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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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What a strange analysis.  Few here could possibly be "heavily invested" in BASIS' failure.  The opposite.  We're so short on appealing MS options for the most academic kids in this city that many of us would love to see a truly rigorous college prep program succeed.  But if BASIS is the best we can do for our 11-18 year-old advanced learners in this city, at least outside Upper NW, I, for one, am feeling discouraged.

The building, and set-up, just doesn't seem like a healthy place for bright adolescents, and the program doesn't seem terribly well thought through.  Moreover, it doesn't sound like BASIS DC has nearly enough money, yet who's lobbying for charters to get the same generous per student outlays as DCPS schools?

When I think about how I went to school with most of the same kids from 6th grade to 12th, and played varsity sports and performed in plays and orchestras with them, I can't get excited about sending my child to a school where two-thirds of his classmates will go by the wayside eventually, where high attrition is the goal, and where extra-curriculars aren't well resourced.

Living in the city is fun, but at what price?  So much controversy swirls around BASIS that it sounds tiring to get involved.  I just want a normal, well-rounded public school education for my sharp, disciplined, high energy science and math-loving kid, so he has a decent shot of attending an elite college.

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