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[quote=Anonymous]I'm no expert on public school education in this city, but having visited the Penn Quarter building a couple times to check the school out for my 3rd grader, it's clear that BASIS has made a few big mistakes in DC.  Wrong building, wrong starting size, wrong population pyramid.

They should have held out for a more workable arrangement, going to the DC City Council Committee on Education to lobby for it and generating press coverage when the DC Public Charter Board shot them down initially.

Their high octane academic program would have worked better with mandatory summer prep for kids who weren't already ahead of the curve, better facilities (yes, at least a bball court, and, yes, multipurpose room with stage), and without the rowdy, cash cow 6th-8th grade population.  They should have started with 5th somewhere else and added one grade per year - other charters have done it.

Too bad, because the out-of-the-box high standards are a welcome change of pace.  I say this as an MIT grad who's leaning toward the burbs.  My kid did Johns Hopkins CTY last summer for math  - instructors think he will test into a MoCo 4th-5th grade Highly Gifted Center.  He's 5th grade algebra material but also into music - we probably want a stage and orchestra.

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