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Former BASIS parent. Competitive academic applications for college admissions are indeed the BASIS fixation from the get go. But from what I can tell, they're not pivoting to adapt to current trends in admissions with much thought or determination, explaining why we left for HS. [/quote]

Perhaps they aren't adapting to current trends in admissions, but the current results are very good.  I recognize that the class size is winnowed down by the time they graduate, but this year's (and past years') admissions have been very good for a small class size.[/quote]

Yes - it works for a critical mass of kids, which should be a fine result.  No one is forced to go. Most middle schools in DC are failing their students in the main. I don’t get the controversy at all, unless folks think a school like Basis shouldn’t exist. [/quote]

There’s not an IRL controversy, it’s just a DCUM issue. The issue on DCUM is that Basis boosters aren’t content to say “it works for some kids and not others, and that’s ok.” They have to make claims like Basis is the best school, all schools should be like Basis, all kids who don’t go to Basis are doomed to failure, Basis should take over DCPS, etc. People push back on those overblown claims, and then parents feel they need to defend the school that’s actually serving their particular kids pretty well, and round and round we go. But IRL while Basis isn’t the most popular school in DC plenty of kids are enrolling and no one is trying to shut the school down. The controversy is 100% rhetorical. [/quote]

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