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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BASIS is not a good fit for DC and tenor of parents vs parents on display is the beginning of it's unraveling. Too pretentious for words, the whole concept--any thing that sounds too good to be true usually is.  And the OP has my sympathy. [/quote]

OP here, thank you from the bottom of my heart for your post and the post of one other who pointed out we lost $250k just this year due to our mismanagement of our 6th grade wait list, and that ultimately that loss might add up to a cool million, so for our survival it is not something to be ignored, the question has never been both asked and answered, and it matters.

Because at a certain point, no matter how politically incorrect it might appear, the Blocks are going to give up on Basis DC.  Will they have a PC explanation?  NO.  Do they care?  No! Maybe for the next couple of years while they are continuing to expand their empire, but after that, if a DCPS charter school folds while they have numerous other public and private schools succeeding, they will basically blame it on us.  And they will not be wrong in one sense - every post everyone makes here, as with the "Why did you leave" threads, and "why did the Dean of Students threaten the grades of an entire element over the misconduct of one student", is tearing us apart.

Thank you both for trying to penetrate the brain membranes of these BOOSTERS and blockheads, because I have 4 kids (2 already there) and graduating from Basis well would be their golden ticket to college.  So to me it matters.  Enormously.

But of course according to the BOOSTERS we should not dwell on (read learn from) our mistakes.  Have any single one of you learned the SELA lesson, or do you think it does not apply?

IMO you have a lot to apologize for citing AZ stats implying that they would automatically be relevant to DC, and your initial arrogance, and your subsequent refusal to admit that there are problems in paradise, justifies all the stones that are being thrown your way.  I would never say it in any other arena, but you asked for it.

That being said, Basis DC was third our first year on the DC CAS (Deal and Latin ahead), and last year they beat everyone but Deal, hardly having studied for it.  They beat Latin in their Certamen (Latin contests) with consistency, and have achieved national recognition for a number of things (remember the student from Eritrea who won some writing contest and got a hug from Obama?)

So by many metrics Basis DC is doing well, and I would not let anything in this thread or the others dissuade you from listing it as your first choice in the 5th grade lottery, if and only if, your kid likes and seems to have a knack for math and science.

If they get in, I would strongly urge you to do everything in your power to prepare them for Algebra I their first year.  This year there is more than half an Element in Algebra I, and it makes the critical difference to their educational experience. sets the tone, keeps the focus.  They have to put all the academically advanced (in maths) kids together in the same section.  Our first year there were four.  Last year maybe there was one?  This year is a banner year and if parents of kids who are capable get the message it will alter their entire Basis experience for those particular children, whom by default will be attracted strongly to Basis in the first place.  THEY would not be making a mistake.

As another poster said on a previous thread, whether we have the [public school] population to weather the financial storm is an issue, and not one that should be ignored.  But these kids are treated so well that if we could get the kids from privates who have the same talents to come to Basis, we would be set.  Thanks to the lot of you, I feel you have set us back at least a year.[/quote]

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