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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Show us the money.  If the test scores and HS demographics aren't a big improvement on Latin's in a few years, just another OK charter.
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So worst case, they just end up being another Latin?  Hardly sounds like the end of the world.[/quote]

Right, hardly the end of the world, but hardly TJ either, and not enough to keep many upper-middle-class families from running to privates or the burbs, which hurts the city in a small way.

The acid test is a school's ability to attract and keep East and South Asian parents.  This is because such parents, a) don't embrace diversity like white liberals and, b) tend to raise very strong students.  Latin gets and keeps precious few East and South Asian parents.  We are Indian immigrants and Ivy League grads who won't touch Basis if most of the Asian kids there are Chinese girls adopted by white liberals, as at Latin....You'll surely say, who cares, drop dead, but I assure you that my 4th grader will eventually ace 9-10 AP classes/tests wherever she goes.[/quote]

TJ is theoretically top school in the nation for SATs, so nobody is TJ.  Second, TJ is not a DC school - they have residency requirements.  Third, and most importantly, TJ has stringent admissions requirements - testing, grade point average, essay, et cetera - they are highly selective - whereas BASIS was not afforded that luxury.  And with that last point, their results will be highly skewed, as opposed to BASIS which is open to everyone.

Meanwhile, it's going to be at least 6 years before we even start seeing any SAT results from BASIS, and even as a BASIS parent I don't see much point in maintaining a constant high daily level of angst about it for six whole years as some the other posters here seem to want to - DS is getting a good education there, is building great skills on many levels, and I'm quite confident he will ultimately nail the SAT and get a great score and open many doors for himself regardless of where he goes to school.[/quote]

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