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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am all for this, and if they do open I hope I can get my 3rd grader in from the lottery.

Genuine question to this group, especially those who oppose this. If I have an elementary-age kid who is very advanced, and is struggling with boredom at our DCPS school, where do you think I should send them?

I have asked around and don't get the sense that charter schools are any more advanced, so I haven't really bothered to go that route. It feels like maybe our only option is to move to a Wilson feeder, where it sounds like maybe the classes are a bit more advanced just due to the socio-economics of the students. But I'd love to not have to buy a $2 million house just to give my kid a little extra challenge in elementary school. A BASIS elementary feels like a great alternative, and it offers something new for EOTP families. Happy to be told I'm wrong though! Please do tell me what kind of options you'd recommend. [/quote]

Honest response is to move to Fairfax. If you want to stay in DC and don't want to move to W3, then you need to supplement on your own.[/quote]

Never happening. This is why I support a BASIS elementary school. I shouldn't have to move my entire family just to get a little extra challenge in upper elementary + middle schools. The city has great school options for early childhood through 2nd grade; and great high school options. There's a huge hole in the middle that needs to be filled. BASIS elementary would be just the start. [/quote]

Do you hate your kid? If so, send them to BASIS elementary.

Signed,
Current BASIS parent [/quote]

Say more. are you looking for an out? Do you think it's fine for middle, but bad for elementary? [/quote]

BASIS hires extremely inexperienced teachers and doesn’t support them. There are a lot of classroom management problems, which leads to a lot of extreme forms of discipline and negativity. It’s absolutely developmentally inappropriate for the children they already have. I can’t imagine them in charge of younger children. [/quote]

Are you pulling out your kids?[/quote]

Yes. And for the poster with a “genius” child, my two kids are both at the top of their class. BASIS academics are on par with a normal middle/high school with a solid contingent of UMC families. It’s not an “advanced” program. So if your kid is truly gifted, they at be bored at BASIS. [/quote]

That is simply not true.  The Basis curriculum is objectively more advanced than any other public school in DC.  Sure, if your kid is at a selective DC public high school or a big school such as J-R, they can opt for advanced classes but no other public DC middle/high school (and certainly no other 100% lottery school) teaches all kids at the level that Basis does.[/quote]

Yes. I think it helps to be very specific about this -- middle schoolers learn Algebra, Geometry and Algebra 2 by the end of 8th grade, and start precalculus in 9th. This is one level beyond the highest level at the DCPS middle schools. [/quote]

And that's part of the trick -- overload the curriculum, collect the taxpayer dollars, wash out most students since it's not appropriate for the vast majority of kids to be taught at that level at that age, and then spin the massive failure to educate students who taxpayers are footing the bill for, into some bullshit about it being elite. New rubes who think their kids are special and smart sign up, almost certainly to have their kids wash out after a few years of no extra-curriculars and a revolving carousel of teachers.[/quote]

LOL. Most parents aren't stupid like you. They know how not to list BASIS if they know it won't work for their kid. [/quote]

The stupid parent here has a not-so-stupid kid who did great at BASIS academically. She washed out on weak ECs, poor school spirit, teachers with weak classroom management skills and crazy teacher turnover anyway.  We thought BASIS was the perfect fit. You tell us where we went wrong. She needed their elementary school to get in the mode of school offering little in the way of joy of learning six years earlier? [/quote]

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