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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I appreciate this. For context, I’m a DCPS high school teacher who has taught many students who “chose to leave” Basis. These kids did well in DCPS (and I have my own beliefs on why that is) on their report cards, and they’ve shared their negative experiences about Basis. It’s not a school for everyone. And based on a couple teacher friends who used to teach there, the concerns are justified.

Yet here I am: desperate parent. We’re hoping our kid will be a motivated enough student to take on the challenges and thrive at Basis, if given the opportunity. After teaching 12 years in DCPS in middle and high school, I can say wholeheartedly that the bar is on the floor and I wouldn’t allow my own kid in a DCPS school. Haha. No.

It’s either luck in the lottery, making serious lifestyle sacrifices to do private, or moving. Leaving our house and friends, even for a suburb 10 mins away, would be painful.

Again, I really appreciate the direct response!  It rarely happens here.

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This might be the most obnoxious post I’ve ever seen on DCUM. People give you a straight answer on Basis, with zero commentary, and you respond by accusing every parent of every child in any DCPS MS or HS — even the ones who have gone Deal to Walls to Yale — of child abuse. And what is the supposedly horrible thing we have done to our children? Allow you to be their teacher. What is wrong with you?![/quote]

I’ll stay employed and take some of the DCPS scandals I’ve seen— the ones we’ve all seen on the news and the ones we haven’t— to the grave with me.

Happy you were IB for Deal though, and give my best to your kid at Yale. Xo. [/quote]

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