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Let's remember the PCSB unanimously rejected BASIS for expansion and for reasons like not meeting the needs of all kids.  How can an entire board miss the "fact" that BASIS goes above and beyond ...and bends over backwards?  Unless of course the school is really not doing that, which they are not.

BASIS had a lot of support Day 1 and even before.  I can't remember a school generating so much enthusiasm as BASIS did in DC.  But they really weren't what they appeared to be....and we're all now realizing this.  They're at most a mediocre school who's been clever enough to cherry pick students to maintain their stats. In some respects they're amongst the worst in DC or else the board would not have granted  expansion requests to so many other schools.  I give BASIS DC a (D-).  I would not recommend this school to anyone.    [/quote]

I totally agree. BASIS is a test prep school selling itself as a "broad liberal arts" curriculum. There is nothing wrong with a charter being a test prep school- Many in DC are doing quite well (KIPP, Achievement Prep, etc.). However, my issue is with BASIS selling itself as having a broad liberal arts curriculum when in fact they are spending a significant amount of time prepping students for DC-CAS- a very weak measure of mastery in a "broad liberal arts" curriculum. [/quote]

So - you know because you have a kid in the school?  I thought not.  I do and I can tell you my kid is learning even on DC CAS prep days, which, by the way EVERY PCS, every PS in this city is doing right now.

'Teaching to the test' a few weeks out of every school year is not a horrible thing, it solidifies skills.  But too many people have been drinking the union kool-aid.[/quote]

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