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I'm really sorry that happened to you.

I think things may have settled down a little bit (knock on wood) since the changing of the Head of school. the current middle school physics teacher is awesome and the teachers generally seem a little happier. Comps count less, proportionally, towards end of year grades so the students are a little less stressed. no brand new teachers at all for our kid this year -- the team is strong across the board.

(Parents do complain a lot on the whatsapp, but that might just be par for the course for the sort of parent who send their kid to BASIS... they complained last year that the math went too slowly, and this year people are complaining that the math is going to quickly.)[/quote]

We are having a great experience but I sense things have changed.[/quote]

What grade is your student having this "great experience" in?  6th? 7th?

We bailed for a private late, after 10th, not long ago. Here's what we'd grown fed up with by the time we left, none of which we expected:

*Schlepping our student all over town in search of competitive college worthy ECs as he developed new interests.  
*Paying for decent ECs that our kid couldn't do with school friends, even when our student represented BASIS in regional competitions. 
*Supposedly STEM fantastic BASIS teaching just 1 of the 4 AP physics exams. 
*Too easy foreign language classes for a kid who outgrew the curriculum on day 1 in the first year he could take a language, 8th grade.
*Kid not having a quiet, pleasant place to study alone or with HS friends in the building. 
*Gaslighting by new admins where HS instruction was weak; we were told that the kid's sloth and attitude was the problem (it wasn't).  
*Favorite HS teachers leaving, along with favorite friends/families (not just after 8th grade, but after 9th).  
*The crazy push for all AP exams to be taken by the end of junior year. Kid felt rushed and senior year didn't look worth sticking around for.

Yes, BASIS is better academically overall than all other DC public MS options. Yet my excellent student grew to hate it nonetheless. BASIS may have been filling gaps that shouldn't exist, but it wasn't filling nearly enough for us 5 years in.  [/quote]

BASIS was an excellent springboard for polishing our child’s application to a top private middle or high school. We left after seventh grade—not because we ever came to dislike it, but because we realized that other, more well-rounded environments might be a better fit for high school, at least in our case. We remain genuinely grateful for BASIS, especially since our other realistic middle-school option would likely have undershot our child academically.

Our student came from a cramped charter elementary with no green space, then moved to BASIS—another equally space-starved campus—and so never really knew anything different. That experience has probably made them all the more appreciative of the relatively palatial surroundings of their current school, which I find a bit too cushy for my own taste.

Then again, all of my schools growing up were pretty lousy—academically and in terms of physical plant—so I’m probably not the best gauge.

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