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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I enjoy is the fact that BASIS is included in lists and sentences that also include top private schools where families pay a cool 50K per year per kid.  The school is doing something right!  If these expensive private schools aren’t better than BASIS I have no clue why anyone would fork over that kind of money.  As a BASIS family, it’s not that we are willing to “settle” on our kids’ education.  Quite the contrary.  We believe BASIS offers the best free education we can get.  Parents should strive for the best a school can provide, but if the yard stick is what a private school is offering, it’s entirely unrealistic.  I do think parents can come together to bring about reasonable changes and improvements and I hope BASIS families keep cooperating on these matters to make the school as good as a free public charter school can be.  [/quote]

You've hit the nail on the head. This is DCUM in a nutshell. I am aware of no BASIS parents who walk around saying, "This is a better choice than Sidwell or GDS." What they (we) say is that this is an excellent choice in a free public education system and we feel lucky to have access to it. At which point people chime in to say it isn't as good as [insert private school or other schools not in DC]. [/quote]

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