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[quote=Anonymous]Some of these posts are making me wish we had not moved our child from Latin to Basis.  But at Basis she has a much better sense of what is expected of her (at Latin she would sometimes stay up til 1am trying to figure out what the teacher was getting at to complete her homework) and she is able to be in the accelerated math class that she belongs in.

I think once the comps start weeding people out the academic opportunities will expand further.  I kind of agree about the coldness at Basis with some of the teachers, but they are not the majority, and we heard and saw many of the star students from middle school at WL leave for private school, which is just not an option for us.  If Basis does not work out, we are leaving DC, but I think there is every reason to believe it will.

Failure is not an option for them, nor is lowering their academic standards for the kids coming in at the 5th and 6th grade level, and the founders are here keeping an eye on the whole process.  They are highly invested in having Basis DC succeed.

I do, however, think they underestimated how underprepared some of the 7th and 8th graders would be, and I don't know exactly how they are going to solve that problem.

My kid is in 6th and it is much less of an issue.  And she has learned much more than she did at Latin, and much more than I did in my DC private school in 6th grade, and is fully up to the challenge.

And it is not rote learning.  It requires independent thinking.  I think the testing emphasis is just to identify who is falling behind before it becomes a disaster, and to get students used to being responsible and accountable about really learning  the material.

All the dumping on Basis for being without a soul (don't remember whether it was here or on another thread) kind of ignores the fact that their track record in Arizona may mean that for the first time EVER Washington DC may end up with a high school that is ranked in the top 20 public schools in the country.  A school that has a rank that automatically assumes that the kids who are graduating are actually educated, like the assumptions made about kids graduating from Sidwell, St. Albans, etc.[/quote]

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