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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  Except that, as has been frequently mentioned on this board, Basis and Rocketship do not have selective admissions.  How those programs will fare with kids who are unprepared for their rigor remains an open question.  [/quote]

Right - the kids will be self-selected to be ready for tough academic courses and the school (at least BASIS) is set up to weed out kids who can't cut it academically.    This will be a boon for capable, low SES kids and a bane for any kids who can't handle the academics.  They'll be flushed out and sent back to the undesirable DCPS middle school.[/quote]

Rocketship will be an alternative to KIPP for low and moderate-income children of color, if they ever come to DC.   It sounds like they don't take upper-middle-class kids at their schools in CA and MN.

I'm optimistic that Basis will work fairly well for middle school, but not for high school, just like Latin, which is losing at least 2/3 of its middle class families somewhere between 7th and 9th grades (although a bit less all the time).

Basis may even end up opening a second branch in DC (it has 5 in AZ).   The city will probably also see DC International School open at Walter Reed, a Yu Ying initiative, shortly, which should attract some Hill parents, far away as it will be.

As long as both DCPS and DC charter shun competitive selective admissions, the grave middle school feeder problems on the Hill will simply generate more serious high school feeder problems.  For some of us, high school isn't all that far away and privates are too expensive.  SWW is small and isn't all that great, leading to lackluster college admissions results by the standards of many upper-middle-class families with young kids currently in DCPS.  And Banneker, where average SAT scores are no better than the national average, doesn't seem interested in attracting non-AA or upper-middle-class families.

Where are Hill kids in DCPS supposed to go to high school in 5 or 10 years?  Rockville?  McClean?

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