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

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Does it have a courtyard that could be used as a playground?

Hill parents should be worried. This will pull a lot of JO, Miner and possibly Ludlow parents away from their IB school.

Also, why is Alex Rose presenting to the ANC? So much for not pulling away resources from the current school (which the BASIS board promised they wouldn't do).

He is the HoS, and it was just an informational presentation.

What, you would rather somebody fly in from Arizona to give the powerpoint?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Does it have a courtyard that could be used as a playground?

Hill parents should be worried. This will pull a lot of JO, Miner and possibly Ludlow parents away from their IB school.

Also, why is Alex Rose presenting to the ANC? So much for not pulling away resources from the current school (which the BASIS board promised they wouldn't do).

He is the HoS, and it was just an informational presentation.

What, you would rather somebody fly in from Arizona to give the powerpoint?

Yes. I’d also like that Arizona person to make the PowerPoint, instead of having Alex do it and then present it.

The fact is that Alex knows more about how BASIS operates in DC than anyone in Arizona. Of course he’ll be doing the heavy lifting?

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??? No one even knows where this school will be located.

Everyone knows where this school will be located. Every split basis campus does things the same way.

So where exactly will this not yet approved school be? Since you know, please share.

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The school has said it will be close to the current campus. They implied it will be close enough to share facilities.

Yes, exactly. In my PP I was assuming that the new campus would be near the existing campus. That's what BASIS said and that's what it's like at every BASIS split campus. Someone responded objecting that I had no idea where the new school would be located (from the perspective of saying where commuting would be convenient from, not like the exact street address).

But where? There’s no buildings around there with outdoor space. The nearby daycares play on the sidewalk. Is that what BASIS is planning?

Many of the mega office buildings downtown have large courtyard in the middle and large rooftop patios.

So is the distance between 300 I street ne and the current campus what it’s like at every BASIS split campus?

Nope. Looks like they’ve sold current parents a laundry list of lies. All different people? Ha. Current students could use the facilities? Ha.

Agreed. They told current parents at the townhall that the elementary school would be located in the same neighborhood as the existing school, not a different quadrant.

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Anonymous wrote: Not really understanding how this building is large enough, and it looks like the building pretty much covers the lot so no playground of any significance. Maybe they aren't planning on offering preschool?

Older kids need outdoor space/recess too.

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Anonymous wrote: Not really understanding how this building is large enough, and it looks like the building pretty much covers the lot so no playground of any significance. Maybe they aren't planning on offering preschool?

Older kids need outdoor space/recess too.

Well yes but if it's a K-4 then it's less kids, so they don't need as much square footage.

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??? No one even knows where this school will be located.

Everyone knows where this school will be located. Every split basis campus does things the same way.

So where exactly will this not yet approved school be? Since you know, please share.

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The school has said it will be close to the current campus. They implied it will be close enough to share facilities.

Yes, exactly. In my PP I was assuming that the new campus would be near the existing campus. That's what BASIS said and that's what it's like at every BASIS split campus. Someone responded objecting that I had no idea where the new school would be located (from the perspective of saying where commuting would be convenient from, not like the exact street address).

But where? There’s no buildings around there with outdoor space. The nearby daycares play on the sidewalk. Is that what BASIS is planning?

Many of the mega office buildings downtown have large courtyard in the middle and large rooftop patios.

So is the distance between 300 I street ne and the current campus what it’s like at every BASIS split campus?

Nope. Looks like they’ve sold current parents a laundry list of lies. All different people? Ha. Current students could use the facilities? Ha.

Agreed. They told current parents at the townhall that the elementary school would be located in the same neighborhood as the existing school, not a different quadrant.

No, they didn't. They said they would like to, but that no decisions had been made. They said they had identified several possibilities but that nothing was final. Or even close. The meeting was recorded so we can prove that you need to work on your listening skills. Stop stirring up garbage.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ And all of this is ultimately a DCPS failure, because parents will be picking the school for the MS feed, not because they actually prefer it to some of their Hill DCPS options for ES.

Gee, maybe parents actually want BASIS for K-4?

Every BASIS school in the world except for the one in DC includes K-4. There is no logical reason for opposing expansion here.

The point is that people will switch because they want the MS feed. If BASIS ES didn’t feed to BASIS MS, it would have an entirely different population. I’d be totally fine with that. If you really think people want BASIS ES, then that seems like the perfect solution.

Reality check: Very few parents actually want a factory model with no parent input in an office building over Maury, Brent or Ludlow. If they choose it, it’ll be for the MS feed. If BASIS fills its entire/a substantial portion of its MS from its ES, the MS situation on the Hill is about to get desperate. You’ll see some parents lottery in K and others trying to get attrition spots in 3rd and 4th to beat the 5th rush.

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^^ By the way, I don’t blame BASIS for this. Like the previous commentator, I blame DCPS. If the Hill had a MS IB families bought into, this wouldn’t happen. It’s not BAsIS’ fault that it’s MS is desirable.

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Well, if this building is 56,000 square feet, it's larger than BASIS' current building (per the 2018 MFP tables Appendix A.25). It's a little bit larger than Brent, about equal size with Ludlow-Taylor. Since they would not be operating PK3, PK4, and 5th out of this building, they could probably fit three classrooms for each grade, or maybe four classrooms of K and 1st and 2nd, tapering to three, depending on their willingness to backfill (oh, it's soooo haaaaaard to backfill, oh our preshus culture would be ruined!). So that would give them three 4th grade classes so 75-ish kids. Assuming not everyone matriculates to BASIS for 5th, that's maybe 50 or 60 BASIS 5th grade seats going to the elementary kids. Some those kids would have gotten in anyway because of having older siblings at BASIS. So there would still be a lot of seats left for kids from other elementary schools.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ By the way, I don’t blame BASIS for this. Like the previous commentator, I blame DCPS. If the Hill had a MS IB families bought into, this wouldn’t happen. It’s not BAsIS’ fault that it’s MS is desirable.

Yup. I would add also that the HS elephant is very much also in the room. Even if you can cobble together enough supplementing to rationalize SH as a viable option, no one in their right mind is sending their kid to Eastern.

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Anonymous wrote: Not really understanding how this building is large enough, and it looks like the building pretty much covers the lot so no playground of any significance. Maybe they aren't planning on offering preschool?

They’ll probably march kids to the tiny swampoodle playground for recess.

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I am a BASIS parent and I plan to voice my non-support for this plan at DCPCSB. You just need to take a stroll through any of the Mundo Verde or Two Rivers threads to see how a successful charter can fall apart when it expands. No thank you.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a BASIS parent and I plan to voice my non-support for this plan at DCPCSB. You just need to take a stroll through any of the Mundo Verde or Two Rivers threads to see how a successful charter can fall apart when it expands. No thank you.

Three things:

1. One of these things is not like the other two (duplication of existing grades vs adding new grades)
2. BASIS operates K-4 at all other campuses. Unlike TR and MV, this is not an experiment or matter of first impression
3. I call BS on your thin purported concerns. You don't want to have to choose between BASIS and LT or Brent. You like having both at your disposal. Nothing wrong with it, but at least be honest with yourself and us

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Anonymous wrote:^^ And all of this is ultimately a DCPS failure, because parents will be picking the school for the MS feed, not because they actually prefer it to some of their Hill DCPS options for ES.

Gee, maybe parents actually want BASIS for K-4?

Every BASIS school in the world except for the one in DC includes K-4. There is no logical reason for opposing expansion here.

The point is that people will switch because they want the MS feed. If BASIS ES didn’t feed to BASIS MS, it would have an entirely different population. I’d be totally fine with that. If you really think people want BASIS ES, then that seems like the perfect solution.

Reality check: Very few parents actually want a factory model with no parent input in an office building over Maury, Brent or Ludlow. If they choose it, it’ll be for the MS feed. If BASIS fills its entire/a substantial portion of its MS from its ES, the MS situation on the Hill is about to get desperate. You’ll see some parents lottery in K and others trying to get attrition spots in 3rd and 4th to beat the 5th rush.

Well, every other Basis in the world has K-4 and they have no trouble filling those seats. Basis has some of the top-ranked schools in the entire United States. So, there are plenty of parents who would pick Basis DC K-4 over their neighborhood school.

The Basis K-4 curriculum will be more advanced than the typical DCPS school and will include language and literacy, math, civics, history, science, and PE. The MS and HS will then build on that foundation.

Plus, plenty of Hill parents, need a viable HS option, and Eastern does not cut it.

More choice is always good.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a BASIS parent and I plan to voice my non-support for this plan at DCPCSB. You just need to take a stroll through any of the Mundo Verde or Two Rivers threads to see how a successful charter can fall apart when it expands. No thank you.

Three things:

1. One of these things is not like the other two (duplication of existing grades vs adding new grades)
2. BASIS operates K-4 at all other campuses. Unlike TR and MV, this is not an experiment or matter of first impression
3. I call BS on your thin purported concerns. You don't want to have to choose between BASIS and LT or Brent. You like having both at your disposal. Nothing wrong with it, but at least be honest with yourself and us

Agree. Totally ridiculous to oppose this. The plan from the beginning was to include K-4 and unfortunately it was delayed by PCSB politics.