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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just heard it from a parent there.  They HATE it.[/quote]

The parent hates Basis and is suing the school?  To what end - what does the lawsuit entail?[/quote]

Were they forced at gunpoint to attend Basis?

Jesus.   I'm just shaking my head.

There's a waitlist of families three digits deep that would absolutely love to take their place at Basis right now.[/quote]

That's not really fair.  If you were matched at Eliot Hine or Eatern, you wouldn't automatically suck it up.  Basis is a public school, it needs to follow the same laws as every other public school.  If that's too hard, then it should stop taking taxpayer funding and go private.  They can't have it both ways. 
Exactly.  If you don't like it, find another school.  [/quote][/quote]

Again, there are literally dozens of choices out there.  If some family has a kid at Basis who is struggling, then one has to ask why the kid is at Basis in the first place?  They had to go out of their way to choose Basis.  Did they choose Basis because the other choices would have been even worse?  If so, then is this some supremely idealistic but misguided quest for perfection for a kid who would probably struggle no matter what the circumstances as long as the family is trying to jam a square peg through a round hole?  I really have to question their judgement.  Either way it really doesn't make a whole lot of sense to the rest of us who are doing just fine (even with our own SN kids.)[/quote]

No, if there were literally dozens of choices, then you wouldn't seen the Eaton families freaking out because they're being moved from Deal to Hardy.  There are hardly any choices at all.  That's the problem  And when parents only have access to one decent one, and they don't believe their student is being served, then they very well may sue.  It's not like nobody saw this coming, the only surprise is that it took this long.[/quote]

There are at least 46 different DC charters offering middle school to pick from, plus IB and OOB DCPS options.  http://www.dcpcsb.org/SearchSchools.aspx?type=3&val=Middle  and here you are acting like this is your only choice.[/quote]

Please.  IF you thought there were 46 good choices in DC, then you wouldn't be so offended that someone is calling your child's school out.  After all - there are SO many others for you to choose from as well.  Right?  So you should support Basis having to step up and do the right thing, and if it doesn't you'll leave.  Because dammit you've got 45 other good schools from which to pick![/quote]

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