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No, honestly, a lot of us can afford private and send our kids to private as the default.  Our home values don't go down and really never have, so it's not about investment.

Coffee shop chatter up here is that it would be nice to have a very competitive, exam-entrance PUBLIC high school option --- akin to Stuyvesant or T.J.   Banneker and SWW sure ain't it.   Since Stuyvesant doesn't exist in DC, and it never will because DC's population is 500,000, not 5 million .... we go to GDS.

(full disclosure, our kids go to private but I'm intrigued by BASIS so I'm on this thread.  I fear though that BASIS will fall prey to the realities of the DC population and not become Stuyvesant-like, no matter what its curriculum guide states.  see, e.g., the 2-track problem at Yu Ying.)   [/quote]

I worry about that problem as well, PP.  I'm thinking of taking a chance on BASIS, though.

[b]My understanding from the information sessions is that BASIS does not engage in social promotion. Each child must test into the next grade by passing comprehensive exams at the end of the year.  If a child is woefully unprepared and cannot be caught up by the support staff, he will spend multiple years in the fifth grade until he either learns what is required for promotion to the sixth grade or withdraws to attend a school that promotes socially.[/b]

Furthermore, although BASIS does not admit students based on the results of admission exams, it does place students based on the results of placement exams.  So, if a child applies to BASIS for the seventh grade but is not prepared for the BASIS seventh grade curriculum, he will be placed in the sixth grade or even the fifth grade.   I imagine that few families would be wiling to have their child repeat one or two years of school just to attend BASIS.
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THAT is going to create big, big problems for the school, and very quickly.[/quote]

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