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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Basis’ building sucks. The network prioritized being at a central location near many transit options. It is pretty easy to get to Basis from anywhere in the city via bus or train. That is a big deal and students to come from all over.

The trade off is a building not designed to be a school.

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I do admire their rationale for selecting the building/location, i.e., to make it accessible to the entire city. That is cool.  But $$ wise (because of hot office building real estate market) they were stuck with a not so great building.  I wonder if the pandemic could affect the downtown building stock enough to change things up radically???  Maybe they can get a better/bigger building cheaper given all the open office space downtown now?[/quote]

The way the building is financed - there’s some sort of arrangement where the network holds all their properties jointly (you can look it up on past minutes of PCSB meetings re Basis, I don’t remember the details) - makes that highly unlikely.

When the idea of an elementary Basis was kicking around they looked hard for something near the MS/HS building that would be appropriate for little kids and came up with nothing.

But the real answer is that the [b]Basis DC Board and the network don’t think the building is a problem worth solving[/b]. Their enrollment is stable. The wait list is a bit longer each year and their graduates get into terrific colleges with lots of scholarships. [/quote]

Oh come one, this is a silly statement.  If there were a feasible way to get a better (and cheaper!) building in roughly the same location due to all the newly vacant office space that may never come back in the same way because the pandemic has fundamentally changed the way America works/teleworks,  I'm sure they wouldn't turn it down. Of course, now that Metro is planning to shut down all these routes, a central location accessible by mass transit may no longer be a possible thing . . . [/quote]

Have you met the people in AZ who control this stuff? I promise you they do not care. At all. Their metrics are the above.

They know that the DC parents making the most noise only send their kids to escape their crappy IB MS, and that they can’t wait to send them to a private or DCPS application school. If you aren’t happy, there’s a 5th grader ready to take your place. [/quote]

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