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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a BASIS parent, I don’t like this because I’ve seen the chaos that results when DCPCSB takes a solid school and has it replicate/expand. Mundo Verde was an amazing, highly sought after school and then it opened a second campus (that current parents fought and delayed because they knew what would happen) and now it’s a total mess. Two Rivers - same thing - second campus. People are bailing because it’s too much to manage and it’s a chaotic disaster. LAMB: opened new campuses and realized it was a shitshow after the school basically fell apart - then consolidated.

There is no denying that this elementary school project is going to draw time and resources away from the current school. It seems wholly unnecessary given that we have a wealth of solid elementary DCPS and charter school options already in the city. BASIS really should not get cocky, given that much of their success is based on being able to draw kids who have the resources and support to keep up with the BASIS model, and those folks are unlikely to leave their elementary schools (but are willing to leave for middle).

I think this is a bad call, and it makes me second guess choosing BASIS. [/quote]

Apples and oranges. I too suffered from another charter school that tried to replicate and instead destroyed what they had and created something not nearly as good as the original. That is not what is happening here. BASIS isn't duplicating or replicating anything. They are not expanding the current classes or replicating the school. They are creating K-4, which logically comes before 5-12. The teachers who teach 7th grade aren't going to be also teaching 1st. This is also (unlike MV, TR) not an experiment in the unknown. BASIS has @40 other K-12 charter schools; they know how to do this. [/quote]

Disagree. Here’s an apples to apples example: Cap Hill Mont at Logan.  Highly sought after fairly strong program. Expanded into middle school. Now its a mess.

Anytime you’re taking existing resources and stretching them more thin, you risk f’ing up what you have. Standing up an entirely new school *AND* a new facility is a huge project, that is going to pull a ton of resources from the existing school. Resources that are already stretched very thin.

This isn’t good for the city and it isn’t good for BASIS families, faculty or staff. [/quote]

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