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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because all this shuffle isn't doing much to make education, overall, in DC better.

BASIS is the flavor of the month. It was Latin a couple of years ago, and Two Rivers before than, and Cap City before that.

The only attractive middle schools are the one's where the FARM populations are below 30% and all of this has done precious little to improve schools for our friends in Ward 7 and Ward 8.

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Not flavor of the month but a middle school with high expectations for everyone and a place where high achieving kids can be truly challenged. This was sadly not the case for our DC in our previous charter. We tried to make it work but it wasn't fair to him. He's actually excited about school for the first time. (he always did great but wasn't thrilled by school.)

It's a sad reality that the schools with low numbers of FARMS kids are the most attractive. Our previous school was diverse, particularly after 4th when most of the higher performing, higher SES kids left for Latin. The teachers spent most of their time on under performing kids, the ones who could do more were not challenged at all. I know that's a familiar story. On the Hill for sure.
I have to say that it seems the school population at BASIS is pretty self selected. Where in the past we would hear so many stories about how little other kids knew, how badly they behaved, how much time was lost for the whole class because a couple of kids couldn't hold it together. Yes we used it as an opportunity to encourage compassion, recognize their relative good fortune. But it was wearing us all down. 
BASIS kind of freaks me out but it also is pretty intriguing. I am glad to have had a choice. 
But it's only been a week. [/quote]

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