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[quote=Anonymous]Love the school or hate it, a 41 pg thread is ridiculous.  A fresh start is in order.  I'll begin:

I love the idea of the school.  I'm deeply sceptical though, as the population they're used to educating skews wealthier, with more safe and stable home lives, and more homogeneous than Alice Deal and Washington Latin (nearly identical test scores: one better here, the other better there).  At least, their flagship school does.

That, however, isn't the population that will walk through their doors at the end of August.  Between the process of getting their "feet wet" in general as a charter school, and figuring out what they are doing specifically to transfer their model from Tucson to DC will consume a lot of energy and be a bumpy ride.  (Using the same cookie cutter on two different cookie doughs will yield two very different batches of cookies - like it or not.)

Having said that, I think we need all the high quality MS options we can get, and [i]especially[/i] for Capitol Hill families for whom this is easily the most hopeful option.  (Waiting for DCPS to provide one is only realistic for those whose future middle-schooler is presently a fetus.)  There are a lot of bright and dedicated families that have to seriously consider leaving the District because of the sorry MS situation.  Therefore, I'll cheer for them, even though I wouldn't choose them.  I'll also cheer for this DCI school/plan/rumor.  Of course, I'll reliably cheer for Latin; and am thrilled it was (finally) awarded a DCPS facility.  It's depressingly overdue for high-performing charter schools to be given the resources of the facilities and physical plants that privilege DCPS.

Anyway, having said my piece, please go ahead about the business of arguing both points of view.  Discussion is healthy, and it's not as though BASIS is creeping in to undermine a successful, traditional district-type school system.  I want to listen to what you have to say, but I'm not willing to wade through 41 pages to do so.  ;)

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