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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Super happy kid at Basis. She doesn't care about the school building being what it is. When she arrives to school, it's school, regardless if you or I think it looks like and feels like an office building. To our kid, it feels like school, and she loves it.

I mean, sometimes she has gym and eats lunch on the National Mall just like two blocks away and that far surpasses whatever field or grassy area might be missing from Basis.

Also, the location of Basis is amazing being sandwiched between the Portrait Gallery and the National Archives building.

So no, Basis doesn't have a typical suburban-type school campus, but look where it's located?!

For some kids, they may need a more traditional school campus with grass and a playground, but our kid loves the location and is thriving at Basis.

And please, if you send your kid to Basis, you know that the school is an office building, so don't then post complaints that it's in an office building. [/quote]

Come on let's not lie to the forumites. The Mall is right there and a fifth grader will generally visit the Mall once a week for PE and have PE indoors at school the other days. Beyond that weekly 55mn outside, 5th graders have half a dozen field trips and  no more than two or three lunches outside the whole year, and that's it for school day sunlight in 5th grade. They could do better and they should and they promise every year or even every few months that they'll do better and they don’t. They get away with that because families who choose BASIS already have diminished facilities expectations when enrolling and their other expectations of a rigorous and energetic education are being met.

Most of the kids love school and none of them even realize that they're not getting enough fresh air or sunlight.

The teachers are generally awesome, and I'll say again most kids love school. [/quote]

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