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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok well not everyone is a booster who doesn’t understand the advantageous demographics that BASIS has.  I certainly do.  Thanks to endless discussions on this forum about the school, many families have a better understanding of the pros and cons of the school and there ends up being a self-selecting population who apply in the lottery to some degree.  Combine that with the “weed out” of comps and BASIS ends up with relatively smart kids from families who care about their kids’ education.  Do I think a DCPS school is preferable/better because it targets the bottom of the class and makes them better?  Nope, not better for my family.  I think it’s great that some schools do this but sadly that is generally all that they do and it’s great that there are options that seek to educate all kids in the classroom.

You refer to BASIS locating in places with well-regarded elementary schools (presumably DuPont or Capitol Hill) as not being beneficial to anyone.  It’s beneficial to those of us who aren’t in-bounds for the elementary schools located there and who want a potential early guarantee of a feed to an acceptable middle/high school.  Folks who are in-bounds for great elementary schools - good for you.  You might have a tough decision to make.

I agree that there is more of a need for more great middle school options and I would have loved to see an expansion/duplication of the middle/high school for sure.  But I can see how BASIS wants it middle schoolers to be more prepared and an elementary school makes sense from that perspective.[/quote]

Neither Dupont or Capitol Hill is near Penn Quarter. I thought the idea was to be close to the existing campus. Now you say it's to be near wealthy people (quiet part loud!)-- which is it?

Dupont, of all places, is insane. It came from a deranged consultant branding report that BASIS stupidly wasted money on. Everyone near Dupont is IB for a good school either Ross or SWW@FS Oyster. Only Marie Reed and Garrison aren't that great, but they would be better served by a location nearer them than in Dupont. Yes Dupont is on the metro-- but everyone up the red line already is IB for a good elementary and middle. Down the red line you have Thomson, a fine school, Walker-Jones (not fine) and then Ludlow-Taylor. So really, a Dupont location means paying a ton of money for real estate that is convenient mostly to people who already have a good school. Genius plan![/quote]

Ross is great but it draws from only a small area and is tiny.  Everything else, especially the middle and high schools are mediocre or bad.

BASIS draws from the whole city and Dupont is pretty central.  It is much more convenient for most than Latin, DCI, Yu Ying, etc.

Dupont, Capitol Hill, or downtown really make the most sense.[/quote]

None of these make sense though if you want playing fields or other outdoor space. I agree it's a great time to get office real estate downtown or in the Federal Center/L'Enfant Plaza area, both of which would be easy commutes from the upper school. If they bought a whole building they could probably put in a rooftop playground and a gym of some sort--Thomson did it. [b]But if they also want sports fields the upper school can use, they need to look further away.[/b][/quote]

My understanding is that they don't want this. They want a centrally located school. [/quote]

Then another sad office building it shall be.[/quote]

BASIS is primarily a commercial real estate investment firm that runs mediocre charter schools to finance the debt. Seriously. The AZ Republic has written a lot about this. [/quote]

Troll alert.[/quote]

Telling you to read the documents and check out the in-depth investigative reporting is... a troll?[/quote]

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