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[quote=Anonymous][b]Exactly - the charters are succeeding and thriving because DCPS dropped the ball, not the other way around.

As for the other comments here, everyone is entitled to their opinion of the reviews. If you think Basis is not a fit for your student, then there are plenty of other options. So why go through so much energy to find fault with it if you are not sending your student there? What dog do you have in the hunt? [/b]

What makes you so sure that charters are in fact succeeding and thriving?  Even at Latin, the MS population is more than 40% white and Asian, while last year's HS population was only around 10%.  Stunning success for the middle-class families involved?  Latin parents love to argue that the HS demographics are changing at warp speed, but the jury is out on that one with charters barred by law from selective admissions, no gifted and talented elementary programs feeding top students to charters, and Latin doing little tracking (just for Latin and 8th grade algebra).  We left after 8th for our eldest and probably won't go MS charter for our youngest.

And where these "other options" outside of Upper NW?  Stuart Hobson, where few middle class parents stay after 6th?  Hardy, where one leadership crisis after another drives parents away?  Deal, where OOB admissions are practically a closed door?  Where?  You put energy into finding out what Basis is planning, registering concern if you have your doubts, precisely because there aren't other options (unless you consider moving to the burbs or paying for privates good options).  You have a dog in the hunt if you need a MS to stay in the city.

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