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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems like people are trying to assert that kids with rights to (not the same as IB for) Deal, Hardy, JR, and Stuart-Hobson are a significant proportion of BASIS' enrollment. And that may be true, I'm really not sure. Ok, yay for BASIS.

But at the same time, it's also the case that a lot of kids who have access to a high-quality middle school are not choosing BASIS. And that's why you see zero kids from Janney going to BASIS, for example. This data doesn't tell us how many kids wanted to go to BASIS but didn't get in, but it also doesn't tell us how many kids are at BASIS only because they didn't get anything they like better, and how many kids wouldn't have gone to BASIS even if they had applied and matched. But it strikes me as notable when people choose Stuart-Hobson over BASIS even though Eastern isn't an appealing high school. And it seems in this data that a lot of people are choosing Stuart-Hobson.

100% of the kids in my household attend JR, but that doesn't mean I think JR is really that great. And it doesn't make them a significant proportion of JR's enrollment.[/quote]

The boundary data that has been used is for in boundary. Further, as has now been explained 10 times, as a 100% lottery school no one school could or should make up a significant proportion. No one suggested those schools make up a significant proportion. What was said was that those middle schools represent a greater proportion than some of the "lessor middle schools", in opposition to what some dimwit said. An idea you have now inexplicably repeated while inserting some inane IB vs OOB right concept.

If by "kids who have access to a high quality middle school" you mean Deal and Hardy, YOU ARE WRONG. There are more kids IB for those schools at BASIS than all but one non-CH middle school. Of course it isn't most of those schools' kids; BASIS has only 135 5th grade seats and it is a pure lottery. No one said it was most of those IB kids. Let me repeat: What was said was that available data shows us that (contrary to you repeating your unfounded beliefs) Deal and Hardy IB kids are sending more kids to BASIS than everyone except the 3 CH middle schools and MacFarland. Which debunks the idea that kids who have a "good" (Deal/Hardy) MS path don't attend.

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Oh brother. If you’re a Basis parent, I’m glad we didn’t get in.

The point is: a very small proportion of strong IB MS choose Basis. Nobody ever said NONE. [/quote]

Best for all concerned. Your match and analytic skills would not have permitted you to effectively support your kid's BASIS education as evidenced by the fact that you don't see to grasp that the number of kids in a school is limited by overall enrollment. Or did you think a school with only 650 kids across 8 grades was enrolling a couple hundred per grade?[/quote]

All you seem to be doing is repeating a logical fallacy: the fact that more Deal parents than Kelly Miller parents send their kids to Basis means that on the whole [b]parents do not prefer a strong IB DCPS[/b]. [/quote]

For the last time, no one asserted anything to the contrary. The only references to that on this thread are people like you claiming that was said; it wasn't. Go back and look where this started. Someone said kids from Deal, Hardy and SH don't choose BASIS and that it is used by kids from lousy MS. The data showed demand was actually strong from those schools (in fact highest demand from SH). You and others have tried to gaslight by suggesting anyone, anywhere claimed demand from those schools was higher at BASIS than IB. No. One. Said. That.

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OMG. Yes, Stuart-Hobson-eligible kids are a large proportion of the BASIS class. For now. But they are not a large proportion of the kids who have rights to Stuart-Hobson. As evidenced by the number of students choosing Stuart-Hobson. If BASIS were really that great, it would be taking a bigger share from the most desirable middle schools. It isn't.[/quote]

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