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Yup, I sure am. So read on and don't worry about what I post then. Those who know....know and those who don't....don't! Have any of you even checked the stats from the previous Arizona schools. Even the gifted kids opt to leave and the schools [b]litterly have a graduating class of about 15.[/b] That's not to indicate that the other kids aren't capable but they just end up dropping out for different reasons. So statistically, many of the private school, FARMS, and kids coming from "good" charter schools won't be graduating from Basis DC anyway. I sometimes even wonder if you parents even did any extensive research about the school or did you just send your kids to the school because you saw the curriculum? You guys talk about wrong or garbage statistics but have the nerve to quote your own damn statistics about FARMS and everything else....dumb ass[/quote]

This is what concerns me about trying BASIS from next year, if there's a lottery and we get in.  So it's going OK, mainly for 5th and 6th graders.  But I'm not IB for Deal (can't afford a decent house in Upper NW), or privates, so if I don't move to Fairfax or MoCo for middle school, will I have an acceptable high school?  The best suburban HS programs appear to be test-in and probably wouldn't want my kid coming out of a DC public school, although we do JH CTY in the summer and Stanford EPGY during the school year.  A ridiculously small graduating class doesn't sound promising.  Even the smallest DC privates have at least 50 in a graduating class.

Anybody else concerned?
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Since it is a new school in DC I would expect people to be a little concerned about what the BASIS DC high school will end up being like. However, the quote about 15 kids graduating is a little misleading.  A more careful examination of the Arizona schools and the Basis curriculum will show that the 12th grade is seen as optional for many kids due to the advanced curriculum. This is part of the reason for small graduating classes, aside from the effect of the leading classes only now showing up in the stats.[/quote]

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