black parents from EOTR.) it truly draws from all over.

Agree that being near all the lines, not just Red, seems more convenient.

Ok but would a BASIS elementary be that different from Ward 3 elementaries, enough that parents would undertake a longer commute for it? That's the real question.

Well for starters, the BASIS K-4 won’t be wasting any space or time on a playground or soccer field.

And no preschool, which I know a lot of W3 families don't have, but due to preference, many that do have W3 preschool also have an elementary aged child. So sending their older kids to BASIS elementary means their younger kid loses sibling preference at the IB. Unappealing.

[Anonymous]

No NW parents were even lobbying for this. It seems to be a 75% brent families effort.

[Anonymous]

Why would Brent area families want to commute to the Dupont Circle area for elementary school?

[Anonymous]

I don't think this is pushed by parents in DC (many parents who are happy with their DCPS elementary move on to BASIS for middle). It's being pushed by BASIS, because all their other schools are K-12 and this helps create a "BASIS student" who is effective the way they want them to be.

Not sure how it will fit into the DC landscape where there are many good elementaries but very few good middle schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would Brent area families want to commute to the Dupont Circle area for elementary school?

To lock in their spot for middle.