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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't what you're alluding to. Please explain.

I can tell you that there's growing concern in the hs parent community about inter-connected issues: inadequate teacher pay, what looks like a higher drop off rate to Walls than in the past, unimpressive hs ecs as compared to ms ecs and this year's somewhat disappointing admissions results.

In the last few years, hs parents grew accustomed to seeing ivy admits, mainly for Yale, Harvard and Princeton. It's not lost on us that Walls and JR had ivy successes this year, and not just for low SES minority applicants or recruited athletes (mostly from the JR crew team).

We wouldn't be as concerned if the head of school didn't blow off our concerns as a general rule. Some of us, particularly those with hs students with ms sibs, are hoping that he leaves. He's much more interested in the ms than the hs, which has become a problem. [/quote]

This is an interesting perspective. We are a middle school family. How is he more focused on the middle school? If this is true, I'm guessing it's to reduce attrition between 6th and 7th and 8th and 9th (which he has talked about as the biggest years when BASIS DC loses kids). From what we've heard, the middle school years are much more of a grind than high school (and we see this - middle school at BASIS (beyond 5th grade mind you) is a GRIND).

All that said, I do commend the parents of the hs that are organizing efforts to make things better. It's unfortunate that you have to fight for better teacher retention and basic ec programming. [/quote]

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