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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yet another thread started by BASIS boosters. [/quote]

You sound a little nutty with that comment.  It's not as though there are desperate BASIS boosters out there trying to market BASIS to scrounge up prospective families to keep it from going under.  They have one of the biggest waitlists of any charter and the waitlist just keeps getting deeper each year.  
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You sound more than a little defensive.  BASIS still gets through its "deep" WL in September.  Everybody who wants to try BASIS still can, but you're seeing more families, particularly from Cap Hill, who would have gone 2 or 3 years ago pass. BASIS has developed a reputation for narrow one-size fits all solutions for 5th-8th graders (shut up and take the required Latin, shut up and do your 30 math programs a night even if it's overkill, want advanced language classes in middle school, shut up and take basic classes in a new language, don't expect to have a say in how the school works as a parent etc.). Everybody isn't impressed, even if their children could clearly handle the work load.[/quote]

The BASIS put-up-or-shut-up approach to middle school structure goes a long way toward explaining why we had 9 kids stay from 4th to 5th grade at Brent only 2 years ago, and 40 staying this year.

All 40 who've stayed could be at BASIS right now.  A few tried BASIS and have come back.[/quote]

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