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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]...if your child always received "5"s in DCPS, then you think it will be a good fit. However, it can often become very obvious how little the child actually was taught in DCPS. This is where insecure skills in reading, writing, comprehension, organization and math show up. [/quote]

Elementary parents: Don't be scared off. Yes, Basis is more challenging than most DCPS schools, but students don't have to be geniuses or even come in above grade level to do well. My child (now in HS at Basis) has found Basis to be generally pretty easy. And yes, they're reasonably smart, but they didn't get a single 5 on a PARCC in elementary school.[/quote]

Well, I have a kid who got 5s in his first go round on PARCC and we are a mathy family that loves rigor. 
 but we are not going to lottery for Basis because: the teachers are too inexperienced and there is too much turnover, the middle schoolers all looked depressed, the lack of windows coupled with never leaving the windowless building, the lack of freedom  for kids (like no recess when they can do what they want), the "drill and kill" vibe of middle school classwork, and a bad feeling from the HoS (seemed like a bullshitter who is acting smarter than he is)

The high school actually seemed better on all those fronts, but we would not put our kids in the middle school.[/quote]

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