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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't stand this attitude "BASIS is a lot of work, so does not fit everyone."  Some families come to dislike BASIS not because it's hard work, or the kids can't handle the material, but because the school has too much in common with a juvenile detention facility. BASIS has many fine teachers and offers admirable challenge for DC public, yes, but the model is still a grind, unnecessarily.

At our IB school off the National Mall, 10 year olds do treasure hunts in the Botanical Gardens during walk-down morning field trips. They head to the American Indian Museum IMAGINATIONS room to learn, or Natural History Museum Discovery room.  They see IMAX movies at Air and Space, then complete assignments to shoot their own space-themed movies on smart phones.

BASIS keeps the kids locked inside a joyless building almost all the time. They won't touch block scheduling, to give classes time to walk to museums and back during a single subject period.  The Portrait Gallery/American Art museum and Ford's Theater are around the corner, but the kids are almost never taken to round out their history studies, let alone farther afield, to gasp, the National Archives and US History Museum.  They can't even chill in a school library flipping through books, or shoot baskets on a roof court to unwind (we had one at my MS PS in Manhattan, despite no grassy area).  No wonder some kids can't adjust.  
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Glad your IB is working for you. Not everyone has that option, obviously.

Also all the BASIS 7th graders are going to the American history museum this Friday. And they're throwing egg drop experiments off the roof today for Physics.

But yes you are right, the building sucks. Pretty much everyone involved with buying that building is gone, but the school is stuck with it. It was chosen for its proximity to multiple Metro lines -- but that's its only virtue.

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