BASIS launching private school in McLean

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Part of the challenge could be that, by the time you have failed a class and/or comp, the lottery has closed and your only option might be your IB.

Doesn't explain the multi-year scenario though.

A lot of the better charters (eg, KIPP) won't take kids who are too old for their grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Part of the challenge could be that, by the time you have failed a class and/or comp, the lottery has closed and your only option might be your IB.

Doesn't explain the multi-year scenario though.

A lot of the better charters (eg, KIPP) won't take kids who are too old for their grade.

are you sure that is the case? that does not seem legal...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Part of the challenge could be that, by the time you have failed a class and/or comp, the lottery has closed and your only option might be your IB.

Doesn't explain the multi-year scenario though.

A lot of the better charters (eg, KIPP) won't take kids who are too old for their grade.

are you sure that is the case? that does not seem legal...

They've been openly advertising it on their website for years. Either it's legal or the PCSB is working pretty hard to avoid seeing this:
http://www.kippdc.org/enroll/enrollment-faq/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hardy is a great middle school option, with a lot less work for kids who are challenged at every level.

....and now a brief message from our sponsors....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hardy is a great middle school option, with a lot less work for kids who are challenged at every level.

....and now a brief message from our sponsors....

PP here. Actually, my DC is at BASIS, but we are in the Hardy district and plan to send more humanities-minded DC2 there. I suggested it because there is usually not a waiting list and it is a solid school where it is easier to succeed, and where they do not hold you back for failing a class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hardy is a great middle school option, with a lot less work for kids who are challenged at every level.

....and now a brief message from our sponsors....

PP here. Actually, my DC is at BASIS, but we are in the Hardy district and plan to send more humanities-minded DC2 there. I suggested it because there is usually not a waiting list and it is a solid school where it is easier to succeed, and where they do not hold you back for failing a class.

However there is a waiting list for all grades at Hardy for fall 2015. I think the only DCPS middle school (not EC) without a wait list is Brookland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course Indians (from India, not Native Americans) are Asian. What is your point? I didn't see anyone else mention Indians.

it's not just Koreans represented at TJ. it's 2/3 Asian and that covers a lot of ground, and doesn't even cover the rest of the international representation -- there are more "Others" than AA and Hispanic combined

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hardy is a great middle school option, with a lot less work for kids who are challenged at every level.

....and now a brief message from our sponsors....

PP here. Actually, my DC is at BASIS, but we are in the Hardy district and plan to send more humanities-minded DC2 there. I suggested it because there is usually not a waiting list and it is a solid school where it is easier to succeed, and where they do not hold you back for failing a class.

However there is a waiting list for all grades at Hardy for fall 2015. I think the only DCPS middle school (not EC) without a wait list is Brookland.

There are lots of DCPS middle schools with essentially no wait lists, at least after Round 1. Summing up all the grades 6-8 for schools where those were the only grades, the number of kids on the WL were:

0: Kramer, Sousa
1: Eliot-Hine, Hart, Johnson
2: Jefferson, Brookland
6: Kelly Miller
66: Hardy
139: Stuart-Hobson
299: Deal

There are really only 3 stand-alone DCPS middle schools that are at all hard to get into from OOB, and given that Hardy offered 100 OOB seats (S-H offered 9 and Deal offered none) I might even reduce that down to 2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is apparently a page on the Korean Embassy website about TJ and its admissions policies, written in Korean. Asian students have outnumbered Caucasian students at TJ for many years now.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/as-thomas-jefferson-adds-help-for-poor-english-skills-some-va-parents-fume/2011/03/10/ABK7qVx_story.html

Another very interesting article. Thanks for sharing!

It seems prospective students must come from one of 6 local Fairfax middle schools. So you have 6 middle schools in the area preparing students for TJ. They're great schools, tried and true,and they're FREE! Why would I clamor for Basis again????

SN: Given the stress and suicide rates of many of those overly pressured Korean kids from the goose article, I'd never be pressed to throw my DC into such a rat race. If DC were math/science prodigies that would be one thing. But this ridiculous pressure....I realize a lot of its cultural. I'd just prefer happy individuals who enjoy their lives.

First of all, the article is from 2011. Secondly, prospective students must come from six school districts meaning counties or cities- not middle schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is apparently a page on the Korean Embassy website about TJ and its admissions policies, written in Korean. Asian students have outnumbered Caucasian students at TJ for many years now.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/as-thomas-jefferson-adds-help-for-poor-english-skills-some-va-parents-fume/2011/03/10/ABK7qVx_story.html

Another very interesting article. Thanks for sharing!

It seems prospective students must come from one of 6 local Fairfax middle schools. So you have 6 middle schools in the area preparing students for TJ. They're great schools, tried and true,and they're FREE! Why would I clamor for Basis again????

SN: Given the stress and suicide rates of many of those overly pressured Korean kids from the goose article, I'd never be pressed to throw my DC into such a rat race. If DC were math/science prodigies that would be one thing. But this ridiculous pressure....I realize a lot of its cultural. I'd just prefer happy individuals who enjoy their lives.

First of all, the article is from 2011. Secondly, prospective students must come from six school districts meaning counties or cities- not middle schools.

many kids at TJ are miserable. Kids who opt to stay at BASIS DC for high school know what they are getting into, and it does not include staying up til 2:30 am with their parents helping them with crazy projects. Our kid is at the high school at BASIS DC. We would never send them to TJ. Too large and too many stressed out kids AND parents and that is not limited to Asians of any type by any means...

[Anonymous]

PP, if your child goes to BDC, then they cannot go to TJ, and you would have no way of knowing how late or stressed said TJ kids are or how late they stay up or what their parents are like.

[Anonymous]

I bet many will go for TJ prep and then stay if they don't get into TJ, so the peer group will be likely strong.

[Anonymous]

The peer group should be strong for 25K. St. Anselm's, an excellent boys parochial school in Brookland with lovely grounds, charges that.

[Anonymous]

Anyone have a child with ADHD at BASIS DC? How is he/she doing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The peer group should be strong for 25K. St. Anselm's, an excellent boys parochial school in Brookland with lovely grounds, charges that.

Because a for profit start up is just like Benedictine Monks who've been educated for, oh, 70 years.