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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please, the building invites the sadness.  It stinks for preteen and teens.  What a bad mistake BASIS Arizona made in setting up shop in DC in a building unsuitable for kids. A shame, the program deserves much better than its space.  [/quote]

Please stop.  It's a building, it has pros and cons, it's not Dante's fifth circle of hell.  Real life involves complex decisions and tradeoffs.  Try negotiating a lease for a school and see how much better you can do before making ridiculous statements like this.  I went to school in a building way worse than the BASIS building, the teachers and parents were what made it a loving, joyful place, not the physical deficiencies or lack of amenities.[/quote]

Ridiculous statements about high-powered MS/HS without a library or stage?  Fact is, many families of the strongest BASIS students bail for HS mainly because they can't take another year of the bad building.  It's not a modern facility for this century.  I went to a public school in Manhattan with no outdoor space, but time running around on the basketball court on the roof saved us from bouncing off the walls by the end of the day, particularly the MS-age boys.  The conventional wisdom on the building is that BASIS could easily have stuck a basketball court on the roof after negotiating to BUY the building (no "lease" ever in force). They didn't bother.  
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I've been on the roof. All the HVAC stuff is up there and that won't work.[/quote]

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