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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow—won’t be long before BASIS DC, a 100% lottery school, ranks above Walls, which only takes straight A students.[/quote]

That is totally misleading. Yes, basis accepts by lottery -- in 5th grade. It then forces out kids who aren't successful and refuses to accept any new students for 9th grade.[/quote]

Oh stop. There's lots of schools in DC that have similar policies. BASIS is not unique. [/quote]

Really?  Name one.[/quote]

Every bilingual school in the city?[/quote]

What on earth are you talking about. That's definitely not true. Name even one school that does that, with cites. LAMB and YY stop accepting kids at a certain grade but they don't require anyone to repeat grades. [/quote]

No one ever raised the issue of repeating grades, except for you. [/quote]

You said "similar policies", and incentivizing kids to leave with developmentally inappropriate retention policies is key to how BASIS operates.[/quote]

It seems very DC that people hate BASIS, one of the best schools in the city, but they have no problem with the dozens and dozens of steaming piles of shit that pass for public schools in this city. [/quote]

The arrogance of BASIS posters to call all the other schools in the city "steaming piles of shit" is why people hate to see them coming.  Maybe try appreciating what other schools add to the DC ecosystem.  There are good and even excellent schools on both sides of the park.  Basis is not the only or even, necessarily, the best middle school or high school.  Finding the best fit for each kid is the goal.  Why not acknowledge that BASIS is a good fit for some, and not for others.  For this reason it's a GOOD thing that many different schools are available to educate our students.

Again, arrogant BASIS posters provoke a negative reaction from parents at other schools.  This should not be a surprise to anyone.[/quote]

THIS.  So tiring all the Basis booster threads in the past few months.  Just stop.

is the waitlist moving a lot and why the families need to do this?[/quote]

No, it's because defensive BASIS boosters know their school is mid so they never miss an opportunity to push their talking points.[/quote]

Don’t want to be mean but Latin is mid. Its biggest positive is that white kids go there. [/quote]

So you're dumb...and racist? [/quote]

Most DC high schools have a literal handful of white kids in each grade.  There's nothing wrong with wanting there to be 15 white kids in a class of 200 kids.  If black parents are allowed to want that for their kids, white parents are too.[/quote]

It's striking how ignorant you are of DC schools. Do you live actually here? [/quote]

Yes, and I have a kid in high school.  Do you?[/quote]

Latin is 40 percent white. [/quote]

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