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[quote=Anonymous][quote]21:17 / 21:31

Pages 22 and 23 had repeated, undeniable suggestions of dishonesty and lack of honesty. Those posts are all still there. Likewise, any parent who posts here, whose child is doing fine there is being hammered on with "yeah, but you need to give way to the person who said he was a Basis grad" as though someone else's apparent experience a few years ago in Arizona somehow negates our child's own experience in DC right now. Or that it makes us dishonest for not having the same experience.  It doesn't.

The organizers at Basis have been completely honest and up-front with their expectations of academic rigor. And, parents like myself who post here have likewise been completely honest. Anyone who isn't aware of that wasn't deceived, they weren't paying attention. We have not seen any "tension" at the school that affects it or the student body in any significant way, DC's teachers have been responsive and pleasant, and everything has been very well organized and efficient. And as for "mill" or "drill" in our case, likewise the only thing that has been in any way time consuming is the math homework, but each problem set includes a mix with some review and some new material, DC has gotten much better at cranking through the problem sets far more quickly.

For some students Basis works well, it's a very good fit, whereas for others it is not a good fit. Just as just about any of the schools in the District, whether charter, public or private will be a good fit for one kid but not for the next. So even the "negative" is very positive.

And again, as a reminder, the Basis grad who posted here got into a best-of-breed group at Stanford. There is something to be said for that- he probably would have been far less prepared and far less likely to have had that opportunity had he gone through the regular public school system.[/quote]

Seriously, PP, you sound paranoid. You quote things that were never said (no one told you to give way to anything) and you overuse victim language...seriously? You are "hammered" and "negated"? Seriously? BASIS has only been open 6 weeks, hardly long enough to be so very oppressed.

You seem to like to work the line of good fit to stomp out any suggestion that BASIS isn't perfect. You are entitled, of course, to spin, as a booster, whatever narrative you wish to. But, while you do this, you need to understand that pretending you are some oppressed person struggling to be respected because you are some kind of pioneer who understands more about education yet has to, Hollywood-style, fight the man....is complete and utter fantasy.
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