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[quote=Anonymous]The Head should take action to ensure that comprehensive parent directory issues?  NAYSAYER!

This thread isn't much fun when diehard boosters get the upper hand.  What I hear from skeptics is not so much direct criticism of Basis as indirect criticism of DCPS, and a society with a high tolerance threshold for extreme urban poverty and underfunding schools.

A very good question goes unanswered.  It is why can't DC support a public middle school that puts a good-sized group of kids on a path to 8-10 AP classes, yet offers a flexible math curriculum, a gym, playing fields/track/courts, a band and orchestra, an auditorium, and fun facilities like a student-run radio station, a greenhouse, and well-stocked art rooms?

Takoma Park MD Middle School has had the facilities enumerated above, with a test-in math/science magnet program for one-third of the students, and more for a long time, and it's not a mile over the DC/MD line.

No school can afford comparable facilities on a DC charter outlay of $9,000 per student and whatever the franchise can afford to add to top it up (not much); MoCo struggles to provide them with nearly twice that allocation.  Enter Basis, in the throes of growing pains outside Arizona for the first time.  Is it any wonder that high-SES pps grumble and worry?

The situation is far from ideal, and hardly Basis' fault.

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