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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most people I know at Maury don’t want to go to BASIS in the first place. They’d rather be at either Latin, or even at EH than at BASIS.[/quote]

Sure, Basis is a lot more rigorous than those schools.  So, it attracts the more academically motivated.[/quote]

Not exactly. BASIS attracts those who....get in (a little more than half of those who apply these days). We know Latin Cooper, DCI, Eliot-Hine and Stuart Hobson students who would probably have thrived at BASIS.  Some of these kids are stronger students than others who wound up at BASIS from our DCPS ES (we've known these kids since ECE). Many of the kids who go to Latin Cooper etc. never get off the BASIS waitlist. Moreover, much of the famous rigor at BASIS is really just time-consuming busy work.  There's not a lot of critical thinking, hand-on learning, self-directed or creative work at BASIS DC.  I know this because my spouse taught there. Families who don't wind up at BASIS for middle school aren't all eschewing rigor, not by a long shot.  Some are finding it by topping up ms curricula via tutoring, on-line courses, extensive reading, heritage language programs, summer math work and so forth.
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