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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCI doesn’t really care about PARCC scores. Look at their STAMP and IB DP and IB CP scores. Also look at what universities their kids are accepted to. Unlike Basis, DCI doesn’t weed out kids who struggle or kids with IEPs. Basis is constantly on the verge of having their charter revoked for their failure to keep kids who require special education. Elitist crap.
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Basis self selects out and you should look at their at risk numbers compared to DCI, 7% to 22%.  DCI has more than 3 times the at risk so no surprise about lower PARCC scores.

We toured Basis and it was depressing as hell.  Very narrow hallways way too crowded with kids, cramped dark classrooms, and they have this big room they use for lunch, after school, and whatever else because it’s all they got.  Very limited in extracurriculars and sports.  Very small school so socially stuck if you don’t find good group of friends.

Rigid, inflexible curriculum that narrowly focuses on AP at the cost of all else. We were not impressed with the head guy who was very young, pompous, and talked like a marketing guy/salesman trying to sell you something.

It was night and day with our tour of DCI.  Beautiful campus and light filled airy building. Great facilities with library, gym, science lab, soccer fields, basketball, etc…. Lots of extracurricular clubs and sports. Large enough school but not too big and very diverse where your kid will find their niche of friends.

Our kid is high performing and we are in feeder and planning on going to DCI.  Basis is not even a consideration after the visit above. Tracking in math and language is good for us.  The kids who are in the high level language classes are usually the high performing kids anyway and so social studies and electives which can be taken in the language are unofficially tracked.  If we need to supplement anything we can.  We want a good, well-rounded middle/high school for our kid like I had in the burbs and DCI fits this bill. We also really like the IB curriculum and its emphasis on critical thinking and writing over AP.  [/quote]

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