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[quote=Anonymous]I have applied for my child to attend for more math and science options. It would be helpful if posters had specific information to provide and to back it up with how they know that. If you look at the reviews of BASIS SV and Brooklyn on Google, YELP, and Facebook, the reviews from real parents and students are favorable. So it may not be perfect. It may not work at all, but no need to tear them to pieces. I am sure it is hard to run a charter school with a lottery system, admitting students from a wide variety of abilities and aptitudes. Perhaps they are rapidly expanding because they have investors who have given them the money to do so? (I am speculating.) BTW, the heads of the local private schools make several hundred thousand dollars, but that is not considered distasteful because the schools are non-profit. I have the sense that there are several posters who just hate charter schools and public schools. We all want information. If you dislike charter schools, then it is not about BASIS per se. The for-profit angle is a little unusual, but regular private schools are very small and insular. They are not going to get investors or expand, they just keep building up their own facilities as grand as they can make them. BASIS appears to want to develop a school network, which will ultimately help the students and teachers if they can visit/exchange and teach at other schools in major cities. Finally, the schools here are great, no question, but they are very large (arguably huge) and subject to the whims of politics and funding and have to be everything to everyone. So there is a reason to send your child to private school, even if the public school are great. Some people just dislike private schools and would never consider them. Perhaps a shy child could benefit from the right private school? Anyway, again, I do not have a dog in the fight, just hate to see all the venom.

I do NOT work for BASIS. I do not have any interest in the school other than as a prospective parent. No one asked me to write this. Just trying to provide some perspective.[/quote]

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