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[quote=Anonymous]Yup, a high quality, rigorous publically funded school in DC seems to upset some deep seated prejudices about what public schooling should look like ( versus private ).  It seems to threaten both people who feel they have the necessity to pay a lot of money for a decent education and those who seem to have a wierd, paternalistic, co dependent need to have public schools be kind of crappy or "good enough" at best. Or else, that is just how it ever was and to think otherwise is heresy.  I wouldn't be AT ALL surprised if the majority of people who are so skeptical/ down on Basis actually have their own kids in a private high school or else a selective one.  And they purport to be worried about those "left behind" by schools like basis.

Let me assure them, that BASIS is the best hope for the kids left behind by those going private or to selective schools.  I leave it to them to argue that Eastern or Ballou or Wilson are actually what those kids need.

This push back on even the IDEA of a school like basis as a public school really highlights the more cultural/psychological barriers to widespread improvements in the American school system.  [/quote]

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