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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You guys blasting parents for seeing Basis as a great opportunity and acting like we are idiots for not seeing the benefits of a selective admission type program are missing one important fact: THERE ARE NO SELECTIVE ADMISSION PUBLIC ELEMENTARY OR MIDDLE SCHOOLS IN WASHINGTON DC.  And the [b]political situation is such that there may NEVER be. [/b]
So given this reality, Basis, Washington Latin etc. That require parents to opt in to a very rigorous program are the next best thing.  No pie in the sky.  Just kids who need decent middle schools TODAY.[/quote]

The political situation certainly won't support selective admissions ES or MS programs, or highly selective HS programs for that matter (Banneker, Wilson academis and SWW don't make the grade), if parents of the most academic kids who cannot afford privates but stay in the city continue to take the open lottery-admissions-as-best dogma sitting down.

By claiming ad nauseum that the results will be on a par with the those of the country's best selective admissions schools and surburban charters (yes, Basis AZ), parents become a small part of the problem.  Wait a year, or ten, for proof if you like.

Decent middle schools, yes, stellar, impossible under this paradigm - just look at the HS middle class exodus from Latin and Wilson, and the absence of white students at Banneker.  If more parents were to admit that a quality deficit will emerge at the HS level yet again, and ask DC politicians for public school programs on a par with the best in NYC and the burbs until they got them, the pushback wouldn't manifest itself on these boards as it does.

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