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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All around the US, public schools are full of heavy duty sports culture.  But meanwhile, they have steadily been slipping and sliding on the academic side.  The pendulum swung to sports, but it really needs to swing back to academics.[/quote]

Nobody disagrees, but you can still strive for balance, and find it.  Independents in town, particularly boys schools like Gonzaga. Georgetown Prep and St. Albans, seem to do that well.  Basis sounds like it's going too far in the other direction.

Why can't a high energy, athletic public school kid play sports at school as well take 10 AP tests?  Why isn't Basis more interested in balance?  Don't high-achieving, Ivy-bound kids in the burbs play sports?

My spouse played public school sports as a low-income kid, and went on to MIT, where slipping and sliding on the academic scale wasn't exactly the name of the game, and the foreign students weren't necessarily stars.  His parents didn't own a TV.  DC needs public middle and high schools were kids can clear high bars of different sorts.  My favorite classes in middle school were shop classes--I still weld, sew and throw pots for fun--yet I earned a PhD from an Ivy.

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