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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We were a BASIS DC family for years and agree with PP above. It's a painfully top-down school but at least the kids learn a lot. If you're thinking about BASIS for your rising 5th grader, don't kid yourselves that parent input is welcomed.

I can't imagine a BASIS elementary school being all that much fun, but I bet the kids will learn grammar, spelling, math, like we did at my Catholic grammar school in the 70s.[/quote]

This. If your family can stomach the PTA ban, admins blowing off parent concerns, the bad building and higher teacher turnover than you'd like (can't imagine that an ES being much better on any level), BASIS can work pretty well for hard-working kids. If DCPS is going to continue to hassle families EotP with sub-par ES academics and middle school lottery luck stress, our ed leaders deserve a BASIS DC ES. I say this as a parent who stuck with 5th grade at our DCPS ES EotP and wish we hadn't bothered.  Yes, things are much worse post Covid.  My youngest hardly learned a thing at school in 5th grade. We practically home schooled her with help from tutors and Mathnasium.[/quote]

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