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[quote=Anonymous][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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Your post makes no sense.

Basis “attracts those who...get in”?  Huh?  Do you know how the lottery works?  The school is 100% lottery.

You say that you know kids at other schools “who would probably have thrived at BASIS” and then you state “BASIS is really just time-consuming busy work.”  You realize that you just contradicted yourself, right?

Everything you say is refuted by the data.  Based on the metrics, BASIS is by far the best public middle school in DC.  [url]https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/middle-schools/district-of-columbia[/url].  For example, 91% of E-H is BELOW grade level in math and 83% is BELOW grade level in English; 86% of SH is BELOW grade level in math and 60% is BELOW grade level in English.  You are seriously comparing it to Basis?

You then say that some at E-H, SH, and other schools are trying to supplement the poor curricula at those schools.  Good for them.  It sounds like the parents are just trying to try to make the best of a bad situation.  Plenty of parents supplement at Basis too, although there is little need to do so in the core subjects.

You claim that “I know this because my spouse taught” at Basis.  Teachers have a lot of discretion about how they teach the Basis curriculum.  So, we can assume that your spouse forced a lot “of time-consuming busy work” on his or her students since that is your take on the school.  Not a good look.  Also, Basis pushes out teachers who can’t perform up to expectations and just assign busy work, so I wouldn’t be surprised if your spouse was encouraged to leave, did so, and now you feel like have to bash the school.[/quote]

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