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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You want to gather good info, listen to parents of top performers who left BASIS 3, 4 or 5 years in. All ears?[b]  Be open to moving to NoVa if you can't afford private school[/b]. [/quote]

Doesn't this mean that it's the best public option in DC?[/quote]

Not necessarily. We switched from BASIS to SH after 5th. Kid is on his way to Walls in the fall, while his elementary school pals at BASIS who tried for Walls weren't offered spots. We supplemented in various ways at SH, especially for science and social studies, but that worked better for us than BASIS, which we disliked.[/quote]

This is a word to the wise who are iffy on BASIS for hs. No question that DCPS favors its own in Walls admission.[/quote]

[b]I think admissions ‘favors’ DCPS in the sense that DCPS grades are incredibly inflated so lots of kids have high GPAs without needing to prove a level of understanding the way Basis does.[/b]  I don’t think it’s favored in any other way.  But that is a big one.[/quote]

This. A B+ at Basis removes you from the Walls competition. 
Thanks, {Basis science teacher who loves giving 89s}!
This did not happen to our friends' kids who applied from DCPS.[/quote]

No kids at either school but if Basis is working for your kid, stay at Basis.

Walls is going downhill without test in and so is the performance of the kids.  A significant percentage of kids are not even in grade level in math. [/quote]

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