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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the end of the day, every school has its pros and cons. I don't like the IB curriculum so I didn't want DCI, and I'm not a fan of "Classical/Latin" education so I didn't want Latin. I do like the BASIS model, even though many hate it, so I lotteried for it and my child got a seat, and has been happy. She is now at the BASIS high school.

The real problem here is that there are not enough seats to guarantee that a person gets the type of education they want. I lucked out. I would have been unhappy if my kid had to go to DCI or Latin. Lucky for me they didn't, but that is why you see so many posts like this.[/quote]

Most kids in the city get locked out of BASIS, Latin, or DCI. Those three schools, plus Deal, J-R, Hardy, Walls, Banneker, McKinley, and Ellington (many of which, like BASIS, only aim to meet the academic needs of a specific population of students) still do not result in a seat for every student in DC who wants one.

THAT is why you see so many posts like this. I get why BASIS parents would get sick of people with their kids at the school complaining. But so few people have kids at the school, it's not surprising. You also have parents in the Eastern feeder pyramid who are frustrated at the slow pace of improvement in their schools, in part due to BASIS, Latin, and DCI patching many high achieving students on the Hill who could otherwise help fill out higher track math and ELA courses or turn Eastern's IB program into something really notable.

People are just frustrated because their options suck.[/quote]

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