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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is your rationale, PP?  Are you a expert on college admissions?

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Nope.  Don't have to be.  They have promised to invest an enormous amount of time (from the higher ups) and perhaps extra money on DC to make sure it succeeds.  That is what Michael Block set himself up for - by founding a school in Washington DC because "it is Washington DC."  But that means that any failure will be public and humiliating.  They won't let DC fail, and that includes college admissions....

Not worried at all - kids are getting the same instruction as in AZ and for the most part, catching up to the way those kids score in AZ, and in some areas exceeding them.  We have done incredibly well here on the few AP exams our kids have taken, and I am extremely confident in the quality of education my kids are getting (learning more than I did here at my DC private), so I am not worried.

Also, not only do we have the edge on private schools in DC, but we probably have the edge on established public schools (the only ones that come to mind are Walls and Wilson) because we are new, different, and still BASIS - in one of the worst public school systems in the country.

Finally, not having to do sports (and there being no expectation that any BASIS student do them seriously) leaves a lot more time for accelerated academics, and in and out of school extra curriculars.  Fully expect my son to become an Eagle Scout without having any JV, Varsity, or club sports wasting his time.............

We have an excellent HOS who wants to stay and will pick up the slack, on college advising or anywhere....[/quote]

Not having to do sports?  Which public school forces kids to do sports?  You mean you're glad that PE classes aren't required after 6th grade?  That's good? Some private schools expect kids to commit to some form of exercise, with yoga and dancing often substituting for sports.

That excellent HOS might want to get cracking on college advising, and beefing up applied science options.  [/quote]

The sports was in reference to competition from private schools, or kids who really want to seem "well rounded"

Delight in hearing the parents complain about how late their HS kids have to start what may be 4 hours of homework because of sports, knowing that our grading is less arbitrary and can ultimately be adjusted for a teacher's dislike by getting a 3 or above on an AP exam (which, of course, since so many BASIS kids take so many APs does not necessarily have to be reported to colleges).  I would not encourage my child to report a 3.

Don't know what you mean by applied science, but the safety lesson the 6th grade Chemistry teacher gave our children using sulfiric acid is etched into my dc's brain.

College advising........... yes get cracking, but Swarthmore is coming to visit on Wednesday.........

I think our first graduating class will have less than 20 kids in it - hardly a way to do an accurate measurement of what the 4th graduating class will look lije[/quote]

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