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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Love it!!!  One less source of "brain drain" at 5th grade. Best of luck Basis.[/quote]

Agreed, if this has a bright side, it's this. And the Cap Hill parents will have a tough choice to make much earlier.[/quote]

That's one way of looking at it.  Many of us will stay in our strong Cap Hill neighborhood schools, and SWS, for elementary no matter what BASIS is offering.  Life is too short to be squiring a PreK kid to a school downtown in case you need a middle or high school there.  For me, the convenience of having my little kid socialize mainly with kids who live within a few minutes walk of my house is a big deal.  And I'm not giving up the chance to get involved in PTA events held across the street from our place.

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You like PTA events that much? Ugh!

And you do realize there are many families on the Hill who squire their elementary children across town to Deal feeder elementaries and to far away charters like LAMB and YuYing right now? All of this because of the dismal middle and high school options.[/quote]

I've been on Cap Hill for long time and don't talk to many Maury or Brent in-boundary families who use Deal feeders, LAMB, YY etc.  A handful in-boundary who really want Spanish or Mandarin immersion use those charters, yes, but most of those leaving do it from other school districts (Payne, Miner, Cluster etc.).  DCI isn't close, and may or may not live up to the hype.  Middle school options haven't in fact been dismal from the Hill in the past four years - everybody's gotten into Latin or BASIS.  But it looks like they're about to get worse, possibly a lot worse, as demand for desirable charter middle schools fails to keep up with supply.  There was an eye-opening presentation about all this at last week's Brent PTA meeting.  Yea, we like being involved in the PTA. [/quote]

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