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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reading the other BASIS thread, I think I'm confused.

Unlike Walls and other application schools, admissions is based only on outcomes to the 5th grade lottery, right?

I always assumed the rigor was just a reputational thing and most kids wouldn't apply if the idea of 90min-3hrs of homework was totally unappealing.

But, do they actually weed out in ways beyond pressuring kids by making them feel unsupported? (Someone mentioned comps?) I have a pretty academically average -- and sometimes not very focused -- but very stem interested 4th grader in another charter school who wanted to consider the school but now am wondering if we skip it altogether?[/quote]

BASIS parent here. Students being weeded out is fake news, just an urban myth. The school is open for everyone. It is rigorous no matter what the crazies say. [b]It is a perfect fit for some but not for others. [/b]There is no social promotion. The amount of homework is another myth. Many students start in class or study hall and have maybe an hour each night in MS. When it is pre-comps and comps it goes up to 2 hours a night, just depends on your student and how efficient they are. Go on a tour. Ask more questions. Let your 4th grader shadow a current student. [/quote]

Fake news? Urban myth? While it's true that v. few hard-working BASIS DC students are weeded out, it's untrue that none ever are.

Come on. BASIS isn't a perfect fit for any young person or family.  No, it's a school offering that you might be able to make the best of for one of several reasons, or some combination. The reasons are as follows: you don't want to move to the burbs or Upper NW, you can't afford a DC private and/or you don't like private cocoon environments. By all means, go on a tour, take a hard look at the dark music and art rooms, search for the media center, look for the windows in the cafeteria and the basketball court on the roof and any space flooded with natural light. Ask yourself if you can do better by your children. Talk to the young admins, try to figure out if you can handle doing just as you're told by these folks for years to come, if you can believe in them and their vision for your family. If you can, by all means, revel in the place from the first minute.  Just don't kid yourself about the prospect of a perfect fit.  [b]That's Sidwell, with 16 National Merit Scholarship Semi-finalists last year to BASIS' zero[/b]. [/quote]

Zero NMSF!! Didn't SWW have a bunch, and JR have a few? This doesn't seem to go with the "Basis is for smart kids" line that people try to sell.[/quote]

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