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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You make the best of things at BASIS. What you want are better facilities, trained college counselors, a library and so forth on top of all the good rigor. But you can't have all that without moving to the burbs or paying for a private, so you make the best of things. That's all you do. You came here and boost and rationalize away without changing that. [/quote]

The BASIS facilities are given an unfair bad rap, particularly considering the location -- blocks away from museums, the mall, everything that DC has to offer.  As far as a on campus library, what is a waste of resources when we are a couple blocks from the MLK library.  I'd personally rather my DC learn to use a real library that they can use for the rest of their life that has so much more to offer than a limited school library.  Trained college counselors?  That is the last thing on my "wish list."  I would like more sports teams, a leadership class, and a parent google group.  Expert college counselors are easy to outsource if you aren't happy with the in-house options.

BASIS is better than many of the burb schools or the privates.  Maybe not compared to Sidwell, but that can't be the standard since 99% of Americans cannot afford to send their children to Sidwell.  DC should be commended for having a public school like BASIS available, particularly with the rich NoVA burbs paying for the private equivalent.  DC doesn't appreciate it, because we see schools like Sidwell, Georgetown Day, etc, but if I lived anywhere else, I'd knock DC parents on top of their heads for having any complaints about a public option like BASIS.  Friends that rubbed in their admissions to Latin now wish they had ended up in BASIS, IB Deal parents tell me that they had considered BASIS, the K-8 charter schools wish they could compete with a school like BASIS.  Those who got in should be counting their lucky stars.[/quote]

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