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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]Bottom line, choose Basis and high chance it will not be a good fit either in middle or high school.

No guarantee of anything and you take your risk, play lottery, try to get into private or move.

Chances of any of the above options gets lower each year.  The only sure thing is move.

The end [/quote]

Is moving really a sure thing?

We know families that moved from Ward 6 to MoCo, or Arlington, or Fairfax mainly for schools and seem to regret it. We also know people who paid through the nose to send their kids to the perfect seeming DC privates only to find that their children were miserable at these schools. We even know people who nervously sent a kid who was deeply average at math in ES to BASIS only to discover that the kid liked the program well enough to stay through high school.

I'm no BASIS fan; we only lasted a couple years. But I no longer believe in sure things where adolescents and their schools go. [/quote]

So true. Sometimes I think we agonize over school choice because it’s easier than grappling with the real challenges of adolescence. [/quote]

+1. Why is this concept so hard to understand? Pick the school that is best for your kid! For some that will be BASIS, for some it won’t. For some it will work for only middle school, for some it will work all the way through. Deal with it, because that’s what you chose to deal with when you decided to become a parent.[/quote]

If only you could simply pick. Not in DC, with the lottery system and schools that are basically closed out after fifth or sixth grade, due to limited seats and, in the case of Basis, no backfilling. [/quote]

From this thread, most people don't want to send their kid to BASIS anyway, so it should be easy to get a lottery seat if you are one of the few who do.[/quote]

At least 50% of kids who lottery for BASIS don't get spots. Also, the lack of backfilling compounds this problem because even though some of the kids who DO get spots later decide it's not for them and leave, if you have bad lottery luck the one year you can enter BASIS (5th) then you will never get a spot there again.

The no backfilling is a major reason BASIS attracts a lot of negative attention on these boards. It's important to understand this. And you can defend the no backfilling policy if you want but if you can't understand why it pisses people off, especially given the level of attrition at BASIS and how miserable that 5th grade lottery is for parents thanks to the near impossibility of getting into Latin or DCI, then you don't understand this conversation. Latin and DCI have lower attrition *and* they backfill. All the acceptable DCPS middle and high schools are required to backfill if they have space. Only BASIS doesn't backfill which means it's the one acceptable MS/HS option in the city that you have exactly one chance at. Of course that is going to result in resentment and criticism.[/quote]

Resentment is a strong word.

It is not because Basis doesn’t backfill that families dislike Basis boosters.  It is because you guys tout ad nauseam about your high test scores due to the fact that you are a test in school starting in 6th and don’t backfill.  Any school that does that will get similar stats.  It is not that Basis is anything special or the teachers.  That is where the backfilling discussion always comes into play is when test scores are discussed.

Yet people like you have this inflated sense that everyone is out to get Basis or resent or hate Basis.

Read your post and OP original post and the tone and how the narrative is really misplaced. If you don’t understand why this board does not like these type of Basis posts and hence families, well I don’t know what to say.

There is no dislike of Latin or DCI families on this board like there is of Basis, because these families don’t post such nonsense.  They also tend to be much happier at their school and a lot less of them are on here or need to be.[/quote]

Lol, I'm the PP. I don't have a kid at BASIS and don't even like BASIS. I was just explaining that the lack of backfilling is a major source of the criticism and resentment of BASIS. But I do think it's funny you thought I was a BASIS booster![/quote]

lol.

Basis haters are consumed by envy and flame anyone who disagrees with their hate rants.[/quote]

Exactly.

Thank you.[/quote]

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