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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
FWIW, BASIS seems to have become a de-facto "feeder" for the better Capitol Hill schools like Brent and St. Peters - though it needs to be at 5th grade. I believe BASIS won't be accepting many if any at the higher grades.

Considering it just opened, BASIS can't possibly be a de-facto feeder for anything. It's impossible to say whether it will be a good school.

From what I've seen, that's already a done deal. Like it or not, BASIS has already gotten the cream of the crop coming out of the Capitol Hill elementary schools.
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You think this? Really? And here I thought Hill parents were thoughtful about their actions. Apparently not. Think on it. BASIS gets the cream of the crop based on nothing more than the BASIS PR machine and Boosters' testimonials. In their first year. How do can they even assert they have captured these top students when those students have not shown they are at all top students? So far, the only parents at BASIS are ones with a dream, but no proof they can measure up to the model. It's really...well....stupid to extrapolate anything about future BASIS students based on the nothing that BASIS is able to produce to prove their model is well suited in DC.

That doesn't reflect well on the intellectual capabilities of Hill parents. Frankly, they look like sheep investing in a school that has no metrics, at all, to support their assertion of being an adequate school, forget an effective one. In DC. Because this is where it matters. In DC. Not Tucson.

It's only a done deal in the minds of people who don't think.[/quote]

Sorry, this is just silly.[/quote]

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