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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. Agree with above. We're not taking our 5th grade spot after talking to admins, who didn't impress us.

We're staying at our charter immersion elementary for 5th grade, come what may, even though our kid is among the best in his cohort at math.

Nothing at BASIS seems worth it to us. We ran through the list. The awful building. The unserious extra curriculars. The ban on language instruction until 8th grade (with only beginning language courses offered in 8th for no good reason). The high teacher turnover. The superficial sounding forced math acceleration. [/quote]

The "ban" on language instruction?!?!?  I am laughing out loud.  Just because a school doesn't offer a course, that is not a "ban".  Is DCPS "banning" Russian language instruction then? Are all schools "banning" fencing?  You are ridiculous.[/quote]

NP.  Semantics and I’m not PP above.  But I could have written the exact same thing about my child last year who was in 4th at the time.  98% testing in math and high performer at an immersion charter and we also did not play the lottery for Basis due to similar reasons above.  I’ll also add the HOS seems awful based on our interaction. Child is heading to DCI in the fall.
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CAPE scores for DCI for 8th grade (after kids have been at the school for a couple of years) are terrible.

More than half the class is below grade level in English and over 90 percent is below grade level in math.

Enjoy![/quote]

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