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[quote=Anonymous]On a new subject, I'd like to know what sort of extra curriculars BASIS plans to offer.  Will there be the normal sorts of activities middle schoolers get involved in, or just the nerdy type?  sports teams? music programs? clubs?  a competitive math team? chess team?  Prep to compete in the national spelling and geography bees?

Will the school raise money to send low-income kids to TAG summer programs, like the sleep-over ones Johns Hopkins runs? My nephew attends a serious astronomy camp for middle schoolers at the U of Arizona, where low-income campers are sponsored by school districts, mainly around LA, and private foundations.  I've often wished that DC schools were raising money to enable poor kids to participate in summer programs alongside affluent peers.  Mo. Co. and Fairfax will pay for kids to go, even providing them with clothes/gear to "fit it."

This is a ways off, but if the BASIS HS is only going to have a few dozen kids in a class, how well-rounded could the education be?  A school without varsity sports?  Or enough students, money (a little PTA involving few affluent parents probably couldn't raise much), or free time for students to support many extra-curriculars, a band, an orchestra, school musicals/plays, a student government, student media...?  Could most of the kids distinguish themselves outside the classroom, critical to admissions at top colleges, under such circumstances?  Independents with small graduating classes (e.g. St. Anselm's in Brookland, graduating around 50 boys) struggle with these issues.  Some can't field competitive sports teams, or find the cash for gleaming science and well-stocked libraries.  You might be thinking, extra-curriculars would the least of BASIS' problems, but with Ivies admitting so few, achievement outside the classroom is critical.

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