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

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand these demographic discussions. IME, the students who struggle the most at BASIS are UMC white kids. I don’t think BASIS will start struggling if less of them attend.

That’s an interesting observation, especially since it’s inconsistent with the reported PARCC scores, which show a pretty substantial gap in favor of white kids. If BASIS had to go just on its nonwhite scores, it wouldn’t be ranked nearly so highly. And I’m under the impression that BASIS cares a lot about rankings.

Why do you think there’s such a discrepancy between your observations and the data?

Come on, that's true of almost every school with a substantial white cohort in the city. Where does your nitpicking get you? No school has a magic wand to fix the poverty. There are a handful of boot camp DC charters where low SES minority students compete with whites on PARCC scores, that's it.

The PP’s position is that “the students who struggle the most at BASIS are UMC white kids.” I didn’t say they were wrong. I just think it’s an interesting observation, since the tests say the opposite.

PP is going off vibes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand these demographic discussions. IME, the students who struggle the most at BASIS are UMC white kids. I don’t think BASIS will start struggling if less of them attend.

That’s an interesting observation, especially since it’s inconsistent with the reported PARCC scores, which show a pretty substantial gap in favor of white kids. If BASIS had to go just on its nonwhite scores, it wouldn’t be ranked nearly so highly. And I’m under the impression that BASIS cares a lot about rankings.

Why do you think there’s such a discrepancy between your observations and the data?

Because they are trolling.

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I don't see K-4 is listed in the lottery system. I guess this is not official yet? can anybody share the status of it. thanks

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see K-4 is listed in the lottery system. I guess this is not official yet? can anybody share the status of it. thanks

They don't have a building at this time. You might learn more when the December board meeting minutes are posted but that might not happen for months. So much transparency!

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see K-4 is listed in the lottery system. I guess this is not official yet? can anybody share the status of it. thanks

Not happening yet, there is not building, no concrete plans, and BASIS doesn't really talk about it to current families. The rumor is that thy want to find a K-12 building and move everyone over eventually (rather than have two buildings). Might be years away (I have a current BASIS students and an elementary schooler and I don't anticipate anything will change before my younger kid is in middle school).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see K-4 is listed in the lottery system. I guess this is not official yet? can anybody share the status of it. thanks

Not happening yet, there is not building, no concrete plans, and BASIS doesn't really talk about it to current families. The rumor is that thy want to find a K-12 building and move everyone over eventually (rather than have two buildings). Might be years away (I have a current BASIS students and an elementary schooler and I don't anticipate anything will change before my younger kid is in middle school).

Wow, a K-12 building is going to be hard to find. DCPS is not giving up buildings right now and any charter buildings on the market are smaller.

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Years away! thought it was 2025 or 2026, and now years away lol At least I do not have to wondering if basis is too much for elementary kids now

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't see K-4 is listed in the lottery system. I guess this is not official yet? can anybody share the status of it. thanks

Not happening yet, there is not building, no concrete plans, and BASIS doesn't really talk about it to current families. The rumor is that thy want to find a K-12 building and move everyone over eventually (rather than have two buildings). Might be years away (I have a current BASIS students and an elementary schooler and I don't anticipate anything will change before my younger kid is in middle school).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Years away! thought it was 2025 or 2026, and now years away lol At least I do not have to wondering if basis is too much for elementary kids now

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't see K-4 is listed in the lottery system. I guess this is not official yet? can anybody share the status of it. thanks

Not happening yet, there is not building, no concrete plans, and BASIS doesn't really talk about it to current families. The rumor is that thy want to find a K-12 building and move everyone over eventually (rather than have two buildings). Might be years away (I have a current BASIS students and an elementary schooler and I don't anticipate anything will change before my younger kid is in middle school).

My understanding is they're not willing to locate in low-income areas, so they're having a very hard time finding a building or even something to demolish.

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I remember talking with the old Head of School about this. BASIS owns the building it’s in right now, and they don’t want give it up because they like that it’s centrally located. The plan was to find a suitable PK-4 building nearby, but no surprise, that didn’t happen.

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Anonymous wrote:I remember talking with the old Head of School about this. BASIS owns the building it’s in right now, and they don’t want give it up because they like that it’s centrally located. The plan was to find a suitable PK-4 building nearby, but no surprise, that didn’t happen.

They could have had the Hope Tolson building in Edgewood. It's not really that far and pretty close to the Brookland metro.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Years away! thought it was 2025 or 2026, and now years away lol At least I do not have to wondering if basis is too much for elementary kids now

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't see K-4 is listed in the lottery system. I guess this is not official yet? can anybody share the status of it. thanks

Not happening yet, there is not building, no concrete plans, and BASIS doesn't really talk about it to current families. The rumor is that thy want to find a K-12 building and move everyone over eventually (rather than have two buildings). Might be years away (I have a current BASIS students and an elementary schooler and I don't anticipate anything will change before my younger kid is in middle school).

My understanding is they're not willing to locate in low-income areas, so they're having a very hard time finding a building or even something to demolish.

Well, they want to be in a very transit-accessible, central location, like now. More than half of BASIS students commute on their own via metro or bus (including us), this is a big part of their whole deal (and makes it a school that has kids from all 8 wards). Honestly a k-12 building would solve a lot of problems. The biggest complaint from the current families by far is the building.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Years away! thought it was 2025 or 2026, and now years away lol At least I do not have to wondering if basis is too much for elementary kids now

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't see K-4 is listed in the lottery system. I guess this is not official yet? can anybody share the status of it. thanks

Not happening yet, there is not building, no concrete plans, and BASIS doesn't really talk about it to current families. The rumor is that thy want to find a K-12 building and move everyone over eventually (rather than have two buildings). Might be years away (I have a current BASIS students and an elementary schooler and I don't anticipate anything will change before my younger kid is in middle school).

My understanding is they're not willing to locate in low-income areas, so they're having a very hard time finding a building or even something to demolish.

Well, they want to be in a very transit-accessible, central location, like now. More than half of BASIS students commute on their own via metro or bus (including us), this is a big part of their whole deal (and makes it a school that has kids from all 8 wards). Honestly a k-12 building would solve a lot of problems. The biggest complaint from the current families by far is the building.

Add that right now, they are half a block from Archives and the green line, half a block from a bus stop that serves capitol hill, and like two blocks from Gallery place and the red line. Many, many BASIS use all of these methods to get to school, so being "close enough" to the brookland metro is not likely to be comparable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Years away! thought it was 2025 or 2026, and now years away lol At least I do not have to wondering if basis is too much for elementary kids now

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't see K-4 is listed in the lottery system. I guess this is not official yet? can anybody share the status of it. thanks

Not happening yet, there is not building, no concrete plans, and BASIS doesn't really talk about it to current families. The rumor is that thy want to find a K-12 building and move everyone over eventually (rather than have two buildings). Might be years away (I have a current BASIS students and an elementary schooler and I don't anticipate anything will change before my younger kid is in middle school).

My understanding is they're not willing to locate in low-income areas, so they're having a very hard time finding a building or even something to demolish.

Well, they want to be in a very transit-accessible, central location, like now. More than half of BASIS students commute on their own via metro or bus (including us), this is a big part of their whole deal (and makes it a school that has kids from all 8 wards). Honestly a k-12 building would solve a lot of problems. The biggest complaint from the current families by far is the building.

Add that right now, they are half a block from Archives and the green line, half a block from a bus stop that serves capitol hill, and like two blocks from Gallery place and the red line. Many, many BASIS use all of these methods to get to school, so being "close enough" to the brookland metro is not likely to be comparable.

+1. The building is obviously not great, but the location is amazing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Years away! thought it was 2025 or 2026, and now years away lol At least I do not have to wondering if basis is too much for elementary kids now

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't see K-4 is listed in the lottery system. I guess this is not official yet? can anybody share the status of it. thanks

Not happening yet, there is not building, no concrete plans, and BASIS doesn't really talk about it to current families. The rumor is that thy want to find a K-12 building and move everyone over eventually (rather than have two buildings). Might be years away (I have a current BASIS students and an elementary schooler and I don't anticipate anything will change before my younger kid is in middle school).

My understanding is they're not willing to locate in low-income areas, so they're having a very hard time finding a building or even something to demolish.

Well, they want to be in a very transit-accessible, central location, like now. More than half of BASIS students commute on their own via metro or bus (including us), this is a big part of their whole deal (and makes it a school that has kids from all 8 wards). Honestly a k-12 building would solve a lot of problems. The biggest complaint from the current families by far is the building.

Add that right now, they are half a block from Archives and the green line, half a block from a bus stop that serves capitol hill, and like two blocks from Gallery place and the red line. Many, many BASIS use all of these methods to get to school, so being "close enough" to the brookland metro is not likely to be comparable.

+1. The building is obviously not great, but the location is amazing.

+2

Also, I'm neither a BASIS booster nor a hater but I do think the building location is a HUGE plus for BASIS, and shows that while, yeah, they get what they get from the lottery, and no, it's not a demographic cross-section of DC, they do want to be accessible to kids across the city. And I see their ads everywhere around this time of year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Years away! thought it was 2025 or 2026, and now years away lol At least I do not have to wondering if basis is too much for elementary kids now

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't see K-4 is listed in the lottery system. I guess this is not official yet? can anybody share the status of it. thanks

Not happening yet, there is not building, no concrete plans, and BASIS doesn't really talk about it to current families. The rumor is that thy want to find a K-12 building and move everyone over eventually (rather than have two buildings). Might be years away (I have a current BASIS students and an elementary schooler and I don't anticipate anything will change before my younger kid is in middle school).

My understanding is they're not willing to locate in low-income areas, so they're having a very hard time finding a building or even something to demolish.

Well, they want to be in a very transit-accessible, central location, like now. More than half of BASIS students commute on their own via metro or bus (including us), this is a big part of their whole deal (and makes it a school that has kids from all 8 wards). Honestly a k-12 building would solve a lot of problems. The biggest complaint from the current families by far is the building.

Well that's a lovely thing to want, but how many years are they going to wait for it to happen? At a certain point it's time to be realistic, no?