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Reply to "BASIS DC will seek to expand to include K to 4th grade"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Latin and Basis are so wildly different that I'm not understanding how parents could think both schools could be a great fit for their kid. [/quote] Come on, most parents who enroll don't think these schools are a "great fit" for their kids. BASIS has crappy facilities and high teacher turnover and Latin's facilities aren't great. Neither school has the dough to offer first-rate extra curriculars/enrichment, especially for 5th graders. Neither school tracks for humanities subjects in middle school, other than Latin for kids who start Latin after 5th grade. Kids go to Latin and BASIS not so much because either is a "great fit," but because middle-class Hill families East of Rock Creek lack viable middle school options. Plenty of BASIS families would have sent their children to the original Latin if they could have. It works the other way, too, but not to the same extent.[/quote]
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