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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  Honestly, I would not put much stock in one person's opinion. If you go to greatschools.com site you can find plenty of reviews of Basis which are mostly positive. With any school, one can find detractors and supporters of said school as well as everything in between. Children do not fit into cookie cutters and thank goodness there are choices like Basis and a plethora of others here in DC. I see no problem with Basis and my child is thriving there, even in Algebra 1[b] before[/b] 7th grade!![/quote]

OK, but when 8 years of Basis let to Stanford yet the kid comes out lacking loyalty, you might want to consider what this could portend for your DC here at six weeks in.  Like it or not, Basis sounds attached to cookie cutters.  Algebra before 8th grade is great for maybe, one-quarter of the kids.  The rest will surely suffer directly, and the others indirectly from the "culling" process in high gear around them, and for what?

The Harvard PP didn't say that they went to public school in DC.  Point taken, I don't see why parents and taxpayers should have to put up with a curriculum for math gifted kids, minus screening, not billing itself as such either.

I'm fairly new to DC - is the "obnoxious political climate" ever going to stop calling the shots on boneheaded ideas about elitism/racism/apartheid in education, or are we in for this bilge ad infinitum?

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