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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Haven't posted about BASIS in months. I'm stating the obvious because I'm disappointed by what I see and hear about BASIS this spring. I've got an athletic 3rd grader with a talent for math and enthusiasm for science and no acceptable middle school in sight.  If that makes me unhinged, fine, I'm unhinged.[/quote]
I also have an athletic child, and we find that BASIS works great for their interest.

Again, I get how someone might have an opinion about BASIS, it is not a good fit, or whatever - but to repeatedly seek out BASIS threads, and repeatedly post emphatic diatribes - what is that person's reason for investing emotional energy into something they will never be a part of?[/quote]

My hypothesis:

BASIS  might well reflect a wave of charter school openings (perhaps initiated by Latin) that are doing an end-run around DCPS and will finally provide high-quality public middle and high school options for people who cannot afford to buy IB for Deal/Wilson (or perhaps do not want to for some other reason).

These types of charter schools will accelerate the on-going gentrification of DC, and there any many people who feel threatened by that gentrification.

If BASIS were just another charter school, why would anyone feel the need to invest so much time into bashing it.  It won't have any impact on your life if you don't have any kids attending, right?

Wrong.  High-quality charter schools such as BASIS will cause middle class families (both AA and non-AA) to move into (or not move out of) DC.  These families will bid up home prices and apartment rentals, making it more difficult for working class families and families dependent on social programs to stay in DC.  Furthermore, since charter schools offer no IB preference, these families can bid up prices throughout the city.

I think that the bashers recognize that BASIS might be just the tip of the iceberg and are thus heavily invested in its failure. [/quote]

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