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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BASIS boosters have furnished most of the one-note drivel on DCUM for almost a decade now. Kid loves the place, really. Who needs a well-rounded education? Not us!! We’re thrilled with a middle school where there’s little fun, creativity or choice to be had, an institution w/out a stable teaching force, a stable admin team, well-paid teachers etc. etc. Yes, it gets old. This has been an unusual thread because the boosters haven’t dominated.[/quote]

If its been almost a decade, it's not some small group of parents.

I have never understood the Basis animosity out there -- its surreal. Why can't a kid like Basis and want to go there? I'm the ward 3 poster who is sending a kid to Basis over Deal. Both schools have benefits and drawbacks. [b]But the anger on this board about the school is just bizarre and makes people sound unhinged.[/b] [/quote]

Such an easy statement to make from Ward 3. Upper Caucasia is just bizarre.[/quote]

PP here. Not sure I understand. Why is it easy to make a statement that the anger towards the school is bizarre? It is. It sounds more like people are just angry that they feel they don't have enough choices -- in which case, why are they ranting about Basis and not ranting about DCPS?

Separately, if you don't live in the Deal catchment , you also may not know about the drawbacks of the school, which are many. It's not a promise land; its a mixed bag like Basis and everything else.[/quote]

Pointing out BASIS' limitations is hardly tantamount to "ranting," PP.[/quote]

I think the idea of the thread was to highlight the joy of someone's child. Of course trashing someone else's joy makes you green with envy for the school, the education or maybe even envious that someone's else's child was able to say something your own child could/would never say.

Just being a little philosophical after a glass or two.[/quote]

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