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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Every freaking MS thread on DCUM devolves into an existential defense of BASIS. [/b]The subject line is "DCPS Middle Schools besides Deal or Hardy" which BASIS most certainly is not. The most neurotic lot of parents imaginable.  :roll: [/quote]

Yes, because there are no decent public DCPS MS options besides Deal and Hardy, and possibly DCI and Stuart Hobson. Those zoned for programs other than Deal and Hardy who aren't in language immersion ES charters generally head to BASIS, a program with poor facilities and a curriculum that really only works well for around half the students who are enrolled.   They head to BASIS because they can get a spot, with Washington Latin only admitting around 15% of those applying without older sibs.  We're in a real mess on MS in DC EotP, and parents can't seem to do a darn thing about it individually or collectively, year after year.  City politicians and ed leaders don't give a darn about EotP gentrifiers' middle school woes, and never have. BASIS the easiest way out for most, though often not a particularly happy or manageable way out.  Some UMC parents feel guilty about sending a student to a school that looks, and acts, nothing like the middle schools they attended.   They come her to...delve into an existential defense of BASIS.  Same old.[/quote]

DCPS doesn't do middle school well period. Just look EOTR. MS is a citywide problem.[/quote]

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