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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve lived in DC since the 90s, sent my kids to charters and DCPS for the last 9 years. Turned down a BASIS spot. Admins seemed too young, inexperienced yet full of themselves, [b]drank far too much of the Arizona Kool-aid[/b]. It’s sad to me that BASIS is the best we can do for our best and brightest EotP.  Nothing like the wonderful, joyful, contrarian education I got at Hunter. To each her own.[/quote]

What does that mean?[/quote]

It means she drank far too much of the Hunter Kool-aid.

Hunter is wonderful, joyful, and contrarian, and everything else pales in comparison.  For God's sake, people, Lin Manuel Miranda went to Hunter College!!!

Oh...except for this, of course...

[url]https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/ny-hunter-college-professor-sex-abuse-20200828-yd5hjeqfajcvbalot46m7putbi-story.html[/url][/quote]

Mr. Randolph did a lot of good for a lot of people and was really beloved at the school. It's shocking and upsetting that he also did that. That said, two or three victims over 25 years that there is no evidence the school knew about -- and that he was forced to resign once the first victim came forward -- really has nothing to do with Hunter as a school, Basis as a school or any comparison between the school. I do think Hunter is a much better school than what I hear about Basis... not least of all because extra curricular activities and the arts curriculum at Hunter were (fairly obviously given many of its most notable alumni) some of its main strengths. Obviously the college admissions are also incredible. But Hunter does prove that facilities don't make a school because the Hunter building may actually be even worse than Basis'. Also, Basis is clearly a very good fit for some kids and considerably better than most of what the district has to offer. One of my kids seems like a perfect fit for Basis and I won't hesitate to lottery there. Ultimately, comparing a long-established gifted & talented magnet in NYC with a relatively new pure lottery school in DC is a fool's errand in any case.[/quote]

Hunter College High School was founded in 1869, and its accepted students constitute the top 1/4 of 1% of NYC students based on test scores.

BASIS DC is a decade old and 100% lottery.

Agree that any comparison is a fool's errand.  [/quote]

Not a fool's errand. Many of my children's elementary school peers, now at BASIS, remind me of my Hunter classmates at the same ages.

BASIS is more than 30 years old: it's a franchise, vs. a stand-alone school like Latin. Not honest to speak of BASIS as 100% lottery. The is a self-selecting group of families sold on having academic stragglers aggressively weeded out in middle school.

Plenty of BASIS students have parents with multiple graduate degrees from elite institutions, much more so than at Hunter, at least in my day.[/quote]

Basis DC is 10 years old.[/quote]

No senior admin in DC is new to the franchise and neither are many of the teachers. BASIS DC is just one branch of Basis.ed. There are two dozen.[/quote]

More or less. The Head of School has almost always worked in Arizona. The curriculum is set in Arizona. Comps for 6th, 7th and 8th graders are graded in Arizona. BS that BASIS DC is a stand-alone charter that's 10 years old when Arizona calls the shots. This is why changing the head every year or two matters little. [/quote]

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