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Anonymous wrote:Wow—won’t be long before BASIS DC, a 100% lottery school, ranks above Walls, which only takes straight A students.

That is totally misleading. Yes, basis accepts by lottery -- in 5th grade. It then forces out kids who aren't successful and refuses to accept any new students for 9th grade.

Oh stop. There's lots of schools in DC that have similar policies. BASIS is not unique.

Really? Name one.

Every bilingual school in the city?

What on earth are you talking about. That's definitely not true. Name even one school that does that, with cites. LAMB and YY stop accepting kids at a certain grade but they don't require anyone to repeat grades.

No one ever raised the issue of repeating grades, except for you.

You said "similar policies", and incentivizing kids to leave with developmentally inappropriate retention policies is key to how BASIS operates.

It seems very DC that people hate BASIS, one of the best schools in the city, but they have no problem with the dozens and dozens of steaming piles of shit that pass for public schools in this city.

The arrogance of BASIS posters to call all the other schools in the city "steaming piles of shit" is why people hate to see them coming. Maybe try appreciating what other schools add to the DC ecosystem. There are good and even excellent schools on both sides of the park. Basis is not the only or even, necessarily, the best middle school or high school. Finding the best fit for each kid is the goal. Why not acknowledge that BASIS is a good fit for some, and not for others. For this reason it's a GOOD thing that many different schools are available to educate our students.

Again, arrogant BASIS posters provoke a negative reaction from parents at other schools. This should not be a surprise to anyone.

THIS. So tiring all the Basis booster threads in the past few months. Just stop.

is the waitlist moving a lot and why the families need to do this?

No, it's because defensive BASIS boosters know their school is mid so they never miss an opportunity to push their talking points.

Don’t want to be mean but Latin is mid. Its biggest positive is that white kids go there.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow—won’t be long before BASIS DC, a 100% lottery school, ranks above Walls, which only takes straight A students.

That is totally misleading. Yes, basis accepts by lottery -- in 5th grade. It then forces out kids who aren't successful and refuses to accept any new students for 9th grade.

Oh stop. There's lots of schools in DC that have similar policies. BASIS is not unique.

Really? Name one.

Every bilingual school in the city?

What on earth are you talking about. That's definitely not true. Name even one school that does that, with cites. LAMB and YY stop accepting kids at a certain grade but they don't require anyone to repeat grades.

No one ever raised the issue of repeating grades, except for you.

You said "similar policies", and incentivizing kids to leave with developmentally inappropriate retention policies is key to how BASIS operates.

It seems very DC that people hate BASIS, one of the best schools in the city, but they have no problem with the dozens and dozens of steaming piles of shit that pass for public schools in this city.

The arrogance of BASIS posters to call all the other schools in the city "steaming piles of shit" is why people hate to see them coming. Maybe try appreciating what other schools add to the DC ecosystem. There are good and even excellent schools on both sides of the park. Basis is not the only or even, necessarily, the best middle school or high school. Finding the best fit for each kid is the goal. Why not acknowledge that BASIS is a good fit for some, and not for others. For this reason it's a GOOD thing that many different schools are available to educate our students.

Again, arrogant BASIS posters provoke a negative reaction from parents at other schools. This should not be a surprise to anyone.

THIS. So tiring all the Basis booster threads in the past few months. Just stop.

is the waitlist moving a lot and why the families need to do this?

No, it's because defensive BASIS boosters know their school is mid so they never miss an opportunity to push their talking points.

Don’t want to be mean but Latin is mid. Its biggest positive is that white kids go there.

So you're dumb...and racist?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow—won’t be long before BASIS DC, a 100% lottery school, ranks above Walls, which only takes straight A students.

That is totally misleading. Yes, basis accepts by lottery -- in 5th grade. It then forces out kids who aren't successful and refuses to accept any new students for 9th grade.

Oh stop. There's lots of schools in DC that have similar policies. BASIS is not unique.

Really? Name one.

Every bilingual school in the city?

What on earth are you talking about. That's definitely not true. Name even one school that does that, with cites. LAMB and YY stop accepting kids at a certain grade but they don't require anyone to repeat grades.

No one ever raised the issue of repeating grades, except for you.

You said "similar policies", and incentivizing kids to leave with developmentally inappropriate retention policies is key to how BASIS operates.

It seems very DC that people hate BASIS, one of the best schools in the city, but they have no problem with the dozens and dozens of steaming piles of shit that pass for public schools in this city.

The arrogance of BASIS posters to call all the other schools in the city "steaming piles of shit" is why people hate to see them coming. Maybe try appreciating what other schools add to the DC ecosystem. There are good and even excellent schools on both sides of the park. Basis is not the only or even, necessarily, the best middle school or high school. Finding the best fit for each kid is the goal. Why not acknowledge that BASIS is a good fit for some, and not for others. For this reason it's a GOOD thing that many different schools are available to educate our students.

Again, arrogant BASIS posters provoke a negative reaction from parents at other schools. This should not be a surprise to anyone.

THIS. So tiring all the Basis booster threads in the past few months. Just stop.

is the waitlist moving a lot and why the families need to do this?

No, it's because defensive BASIS boosters know their school is mid so they never miss an opportunity to push their talking points.

Don’t want to be mean but Latin is mid. Its biggest positive is that white kids go there.

So you're dumb...and racist?

Most DC high schools have a literal handful of white kids in each grade. There's nothing wrong with wanting there to be 15 white kids in a class of 200 kids. If black parents are allowed to want that for their kids, white parents are too.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we please stop discussing BASIS? absolutely everything that needs to be said about the school has been said.

There are so many more schools to discuss. What about McKinley Tech, which is now #5 and has seen a huge jump in test scores this year?

I'd probably put Latin ahead of Banneker.

There is no dcps that is better than a charter in this city. Sorry. Walls used to be the exception, but now it’s full of kids with below grade level test scores with a 4.0 gpa from a bad middle school. Pass.

Unfortunately this is true. Walls has gone downhill due to the race to the bottom mindset at DCPS.

If you are EOTP and don’t get into the 3 decent charters (Basis, DCI, Latin) in middle, best thing to do is move to burbs with good pyramids and you get state college benefits.

As to WOTP, DCPS is also destroying the one decent IB pyramid in this town. Starting with honors for all at JR and now forcing kids to go to McArthur, less families are staying in DCPS for middle and high school.

Now there is the new awful science and ELA curriculum to add fuel to the fire.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we please stop discussing BASIS? absolutely everything that needs to be said about the school has been said.

There are so many more schools to discuss. What about McKinley Tech, which is now #5 and has seen a huge jump in test scores this year?

I'd probably put Latin ahead of Banneker.

There is no dcps that is better than a charter in this city. Sorry. Walls used to be the exception, but now it’s full of kids with below grade level test scores with a 4.0 gpa from a bad middle school. Pass.

Unfortunately this is true. Walls has gone downhill due to the race to the bottom mindset at DCPS.

If you are EOTP and don’t get into the 3 decent charters (Basis, DCI, Latin) in middle, best thing to do is move to burbs with good pyramids and you get state college benefits.

As to WOTP, DCPS is also destroying the one decent IB pyramid in this town. Starting with honors for all at JR and now forcing kids to go to McArthur, less families are staying in DCPS for middle and high school.

Now there is the new awful science and ELA curriculum to add fuel to the fire.

Disagree. My kid goes to one of the DCPS application schools and is doing well and getting a good education.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we please stop discussing BASIS? absolutely everything that needs to be said about the school has been said.

There are so many more schools to discuss. What about McKinley Tech, which is now #5 and has seen a huge jump in test scores this year?

I'd probably put Latin ahead of Banneker.

There is no dcps that is better than a charter in this city. Sorry. Walls used to be the exception, but now it’s full of kids with below grade level test scores with a 4.0 gpa from a bad middle school. Pass.

Unfortunately this is true. Walls has gone downhill due to the race to the bottom mindset at DCPS.

If you are EOTP and don’t get into the 3 decent charters (Basis, DCI, Latin) in middle, best thing to do is move to burbs with good pyramids and you get state college benefits.

As to WOTP, DCPS is also destroying the one decent IB pyramid in this town. Starting with honors for all at JR and now forcing kids to go to McArthur, less families are staying in DCPS for middle and high school.

Now there is the new awful science and ELA curriculum to add fuel to the fire.

Actually, more students are enrolling in DCPS schools for middle school and high school than in the past.
In fact, students in middle school and high school are driving the growth in DCPS enrollment that we've seen over the past few years.

Check out the stats rather than just basing your analysis on anecdotes:
https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-glance-enrollment

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Anonymous wrote:Wow—won’t be long before BASIS DC, a 100% lottery school, ranks above Walls, which only takes straight A students.

That is totally misleading. Yes, basis accepts by lottery -- in 5th grade. It then forces out kids who aren't successful and refuses to accept any new students for 9th grade.

Oh stop. There's lots of schools in DC that have similar policies. BASIS is not unique.

Really? Name one.

Every bilingual school in the city?

What on earth are you talking about. That's definitely not true. Name even one school that does that, with cites. LAMB and YY stop accepting kids at a certain grade but they don't require anyone to repeat grades.

No one ever raised the issue of repeating grades, except for you.

You said "similar policies", and incentivizing kids to leave with developmentally inappropriate retention policies is key to how BASIS operates.

It seems very DC that people hate BASIS, one of the best schools in the city, but they have no problem with the dozens and dozens of steaming piles of shit that pass for public schools in this city.

The arrogance of BASIS posters to call all the other schools in the city "steaming piles of shit" is why people hate to see them coming. Maybe try appreciating what other schools add to the DC ecosystem. There are good and even excellent schools on both sides of the park. Basis is not the only or even, necessarily, the best middle school or high school. Finding the best fit for each kid is the goal. Why not acknowledge that BASIS is a good fit for some, and not for others. For this reason it's a GOOD thing that many different schools are available to educate our students.

Again, arrogant BASIS posters provoke a negative reaction from parents at other schools. This should not be a surprise to anyone.

THIS. So tiring all the Basis booster threads in the past few months. Just stop.

is the waitlist moving a lot and why the families need to do this?

No, it's because defensive BASIS boosters know their school is mid so they never miss an opportunity to push their talking points.

Don’t want to be mean but Latin is mid. Its biggest positive is that white kids go there.

So you're dumb...and racist?

Most DC high schools have a literal handful of white kids in each grade. There's nothing wrong with wanting there to be 15 white kids in a class of 200 kids. If black parents are allowed to want that for their kids, white parents are too.

It's striking how ignorant you are of DC schools. Do you live actually here?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow—won’t be long before BASIS DC, a 100% lottery school, ranks above Walls, which only takes straight A students.

That is totally misleading. Yes, basis accepts by lottery -- in 5th grade. It then forces out kids who aren't successful and refuses to accept any new students for 9th grade.

Oh stop. There's lots of schools in DC that have similar policies. BASIS is not unique.

Really? Name one.

Every bilingual school in the city?

What on earth are you talking about. That's definitely not true. Name even one school that does that, with cites. LAMB and YY stop accepting kids at a certain grade but they don't require anyone to repeat grades.

No one ever raised the issue of repeating grades, except for you.

You said "similar policies", and incentivizing kids to leave with developmentally inappropriate retention policies is key to how BASIS operates.

It seems very DC that people hate BASIS, one of the best schools in the city, but they have no problem with the dozens and dozens of steaming piles of shit that pass for public schools in this city.

The arrogance of BASIS posters to call all the other schools in the city "steaming piles of shit" is why people hate to see them coming. Maybe try appreciating what other schools add to the DC ecosystem. There are good and even excellent schools on both sides of the park. Basis is not the only or even, necessarily, the best middle school or high school. Finding the best fit for each kid is the goal. Why not acknowledge that BASIS is a good fit for some, and not for others. For this reason it's a GOOD thing that many different schools are available to educate our students.

Again, arrogant BASIS posters provoke a negative reaction from parents at other schools. This should not be a surprise to anyone.

THIS. So tiring all the Basis booster threads in the past few months. Just stop.

is the waitlist moving a lot and why the families need to do this?

No, it's because defensive BASIS boosters know their school is mid so they never miss an opportunity to push their talking points.

Don’t want to be mean but Latin is mid. Its biggest positive is that white kids go there.

Have you been to Latin? It's like someone said "what if there was a middle and high school in Washington DC that looked like a small private college in New England?" Yeah, real mid.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow—won’t be long before BASIS DC, a 100% lottery school, ranks above Walls, which only takes straight A students.

That is totally misleading. Yes, basis accepts by lottery -- in 5th grade. It then forces out kids who aren't successful and refuses to accept any new students for 9th grade.

Oh stop. There's lots of schools in DC that have similar policies. BASIS is not unique.

Really? Name one.

Every bilingual school in the city?

What on earth are you talking about. That's definitely not true. Name even one school that does that, with cites. LAMB and YY stop accepting kids at a certain grade but they don't require anyone to repeat grades.

No one ever raised the issue of repeating grades, except for you.

You said "similar policies", and incentivizing kids to leave with developmentally inappropriate retention policies is key to how BASIS operates.

It seems very DC that people hate BASIS, one of the best schools in the city, but they have no problem with the dozens and dozens of steaming piles of shit that pass for public schools in this city.

The arrogance of BASIS posters to call all the other schools in the city "steaming piles of shit" is why people hate to see them coming. Maybe try appreciating what other schools add to the DC ecosystem. There are good and even excellent schools on both sides of the park. Basis is not the only or even, necessarily, the best middle school or high school. Finding the best fit for each kid is the goal. Why not acknowledge that BASIS is a good fit for some, and not for others. For this reason it's a GOOD thing that many different schools are available to educate our students.

Again, arrogant BASIS posters provoke a negative reaction from parents at other schools. This should not be a surprise to anyone.

THIS. So tiring all the Basis booster threads in the past few months. Just stop.

is the waitlist moving a lot and why the families need to do this?

No, it's because defensive BASIS boosters know their school is mid so they never miss an opportunity to push their talking points.

Don’t want to be mean but Latin is mid. Its biggest positive is that white kids go there.

So you're dumb...and racist?

Most DC high schools have a literal handful of white kids in each grade. There's nothing wrong with wanting there to be 15 white kids in a class of 200 kids. If black parents are allowed to want that for their kids, white parents are too.

It's striking how ignorant you are of DC schools. Do you live actually here?

Yes, and I have a kid in high school. Do you?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow—won’t be long before BASIS DC, a 100% lottery school, ranks above Walls, which only takes straight A students.

That is totally misleading. Yes, basis accepts by lottery -- in 5th grade. It then forces out kids who aren't successful and refuses to accept any new students for 9th grade.

Oh stop. There's lots of schools in DC that have similar policies. BASIS is not unique.

Really? Name one.

Every bilingual school in the city?

What on earth are you talking about. That's definitely not true. Name even one school that does that, with cites. LAMB and YY stop accepting kids at a certain grade but they don't require anyone to repeat grades.

No one ever raised the issue of repeating grades, except for you.

You said "similar policies", and incentivizing kids to leave with developmentally inappropriate retention policies is key to how BASIS operates.

It seems very DC that people hate BASIS, one of the best schools in the city, but they have no problem with the dozens and dozens of steaming piles of shit that pass for public schools in this city.

The arrogance of BASIS posters to call all the other schools in the city "steaming piles of shit" is why people hate to see them coming. Maybe try appreciating what other schools add to the DC ecosystem. There are good and even excellent schools on both sides of the park. Basis is not the only or even, necessarily, the best middle school or high school. Finding the best fit for each kid is the goal. Why not acknowledge that BASIS is a good fit for some, and not for others. For this reason it's a GOOD thing that many different schools are available to educate our students.

Again, arrogant BASIS posters provoke a negative reaction from parents at other schools. This should not be a surprise to anyone.

THIS. So tiring all the Basis booster threads in the past few months. Just stop.

is the waitlist moving a lot and why the families need to do this?

No, it's because defensive BASIS boosters know their school is mid so they never miss an opportunity to push their talking points.

Don’t want to be mean but Latin is mid. Its biggest positive is that white kids go there.

So you're dumb...and racist?

Most DC high schools have a literal handful of white kids in each grade. There's nothing wrong with wanting there to be 15 white kids in a class of 200 kids. If black parents are allowed to want that for their kids, white parents are too.

It's striking how ignorant you are of DC schools. Do you live actually here?

Here are the numbers of white kids in each high school for 2023-2024. As of that year, most high schools did indeed have around five or fewer white students per grade. Would love to see updated numbers if anyone feels like updating.


Ballou 0
Bard High School Early College 1
Anacostia 1
Maya Angelou 1
Statesman College Preparatory Academy 1
Luke C Moore 1
Woodson 1
Paul High School 2
Phelps 3
Roosevelt STAY 4
EL Haynes 4
Perry Street Prep 4
Washington Leadership Academy 5
Dunbar 3
Coolidge 6
Cap City 7
Roosevelt High School 9
CHEC 13
Eastern 21
Sojourner truth 25
Mc Kinley Tech 24
Banneker 37
MacArthur 52
Duke Ellington 92
Basis 116
DCI 173
Washington Latin 143
School Without Walls 283
Jackson-Reed 722

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Anonymous wrote:Wow—won’t be long before BASIS DC, a 100% lottery school, ranks above Walls, which only takes straight A students.

That is totally misleading. Yes, basis accepts by lottery -- in 5th grade. It then forces out kids who aren't successful and refuses to accept any new students for 9th grade.

Oh stop. There's lots of schools in DC that have similar policies. BASIS is not unique.

Really? Name one.

Every bilingual school in the city?

What on earth are you talking about. That's definitely not true. Name even one school that does that, with cites. LAMB and YY stop accepting kids at a certain grade but they don't require anyone to repeat grades.

No one ever raised the issue of repeating grades, except for you.

You said "similar policies", and incentivizing kids to leave with developmentally inappropriate retention policies is key to how BASIS operates.

It seems very DC that people hate BASIS, one of the best schools in the city, but they have no problem with the dozens and dozens of steaming piles of shit that pass for public schools in this city.

The arrogance of BASIS posters to call all the other schools in the city "steaming piles of shit" is why people hate to see them coming. Maybe try appreciating what other schools add to the DC ecosystem. There are good and even excellent schools on both sides of the park. Basis is not the only or even, necessarily, the best middle school or high school. Finding the best fit for each kid is the goal. Why not acknowledge that BASIS is a good fit for some, and not for others. For this reason it's a GOOD thing that many different schools are available to educate our students.

Again, arrogant BASIS posters provoke a negative reaction from parents at other schools. This should not be a surprise to anyone.

THIS. So tiring all the Basis booster threads in the past few months. Just stop.

is the waitlist moving a lot and why the families need to do this?

No, it's because defensive BASIS boosters know their school is mid so they never miss an opportunity to push their talking points.

Don’t want to be mean but Latin is mid. Its biggest positive is that white kids go there.

So you're dumb...and racist?

Most DC high schools have a literal handful of white kids in each grade. There's nothing wrong with wanting there to be 15 white kids in a class of 200 kids. If black parents are allowed to want that for their kids, white parents are too.

It's striking how ignorant you are of DC schools. Do you live actually here?

Yes, and I have a kid in high school. Do you?

Latin is 40 percent white.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow—won’t be long before BASIS DC, a 100% lottery school, ranks above Walls, which only takes straight A students.

That is totally misleading. Yes, basis accepts by lottery -- in 5th grade. It then forces out kids who aren't successful and refuses to accept any new students for 9th grade.

Oh stop. There's lots of schools in DC that have similar policies. BASIS is not unique.

Really? Name one.

Every bilingual school in the city?

What on earth are you talking about. That's definitely not true. Name even one school that does that, with cites. LAMB and YY stop accepting kids at a certain grade but they don't require anyone to repeat grades.

No one ever raised the issue of repeating grades, except for you.

You said "similar policies", and incentivizing kids to leave with developmentally inappropriate retention policies is key to how BASIS operates.

It seems very DC that people hate BASIS, one of the best schools in the city, but they have no problem with the dozens and dozens of steaming piles of shit that pass for public schools in this city.

The arrogance of BASIS posters to call all the other schools in the city "steaming piles of shit" is why people hate to see them coming. Maybe try appreciating what other schools add to the DC ecosystem. There are good and even excellent schools on both sides of the park. Basis is not the only or even, necessarily, the best middle school or high school. Finding the best fit for each kid is the goal. Why not acknowledge that BASIS is a good fit for some, and not for others. For this reason it's a GOOD thing that many different schools are available to educate our students.

Again, arrogant BASIS posters provoke a negative reaction from parents at other schools. This should not be a surprise to anyone.

THIS. So tiring all the Basis booster threads in the past few months. Just stop.

is the waitlist moving a lot and why the families need to do this?

No, it's because defensive BASIS boosters know their school is mid so they never miss an opportunity to push their talking points.

Don’t want to be mean but Latin is mid. Its biggest positive is that white kids go there.

So you're dumb...and racist?

Most DC high schools have a literal handful of white kids in each grade. There's nothing wrong with wanting there to be 15 white kids in a class of 200 kids. If black parents are allowed to want that for their kids, white parents are too.

It's striking how ignorant you are of DC schools. Do you live actually here?

Here are the numbers of white kids in each high school for 2023-2024. As of that year, most high schools did indeed have around five or fewer white students per grade. Would love to see updated numbers if anyone feels like updating.


Ballou 0
Bard High School Early College 1
Anacostia 1
Maya Angelou 1
Statesman College Preparatory Academy 1
Luke C Moore 1
Woodson 1
Paul High School 2
Phelps 3
Roosevelt STAY 4
EL Haynes 4
Perry Street Prep 4
Washington Leadership Academy 5
Dunbar 3
Coolidge 6
Cap City 7
Roosevelt High School 9
CHEC 13
Eastern 21
Sojourner truth 25
Mc Kinley Tech 24
Banneker 37
MacArthur 52
Duke Ellington 92
Basis 116
DCI 173
Washington Latin 143
School Without Walls 283
Jackson-Reed 722

Well, no surprises here. If white is proxy for higher performing it’s the 3 popular charters (DCI, Latin, Basis) and SWW and JR.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow—won’t be long before BASIS DC, a 100% lottery school, ranks above Walls, which only takes straight A students.

That is totally misleading. Yes, basis accepts by lottery -- in 5th grade. It then forces out kids who aren't successful and refuses to accept any new students for 9th grade.

Oh stop. There's lots of schools in DC that have similar policies. BASIS is not unique.

Really? Name one.

Every bilingual school in the city?

What on earth are you talking about. That's definitely not true. Name even one school that does that, with cites. LAMB and YY stop accepting kids at a certain grade but they don't require anyone to repeat grades.

No one ever raised the issue of repeating grades, except for you.

You said "similar policies", and incentivizing kids to leave with developmentally inappropriate retention policies is key to how BASIS operates.

It seems very DC that people hate BASIS, one of the best schools in the city, but they have no problem with the dozens and dozens of steaming piles of shit that pass for public schools in this city.

The arrogance of BASIS posters to call all the other schools in the city "steaming piles of shit" is why people hate to see them coming. Maybe try appreciating what other schools add to the DC ecosystem. There are good and even excellent schools on both sides of the park. Basis is not the only or even, necessarily, the best middle school or high school. Finding the best fit for each kid is the goal. Why not acknowledge that BASIS is a good fit for some, and not for others. For this reason it's a GOOD thing that many different schools are available to educate our students.

Again, arrogant BASIS posters provoke a negative reaction from parents at other schools. This should not be a surprise to anyone.

THIS. So tiring all the Basis booster threads in the past few months. Just stop.

is the waitlist moving a lot and why the families need to do this?

No, it's because defensive BASIS boosters know their school is mid so they never miss an opportunity to push their talking points.

Don’t want to be mean but Latin is mid. Its biggest positive is that white kids go there.

So you're dumb...and racist?

Most DC high schools have a literal handful of white kids in each grade. There's nothing wrong with wanting there to be 15 white kids in a class of 200 kids. If black parents are allowed to want that for their kids, white parents are too.

It's striking how ignorant you are of DC schools. Do you live actually here?

Yes, and I have a kid in high school. Do you?

Latin is 40 percent white.

And?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow—won’t be long before BASIS DC, a 100% lottery school, ranks above Walls, which only takes straight A students.

That is totally misleading. Yes, basis accepts by lottery -- in 5th grade. It then forces out kids who aren't successful and refuses to accept any new students for 9th grade.

Oh stop. There's lots of schools in DC that have similar policies. BASIS is not unique.

Really? Name one.

Every bilingual school in the city?

What on earth are you talking about. That's definitely not true. Name even one school that does that, with cites. LAMB and YY stop accepting kids at a certain grade but they don't require anyone to repeat grades.

No one ever raised the issue of repeating grades, except for you.

You said "similar policies", and incentivizing kids to leave with developmentally inappropriate retention policies is key to how BASIS operates.

It seems very DC that people hate BASIS, one of the best schools in the city, but they have no problem with the dozens and dozens of steaming piles of shit that pass for public schools in this city.

The arrogance of BASIS posters to call all the other schools in the city "steaming piles of shit" is why people hate to see them coming. Maybe try appreciating what other schools add to the DC ecosystem. There are good and even excellent schools on both sides of the park. Basis is not the only or even, necessarily, the best middle school or high school. Finding the best fit for each kid is the goal. Why not acknowledge that BASIS is a good fit for some, and not for others. For this reason it's a GOOD thing that many different schools are available to educate our students.

Again, arrogant BASIS posters provoke a negative reaction from parents at other schools. This should not be a surprise to anyone.

THIS. So tiring all the Basis booster threads in the past few months. Just stop.

is the waitlist moving a lot and why the families need to do this?

No, it's because defensive BASIS boosters know their school is mid so they never miss an opportunity to push their talking points.

Don’t want to be mean but Latin is mid. Its biggest positive is that white kids go there.

So you're dumb...and racist?

Most DC high schools have a literal handful of white kids in each grade. There's nothing wrong with wanting there to be 15 white kids in a class of 200 kids. If black parents are allowed to want that for their kids, white parents are too.

It's striking how ignorant you are of DC schools. Do you live actually here?

Here are the numbers of white kids in each high school for 2023-2024. As of that year, most high schools did indeed have around five or fewer white students per grade. Would love to see updated numbers if anyone feels like updating.


Ballou 0
Bard High School Early College 1
Anacostia 1
Maya Angelou 1
Statesman College Preparatory Academy 1
Luke C Moore 1
Woodson 1
Paul High School 2
Phelps 3
Roosevelt STAY 4
EL Haynes 4
Perry Street Prep 4
Washington Leadership Academy 5
Dunbar 3
Coolidge 6
Cap City 7
Roosevelt High School 9
CHEC 13
Eastern 21
Sojourner truth 25
Mc Kinley Tech 24
Banneker 37
MacArthur 52
Duke Ellington 92
Basis 116
DCI 173
Washington Latin 143
School Without Walls 283
Jackson-Reed 722

Well, no surprises here. If white is proxy for higher performing it’s the 3 popular charters (DCI, Latin, Basis) and SWW and JR.

The thing is, though, that, at the high school level, white is not a proxy for high performing. If you cross-reference this list with the highest performers on CAPE or USNWR, several schools with higher white populations were out-performed by schools with fewer white studetns.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we please stop discussing BASIS? absolutely everything that needs to be said about the school has been said.

There are so many more schools to discuss. What about McKinley Tech, which is now #5 and has seen a huge jump in test scores this year?

I'd probably put Latin ahead of Banneker.

There is no dcps that is better than a charter in this city. Sorry. Walls used to be the exception, but now it’s full of kids with below grade level test scores with a 4.0 gpa from a bad middle school. Pass.

Unfortunately this is true. Walls has gone downhill due to the race to the bottom mindset at DCPS.

If you are EOTP and don’t get into the 3 decent charters (Basis, DCI, Latin) in middle, best thing to do is move to burbs with good pyramids and you get state college benefits.

As to WOTP, DCPS is also destroying the one decent IB pyramid in this town. Starting with honors for all at JR and now forcing kids to go to McArthur, less families are staying in DCPS for middle and high school.

Now there is the new awful science and ELA curriculum to add fuel to the fire.

Actually, more students are enrolling in DCPS schools for middle school and high school than in the past.
In fact, students in middle school and high school are driving the growth in DCPS enrollment that we've seen over the past few years.

Check out the stats rather than just basing your analysis on anecdotes:
https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-glance-enrollment

A 1-2% increase over the last 5 plus years is not significant at all and is far lower than the percentage increase of higher income families in the city.