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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You want to gather good info, listen to parents of top performers who left BASIS 3, 4 or 5 years in. All ears?[b]  Be open to moving to NoVa if you can't afford private school[/b]. [/quote]

Doesn't this mean that it's the best public option in DC?[/quote]

Not necessarily. We switched from BASIS to SH after 5th. Kid is on his way to Walls in the fall, while his elementary school pals at BASIS who tried for Walls weren't offered spots. We supplemented in various ways at SH, especially for science and social studies, but that worked better for us than BASIS, which we disliked.[/quote]

I hear this. Very open to moving our kid if he really hates it. And with the newly announced DCPS change, his backup is now SWWFS.[/quote]

I don’t have a dog in this Basis fight (I’m WOTP) but my kid came home from the Walls summer bridge reporting there were a lot of kids coming from Basis. Can someone explain why kids/parents seem to use Basis as a means to and end (Walls)? Isn’t part of the Basis appeal that you start early and stay through HS?[/quote]

[b]I don't have a dog in the fight either -- though am sort of fascinated that the same thread gets re-written every few months and I don't see it happen with any other school.[/b] But, I would say that if you're sending your kids to a school that ends with them having the choice between BASIS and Walls after 8th, it is a win. We know many DCI parents that were ready to leave and didn't have the option.[/quote]

+1. Why is DCUM obsessed with this school? I feel like I can count the number of Latin threads I’ve seen in the past 5 years on one hand, but BASIS has a new thread every other week.
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Because Latin is not super controversial for-profit with an [b]insane washout rate[/b].[/quote]

No other school attracts crackpots who just make things up like PP.

BASIS HS re-enrollment rate is higher than Latin HS's (95.1% vs 93.2%). Latin MS's re-enrollment rate is higher than BASIS's (94.5% vs 90%). Neither school has anything that could remotely be considered an "insane washout rate". [/quote]

How many kids are enrolled at BASIS in 5th grade, how many are enrolled at 9th grade and how many graduate?

Thanks in advance...[/quote]

You moved the goal posts. A "washout rate" is how many kids leave. I just gave you those numbers. Latin loses more in HS than BASIS does. This means a higher percentage of 9th graders at BASIS graduate than do entering 9th graders from Latin. You seem not to understand that concept so I will retype it in bold for you: [b]A higher percentage of 9th graders at BASIS graduate than do entering 9th graders from Latin.[/b] Inconvenient as that data may be, it is what we call "reality". BASIS loses more kids in MS years than does Latin. Latin retains more entering 5th graders than does BASIS. I quoted the data above. The re-enrollment rate for MS at BASIS is 90%. Could it be higher? Sure. Latin MS's is 94.5%. The way you and your ilk throw misinformation around DCUM you'd think BASIS retained 50% of kids.

You are asking about class sizes. BASIS doesn't add kids after 5th, Latin does, so asking about overall enrollment does not tell us anything about retention (which is what a "washout rate" addresses.) Do you understand how and why re-enrollment rates are the only apples to apples comparison between two schools, one of which adds kids after 5th and one that doesn't?

Thanks in advance...[/quote]

You understand that you asked why BASIS is so controversial and I said it's the [b]washout rate [/b]and then you started talking about reenrollment. The vast majority of kids who start at BASIS don't make it to the end, and that's a method of education—especially public education which is built on the idea that everyone deserves access to quality education—that is controversial. Sorry if you don't like that everyone doesn't agree with you, but a lot of people don't like BASIS' method of operation. Latin has its own problems, but they are not as shocking to most people as BASIS' problems. [/quote]

A "washout rate" by plain meaning is kids who leave. Re-enrollment is an objective measure of kids who remain vs depart. You have it stuck in your head that kids are being forced from BASIS at an alarming rate. I showed you data in fact more % of kids leave Latin in HS than BASIS. This is not an opinion question, it is a FACT. I wasn't the person who asked why people are fixated on BASIS, but ironically you have provided an example of what so frequently occurs on DCUM. People like have a story in their heads and no amount of facts or data can get you to come off of your what you so deeply believe. You are like MAGA folks who just KNOW the election was stolen from them. There is no reasoning with people like you. [/quote]

9th to graduation is one metric, but more relevant ones for this discussion would be 8th to 9th, or 5th to graduation. Both schools do a good job of getting kids who start high school to graduate. But do middle schoolers leave before high school? This is relevant because neither school takes many, if any, kids after 6th grade.  [/quote]

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