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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While some posters seem to be stuck in the weeds of "holy cow, that much math homework" and "holy cow, they are memorizing the periodic table in 5th grade", they may not see that as what they had in mind, maybe their background is liberal arts or other fields - but for us - who ARE actually from hard science and engineering backgrounds, and who are planning on college, and likely graduate school and a potential career in innovative tech or science for DC, the "big picture" view of BASIS is fantastic.[/quote]

What about the big picture view of DC charters being geared toward serving low-income and lower-middle-class AA students?  My 4th grader is Asian and upper-middle-class.   I'm not sure I want to enroll DC in the BASIS middle school because that may well put me on a path to having to pay for an independent HS to stay in the District, making life tough for my kid socially.   Almost seems better to bail for MoCo for 6th so that my kid learns what he has to in order to keep up there for HS, preferably in a test-in academic magnet like Blair math and science, or an IB program up there.

I know I'l have a strong HS in MoCo whereas in DC, I may just have what Latin has, a HS that's around 80% AA and poor.  Not what I'm looking for my kid socially since I had that myself in HS and didn't enjoy it much.  From where I sit, a fantastic big picture view of BASIS would include a HS population that's at least half non AA, in other words truly diverse, are we going to get that?  Doesn't sound like it when Latin is far from a good HS mix after a decade.  I too hava a STEM background and nearly half the class at my alma mater was Asian.

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