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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live in DC EotP, where the BASIS elementary school will take off in the next few years and the most gentrified Ward 6 elementary schools will suffer as a result. Nothing to be done: the pols won't give a hoot.
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I doubt this. Many parents know that BASIS isn’t a good fit for their kid, and it’s not worth toughing out MS if the end result is poor grades that trap you into staying at BASIS for HS. So if you wouldn’t go for the MS, then why would you go for the ES?[/quote]

Agree. I don’t think the Basis elementary school will significantly detract from any of the W6 DCPS elementaries. [/quote]

There are plenty of W6 families who would jump as a BASIS elementary.  Maybe you mean W3?

And there are lots of W3 families at BASIS—namely, those that didn’t want the J-R pyramid.[/quote]

Not that many that I know of. Some but not enough to make the elementary schools “suffer” especially since its a lottery. Most W6 parents are not seeking a “rigorous” ECE/early elementary experience. It’s more likely to be the opposite. [/quote]

The problem is that W6 middle schools are not great, and the high school options terrible.  Most parents on the Hill don't want to send their kids to Eastern.

For many families, the options are a charter (BASIS, Latin, or DCI), move to the burbs, or private.

For an academically motivated kid (or, at least during the elementary years, academically motivated parents), the best public option in DC is BASIS, and the best way to get that option would be to lottery into a BASIS elementary school (if and when it is opened).  So, its seem obvious that any BASIS elementary will draw away a lot of top kids from W6 elementaries such as Brent, Maury, and Watkins.  Indeed, right now many lottery in right now get a 5th grade slot.  And, if and when a BASIS elementary school opens, a lot of those slots will go away and be held for BASIS elementary students continuing on from elementary.

Also, FWIW, the BASIS proposal doesn't make the elementary school very rigorous.  You see the same thing at Big 3 private schools.  Lower school is easy and the rigor doesn't start until upper school.[/quote]

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