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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you go to BIM be on the look out for suspicious balloons!!!

Are we pretending there aren’t lots of Chinese-owned products and businesses in the US?

Do we think BASIS kids are being indoctrinated to become Chinese communists and the parents are cool with that because they get good grades?

Conspiracy much? Watch The Manchurian Candidate too many times? That NICHE rating really irks you people!

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would compare BASIS to a for-profit "cram" school devoid of humanity.  It has customers but they are different from the Big3.[/quote]
Exactly! BASIS DC is supposedly free but we know how that works too. [/quote][/quote]

Haha.  You don't know me, but my feet are squarely planted outside the conspiracy theorist zone.  There absolutely are Chinese companies, etc. in the US.  I have a former Chinese client who was the head of a "private" company in China.  They explained to me that there is no such thing as a "private" company there as we use that term.  Officials of the Chinese government were very involved in the operation of the business - to the point that they required he manipulate standards - to increase profits for the benefit of the Chinese government.

As to a Chinese controlled educational institution in the United States, no I do not think that parents are sitting idly by as their children are indoctrinated to become Chinese communists or that they are grooming a Manchurian Candidate.  Do I think, however,  the curriculum could be presented in a different way at BASIS than at another school?  Absolutely.  If you need an example of schools/school systems taking a different view of facts covered in a curriculum, I refer you to Florida's new take on the beneficial effects of slavery on those enslaved in its new middle school curriculum.  And do I think that the technology provided could be manipulated on behalf of the Chinese government.  Absolutely - especially in the DC area where many parents work for the US government or organizations that work with the US government.  If you believe that the wifi password your child enters on the computer they bring home from school couldn't be used to reverse engineer access to a parent's computer connected to wifi in the same home, it is you who is naive.

If BIM works for you, great.  It's not for me no matter what rating it gets Niche to give it.[/quote]

You better put your tin foil hat on.  The commies may be listening to your brain waves.

Four years ago, the Basis private schools (totally separate from non-profit public charter schools like Basis DC) were sold to the Spring Education Group.  The SEG is a portfolio company of the Primavera Capital Group, a Hong Kong-based global investment firm that is one of the largest private equity firms in Asia.

The founder of Primavera is on various United States boards and councils including at the Nature Conservancy, Council on Foreign Relations, Columbia, and Harvard.  (Gee, I guess those institutions must be controlled by the Chinese government.)

Oh, and Primavera just bought Princeton Review.  (So, you better cross that off your list too; the Chinese government may be reviewing your kids practice SAT exams.)

BTW, one reason why Chinese investment firms are buying up private schools is that China is the top country of origin for international students studying in the US.  About 2 in 5 international students enrolled in US high schools are from China, and the number of Chinese students studying in US high schools has skyrocketed in the last 10 years.  There are lots of Chinese students at private schools in the DMV and around the country.  The firms are just following the market.[/quote]

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