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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you’re not committed to staying where you are, why bother with BASIS? Bethesda area middle and high schools offer a much better rounded education with experienced, grown up admins in charge.[/quote]

Basis has a high teacher turnover and admin turnover.  [/quote]

BASIS also has hopeless facilities, no gym, outdoor space, sports facilities, stage, music program, not much natural light. Students can't even study a language until 8th grade. Bethesda. Language instruction starts in 4th or 5th grade in MoCo and the math is just as advanced. Science teaching may be better at BASIS, but that's about it.[/quote]

Wrong.[/quote]. This Basis parent says correct. If I could persuade my spouse to move to MoCo and we could afford a good house in Bethesda, I’d go.[/quote]

Bye bye.[/quote]

This is why our by-right ms and ms options in the public school system EotP remain subpar. The myopic--voters, politicians and ed leaders--vindictively cheer the departure of the very parents that the District should be fighting to keep in our public schools. As long as parents have to vote with their feet to MC or VA to find a high-performing ms with good facilities, academics AND enrichment programs, we get nowhere. Where is the DC public ms with a serious orchestra? Where is the partial immersion ms language program that comes with advanced humanities classes that feeds into a high-performing International Baccalaureate Diploma program?  Where is the public hs offering math, humanities and language past AP level? There is none in every case.

We turned down our spot at DCI's ms for a private because their humanities and science classes seemed lame, their IBD program didn't seem very good, and the commute seemed brutal (more than 2 hours round trip by public transportation for a preteen coming from our neighborhood). DCI was our only ms option other than Eliot-Hine, which is a non-starter (whatever the small group of well-intentioned Maury families there might claim). [/quote]

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