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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.  [b]Plenty of BASIS families would have sent their children to the original Latin if they could have. [/b] It works the other way, too, but not to the same extent.[/quote]

Depends on the kid.

Latin's academics are subpar.  BASIS families looking for a "normal" school with subpar academics might have been hoping for Latin and just not have gotten in through the lottery.  Most of them have moved on to other schools long ago.

The BASIS families still around by 9th grade that we know do think that the school is a "great fit."[/quote]

The "come on" PP is absolutely right. Sure, Latin and BASIS are each a great fit for some kids and most families prefer one or the other. But my kids go to a SH feeder and the majority of families list Latin, Latin 2, BASIS in some order and leave if they get into one. Not all, but most. For the students who are left, the majority stay on and go to SH. If the lottery results had been reversed between the groups, the outcome would be similar with different kids. If BASIS gets harder to get into, more kids from our ES will end up at SH. Now there could be a tipping point and, at some point, there may be so few "outlet" MS slots available that less people will stay at the ES through 4th/will seek alternative paths earlier.... even if they otherwise would have gone to SH as a lottery loser. But in the short term, the majority of Hill families want BASIS or Latin and will take the IB MS if they don't get one. HS is totally different. No one is going to Eastern.[/quote]

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