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[quote=Anonymous]Had to take the bait/respond:

[quote=Anonymous]No urban school building should be built or extensively renovated w/out outdoor space, a quiet area to study and little natural light.

[b] While I agree that in a perfect world, BASIS would have a lovely (suburban-like) campus, I have come to appreciate the location near the mall, MLK library, and Portrait Gallery.  My kid raves about all three of these, and daily off-campus lunch in the Portrait Gallery atrium. Pretty cool thing that you don't get in the suburbs.[/b]

No school should lose 2/3 of its middle school students without pushback from municipal ed leaders.

[/b] Why exaggerate to make your point?  My kid's current 9th grade class has 78; started at 135. I don't mind that many disruptive kids have left, leaving a more focused group of kids that want to be there.  If BASIS could be more selective at the outset, there wouldn't be this attrition rate, but it is what it is in DC[b]

No high-powered school focused on admissions to the v. most selective colleges in the country should fail to provide any music instruction or any real learning beyond AP prep.

[b] WRT music comment, not sure what you are after here.  Band?  Choir?  I agree that would be nice to have.  There is some generalized music/instruction/classes at BASIS - but my kid's focus is art (and the teacher at BASIS is excellent).  Kid also takes piano lessons outside of school, so I haven't lamented any perceived lack of music instruction at BASIS.

The "no real learning" comment is asinine IMO.  Stuff my kid is learning at BASIS is so far beyond my middle/high school experience I find it hard to believe it is really so much better elsewhere (and my education was good enough to get in to top colleges/achieve an excellent career).[/b]

No public charter school should hire 8 heads in 14 years.

[b] There have been two heads in my kid's year (5th-current 9th).  Big deal.[/b]

Good fit is what parents who don't want to move or pay for privates talk about. Meanwhile, the BASIS HS has deeply in-grained problems that need fixing, OP.

[b] It is true I would prefer not to move.  I love living on Capitol Hill.  I could afford private, but the commute to a private is a deterrence, along with preferring to avoid the rarified atmosphere (and rich kid issues).  I haven't yet experienced these "in-grained" problems you reference[/b]

Signed,
Former BASIS parent of Ivy Leaguer (aka a troll) who seldom posts[/quote][/quote]

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