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[quote=Anonymous]As a Basis parent, I will tell you as a matter of fact that curriculums are not that important.  The Basis DC high school has a reasonably good curriculum but the school falls down to mediocre in other areas:

1) Quality of teachers - typically inexperienced and prone to leave (underpaid, high cost city, often using teaching as a stopgap)
2) Quality of Students -- the high school has bright kids but there is quite a brain drain in 7th and 8th grades as kids and parents go to alternatives....good thing is few kids are troublemakers
3) Quality of Extracurriculars --- no funding
4) Quality of Facilities --- terrible
5) Quality of Administration --- few true educators on staff, lazy and arrogant admins

We stuck with it knowing some of these things but would do otherwise if had the choice again

[quote=Anonymous]When people compare BASIS to FCPS and MoCo and even private schools in the DMV I, too, feel better and better about BASIS.  To put a DC public school in the same sentence as these other schools and to assume that a BASIS family could choose all of these other great (but expensive!) options actually makes me feel great.  If BASIS attracts many families who would also consider these other options, it’s a strong school filled with many families who value education in a way that most of DC does not. [/quote][/quote]

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