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[quote=Anonymous]You could easily argue that of every last family who leaves BASIS DC during or after MS. It's a no-brainer that parents head to BASIS in the first place because they aren't satisfied with their DCPS MS option(s). If they aren't satisfied with BASIS either, and are willing to leave, they're generally out of MS options in the DC public system, unless they're willing to move in-boundary for Deal or Hardy. It's the rare BASIS family that bails planning to head to a DCPS MS (have heard of this for Stuart Hobson). The BASIS families we know who left during or after middle school all went private/parochial or moved. They seem happy where they landed. We couldn't get our kid to stay for the BASIS HS mainly because her good school friends were all leaving, and not because they were struggling academically. The peer influence was strong, with the friends emphasizing more appealing high school options (serious sports, theater, music, science research, languages past the AP level and so on).

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