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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some families are happy to get into a charter/feeder pattern that goes through high school, because then they feel like the HS problem is solved and they don't have to think about moving their kids again.

IME, these are not the types of families that go to BASIS. BASIS attracts striver families that are willing to jump anywhere as soon as they feel like something may be better for their kid somewhere else. That's not necessarily a bad thing. It's just that there seems to be a greater number of families at BASIS that think this way.[/quote]

Striver families?  More like families willing to march in step,do as their told, drink the KoolAid, put up and shut up. The free thinking and choosey "striver" families I know EotP move to the burbs for bona fide GT, strong sports,music, arts, Intl Baccalaureate, language immersion etc. or go private. [/quote]

If the conclusion is that people leave BASIS to go to private or move to burbs then your problem isn't with BASIS it is with the entirety of DC's schools. Which is fine, but illustrates how your anger is so badly misplaced. How do you not understand this? It is also the height of entitlement to casually suggest people simply pay for private schools or move.

P.S. They aren't leaving in droves to leave the system. In fact the data on where BASIS kids move on to is all over the map, but in no grades do enough kids leave the system to be counted. Here's where kids who left BASIS went in the last released data set. Not a single school or category had a reportable number of kids.

District of Columbia International School
Deal Middle School
Stuart-Hobson Middle School (Capitol Hill Cluster)
Jefferson Middle School Academy
The Sojourner Truth School PCS
Washington Latin PCS - Anna Julia Cooper Middle School
Not in audit
Washington Global PCS
Capitol Hill Montessori School @ Logan
Deal Middle School
Eliot-Hine Middle School
Sousa Middle School
Stuart-Hobson Middle School (Capitol Hill Cluster)
Digital Pioneers Academy PCS - Johenning
Two Rivers PCS - Young Middle School
Not in audit
District of Columbia International School
Deal Middle School
Eliot-Hine Middle School
Stuart-Hobson Middle School (Capitol Hill Cluster)
Jefferson Middle School Academy
Not in audit
Coolidge High School
School Without Walls High School
Duke Ellington School of the Arts
Not in audit
 
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