Middle Schools for Cap Hill

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Anonymous wrote:hobson and JA are both at this point vast majority students from the designated feeder schools - it does appear that slowly and surely more and more students from those schools are attending each year

Uh … this is because those feeder schools empty out after 4th grade and are back-filled with OOB students. The # of kids from feeder schools is a meaningless number because people leave after 4th for charters. But I’m sure you know that and are just being an intentionally obtuse booster.

We just got an email today from Watkins inviting us to enroll for 5th (apparently they get emails from MySchoolDC and spam parents) because they’re hemorrhaging students from 4th grade.

I have no dog in this race but this is just a lazy take. You assume that that they are trying to fill seats "because they’re hemorrhaging students from 4th grade" but even a cursory look at the WL data tells you that you are jumping to conclusions. They opened up 8 seats in the lottery and as of lottery day they had only one person on the WL for 5th grade. As of June 1 there were zero kids on the WL. If even two of those 8 lottery seats offered was declined then there wouldn't have had to be a single additional unexpected student leaving after 4th for the school to still need to fill open seats.

Serious question for PP: What is it about your makeup that motivates you to post things like this? What urge or need are you satisfying by just imagining negativity?

And as kids are getting spots at BASIS, Latin and Latin II, they are leaving Watkins.

I feel like you think it’s normal to have to fill more than one or two spots in a school. It’s not normal. Northwest schools do not have this problem. Because they’re not hemorrhaging students.

To give you an idea, last year, the five JKLMM schools COMBINED took three children for 5th grade by count day.

And your point is ...? I don't believe anyone here said that W6 is the same as NW. Keep your focus - the point is that some familes are trying the W6 MSs and this appears to be increasing in number. And, when I did the math, I was pleasantly surprised that Jefferson in fact WOULD have a strong cohort for my kid (as long as I'm not hung up on him being a different race from them ... )

No family IB for Watkins, Brent, Maury, etc. is trying their IB middle school voluntarily. They are, to a person, doing it because they struck out in the lottery. My point is, that COULD be fixed, by changing the feeder pattern and creating a Deal-like middle school, where people would actually WANT to send their kids, not just be somewhere people were willing to “try” when the got a crap lottery pull.

Oh please. The families enrolling have better options. I myself just turned down TR and ITS spots because I’d rather give Eliot-Hine a spot. Maybe they’d like to send their kid to Latin, or Sidwell, or the moon … but that doesn’t really say anything about the quality of IB schools.

We all know that ITS and TR are just as shitty as EH. If you lotteried into Latin or BASIS, you would be headed there.

+100. TR is a complete shitshow
—long time TR parent fleeing after 4th grade

Where are you going?

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Anonymous wrote:hobson and JA are both at this point vast majority students from the designated feeder schools - it does appear that slowly and surely more and more students from those schools are attending each year

Uh … this is because those feeder schools empty out after 4th grade and are back-filled with OOB students. The # of kids from feeder schools is a meaningless number because people leave after 4th for charters. But I’m sure you know that and are just being an intentionally obtuse booster.

We just got an email today from Watkins inviting us to enroll for 5th (apparently they get emails from MySchoolDC and spam parents) because they’re hemorrhaging students from 4th grade.

I have no dog in this race but this is just a lazy take. You assume that that they are trying to fill seats "because they’re hemorrhaging students from 4th grade" but even a cursory look at the WL data tells you that you are jumping to conclusions. They opened up 8 seats in the lottery and as of lottery day they had only one person on the WL for 5th grade. As of June 1 there were zero kids on the WL. If even two of those 8 lottery seats offered was declined then there wouldn't have had to be a single additional unexpected student leaving after 4th for the school to still need to fill open seats.

Serious question for PP: What is it about your makeup that motivates you to post things like this? What urge or need are you satisfying by just imagining negativity?

And as kids are getting spots at BASIS, Latin and Latin II, they are leaving Watkins.

I feel like you think it’s normal to have to fill more than one or two spots in a school. It’s not normal. Northwest schools do not have this problem. Because they’re not hemorrhaging students.

To give you an idea, last year, the five JKLMM schools COMBINED took three children for 5th grade by count day.

And your point is ...? I don't believe anyone here said that W6 is the same as NW. Keep your focus - the point is that some familes are trying the W6 MSs and this appears to be increasing in number. And, when I did the math, I was pleasantly surprised that Jefferson in fact WOULD have a strong cohort for my kid (as long as I'm not hung up on him being a different race from them ... )

No family IB for Watkins, Brent, Maury, etc. is trying their IB middle school voluntarily. They are, to a person, doing it because they struck out in the lottery. My point is, that COULD be fixed, by changing the feeder pattern and creating a Deal-like middle school, where people would actually WANT to send their kids, not just be somewhere people were willing to “try” when the got a crap lottery pull.

Oh please. The families enrolling have better options. I myself just turned down TR and ITS spots because I’d rather give Eliot-Hine a spot. Maybe they’d like to send their kid to Latin, or Sidwell, or the moon … but that doesn’t really say anything about the quality of IB schools.

We all know that ITS and TR are just as shitty as EH. If you lotteried into Latin or BASIS, you would be headed there.

+100. TR is a complete shitshow
—long time TR parent fleeing after 4th grade

ITS is not a shit show. It's more like a school that is pretty good if you like small schools and wokeness and don't mind having no high school plan. It isn't disorganized or sloppy, and a lot of the teachers are quite good.

This. We really like ITS. And I think the HS plan is why Latin and BASIS get thrown around as "better" than any of the other MSs listed in this thread. The aren't actually better. They are different but every school mentioned (SH/EH/JA/ITS/I can't speak to TR but probably TR) has pluses and minuses and plenty of happy families and kids who do great there. Every one of them. Latin and BASIS have that too, but especially with BASIS, there are also miserable families who hate it. There are families who struggle with the commute or just aren't getting what they want out of the school.

BUT Latin and BASIS have HS options.

That's it. That's the whole thing. It's about HS. Eastern is the issue. And yes, I am aware that Eastern won't improve if families don't invest in the MS feeds. But it's a chicken or the egg issue. Our kid is still 5 years off from HS, but based on how things stand right now, Eastern is off the table for us. And also for many other families. This really isn't about MS.

[Anonymous]

Depends on what you are looking for. If you are on the Hill:

BASIS is by far the best choice for academics. But it not a good choice if you don't want intellectual rigor and an advanced curriculum

Latin I offers an OK curriculum with more amenities.

Latin II is a total crapshoot. We'll have to wait a few years to see how it pans out.

Otherwise, you are looking at your in-bound options, which are decent for elementary, subpar for middle, and bad for high school.

For the families who choose E-H, S-H, or Jefferson, good luck with that but don't kid yourself that Basis or Latin are just "different" and not better. Basis is objectively the best, trailed by Latin, with E-H, S-H, and Jefferson way behind.

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Anonymous wrote:hobson and JA are both at this point vast majority students from the designated feeder schools - it does appear that slowly and surely more and more students from those schools are attending each year

Uh … this is because those feeder schools empty out after 4th grade and are back-filled with OOB students. The # of kids from feeder schools is a meaningless number because people leave after 4th for charters. But I’m sure you know that and are just being an intentionally obtuse booster.

We just got an email today from Watkins inviting us to enroll for 5th (apparently they get emails from MySchoolDC and spam parents) because they’re hemorrhaging students from 4th grade.

I have no dog in this race but this is just a lazy take. You assume that that they are trying to fill seats "because they’re hemorrhaging students from 4th grade" but even a cursory look at the WL data tells you that you are jumping to conclusions. They opened up 8 seats in the lottery and as of lottery day they had only one person on the WL for 5th grade. As of June 1 there were zero kids on the WL. If even two of those 8 lottery seats offered was declined then there wouldn't have had to be a single additional unexpected student leaving after 4th for the school to still need to fill open seats.

Serious question for PP: What is it about your makeup that motivates you to post things like this? What urge or need are you satisfying by just imagining negativity?

And as kids are getting spots at BASIS, Latin and Latin II, they are leaving Watkins.

I feel like you think it’s normal to have to fill more than one or two spots in a school. It’s not normal. Northwest schools do not have this problem. Because they’re not hemorrhaging students.

To give you an idea, last year, the five JKLMM schools COMBINED took three children for 5th grade by count day.

And your point is ...? I don't believe anyone here said that W6 is the same as NW. Keep your focus - the point is that some familes are trying the W6 MSs and this appears to be increasing in number. And, when I did the math, I was pleasantly surprised that Jefferson in fact WOULD have a strong cohort for my kid (as long as I'm not hung up on him being a different race from them ... )

No family IB for Watkins, Brent, Maury, etc. is trying their IB middle school voluntarily. They are, to a person, doing it because they struck out in the lottery. My point is, that COULD be fixed, by changing the feeder pattern and creating a Deal-like middle school, where people would actually WANT to send their kids, not just be somewhere people were willing to “try” when the got a crap lottery pull.

Oh please. The families enrolling have better options. I myself just turned down TR and ITS spots because I’d rather give Eliot-Hine a spot. Maybe they’d like to send their kid to Latin, or Sidwell, or the moon … but that doesn’t really say anything about the quality of IB schools.

We all know that ITS and TR are just as shitty as EH. If you lotteried into Latin or BASIS, you would be headed there.

+100. TR is a complete shitshow
—long time TR parent fleeing after 4th grade

Where are you going?

Private. TR’s response to COVID was so poor. We kept DS there this year, but I (mom) focused on finding a job that would allow for private school tuition. I landed that in March, thankfully.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Depends on what you are looking for. If you are on the Hill:

BASIS is by far the best choice for academics. But it not a good choice if you don't want intellectual rigor and an advanced curriculum

Latin I offers an OK curriculum with more amenities.

Latin II is a total crapshoot. We'll have to wait a few years to see how it pans out.

Otherwise, you are looking at your in-bound options, which are decent for elementary, subpar for middle, and bad for high school.

For the families who choose E-H, S-H, or Jefferson, good luck with that but don't kid yourself that Basis or Latin are just "different" and not better. Basis is objectively the best, trailed by Latin, with E-H, S-H, and Jefferson way behind.

Where does DCI fit into this, and what about application high schools?

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on what you are looking for. If you are on the Hill:

BASIS is by far the best choice for academics. But it not a good choice if you don't want intellectual rigor and an advanced curriculum

Latin I offers an OK curriculum with more amenities.

Latin II is a total crapshoot. We'll have to wait a few years to see how it pans out.

Otherwise, you are looking at your in-bound options, which are decent for elementary, subpar for middle, and bad for high school.

For the families who choose E-H, S-H, or Jefferson, good luck with that but don't kid yourself that Basis or Latin are just "different" and not better. Basis is objectively the best, trailed by Latin, with E-H, S-H, and Jefferson way behind.

According to the USWR rankings, Basis is the #1 public or charter middle school in DC. Latin is #14. Jefferson and Stuart-Hobson are #19 and #20, respectively, so they’re actually pretty close to Latin. Eliot-Hine is #44.

https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/middle-schools/district-of-columbia

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on what you are looking for. If you are on the Hill:

BASIS is by far the best choice for academics. But it not a good choice if you don't want intellectual rigor and an advanced curriculum

Latin I offers an OK curriculum with more amenities.

Latin II is a total crapshoot. We'll have to wait a few years to see how it pans out.

Otherwise, you are looking at your in-bound options, which are decent for elementary, subpar for middle, and bad for high school.

For the families who choose E-H, S-H, or Jefferson, good luck with that but don't kid yourself that Basis or Latin are just "different" and not better. Basis is objectively the best, trailed by Latin, with E-H, S-H, and Jefferson way behind.

According to the USWR rankings, Basis is the #1 public or charter middle school in DC. Latin is #14. Jefferson and Stuart-Hobson are #19 and #20, respectively, so they’re actually pretty close to Latin. Eliot-Hine is #44.

https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/middle-schools/district-of-columbia

People, move away from USWR. It is meaningless. It was relevant when…Bill Clinton was President. But its been irrelevant for decades; the school data is as solid as Swiss cheese.

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on what you are looking for. If you are on the Hill:

BASIS is by far the best choice for academics. But it not a good choice if you don't want intellectual rigor and an advanced curriculum

Latin I offers an OK curriculum with more amenities.

Latin II is a total crapshoot. We'll have to wait a few years to see how it pans out.

Otherwise, you are looking at your in-bound options, which are decent for elementary, subpar for middle, and bad for high school.

For the families who choose E-H, S-H, or Jefferson, good luck with that but don't kid yourself that Basis or Latin are just "different" and not better. Basis is objectively the best, trailed by Latin, with E-H, S-H, and Jefferson way behind.

According to the USWR rankings, Basis is the #1 public or charter middle school in DC. Latin is #14. Jefferson and Stuart-Hobson are #19 and #20, respectively, so they’re actually pretty close to Latin. Eliot-Hine is #44.

https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/middle-schools/district-of-columbia

People, move away from USWR. It is meaningless. It was relevant when…Bill Clinton was President. But its been irrelevant for decades; the school data is as solid as Swiss cheese.

Thanks for sharing E-H parent.

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on what you are looking for. If you are on the Hill:

BASIS is by far the best choice for academics. But it not a good choice if you don't want intellectual rigor and an advanced curriculum

Latin I offers an OK curriculum with more amenities.

Latin II is a total crapshoot. We'll have to wait a few years to see how it pans out.

Otherwise, you are looking at your in-bound options, which are decent for elementary, subpar for middle, and bad for high school.

For the families who choose E-H, S-H, or Jefferson, good luck with that but don't kid yourself that Basis or Latin are just "different" and not better. Basis is objectively the best, trailed by Latin, with E-H, S-H, and Jefferson way behind.

BASIS offers little more than test prep, with high teacher turnover. It's a march in step, salute program while intellectual rigor is about learning to question. We didn't find their middle school curriculum advanced outside math and science. Languages won't be taught before 8th grade at BASIS as of this fall. Not too impressive.

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on what you are looking for. If you are on the Hill:

BASIS is by far the best choice for academics. But it not a good choice if you don't want intellectual rigor and an advanced curriculum

Latin I offers an OK curriculum with more amenities.

Latin II is a total crapshoot. We'll have to wait a few years to see how it pans out.

Otherwise, you are looking at your in-bound options, which are decent for elementary, subpar for middle, and bad for high school.

For the families who choose E-H, S-H, or Jefferson, good luck with that but don't kid yourself that Basis or Latin are just "different" and not better. Basis is objectively the best, trailed by Latin, with E-H, S-H, and Jefferson way behind.

BASIS offers little more than test prep, with high teacher turnover. It's a march in step, salute program while intellectual rigor is about learning to question. We didn't find their middle school curriculum advanced outside math and science. Languages won't be taught before 8th grade at BASIS as of this fall. Not too impressive.

Nothing you say contradicts PPs contention that Basis is still the best option.

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Anonymous wrote:hobson and JA are both at this point vast majority students from the designated feeder schools - it does appear that slowly and surely more and more students from those schools are attending each year

Uh … this is because those feeder schools empty out after 4th grade and are back-filled with OOB students. The # of kids from feeder schools is a meaningless number because people leave after 4th for charters. But I’m sure you know that and are just being an intentionally obtuse booster.

We just got an email today from Watkins inviting us to enroll for 5th (apparently they get emails from MySchoolDC and spam parents) because they’re hemorrhaging students from 4th grade.

I have no dog in this race but this is just a lazy take. You assume that that they are trying to fill seats "because they’re hemorrhaging students from 4th grade" but even a cursory look at the WL data tells you that you are jumping to conclusions. They opened up 8 seats in the lottery and as of lottery day they had only one person on the WL for 5th grade. As of June 1 there were zero kids on the WL. If even two of those 8 lottery seats offered was declined then there wouldn't have had to be a single additional unexpected student leaving after 4th for the school to still need to fill open seats.

Serious question for PP: What is it about your makeup that motivates you to post things like this? What urge or need are you satisfying by just imagining negativity?

And as kids are getting spots at BASIS, Latin and Latin II, they are leaving Watkins.

I feel like you think it’s normal to have to fill more than one or two spots in a school. It’s not normal. Northwest schools do not have this problem. Because they’re not hemorrhaging students.

To give you an idea, last year, the five JKLMM schools COMBINED took three children for 5th grade by count day.

And your point is ...? I don't believe anyone here said that W6 is the same as NW. Keep your focus - the point is that some familes are trying the W6 MSs and this appears to be increasing in number. And, when I did the math, I was pleasantly surprised that Jefferson in fact WOULD have a strong cohort for my kid (as long as I'm not hung up on him being a different race from them ... )

No family IB for Watkins, Brent, Maury, etc. is trying their IB middle school voluntarily. They are, to a person, doing it because they struck out in the lottery. My point is, that COULD be fixed, by changing the feeder pattern and creating a Deal-like middle school, where people would actually WANT to send their kids, not just be somewhere people were willing to “try” when the got a crap lottery pull.

Oh please. The families enrolling have better options. I myself just turned down TR and ITS spots because I’d rather give Eliot-Hine a spot. Maybe they’d like to send their kid to Latin, or Sidwell, or the moon … but that doesn’t really say anything about the quality of IB schools.

We all know that ITS and TR are just as shitty as EH. If you lotteried into Latin or BASIS, you would be headed there.

+100. TR is a complete shitshow
—long time TR parent fleeing after 4th grade

ITS is not a shit show. It's more like a school that is pretty good if you like small schools and wokeness and don't mind having no high school plan. It isn't disorganized or sloppy, and a lot of the teachers are quite good.

This. We really like ITS. And I think the HS plan is why Latin and BASIS get thrown around as "better" than any of the other MSs listed in this thread. The aren't actually better. They are different but every school mentioned (SH/EH/JA/ITS/I can't speak to TR but probably TR) has pluses and minuses and plenty of happy families and kids who do great there. Every one of them. Latin and BASIS have that too, but especially with BASIS, there are also miserable families who hate it. There are families who struggle with the commute or just aren't getting what they want out of the school.

BUT Latin and BASIS have HS options.

That's it. That's the whole thing. It's about HS. Eastern is the issue. And yes, I am aware that Eastern won't improve if families don't invest in the MS feeds. But it's a chicken or the egg issue. Our kid is still 5 years off from HS, but based on how things stand right now, Eastern is off the table for us. And also for many other families. This really isn't about MS.

I chose BASIS for the middle school only. Most people I know did the same. I think it’s beginning to retain more for high school these days, but that was never my intention. For what I chose it for, I think Basis did an excellent job.

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on what you are looking for. If you are on the Hill:

BASIS is by far the best choice for academics. But it not a good choice if you don't want intellectual rigor and an advanced curriculum

Latin I offers an OK curriculum with more amenities.

Latin II is a total crapshoot. We'll have to wait a few years to see how it pans out.

Otherwise, you are looking at your in-bound options, which are decent for elementary, subpar for middle, and bad for high school.

For the families who choose E-H, S-H, or Jefferson, good luck with that but don't kid yourself that Basis or Latin are just "different" and not better. Basis is objectively the best, trailed by Latin, with E-H, S-H, and Jefferson way behind.

BASIS offers little more than test prep, with high teacher turnover. It's a march in step, salute program while intellectual rigor is about learning to question. We didn't find their middle school curriculum advanced outside math and science. Languages won't be taught before 8th grade at BASIS as of this fall. Not too impressive.

Nothing you say contradicts PPs contention that Basis is still the best option.

In the big picture, avoiding BASIS altogether can be a fine option, however that shakes out.

We're MITs grads who don't respect their obtuse one-size-fits-all approach to learning, or their leadership. The kids in charge didn't so much as attend elite colleges.

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^^Fine. We’re both Harvard grads, with two very happy BASIS students. Our family is quite happy with the school.

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Anonymous wrote:hobson and JA are both at this point vast majority students from the designated feeder schools - it does appear that slowly and surely more and more students from those schools are attending each year

Uh … this is because those feeder schools empty out after 4th grade and are back-filled with OOB students. The # of kids from feeder schools is a meaningless number because people leave after 4th for charters. But I’m sure you know that and are just being an intentionally obtuse booster.

We just got an email today from Watkins inviting us to enroll for 5th (apparently they get emails from MySchoolDC and spam parents) because they’re hemorrhaging students from 4th grade.

I have no dog in this race but this is just a lazy take. You assume that that they are trying to fill seats "because they’re hemorrhaging students from 4th grade" but even a cursory look at the WL data tells you that you are jumping to conclusions. They opened up 8 seats in the lottery and as of lottery day they had only one person on the WL for 5th grade. As of June 1 there were zero kids on the WL. If even two of those 8 lottery seats offered was declined then there wouldn't have had to be a single additional unexpected student leaving after 4th for the school to still need to fill open seats.

Serious question for PP: What is it about your makeup that motivates you to post things like this? What urge or need are you satisfying by just imagining negativity?

And as kids are getting spots at BASIS, Latin and Latin II, they are leaving Watkins.

I feel like you think it’s normal to have to fill more than one or two spots in a school. It’s not normal. Northwest schools do not have this problem. Because they’re not hemorrhaging students.

To give you an idea, last year, the five JKLMM schools COMBINED took three children for 5th grade by count day.

And your point is ...? I don't believe anyone here said that W6 is the same as NW. Keep your focus - the point is that some familes are trying the W6 MSs and this appears to be increasing in number. And, when I did the math, I was pleasantly surprised that Jefferson in fact WOULD have a strong cohort for my kid (as long as I'm not hung up on him being a different race from them ... )

No family IB for Watkins, Brent, Maury, etc. is trying their IB middle school voluntarily. They are, to a person, doing it because they struck out in the lottery. My point is, that COULD be fixed, by changing the feeder pattern and creating a Deal-like middle school, where people would actually WANT to send their kids, not just be somewhere people were willing to “try” when the got a crap lottery pull.

Oh please. The families enrolling have better options. I myself just turned down TR and ITS spots because I’d rather give Eliot-Hine a spot. Maybe they’d like to send their kid to Latin, or Sidwell, or the moon … but that doesn’t really say anything about the quality of IB schools.

We all know that ITS and TR are just as shitty as EH. If you lotteried into Latin or BASIS, you would be headed there.

True of Latin but really not true of BASIS.

While I agree that should be true, it unfortunately isn't. Year after year people lottery into Basis even though it is clear (or should be) that it is a terrible fit for their kid. Then the kid flounders, the parents go running to the admins to tell them how they need to change the school to help their kid, the admins politely decline and then parents then turn into the annoying Basis bashers who whine and complain about the "young admins" and how no one could possibly like Basis. All because they couldn't stomach EH or SH.

Half BS. The admins are in fact inexperienced 20-somethings, not necessarily the case 4 or 5 years back.

The truth is BASIS MS families leave for a great variety of reasons, not just because students are floundering academically. Terrible fit can be a euphemism families being on the receiving end of poor treatment by admins, including lack of flexibility where common sense should have carried the day. Over the years, we've known BASIS families who "whined" their way straight to the DC Public Schools Chief Student Advocate, the DC Public Schools Ombudsman, and even the judicial system and won via out of court settlements.

You are too emotionally invested to see it, but your reply proved my point for me.

How badly did your kid fail at Basis? How full of yourself were you when the admins told you "thanks for your opinion, but "no"?" How fragile is your ego? DC Public Schools Chief Student Advocate, the DC Public Schools Ombudsman are resources available, and were used. And?

Basis is a bad fit for some kids. The admin is very open about the fact that they are not interested in changing the way they do things. The kids for whom it is a good fit thrive; the results speak for themselves. What I wonder is, have people like you who cannot get over your kids not succeeding at Basis ever for a moment looked in the mirror and asked whether you failed as parents by sending your kids to a school that was a terrible fit for your kid?

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on what you are looking for. If you are on the Hill:

BASIS is by far the best choice for academics. But it not a good choice if you don't want intellectual rigor and an advanced curriculum

Latin I offers an OK curriculum with more amenities.

Latin II is a total crapshoot. We'll have to wait a few years to see how it pans out.

Otherwise, you are looking at your in-bound options, which are decent for elementary, subpar for middle, and bad for high school.

For the families who choose E-H, S-H, or Jefferson, good luck with that but don't kid yourself that Basis or Latin are just "different" and not better. Basis is objectively the best, trailed by Latin, with E-H, S-H, and Jefferson way behind.

BASIS offers little more than test prep, with high teacher turnover. It's a march in step, salute program while intellectual rigor is about learning to question. We didn't find their middle school curriculum advanced outside math and science. Languages won't be taught before 8th grade at BASIS as of this fall. Not too impressive.

Nothing you say contradicts PPs contention that Basis is still the best option.

In the big picture, avoiding BASIS altogether can be a fine option, however that shakes out.

We're MITs grads who don't respect their obtuse one-size-fits-all approach to learning, or their leadership. The kids in charge didn't so much as attend elite colleges.

Why is that relevant?