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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Give us a break. Perfect schools have.....gyms, playing fields, libraries and librarians, stages & auditoriums, computer labs, music programs and more. If the logic I'm following makes me a BASIS-hating troll, I am one.

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Former BASIS 5th grade parent[/quote]

Sorry to hear your disgruntled opinion and even sorrier that you can't stand the fact that my child is happy and yours was not. There in lies your problem. I'm no booster. I can see the negatives of BASIS but if my child likes it, I'll take it.

It has no gym nor library, but MLK is around the corner and [b]DD spends more time there than your child has every spent in a school library.[/b] It has a great location for us. When Shaw MS was taken away from us, DCPS told us to send our child to Cardozo MS, the worst performing MS in the city, and help make it a better neighborhood MS. That was our final straw. We are very happy with BASIS. My DD loves the learning of new subjects such as classics and Latin. She has met kids from all over the city. This year has been a great experience and she will look back at it very fondly.[/quote]

How would you know how much time other people's children spend in school libraries? When I toured BASIS, I saw no pleasant space in the building with good natural light where kids were free to quietly reflect, meet up for study sessions, work on their own or choose reading material off screens. That put me off.

My middle school kid likes ITDS fine. Even so, I'm not inclined to stay. The program seems too cruisey to provide good prep for high school, and the budget doesn't stretch to serious enrichment or facilities. I'm tired of scrambling and paying to supplement.  I'm fed up with being the taskmaster with a kid who feels no pressure to up her game because she (easily) earns top grades. But ask my kid, and the experience has been great.  [/quote]

How do I know about library time? Well, we visit several times a week, all up anywhere between 3 and 5 hours a week. If that were true for a school, your child would have to have library every day. That is definitely NOT happening. So stick with a school with a beautiful library that is visited by your child once or twice a week. All I'm saying is that a beautiful library would be nice but it is not the be all and end all. I'm glad my DD has BASIS and then MLK around the corner. This is what is making it such a great experience for my child. [/quote]

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