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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^This! I have a child who was about to start MS last year and never gave BASIS a second glance because I didn't have the stomach for dealing with a start up school. That coupled with the fact that my bright student would never go to a school without organized, competitive sports teams.

I will say that I am watching with interest BASIS trying to navigate the charter school world of DC versus Arizonia. I am certain that they will work out the kinks in a few years. Then maybe it will be a viable option for my younger child.[/quote]

Very lazy approach to parent engagement in schools (and/or parenting). Charter schools (and traditional public schools) are made by family engagement. period. Nothing is more hysterical (though sad for the kids) than to watch lazy parents bitch and moan about not being able to get into, e.g., CM or MV, who had all of the opportunity to get in when the school opened - but their "hothouse flower" couldn't risk an environment with "variables." First, every school has variables, even private schools. Second, your child is not the boy in the bubble and will face variables his whole life. Third, if you actually did part of your job as a parent at the school where your child attends - engaging - supporting - questioning - etc. ---the kinks would be worked out sooner!

Smug MV parent who got in on the ground floor and has the battle scars to prove it....[/quote]

Woah... you say lazy not to jump in with a starter, I say irresponsible to gamble with child's education BY jumping in with a starter. The point is not that every school has variables, but that a new school has completely unknown variables. Put another way, I wouldn't send my kid to a starter school for the same reason I wouldn't send my kids for sleepovers if I don't know the parents. But two things parenting has taught me: (1) anyone who claims to know what they are doing is automatically suspect; and (2) for every parenting decision there are infinite responses from one extreme to another. In the end all you can do is what you think is best.[/quote]

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