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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're the one who should let it go. Fact is, most DC BASIS families still leave before the terminal grade. I used to teach at NCS (um, no need to ask friends). Hardly anybody leaves NCS. I overestimate nothing. BASIS did work for my family by your definition, worked well in fact. Kid had nice friends, kid performed at "an extremely high level," kid got a 5 on BC Calc in 10th grade. But he certainly wasn't able to shine as he could have done at a school where students were encouraged to run with their particular interests and strengths, and where the faculty was stable. Thank goodness we had the means to go. You should probably pipe down about how terrific BASIS. Tolerable for somewhere between 40 and 50% of the families to the bitter end, I'll grant you that. Spare us a factory BASIS elementary school. [/quote] Why would you send your kids to BASIS if you worked at NCS?[/quote] Ha ha. Exactly. Methinks PP is just a troll.[/quote] Yes, because everybody who ever worked at NCS stayed there for the entirety of their career to take advantage of enrollment and fi aid perks for the children of faculty. Reasonable objecting voices should be heard here, whatever their source. The crux of the argument is that there should be much more to high school than AP exam prep, much more to middle school than high school prep, and much more to elementary school than middle school prep. We get it, BASIS is a point of light for UMC families with hard-working students EotP in a sea of low standards, poor teaching and management, and general dysfunction in DC public schools. But the situation says far more about the sorry state of our schools than the wonder of BASIS. My BASIS middle school kid had a few green young teachers with such weak classroom management skills and poor training that they were in tears up in front of their classes at times.[/quote] Not our experience but make up whatever you want. Not sure why you keep posting here. Sounds like you have a huge chip on your shoulder.[/quote]
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