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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Posts from wide-eyed 5th grade BASIS families remind of DCPS posts from Pres3 families.

It goes like this. The child LOVES the place! The child is THRIVING! We're having a SPECTACULAR experience! We're so much more EXCITED about our choice than we ever dreamed we'd be!

Flash forward two or three years without outdoor space, a school library, a proper gym, much in the way of sports teams, the kill and drill of an hour or two of nightly math homework (including lots of repetition and busy work, even for stragglers), not much in the way of hands-on learning, too many teachers leaving, the HOS having having changed a couple more times, etc. etc. and you may have changed your tune, hon.  [/quote]

I keep reading this criticism of basis wrt no “hands on learning “ - what does this mean?  I remember dissecting a feral pig in high school - that was certainly hands on.  But other than that - what are folks seeing as lacking?[/quote]

Go tour BASIS sometime on a sunny day.

You'll see a good many darkened classrooms where note-taking 11 and 12 year-olds sit watching Power Point presentations of...art work across the street in the American Art Museum and Portrait Gallery, etc.

Until the current HOS came on the scene, there was no field trips policy.  [/quote]

If it’s works for those kids and their families, what’s it to you? [/quote]

If some DC parents/voters believe that BASIS DC has a real problem in changing principals almost every year, what's it to you?  Why defend the program to the hilt?[/quote]

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