BASIS DC is Looking to Expand to K-4

[Anonymous]

If interested, please sign up for a session. http://info.basised.com/dc-k4

[Anonymous]

Ugh, no thank you. Little kids should not have that much homework.

[Anonymous]

PP - are you familiar with their elementary program, especially the homework policies? I’ve observed it but at their McLean school while with an older BASIS DC student visiting a teacher transferred from DC to VA. It was different from 5-12.

Not sure I would support it for DC, but I think any opposition should be fact-based.

[Anonymous]

DP, my child is in 5th grade at BASIS. The homework has been minimal. She’s usually done before she gets home. She’s consistently in the 90s Club. 6th grade will be another story, however.

[Anonymous]

I don't really see a need for a charter elementary in the Penn Quarter area. There are plenty of fine elementary schools around there already. And how will they afford space?

[Anonymous]

They tried this last year and got crushed in their DCPCSB interview with inadequate and embarrassingly bad answers about at risk students, special needs population, etc.

[Anonymous]

Apparently the parent company is in the red and needs to open new schools to bring in money.

[Anonymous]

Here is the link to the board meeting where their lack of willingness and ability to serve at-risk kids was discussed.

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=2116656

I agree there seems to be little point in this. If it's to be in Penn Quarter, Thomson and SWWFS are adequately serving their populations. If you can't serve low-income kids well, then this basically to get at the upper-income kids in the Walker-Jones boundary. But they're fine at Seaton, Friendship-Armstrong, Garrison, and Langley. The application said Wards 1 and 2, but I just don't see a ton of need there at the elementary level.

[Anonymous]

Also, charging for a summer program, ew. So the wealthy classmates get to do something together while the poorer ones fall further behind?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They tried this last year and got crushed in their DCPCSB interview with inadequate and embarrassingly bad answers about at risk students, special needs population, etc.

3 years ago (2016).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They tried this last year and got crushed in their DCPCSB interview with inadequate and embarrassingly bad answers about at risk students, special needs population, etc.

3 years ago (2016).

Have their issues with serving at-risk and SPED students improved at all?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, charging for a summer program, ew. So the wealthy classmates get to do something together while the poorer ones fall further behind?

What charter middle or high school offers a free summer program?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They tried this last year and got crushed in their DCPCSB interview with inadequate and embarrassingly bad answers about at risk students, special needs population, etc.

3 years ago (2016).

Thanks for correcting me-- charter years fly by quickly!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They tried this last year and got crushed in their DCPCSB interview with inadequate and embarrassingly bad answers about at risk students, special needs population, etc.

3 years ago (2016).

Have their issues with serving at-risk and SPED students improved at all?

Parent of kid with IEP. Been there 6 years. If our kid wasn’t being supported appropriately we would leave.

Current HOS is far better. That helps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, charging for a summer program, ew. So the wealthy classmates get to do something together while the poorer ones fall further behind?

What charter middle or high school offers a free summer program?

The summer program that parents pay for came up in the charter board minutes from their 2016 application.