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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone just posted list on private school forum:

BASIS (2)
Edmund Burke (1)
DC International School (1)
Georgetown Day School (4)
Georgetown Visitation (2)
Jackson-Reed (3)
MacArthur HS (1)
Maret (1)
National Cathedral School (5)
School Without Walls (3)
Sidwell Friends (4)
St Albans (2)
St Anselm's Abbey (3)
St John's College HS (1)
Washington International (1)
Washington Latin Public Charter (3)
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Interesting...usually Sidwell has nearly double digits.  NCS had a banner year.  Latin did well this year. The BASIS folks must be unhappy.

What's interesting is private schools with 0 NMSFs.  Gonzaga and Field off the top of my head.[/quote]

Why would BASIS be unhappy?  They have (by far) the smallest senior class of any of these schools but still had 2 kids who are NMS...about 3% of the class was NMS.[/quote]

Because BASIS is founded on doing well on standardized tests.  If that's core to your identity, then you expect much higher numbers.
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Core to its identity?  No.

BASIS doesn't emphasize the PSAT.  Nor does any of the Big 3.

We all all know that the kids who do well are self-prepping or getting tutors, and a smart, driven kid anywhere can do well on the test.

You really think that J-R is almost the same level/quality as Sidwell or GDS just because J-R has 3 NMS and Sidwell and GDS 4?[/quote]

Why are we now comparing JR to Sidwell or GDS?  Nobody has done that.

BASIS cares far more than any other school about standardized tests and many BASIS people disparage Latin.  This is comparing one charter school against another.[/quote]

NP. First off, how or why do you think BASIS cares about standardized tests? There is no admission test, there is no PSAT class or test prep, they don't spend any time prepping for CAPE. It's a pressure cooker and many other things, but you've simply made up this point.

[b]Second, I've been on DCUM for a very long time and I can't recall once any parent disparaging Latin That's not happening anywhere but inside your own head. 
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Finally, no one other than you is comparing Latin and BASIS. The point the poster to whom you are responding made went way the heck over your head. They were explaining to you how silly it is to try and illustrate the quality of an education based on NMSF numbers. Their point was that to do so you'd have to argue that GDS and Sidwell are indistinguishable from J-R. Which is silly. But you completely missed the point.

Take a breath, defensive Latin parent. You seem really insecure.   [/quote]

I'm a different parent who doesn't have a student at Latin or Basis (neither of my kids applied to either so I truly have no horse in this race) but there is at least one particular poster who seems to go around many different threads and calls Latin "mid."  Then gives many different reason why he or she doesn't like Latin.  For example, in the recent USNWR thread, this was done many, many times.  So, they are not, in fact, making this up.   [/quote]

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