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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are IB, live in a 1.6 million house and were not hit by the recession. We are happy at Hardy where our DC is thriving.

We never considered Basis, Latin or moving to MoCo for Pyle & Whitman.

Only thing I agree is the presence of veiled criticism and outright racism. The first is changing though.

BTW wealthiest families are at Mann, not at Key.

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We never  considered Basia , a school which does not value nor  stimulates learning by project and teamwork . 
This is what modern academia and workplace is about .

And we are so happy DC is having a lot of both at Hardy. Give time to the ongoing demographic changes to reflect on tests. Though Basis will always have an advantage in testing , given its individual testing culture. Maybe that's why Basis do not show up at the dc math team contest, and dc science fair contest. These are school team based events, where problems need to be solved in a coordinated fashion by teams, not individuals .

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[b]Enough of the DC math team contest.[/b]  We have heard on other threads that [b]neither Basis nor Deal showed up because they did not have a teacher who was dedicated enough to volunteer or were afraid of the challenge[/b], Hardy Booster.  Did Washington Latin show up?  Those are the top 3 MS by DC CAS right there for the last 2 years.

My child participated in the first part of the science fair contest at Washington Latin and the judge did not understand the child's project (which did involve a lot of math, which child did by himself).  Now at Basis we would never consider doing it again.  That said, Basis has participated in the Certamen contest (Latin) and beat out all the public and private schools in the region every year (3 years in a row now, this time I think in two divisions, and in one we won 1st and 2nd, and only one team can go to regionals) including Washington Latin, and the same for Science Bowl, where this year and last year we have gone to Nationals...... not so exciting for us since nationals are held in........... Washington DC.

We are a new school and are getting our feet wet in terms of different extracurriculars, but since our best math students are doing Algebra I in 5th grade they really cannot compete with your best 5th grade math students, nor can our best 8th graders.

These students struggle on the DC CAS every year to remember math they have not done since 4th grade....

As a parent who is more honest and snottier than I will ever be on this issue said:
[b]Hardy parents: The best and the brightest 8th grade math students at Basis DC will be taking the AP Calculus AB exam this spring.  Who is up for the challenge?[/b]

you could have talked about Hardy without knocking Basis, but you just could not resist.........

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