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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]
[quote=Anonymous]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]
[quote=Anonymous]Sorry, this is just silly.[/quote]
[quote=Anonymous]NP here, and no it is not silly.  Just because someone isn't starstruck by the school the same way you are, doesn't mean they're silly, nor that their objections can be so easily dismissed.

As a Basis fluffer, you might not understand that, but it really isn't that difficult for everyone else to comprehend. [/quote]
[quote=Anonymous]Ah, the anti-Basis porn addict has returned, or at least is pretending to be a new poster yet again (har har).  So what do you suppose the school that you are clearly an operative for would think of your obsession with filthy porn analogies?[/quote]
[quote=Anonymous]Not anti-Basis, but definitely anti-the-newest-shiniest "solution" just so that it fits your agenda, truth-be-damned.

OP wants an all-high SES school.  She needs to move to Upper Caucasia or the suburbs, or go private.

Basis booster also wants all-high SES.  That is not only difficult for a public charter school (no, it is not a magnet school no matter how desperately you want it to be), but more importantly, it may very well be crossing the line with respect to the legality of the charter.  Like it or not "you get what you get and you don't get upset."  You educate the students you have, not the ones you want.[/quote]
At the last BASIS community meeting the Head of School indicated the school is applying for Title One status. And he described the achievement of students as being distributed across all demographics, and that achievement is stronger than they had expected.[/quote]

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