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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If BASIS wants to improve retention, the franchise needs to ensure that the DC program is better led and funded. We left after the difficult current head shut us down over a minor request for this or that one too many times. We got tired of being told that there was no funding for certain extra curriculars. We had to pay for activities ourselves to represent BASIS outside of DC, to the tune of thousands of dollars, mainly in travel costs.

I have a sibling whose kids have attended one of the original Arizona campuses for the past 6 or 7 years.  It sounds to us like the difference between the way the Arizona campus is run and the DC campus is run is night and day. My siblings children have been permitted to study modern languages at school since 5th grade, including at the advanced level in middle school and the college level in high school. They've been given instrumental music lessons during the school day for years, and play in a school orchestra that competes at the local, state and regional levels.  Their program offers far more high quality electives and low cost extra curriculars than BASIS DC, and classes don't end in 11th grade.

Sounds to us like the DC campus gets the short end of the stick in a big way in many respects. I don't know the political ins and outs.[/quote]

Not surprised that you left BASIS after harassing the administration with a multitude of minor requests that they declined to grant.  I am sure that you are really popular at your current school.[/quote]

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