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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To summarize:

If I'd had the dough or my spouse had been willing to move to the burbs, I'd have sent my kid to a better middle school. I would also have remained at our good DCPS ES EotP for 5th.

I'd have gone with a middle school with good facilities, strong extra curriculars, stable leadership, a choice of foreign languages from 6th grade (and not just at the beginning level), a serious music program, serious sports and, frankly, more experienced teachers overall. In my family's circumstances, I made the best of BASIS for middle school. Not a bad school, but hardly a great one as you claim.

If you had more integrity, you'd quit trying to dupe 4th grade parents into believing that BASIS is wonderful. Logic tells us that it isn't, no matter how brainy and industrious one's kid(s) might be.[/quote]

Most parents are unlike you and know how to investigate a school properly before sending their kid there. It’s obvious that you don’t have that skill, but instead of accepting your faults, you just go in to every BASIS thread and repeat your story where you blame everyone but yourself. I hope your kid turned out better than you did.[/quote]

Yes indeed. Same person on every BASIS thread that was simply shocked to learn all of the things that BASIS tells you at every open house and that anyone with eyes a brain should have figured out. But they didn't do their jobs as parents and sent their kid to a school that was a bad fit. Instead of course correcting they just stayed. As always, it is everyone else's fault but theirs.[/quote] No school without any outdoor space is a good fit for a preteen or adolescent. It’s a school you make the best of under the circumstances. Period.[/quote]

No outdoor space doesn't equal kids never go outside/learn/train sports outside. Sports teams are practicing on the Mall, at RFK, etc.

Every family makes the best of every school, because no school is a dream school no matter how much money you throw at it. Period.[/quote]

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