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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, [b]BASIS is better academically overall than all other DC public MS options.[/b] 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]

There you have it. This is the choice we are all making, and actually the whole point of this thread.

I have sciencey kids, and my options are BASIS, where they will learn biology, chemistry, physics and physical geography, or DCPS where they will be misinformed by Amplify science and learn nothing.

If DCPS properly taught science and social studies and all the MSs offered accelerated math (our feeder, Francis, does not offer geometry or algebra 2), we would have been far less likely to choose BASIS.[/quote]

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