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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Essentially, Basis is a whipping boy for broader systemic frustrations with the DC education landscape. Even if Basis were to do all that some are requesting of it, hardly anything would change for 90%+ of DC families.  Might some be less resentful? I guess so, but that only serves to highlight the pure irrationality of such resentment in the first place. DC needs more UMC-friendly options — a problem that Basis cannot solve to any meaningful degree.

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I'd agree with you, PP, if BASIS DC were well run. It isn't particularly. Too much baaaad teaching, particularly by math by teachers right out of grad school. Still too much active alienating of families by admins, [b]putting parents in their place (better under the current HoS though)[/b]. Too many dim-witted policies, like[b] the gimmicky experiment with middle school "linguistics",[/b] forcing kids to wait until 8th grade to take a language (1980s style) and only offering languages from a beginning level in 8th. Too much gaslighting of kids who supposedly can't cut it when weak teaching plays a large role in their failure. Too many lame ECs passed off as strong ones and too much money spent by families to participate. But the embarrassing business of trying to shame families into topping up teachers' salaries year after year might be the worst of it. BASIS DC could surely solve these problems and does not. The resentment isn't always irrational.  [/quote]

Things are slowly, incrementally changing:

New HoS is not a gaslighter. I understand that people had a lot of problems with the old guy.

Linguistics is gone, and has been replaced by a writing class for 6th and 7th graders, which was needed, and the school saw that and made the change.

EC's are also getting more numerous and a bit better (and some of them are quite good, like the Debate and Science Olympiad teams that actually win competitions).

It is too bad that language starts in 8th grade, but not a disaster. [/quote]

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