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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BASIS does have art and music, not sure why you'd think they don't...  As for a stage and other facilities, they have started getting access to use some better facilities outside of their building.  Bear in mind that DC real estate is not cheap and DC has not particularly been helpful to charters in the facilities department - one can only conclude they'd spitefully prefer to have their extra facilities sit shuttered than let kids benefit from them.[/quote]

Music and art looked weak to me.  They aren't offering the sort of enrichment programs I had access to in middle and high school, although my family struggled financially, e.g. a real orchestra, band, school musicals, ceramics workshops etc. I've been on a couple tours.

I'm not exactly blaming BASIS. It's more the politicians fault, or perhaps the voters fault, that extra facilities remain shuttered.  But I'm not sure that I like the narrow emphasis on STEM work either, and I'm an MIT grad near the top of the Federal pay scale.  As a teenager, I would have done nothing but math and sci if I'd been encouraged to (not to my benefit).

Basis is new in town. Even if DC opened up all the empty schools to charters, there are schools way ahead of charter on the list. 
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I'm not sure where you get the idea that it's just a "narrow emphasis on STEM"  or "nothing but math and sci" when they also have a very strong and robust classical/liberal arts education component containing several years of Latin, along with strong offerings in English, history, geography and other arts and humanities.  BASIS isn't the only charter missing out due to politicians, many charters have far worse facilities than BASIS, many are for example parked in cramped little incubators and so on.[/quote]

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