Sports at Basis?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not hearing any critique of academics by PP with child who got into an ivy but not HYP . . . and isn't that what most of us at BASIS are after - an excellent education? Also - my understanding is last year was an extremely tough year for college admittances since colleges went test optional (turning HYP slots into essentially a lottery for all the 4.0 students across the US).

Believe what you want, but BASIS' factory approach to education isn't for all the families of top performers. The franchise's obsession with scoring high on APs and 4.0 GPAs doesn't work for all the kids with a decent shot of cracking highly competitive colleges. Worth remembering that the founders, Olga and Michael Block, weren't educators. What constitutes an excellent education is of course highly subjective.

We found an adequate education at BASIS that we had the resources to build on in pursuit of an excellent education. The teachers our children had at Johns Hopkins CTY summer camps (just $3000 a pop for day camp in MoCo) were in a league of their own. Don't kid yourselves that an extremely tough year for college admissions was what kept most of their top students out of Ivies. Some of these kids would probably have cleared the bar if they'd been encouraged to aim higher learning what they loved all along, and were supported in doing so (rather than being hemmed in at every turn by an overly rigid curriculum). This is particularly true where sports, fluency in modern languages, hands-on learning, and research were concerned. The reality is that a 5 on AP Spanish amounts to little in the Ivy League admissions game here in 2022.

You again? Another dumb word-salad post.

You again, out of arguments?

Actually, "[w]hat constitutes an excellent education" is not "highly subjective" at all.

On the one hand, we have your rambling, incoherent thoughts about BASIS that apparently your kid attended years ago before washing out. On the other hand, we have data that shows that BASIS DC offers an excellent education.

You want arguments? Here you go: https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/middle-schools/district-of-columbia.

Different PP. The critique that BASIS provides first-rate AP test prep vs. a world-class education has been around as long as the franchise has existed.

The AZ newspapers of record, like the Republic, East Valley Tribune, Daily Star, have slammed BASIS for its narrow test prep focus since the 90s.

You jump on every BASIS thread to post the same link, although the scandal plagued USNWR rankings aren't taken all that seriously anymore. Give it up already. Why not just post about sports if you have something to add?

Rankings guy, Banneker and Walls crushed BASIS in the 2022 bizjournal rankings. Gosh, your kid could have gone to a much better DC public school. Let us guess, these rankings are...too subjective for you.

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2022/1...ools-2022-ranking-us-news.html

Top 10:
1. TJ
2. Banneker
3. SWW
4. Whitman
5. Langley
6. McLean
7. Wooten
8. Marshall
9. Poolsville
10. BASIS DC

I am a woman but thanks for mansplaining. Maybe you missed the fact that Washington Business Journal doesn't rank schools and was just parroting the USN&WR rankings for high schools. You obviously didn't notice that the paywalled URL you pasted in included the following text "2022-ranking-us-news."

Here is the actual link: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/district-of-columbia/rankings/washington-dc-47900

All of these are good high schools including the 3 in DC itself: Walls, Banneker, and BASIS DC.

There is a separate ranking of middle schools that ranks BASIS DC middle school #1.

The parents we know that chose BASIS all seem happy with the choice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not hearing any critique of academics by PP with child who got into an ivy but not HYP . . . and isn't that what most of us at BASIS are after - an excellent education? Also - my understanding is last year was an extremely tough year for college admittances since colleges went test optional (turning HYP slots into essentially a lottery for all the 4.0 students across the US).

Believe what you want, but BASIS' factory approach to education isn't for all the families of top performers. The franchise's obsession with scoring high on APs and 4.0 GPAs doesn't work for all the kids with a decent shot of cracking highly competitive colleges. Worth remembering that the founders, Olga and Michael Block, weren't educators. What constitutes an excellent education is of course highly subjective.

We found an adequate education at BASIS that we had the resources to build on in pursuit of an excellent education. The teachers our children had at Johns Hopkins CTY summer camps (just $3000 a pop for day camp in MoCo) were in a league of their own. Don't kid yourselves that an extremely tough year for college admissions was what kept most of their top students out of Ivies. Some of these kids would probably have cleared the bar if they'd been encouraged to aim higher learning what they loved all along, and were supported in doing so (rather than being hemmed in at every turn by an overly rigid curriculum). This is particularly true where sports, fluency in modern languages, hands-on learning, and research were concerned. The reality is that a 5 on AP Spanish amounts to little in the Ivy League admissions game here in 2022.

You again? Another dumb word-salad post.

You again, out of arguments?

Actually, "[w]hat constitutes an excellent education" is not "highly subjective" at all.

On the one hand, we have your rambling, incoherent thoughts about BASIS that apparently your kid attended years ago before washing out. On the other hand, we have data that shows that BASIS DC offers an excellent education.

You want arguments? Here you go: https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/middle-schools/district-of-columbia.

Different PP. The critique that BASIS provides first-rate AP test prep vs. a world-class education has been around as long as the franchise has existed.

The AZ newspapers of record, like the Republic, East Valley Tribune, Daily Star, have slammed BASIS for its narrow test prep focus since the 90s.

You jump on every BASIS thread to post the same link, although the scandal plagued USNWR rankings aren't taken all that seriously anymore. Give it up already. Why not just post about sports if you have something to add?

Rankings guy, Banneker and Walls crushed BASIS in the 2022 bizjournal rankings. Gosh, your kid could have gone to a much better DC public school. Let us guess, these rankings are...too subjective for you.

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2022/1...ools-2022-ranking-us-news.html

Top 10:
1. TJ
2. Banneker
3. SWW
4. Whitman
5. Langley
6. McLean
7. Wooten
8. Marshall
9. Poolsville
10. BASIS DC

I am a woman but thanks for mansplaining. Maybe you missed the fact that Washington Business Journal doesn't rank schools and was just parroting the USN&WR rankings for high schools. You obviously didn't notice that the paywalled URL you pasted in included the following text "2022-ranking-us-news."

Here is the actual link: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/district-of-columbia/rankings/washington-dc-47900

All of these are good high schools including the 3 in DC itself: Walls, Banneker, and BASIS DC.

There is a separate ranking of middle schools that ranks BASIS DC middle school #1.

The parents we know that chose BASIS all seem happy with the choice.

Plus, Walls and Banneker are application high schools that cherry pick their students. In contrast, BASIS DC is 100% open enrollment. So, BASIS DC is the #1 open enrollment high school in DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not hearing any critique of academics by PP with child who got into an ivy but not HYP . . . and isn't that what most of us at BASIS are after - an excellent education? Also - my understanding is last year was an extremely tough year for college admittances since colleges went test optional (turning HYP slots into essentially a lottery for all the 4.0 students across the US).

Believe what you want, but BASIS' factory approach to education isn't for all the families of top performers. The franchise's obsession with scoring high on APs and 4.0 GPAs doesn't work for all the kids with a decent shot of cracking highly competitive colleges. Worth remembering that the founders, Olga and Michael Block, weren't educators. What constitutes an excellent education is of course highly subjective.

We found an adequate education at BASIS that we had the resources to build on in pursuit of an excellent education. The teachers our children had at Johns Hopkins CTY summer camps (just $3000 a pop for day camp in MoCo) were in a league of their own. Don't kid yourselves that an extremely tough year for college admissions was what kept most of their top students out of Ivies. Some of these kids would probably have cleared the bar if they'd been encouraged to aim higher learning what they loved all along, and were supported in doing so (rather than being hemmed in at every turn by an overly rigid curriculum). This is particularly true where sports, fluency in modern languages, hands-on learning, and research were concerned. The reality is that a 5 on AP Spanish amounts to little in the Ivy League admissions game here in 2022.

You again? Another dumb word-salad post.

You again, out of arguments?

Actually, "[w]hat constitutes an excellent education" is not "highly subjective" at all.

On the one hand, we have your rambling, incoherent thoughts about BASIS that apparently your kid attended years ago before washing out. On the other hand, we have data that shows that BASIS DC offers an excellent education.

You want arguments? Here you go: https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/middle-schools/district-of-columbia.

Different PP. The critique that BASIS provides first-rate AP test prep vs. a world-class education has been around as long as the franchise has existed.

The AZ newspapers of record, like the Republic, East Valley Tribune, Daily Star, have slammed BASIS for its narrow test prep focus since the 90s.

You jump on every BASIS thread to post the same link, although the scandal plagued USNWR rankings aren't taken all that seriously anymore. Give it up already. Why not just post about sports if you have something to add?

Rankings guy, Banneker and Walls crushed BASIS in the 2022 bizjournal rankings. Gosh, your kid could have gone to a much better DC public school. Let us guess, these rankings are...too subjective for you.

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2022/1...ools-2022-ranking-us-news.html

Top 10:
1. TJ
2. Banneker
3. SWW
4. Whitman
5. Langley
6. McLean
7. Wooten
8. Marshall
9. Poolsville
10. BASIS DC

I am a woman but thanks for mansplaining. Maybe you missed the fact that Washington Business Journal doesn't rank schools and was just parroting the USN&WR rankings for high schools. You obviously didn't notice that the paywalled URL you pasted in included the following text "2022-ranking-us-news."

Here is the actual link: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/district-of-columbia/rankings/washington-dc-47900

All of these are good high schools including the 3 in DC itself: Walls, Banneker, and BASIS DC.

There is a separate ranking of middle schools that ranks BASIS DC middle school #1.

The parents we know that chose BASIS all seem happy with the choice.

Plus, Walls and Banneker are application high schools that cherry pick their students. In contrast, BASIS DC is 100% open enrollment. So, BASIS DC is the #1 open enrollment high school in DC.

Isn’t Basis lottery entry?

[Anonymous]

What do USNW rankings have to do with sports at BASIS??

[Anonymous]

Whoa. OP here. Completely forgot that I posted this question. I think I have my answer?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not hearing any critique of academics by PP with child who got into an ivy but not HYP . . . and isn't that what most of us at BASIS are after - an excellent education? Also - my understanding is last year was an extremely tough year for college admittances since colleges went test optional (turning HYP slots into essentially a lottery for all the 4.0 students across the US).

Believe what you want, but BASIS' factory approach to education isn't for all the families of top performers. The franchise's obsession with scoring high on APs and 4.0 GPAs doesn't work for all the kids with a decent shot of cracking highly competitive colleges. Worth remembering that the founders, Olga and Michael Block, weren't educators. What constitutes an excellent education is of course highly subjective.

We found an adequate education at BASIS that we had the resources to build on in pursuit of an excellent education. The teachers our children had at Johns Hopkins CTY summer camps (just $3000 a pop for day camp in MoCo) were in a league of their own. Don't kid yourselves that an extremely tough year for college admissions was what kept most of their top students out of Ivies. Some of these kids would probably have cleared the bar if they'd been encouraged to aim higher learning what they loved all along, and were supported in doing so (rather than being hemmed in at every turn by an overly rigid curriculum). This is particularly true where sports, fluency in modern languages, hands-on learning, and research were concerned. The reality is that a 5 on AP Spanish amounts to little in the Ivy League admissions game here in 2022.

You again? Another dumb word-salad post.

You again, out of arguments?

Actually, "[w]hat constitutes an excellent education" is not "highly subjective" at all.

On the one hand, we have your rambling, incoherent thoughts about BASIS that apparently your kid attended years ago before washing out. On the other hand, we have data that shows that BASIS DC offers an excellent education.

You want arguments? Here you go: https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/middle-schools/district-of-columbia.

Different PP. The critique that BASIS provides first-rate AP test prep vs. a world-class education has been around as long as the franchise has existed.

The AZ newspapers of record, like the Republic, East Valley Tribune, Daily Star, have slammed BASIS for its narrow test prep focus since the 90s.

You jump on every BASIS thread to post the same link, although the scandal plagued USNWR rankings aren't taken all that seriously anymore. Give it up already. Why not just post about sports if you have something to add?

Rankings guy, Banneker and Walls crushed BASIS in the 2022 bizjournal rankings. Gosh, your kid could have gone to a much better DC public school. Let us guess, these rankings are...too subjective for you.

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2022/1...ools-2022-ranking-us-news.html

Top 10:
1. TJ
2. Banneker
3. SWW
4. Whitman
5. Langley
6. McLean
7. Wooten
8. Marshall
9. Poolsville
10. BASIS DC

I am a woman but thanks for mansplaining. Maybe you missed the fact that Washington Business Journal doesn't rank schools and was just parroting the USN&WR rankings for high schools. You obviously didn't notice that the paywalled URL you pasted in included the following text "2022-ranking-us-news."

Here is the actual link: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/district-of-columbia/rankings/washington-dc-47900

All of these are good high schools including the 3 in DC itself: Walls, Banneker, and BASIS DC.

There is a separate ranking of middle schools that ranks BASIS DC middle school #1.

The parents we know that chose BASIS all seem happy with the choice.

Plus, Walls and Banneker are application high schools that cherry pick their students. In contrast, BASIS DC is 100% open enrollment. So, BASIS DC is the #1 open enrollment high school in DC.

Isn’t Basis lottery entry?

100% lottery is what open enrollment means.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not hearing any critique of academics by PP with child who got into an ivy but not HYP . . . and isn't that what most of us at BASIS are after - an excellent education? Also - my understanding is last year was an extremely tough year for college admittances since colleges went test optional (turning HYP slots into essentially a lottery for all the 4.0 students across the US).

Believe what you want, but BASIS' factory approach to education isn't for all the families of top performers. The franchise's obsession with scoring high on APs and 4.0 GPAs doesn't work for all the kids with a decent shot of cracking highly competitive colleges. Worth remembering that the founders, Olga and Michael Block, weren't educators. What constitutes an excellent education is of course highly subjective.

We found an adequate education at BASIS that we had the resources to build on in pursuit of an excellent education. The teachers our children had at Johns Hopkins CTY summer camps (just $3000 a pop for day camp in MoCo) were in a league of their own. Don't kid yourselves that an extremely tough year for college admissions was what kept most of their top students out of Ivies. Some of these kids would probably have cleared the bar if they'd been encouraged to aim higher learning what they loved all along, and were supported in doing so (rather than being hemmed in at every turn by an overly rigid curriculum). This is particularly true where sports, fluency in modern languages, hands-on learning, and research were concerned. The reality is that a 5 on AP Spanish amounts to little in the Ivy League admissions game here in 2022.

You again? Another dumb word-salad post.

You again, out of arguments?

Actually, "[w]hat constitutes an excellent education" is not "highly subjective" at all.

On the one hand, we have your rambling, incoherent thoughts about BASIS that apparently your kid attended years ago before washing out. On the other hand, we have data that shows that BASIS DC offers an excellent education.

You want arguments? Here you go: https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/middle-schools/district-of-columbia.

Different PP. The critique that BASIS provides first-rate AP test prep vs. a world-class education has been around as long as the franchise has existed.

The AZ newspapers of record, like the Republic, East Valley Tribune, Daily Star, have slammed BASIS for its narrow test prep focus since the 90s.

You jump on every BASIS thread to post the same link, although the scandal plagued USNWR rankings aren't taken all that seriously anymore. Give it up already. Why not just post about sports if you have something to add?

Rankings guy, Banneker and Walls crushed BASIS in the 2022 bizjournal rankings. Gosh, your kid could have gone to a much better DC public school. Let us guess, these rankings are...too subjective for you.

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2022/1...ools-2022-ranking-us-news.html

Top 10:
1. TJ
2. Banneker
3. SWW
4. Whitman
5. Langley
6. McLean
7. Wooten
8. Marshall
9. Poolsville
10. BASIS DC

I am a woman but thanks for mansplaining. Maybe you missed the fact that Washington Business Journal doesn't rank schools and was just parroting the USN&WR rankings for high schools. You obviously didn't notice that the paywalled URL you pasted in included the following text "2022-ranking-us-news."

Here is the actual link: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/district-of-columbia/rankings/washington-dc-47900

All of these are good high schools including the 3 in DC itself: Walls, Banneker, and BASIS DC.

There is a separate ranking of middle schools that ranks BASIS DC middle school #1.

The parents we know that chose BASIS all seem happy with the choice.

Plus, Walls and Banneker are application high schools that cherry pick their students. In contrast, BASIS DC is 100% open enrollment. So, BASIS DC is the #1 open enrollment high school in DC.

You funny

[Anonymous]

Of all the things to criticize about Basis, you are upset that only two 2022 grads are enrolled there right now? I was floored by the quality of the schools the 2022 were admitted into/chose to attend.

[Anonymous]

Folks don’t choose BASIS for the sports. They choose it for the academics, and it does not disappoint in that regard. My BASIS student is on a competitive sports team outside of school and that team has students from a plethora of schools in the area, including private ones. So it’s not unique for students to play on a team not affiliated with their school.

[Anonymous]

BASIS doesn't quite live up to its hype in admissions. A dozen seniors crack programs admitting in the single digits, most don't.

Every high school family of a high achieving student doesn't appreciate the way the program pushes intense AP test pressure down to 9th & 10th graders. 12th graders don't have a normal class schedule.

I didn't like how the counselor discourages gap years. Our youngest wanted to play varsity sports with school friends and to wait to take APs after jr and sr years. She applied to colleges from a gap year w/strong support from her second hs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Folks don’t choose BASIS for the sports. They choose it for the academics, and it does not disappoint in that regard. My BASIS student is on a competitive sports team outside of school and that team has students from a plethora of schools in the area, including private ones. So it’s not unique for students to play on a team not affiliated with their school.

Whom are you speaking for? All former and current BASIS DC parents?

Some DC families of advanced students do not enroll at BASIS after they get a spot, or leave, because academics disappoint in various ways. There are disruptive kids in middle school classrooms who can't handle the work, which every family isn't OK with. Teacher turnover/low teacher pay remains a real problem. Several of my kids' best high school teachers left for higher pay at Walls or suburban schools. One left in the middle of the year. BASIS hits up parents to top up teacher pay, which is pretty absurd.

[Anonymous]

You can easily ignore the many requests to donate to the teachers bonus fund but have to pay for the sports.

They aren't cheap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Folks don’t choose BASIS for the sports. They choose it for the academics, and it does not disappoint in that regard. My BASIS student is on a competitive sports team outside of school and that team has students from a plethora of schools in the area, including private ones. So it’s not unique for students to play on a team not affiliated with their school.

No, high-level athletes don't pick Basis because of the sports; however, the great thing is that mid-level athletes actually have a shot at playing. For my son who is a good, but not amazing athlete, this was actually a draw. He's able to make the teams and play for his school. This is very hard to do at most large public schools, but Basis' small size and makeup has afforded that, which has been a plus.

Separately, I find it very frustrating that most (soccer, basketball, baseball) large middle school teams are essentially off-limits to all but kids who have played travel sports for a while. I get it and why it happens and I don't see a solution, but I think its sad that a 6th grader has no shot at making his school soccer team without years of league experience first. FWIW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BASIS doesn't quite live up to its hype in admissions.

I'm not sending my kids to Basis as a pipeline to specific colleges, but to prepare them for college and beyond. I think it's doing a generally good job of that, and likely a significantly better job than any other DC (nonprivate) school. If they are well-prepared, they will be able to get into a suitable college, even if it's not Yale or whatever.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BASIS doesn't quite live up to its hype in admissions.

I'm not sending my kids to Basis as a pipeline to specific colleges, but to prepare them for college and beyond. I think it's doing a generally good job of that, and likely a significantly better job than any other DC (nonprivate) school. If they are well-prepared, they will be able to get into a suitable college, even if it's not Yale or whatever.

Same here. PP seems to have a disorder that hopefully her kids can escape from when they move out to whatever school they attend.