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Anonymous wrote:There's this conspiracy theorist idea permeating this thread that somehow "DCPS" or "DC" are conspiring to keep quality MS education away from Capitol Hill. No one who understands how decisions in government or at DCPS are made would ever allege such a thing. I know a lot of us (me too, btw) are not getting what we want. And that for many of us this is the first time in our privileged lives we can't argue for or leverage relationships to get our desired outcome. But how self centered and entitled are we therefore conclude it must be an intentional conspiracy? Plus, apparently the conspirators are doing the bidding of poor people and the underserved, because that's something that actually happens...anywhere.

Hardly a conspiracy theory: reality. DCPS could have changed the Hill ES feed arrangements during the 2013-2014 boundary review to create a high-performing pan Ward 6 MS. There was, and is, widespread support for the initiative at the grassroots across on CH, just not on the part of the ed powers that be and their parent shills in the Cluster school community. DCPS could also have introduced a full complement of not just "honors" classes, but GT programming in this new MS, and/or created at least one test-in MS program in the District. Other US cities have one or more test-in middle school programs, e.g. Boston, NYC and our near neighbors in MoCo and Fairfax. Michelle Rhee used to speak of her plans to add MS GT testing and programming. But she and Fenty went down too early for GT to launch.

Privileged lives, entitled? Speak for yourself. I grew up in a rural area, read a lot, took math classes I paid for at a community college, went to an Ivy on a Full Pell Grant.

You need to get together with the other conspiracy theorists and decide who your boogeyman is. Most of your foil hat buddies seem to think Rhee and Fenty were the masterminds behind undermining schools on the CH. Now here you come into the mix claiming they were going to fix it and it was the boundary review or 2013 that perpetuated the conspiracy. I'm so confused!

The point you seem unable to grasp is that decisions were made because people in power have to make decisions. They may have been the best decisions at the time based on available info and projections or they may have been terrible decisions. Even assuming every decision was wrong and there were no justifications for them, it does not mean it was a conspiracy. Sometimes people make decisions that don't work out. Jack Welsh wasn't trying to destroy GE. Time Warner wasn't conspiring to destroy shareholder value when it overpaid for AOL. John McCain wasn't trying to upend democracy and the Republican party when he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. Decisions can have bad outcomes without having been made with malintent.

Not buying it, not by a long shot. We voted against Vincent Gray by a margin of 5-1 on Capitol Hill. The point you seem unable to grasp is that we've paid for our choice.

Your post makes zero sense. Even if I try and parse it so it does it seems like your response is that you voted for the other guy 15 years ago and him not winning was part of the conspiracy?

What is clear here is that you were invested in the state of CH Middle Schools and you feel like your ideas and concerns were rebuffed or ignored. You feel like things would have been better now if they had listened to you. And you are ANGRY and HURT. The problem is that this all happened in 2007-2010 or 2013 and it is now 15 years later. So maybe concentrate less on being all up in your feelings and living in the past and more on where we are and how we move forward from here.

At my place of work we have a senior leader who will throw people out of meetings if they spend time and energy rehashing things we could have done or should have done. She will give them one chance to rephrase their concern in term of what action they advocate now. If they return to what was done without reframing it she'll toss them.

Ignore the sanctimonious armchair shrink and advocate for nothing. I send my kid to a public MS school in Arlington, where my ex lives. The school has a terrific auditorium, gym, indoor track, greenhouse/gardens, instrumental music lessons for all/bands and orchestras for each grade, tennis courts, playing fields, many sports, 6th grade algebra, instruction in 5 foreign languages plus American Sign Language, English classes with no more than 15 students. Rent out your DC house, return as an empty nester.

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Anonymous wrote:Stuart Hobson is a beautiful renovation but that has done nothing to change the fact that I can’t send my 14 year old into the close by neighborhood markets because they have had to make rules about no one under 18 allowed in without an adult rule - and have to enforce it equitably because of woke neighbors. I did not send my child to SH because of the rowdy students. I am guessing others have made the same choice.

This. I could never send my UMC black children to SH. They would be destroyed.

I've lived across the street from SH for almost 20 years. I won't send my white children because the cops occasionally race up to arrest kids brawling on the playground and the sidewalk out front. I thought the drama would end at some point, as the neighborhood gentrified steadily and intensely. It hasn't.

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Anonymous wrote:There's this conspiracy theorist idea permeating this thread that somehow "DCPS" or "DC" are conspiring to keep quality MS education away from Capitol Hill. No one who understands how decisions in government or at DCPS are made would ever allege such a thing. I know a lot of us (me too, btw) are not getting what we want. And that for many of us this is the first time in our privileged lives we can't argue for or leverage relationships to get our desired outcome. But how self centered and entitled are we therefore conclude it must be an intentional conspiracy? Plus, apparently the conspirators are doing the bidding of poor people and the underserved, because that's something that actually happens...anywhere.

Hardly a conspiracy theory: reality. DCPS could have changed the Hill ES feed arrangements during the 2013-2014 boundary review to create a high-performing pan Ward 6 MS. There was, and is, widespread support for the initiative at the grassroots across on CH, just not on the part of the ed powers that be and their parent shills in the Cluster school community. DCPS could also have introduced a full complement of not just "honors" classes, but GT programming in this new MS, and/or created at least one test-in MS program in the District. Other US cities have one or more test-in middle school programs, e.g. Boston, NYC and our near neighbors in MoCo and Fairfax. Michelle Rhee used to speak of her plans to add MS GT testing and programming. But she and Fenty went down too early for GT to launch.

Privileged lives, entitled? Speak for yourself. I grew up in a rural area, read a lot, took math classes I paid for at a community college, went to an Ivy on a Full Pell Grant.

You need to get together with the other conspiracy theorists and decide who your boogeyman is. Most of your foil hat buddies seem to think Rhee and Fenty were the masterminds behind undermining schools on the CH. Now here you come into the mix claiming they were going to fix it and it was the boundary review or 2013 that perpetuated the conspiracy. I'm so confused!

The point you seem unable to grasp is that decisions were made because people in power have to make decisions. They may have been the best decisions at the time based on available info and projections or they may have been terrible decisions. Even assuming every decision was wrong and there were no justifications for them, it does not mean it was a conspiracy. Sometimes people make decisions that don't work out. Jack Welsh wasn't trying to destroy GE. Time Warner wasn't conspiring to destroy shareholder value when it overpaid for AOL. John McCain wasn't trying to upend democracy and the Republican party when he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. Decisions can have bad outcomes without having been made with malintent.

Not buying it, not by a long shot. We voted against Vincent Gray by a margin of 5-1 on Capitol Hill. The point you seem unable to grasp is that we've paid for our choice.

Your post makes zero sense. Even if I try and parse it so it does it seems like your response is that you voted for the other guy 15 years ago and him not winning was part of the conspiracy?

What is clear here is that you were invested in the state of CH Middle Schools and you feel like your ideas and concerns were rebuffed or ignored. You feel like things would have been better now if they had listened to you. And you are ANGRY and HURT. The problem is that this all happened in 2007-2010 or 2013 and it is now 15 years later. So maybe concentrate less on being all up in your feelings and living in the past and more on where we are and how we move forward from here.

At my place of work we have a senior leader who will throw people out of meetings if they spend time and energy rehashing things we could have done or should have done. She will give them one chance to rephrase their concern in term of what action they advocate now. If they return to what was done without reframing it she'll toss them.

Ignore the sanctimonious armchair shrink and advocate for nothing. I send my kid to a public MS school in Arlington, where my ex lives. The school has a terrific auditorium, gym, indoor track, greenhouse/gardens, instrumental music lessons for all/bands and orchestras for each grade, tennis courts, playing fields, many sports, 6th grade algebra, instruction in 5 foreign languages plus American Sign Language, English classes with no more than 15 students. Rent out your DC house, return as an empty nester.

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Anonymous wrote:Stuart Hobson is a beautiful renovation but that has done nothing to change the fact that I can’t send my 14 year old into the close by neighborhood markets because they have had to make rules about no one under 18 allowed in without an adult rule - and have to enforce it equitably because of woke neighbors. I did not send my child to SH because of the rowdy students. I am guessing others have made the same choice.

This. I could never send my UMC black children to SH. They would be destroyed.

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Anonymous wrote:There's this conspiracy theorist idea permeating this thread that somehow "DCPS" or "DC" are conspiring to keep quality MS education away from Capitol Hill. No one who understands how decisions in government or at DCPS are made would ever allege such a thing. I know a lot of us (me too, btw) are not getting what we want. And that for many of us this is the first time in our privileged lives we can't argue for or leverage relationships to get our desired outcome. But how self centered and entitled are we therefore conclude it must be an intentional conspiracy? Plus, apparently the conspirators are doing the bidding of poor people and the underserved, because that's something that actually happens...anywhere.

Hardly a conspiracy theory: reality. DCPS could have changed the Hill ES feed arrangements during the 2013-2014 boundary review to create a high-performing pan Ward 6 MS. There was, and is, widespread support for the initiative at the grassroots across on CH, just not on the part of the ed powers that be and their parent shills in the Cluster school community. DCPS could also have introduced a full complement of not just "honors" classes, but GT programming in this new MS, and/or created at least one test-in MS program in the District. Other US cities have one or more test-in middle school programs, e.g. Boston, NYC and our near neighbors in MoCo and Fairfax. Michelle Rhee used to speak of her plans to add MS GT testing and programming. But she and Fenty went down too early for GT to launch.

Privileged lives, entitled? Speak for yourself. I grew up in a rural area, read a lot, took math classes I paid for at a community college, went to an Ivy on a Full Pell Grant.

You need to get together with the other conspiracy theorists and decide who your boogeyman is. Most of your foil hat buddies seem to think Rhee and Fenty were the masterminds behind undermining schools on the CH. Now here you come into the mix claiming they were going to fix it and it was the boundary review or 2013 that perpetuated the conspiracy. I'm so confused!

The point you seem unable to grasp is that decisions were made because people in power have to make decisions. They may have been the best decisions at the time based on available info and projections or they may have been terrible decisions. Even assuming every decision was wrong and there were no justifications for them, it does not mean it was a conspiracy. Sometimes people make decisions that don't work out. Jack Welsh wasn't trying to destroy GE. Time Warner wasn't conspiring to destroy shareholder value when it overpaid for AOL. John McCain wasn't trying to upend democracy and the Republican party when he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. Decisions can have bad outcomes without having been made with malintent.

Not buying it, not by a long shot. We voted against Vincent Gray by a margin of 5-1 on Capitol Hill. The point you seem unable to grasp is that we've paid for our choice.

Your post makes zero sense. Even if I try and parse it so it does it seems like your response is that you voted for the other guy 15 years ago and him not winning was part of the conspiracy?

What is clear here is that you were invested in the state of CH Middle Schools and you feel like your ideas and concerns were rebuffed or ignored. You feel like things would have been better now if they had listened to you. And you are ANGRY and HURT. The problem is that this all happened in 2007-2010 or 2013 and it is now 15 years later. So maybe concentrate less on being all up in your feelings and living in the past and more on where we are and how we move forward from here.

At my place of work we have a senior leader who will throw people out of meetings if they spend time and energy rehashing things we could have done or should have done. She will give them one chance to rephrase their concern in term of what action they advocate now. If they return to what was done without reframing it she'll toss them.

Anonymous wrote:Stuart Hobson is a beautiful renovation but that has done nothing to change the fact that I can’t send my 14 year old into the close by neighborhood markets because they have had to make rules about no one under 18 allowed in without an adult rule - and have to enforce it equitably because of woke neighbors. I did not send my child to SH because of the rowdy students. I am guessing others have made the same choice.

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Anonymous wrote:There's this conspiracy theorist idea permeating this thread that somehow "DCPS" or "DC" are conspiring to keep quality MS education away from Capitol Hill. No one who understands how decisions in government or at DCPS are made would ever allege such a thing. I know a lot of us (me too, btw) are not getting what we want. And that for many of us this is the first time in our privileged lives we can't argue for or leverage relationships to get our desired outcome. But how self centered and entitled are we therefore conclude it must be an intentional conspiracy? Plus, apparently the conspirators are doing the bidding of poor people and the underserved, because that's something that actually happens...anywhere.

Hardly a conspiracy theory: reality. DCPS could have changed the Hill ES feed arrangements during the 2013-2014 boundary review to create a high-performing pan Ward 6 MS. There was, and is, widespread support for the initiative at the grassroots across on CH, just not on the part of the ed powers that be and their parent shills in the Cluster school community. DCPS could also have introduced a full complement of not just "honors" classes, but GT programming in this new MS, and/or created at least one test-in MS program in the District. Other US cities have one or more test-in middle school programs, e.g. Boston, NYC and our near neighbors in MoCo and Fairfax. Michelle Rhee used to speak of her plans to add MS GT testing and programming. But she and Fenty went down too early for GT to launch.

Privileged lives, entitled? Speak for yourself. I grew up in a rural area, read a lot, took math classes I paid for at a community college, went to an Ivy on a Full Pell Grant.

You need to get together with the other conspiracy theorists and decide who your boogeyman is. Most of your foil hat buddies seem to think Rhee and Fenty were the masterminds behind undermining schools on the CH. Now here you come into the mix claiming they were going to fix it and it was the boundary review or 2013 that perpetuated the conspiracy. I'm so confused!

The point you seem unable to grasp is that decisions were made because people in power have to make decisions. They may have been the best decisions at the time based on available info and projections or they may have been terrible decisions. Even assuming every decision was wrong and there were no justifications for them, it does not mean it was a conspiracy. Sometimes people make decisions that don't work out. Jack Welsh wasn't trying to destroy GE. Time Warner wasn't conspiring to destroy shareholder value when it overpaid for AOL. John McCain wasn't trying to upend democracy and the Republican party when he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. Decisions can have bad outcomes without having been made with malintent.

Not buying it, not by a long shot. We voted against Vincent Gray by a margin of 5-1 on Capitol Hill. The point you seem unable to grasp is that we've paid for our choice.

Your post makes zero sense. Even if I try and parse it so it does it seems like your response is that you voted for the other guy 15 years ago and him not winning was part of the conspiracy?

What is clear here is that you were invested in the state of CH Middle Schools and you feel like your ideas and concerns were rebuffed or ignored. You feel like things would have been better now if they had listened to you. And you are ANGRY and HURT. The problem is that this all happened in 2007-2010 or 2013 and it is now 15 years later. So maybe concentrate less on being all up in your feelings and living in the past and more on where we are and how we move forward from here.

At my place of work we have a senior leader who will throw people out of meetings if they spend time and energy rehashing things we could have done or should have done. She will give them one chance to rephrase their concern in term of what action they advocate now. If they return to what was done without reframing it she'll toss them.

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Anonymous wrote:There's this conspiracy theorist idea permeating this thread that somehow "DCPS" or "DC" are conspiring to keep quality MS education away from Capitol Hill. No one who understands how decisions in government or at DCPS are made would ever allege such a thing. I know a lot of us (me too, btw) are not getting what we want. And that for many of us this is the first time in our privileged lives we can't argue for or leverage relationships to get our desired outcome. But how self centered and entitled are we therefore conclude it must be an intentional conspiracy? Plus, apparently the conspirators are doing the bidding of poor people and the underserved, because that's something that actually happens...anywhere.

Hardly a conspiracy theory: reality. DCPS could have changed the Hill ES feed arrangements during the 2013-2014 boundary review to create a high-performing pan Ward 6 MS. There was, and is, widespread support for the initiative at the grassroots across on CH, just not on the part of the ed powers that be and their parent shills in the Cluster school community. DCPS could also have introduced a full complement of not just "honors" classes, but GT programming in this new MS, and/or created at least one test-in MS program in the District. Other US cities have one or more test-in middle school programs, e.g. Boston, NYC and our near neighbors in MoCo and Fairfax. Michelle Rhee used to speak of her plans to add MS GT testing and programming. But she and Fenty went down too early for GT to launch.

Privileged lives, entitled? Speak for yourself. I grew up in a rural area, read a lot, took math classes I paid for at a community college, went to an Ivy on a Full Pell Grant.

You need to get together with the other conspiracy theorists and decide who your boogeyman is. Most of your foil hat buddies seem to think Rhee and Fenty were the masterminds behind undermining schools on the CH. Now here you come into the mix claiming they were going to fix it and it was the boundary review or 2013 that perpetuated the conspiracy. I'm so confused!

The point you seem unable to grasp is that decisions were made because people in power have to make decisions. They may have been the best decisions at the time based on available info and projections or they may have been terrible decisions. Even assuming every decision was wrong and there were no justifications for them, it does not mean it was a conspiracy. Sometimes people make decisions that don't work out. Jack Welsh wasn't trying to destroy GE. Time Warner wasn't conspiring to destroy shareholder value when it overpaid for AOL. John McCain wasn't trying to upend democracy and the Republican party when he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. Decisions can have bad outcomes without having been made with malintent.

Not buying it, not by a long shot. We voted against Vincent Gray by a margin of 5-1 on Capitol Hill. The point you seem unable to grasp is that we've paid for our choice.

Anonymous wrote:No longer have a dog in this fight, but know that DC parents kid themselves that the trade-off doesn't take a toll on the kids. I say this having working at BASIS DC, lasting but a school year (although my contract was renewed). The set up just isn't a healthy arrangement for adolescents. There isn't enough light, air, space to run around. There aren't enough places to read and reflect quietly in good light. It's not uncommon for middle school kids, particularly boys, to develop mild behavioral problems in the building. The young BASIS executives who chose the space are long gone from the franchise and Arizona leaders well aware that the building is subpar (helping explain chronic high staff turnover). The worst of the facilities in the constellation of Arizona campuses are much more pleasant. I also worked for BASIS AZ.

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Anonymous wrote:There's this conspiracy theorist idea permeating this thread that somehow "DCPS" or "DC" are conspiring to keep quality MS education away from Capitol Hill. No one who understands how decisions in government or at DCPS are made would ever allege such a thing. I know a lot of us (me too, btw) are not getting what we want. And that for many of us this is the first time in our privileged lives we can't argue for or leverage relationships to get our desired outcome. But how self centered and entitled are we therefore conclude it must be an intentional conspiracy? Plus, apparently the conspirators are doing the bidding of poor people and the underserved, because that's something that actually happens...anywhere.

Hardly a conspiracy theory: reality. DCPS could have changed the Hill ES feed arrangements during the 2013-2014 boundary review to create a high-performing pan Ward 6 MS. There was, and is, widespread support for the initiative at the grassroots across on CH, just not on the part of the ed powers that be and their parent shills in the Cluster school community. DCPS could also have introduced a full complement of not just "honors" classes, but GT programming in this new MS, and/or created at least one test-in MS program in the District. Other US cities have one or more test-in middle school programs, e.g. Boston, NYC and our near neighbors in MoCo and Fairfax. Michelle Rhee used to speak of her plans to add MS GT testing and programming. But she and Fenty went down too early for GT to launch.

Privileged lives, entitled? Speak for yourself. I grew up in a rural area, read a lot, took math classes I paid for at a community college, went to an Ivy on a Full Pell Grant.

You need to get together with the other conspiracy theorists and decide who your boogeyman is. Most of your foil hat buddies seem to think Rhee and Fenty were the masterminds behind undermining schools on the CH. Now here you come into the mix claiming they were going to fix it and it was the boundary review or 2013 that perpetuated the conspiracy. I'm so confused!

The point you seem unable to grasp is that decisions were made because people in power have to make decisions. They may have been the best decisions at the time based on available info and projections or they may have been terrible decisions. Even assuming every decision was wrong and there were no justifications for them, it does not mean it was a conspiracy. Sometimes people make decisions that don't work out. Jack Welsh wasn't trying to destroy GE. Time Warner wasn't conspiring to destroy shareholder value when it overpaid for AOL. John McCain wasn't trying to upend democracy and the Republican party when he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. Decisions can have bad outcomes without having been made with malintent.

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Anonymous wrote:There's this conspiracy theorist idea permeating this thread that somehow "DCPS" or "DC" are conspiring to keep quality MS education away from Capitol Hill. No one who understands how decisions in government or at DCPS are made would ever allege such a thing. I know a lot of us (me too, btw) are not getting what we want. And that for many of us this is the first time in our privileged lives we can't argue for or leverage relationships to get our desired outcome. But how self centered and entitled are we therefore conclude it must be an intentional conspiracy? Plus, apparently the conspirators are doing the bidding of poor people and the underserved, because that's something that actually happens...anywhere.

Hardly a conspiracy theory: reality. DCPS could have changed the Hill ES feed arrangements during the 2013-2014 boundary review to create a high-performing pan Ward 6 MS. There was, and is, widespread support for the initiative at the grassroots across on CH, just not on the part of the ed powers that be and their parent shills in the Cluster school community. DCPS could also have introduced a full complement of not just "honors" classes, but GT programming in this new MS, and/or created at least one test-in MS program in the District. Other US cities have one or more test-in middle school programs, e.g. Boston, NYC and our near neighbors in MoCo and Fairfax. Michelle Rhee used to speak of her plans to add MS GT testing and programming. But she and Fenty went down too early for GT to launch.

Privileged lives, entitled? Speak for yourself. I grew up in a rural area, read a lot, took math classes I paid for at a community college, went to an Ivy on a Full Pell Grant.

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Anonymous wrote:I hear parents EOTP claim that good facilities don't matter in regard to BASIS on a regular basis. Mention BASIS' bad facilities and you're a troll, because, you know, the kids don't mind the building. The same will be said of Latin Cooper by Sept. Translation: we don't want to move from Ward 5 or 6; we're not going to move. The middle school facilities are good enough because we said so.

Let me start by observing your last sentence is one of the dumbest things I've read on DCUM in some time. School choice is exactly that, a choice. Every family makes a decision that is best for their kid/family/circumstance. Unless you you have unlimited means and political contacts there are trade-offs and choices to be made - you can't waive a magic wand or spend $1 billion to build your own school and get everything you want. So, yes, families decide on their own what is "good enough" (facilities, academics, extracurriculars, etc.), they declare it to be so and they make their own decision. Or should they be consulting you first?

With resect to Basis and its facilities, honestly you seem really bitter. I don't think anyone who sends their kid to Basis would opt for the current building and facility vs Latin's. That would be crazy. I think what you are hearing is people saying that the education that Basis offers is great enough for them to justify marginal physical space. That's a personal preference based on their own needs and wants. I don't question why someone would prioritize academics over other things (when you can't get the Basis rigor anywhere else, let alone with great facilities.) That doesn't confuse me. What confounds me is why you seem so invested in and angry about Basis's facilities and how and what other families prioritize their needs.

I am probably wasting my time here but maybe I can get you to see this by asking you to look at the exact inverse. DCPS spent $10s of millions to renovate High Schools - some of them have amazing facilities. Unfortunately they also have less than 10% of kids at grade level. I would NEVER send my kid to my IB feeder HS because the amazing facilities do not outweigh the crappy education and low performing student body. Does that decision anger you as well? Because it is the precise inverse of what angers you about Basis families deciding the education is worth the facilities trade-off.

NP. So you've said lady, many times on DCUM. The facilities at BASIS still suck. Fair point that could move for good public school facilities and do not. Easier to rationalize your choice.

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Anonymous wrote:I hear parents EOTP claim that good facilities don't matter in regard to BASIS on a regular basis. Mention BASIS' bad facilities and you're a troll, because, you know, the kids don't mind the building. The same will be said of Latin Cooper by Sept. Translation: we don't want to move from Ward 5 or 6; we're not going to move. The middle school facilities are good enough because we said so.

Let me start by observing your last sentence is one of the dumbest things I've read on DCUM in some time. School choice is exactly that, a choice. Every family makes a decision that is best for their kid/family/circumstance. Unless you you have unlimited means and political contacts there are trade-offs and choices to be made - you can't waive a magic wand or spend $1 billion to build your own school and get everything you want. So, yes, families decide on their own what is "good enough" (facilities, academics, extracurriculars, etc.), they declare it to be so and they make their own decision. Or should they be consulting you first?

With resect to Basis and its facilities, honestly you seem really bitter. I don't think anyone who sends their kid to Basis would opt for the current building and facility vs Latin's. That would be crazy. I think what you are hearing is people saying that the education that Basis offers is great enough for them to justify marginal physical space. That's a personal preference based on their own needs and wants. I don't question why someone would prioritize academics over other things (when you can't get the Basis rigor anywhere else, let alone with great facilities.) That doesn't confuse me. What confounds me is why you seem so invested in and angry about Basis's facilities and how and what other families prioritize their needs.

I am probably wasting my time here but maybe I can get you to see this by asking you to look at the exact inverse. DCPS spent $10s of millions to renovate High Schools - some of them have amazing facilities. Unfortunately they also have less than 10% of kids at grade level. I would NEVER send my kid to my IB feeder HS because the amazing facilities do not outweigh the crappy education and low performing student body. Does that decision anger you as well? Because it is the precise inverse of what angers you about Basis families deciding the education is worth the facilities trade-off.