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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BASIS parents tend to want to believe that the program is the cream of the crop, on a par with the best public middle schools in other big US cities.  It isn't, never mind that BASIS no longer comes close to clearing its 5th grade WL. Hearing this makes some of them defensive, really defensive.  It's an old story.  Move on.

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This BASIS parent believes BASIS is the strongest academic option for middle school in the city, if you’re not going to pay for private. Pretty sure I’m not wrong about that.

Ask yourself why you care so much what I think. [/quote]

Another BASIS parent here - no idea if it is the strongest public middle school option in DC (since I haven't had a kid attend any other middle school) but I do agree it is a super solid school. My 8th grader is on their third year of taking Chemistry, Physics, and Biology - and they are legit learning these subjects - I look at the materials and it is stuff I didn't learn until high school.  Also taking Econ - I didn't take that until college.  (Sure the econ is not the same level as a college course, but it is also legit/true exposure to the concepts). Child's art teacher is fantastic; child is killing it in algebra II; [b]getting a solid base in Spanish [/b]. . . English is pretty good, though I wish the kids would do more writing.  Yeah, too bad the building is sub-par and no athletic fields - but color me super impressed by this free middle school education.[/quote]

I'll buy the rest, but not the solid base in Spanish. There's no ambition for the instruction and no encouragement for families to seek out immersion experiences. Most of my kids' friends wound up taking the Spanish AP twice from BASIS.  They got 3s the first time around. [/quote]

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