13:24 if your kid is truly math gifted, you have cause for concern. You're just making waaay too much sense for DC Charter. Get thee to MoCo, where middle and high school administrators use common sense in shaping admissions policies for programs designed to graduate high school kids who can handle 8-10 AP classes, scoring 4s and 5s on the tests, launching many Ivy League careers.

Basis could probably have called the shots on the selective admissoins score in DC and didn't bother. So they deserve what they get with their Penn Quarter applicant pool. The gleaming 6th floor science lab won't change that. Good luck.

^^ We're also excited to start 5th on Mon, but I'd be surprised if we're still around in a few years, and not because DC won't pass the end of year exams. Too many of the kids are surely going to require boatloads of remediation, or simply won't ever be 7th grade algebra material, like our math-oriented girl.

I would be much happier with a test-in magnet middle school for gifted kids, such as those MoCo and Fairfax offer. Very unpopular view and gifted kids don't exist in DC, tell me about it.

We're hoping for the best for Basis, since Eliot-Hine is our dismal and dead-ended feeder, but not expecting the sun the moon or the stars when any family could just sign up this year, and lottery luck will be the sole admissions criterion in the future.

I don't believe that fraight racial politics in this city will support the easing out of kids needing a lot of extra help, overwhelmingly AA in this particular city - Basis will surely end up catering to the low-end kids via a remediation push to avoid disruptive classroom environments, slowing the brightest sparks down. Same old same old....The enrollment paradigm won't be a big deal for 5th but high school isn't all that far off.

How is the U.S. Chess Center integrated with Basis DC? I know that they are sharing space, but that's about it.

We also attended the open house. My son is also a rising 5th grader and he is very excited to start school on Monday! My son was a little bummed that the chess club and Robotics club were on the same day.

New poster here -- we have a rising 5th grader and we are really excited about BASIS. We went to yesterday's open house at the school and we are looking forward to the new school year. The brand new facility looks great. The science room that we saw up on the 6th floor looks like one that would be in the affluent suburban H.S. where I grew up. The teachers we met seemed very sharp. I'm happy the school is using Saxon Math. Extracurricurial activities look interesting and varied. My son's only issue with them is that Chess Club and Robotics Club both meet on Mondays, and he would like to do both.

The only "wacky" person here is the one going around making false claims and insinuations about "inexperienced" faculty and "questionable" practices - without anything to back any of it up. There's nothing at all "wacky" about calling it out.

I hope this wacky person is in no way associated with BASIS.

Hey, sock and puppet... You still haven't posted any actual facts to back up your insinuations about "questionable" faculty and practices at Basis or anywhere else.

Put up or shut up. Ball's still in your court and all I'm hearing here is crickets chirping.

If you can't prove what you're saying then you've lost the argument.

You've had plenty of opportunity to make your case, but all we've ever gotten from you is nothing but incorrect assumptions and baseless accusations without any real substance to any of it.

Anonymous wrote:
23:41 - it's not raising questions in a "respectful manner" to make assumptions and assertions that are not grounded in fact or logic. You have thus far not proven any of the things you have said, such as there being a lack of experience.

You have a burden of proof to meet, and you have not met it.

All you are doing is setting out on a one-person crusade, trying to sow baseless fear and doubt, and you even admitted as much in the other thread. Everyone here sees that and sees right through it all.


Wrong again. You have the burden of proof to meet. You're the one claiming that BASIS is a great school. Prove it.


I made no such claim. I only said your assumptions and assertions are not based in fact.

Ball's right back in your court.

Yawn.

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Anonymous wrote:

23:41 - it's not raising questions in a "respectful manner" to make assumptions and assertions that are not grounded in fact or logic. You have thus far not proven any of the things you have said, such as there being a lack of experience.

You have a burden of proof to meet, and you have not met it.

All you are doing is setting out on a one-person crusade, trying to sow baseless fear and doubt, and you even admitted as much in the other thread. Everyone here sees that and sees right through it all.

Wrong again. You have the burden of proof to meet. You're the one claiming that BASIS is a great school. Prove it.

I made no such claim. I only said your assumptions and assertions are not based in fact.

Ball's right back in your court.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yep, someone's on a personal crusade against charters. But as history's shown, that battle's lost and the charters have been gaining ever more steam as progress rolls onward.

Someone is on a personal crusade against anyone who expresses any thought about charters that they find threatening. But as history has shown, that kind of behavior is eventually seen for just how defensive it really is.

The only thing I've seen thus far is one person posting a bunch of misguided and incorrect assumptions and then leaping to halfbaked conclusions based on those incorrect assumptions.

Anonymous wrote:Yep, someone's on a personal crusade against charters. But as history's shown, that battle's lost and the charters have been gaining ever more steam as progress rolls onward.

Someone is on a personal crusade against anyone who expresses any thought about charters that they find threatening. But as history has shown, that kind of behavior is eventually seen for just how defensive it really is.

23:41 - it's not raising questions in a "respectful manner" to make assumptions and assertions that are not grounded in fact or logic. You have thus far not proven any of the things you have said, such as there being a lack of experience.

You have a burden of proof to meet, and you have not met it.

All you are doing is setting out on a one-person crusade, trying to sow baseless fear and doubt, and you even admitted as much in the other thread. Everyone here sees that and sees right through it all.

Wrong again. You have the burden of proof to meet. You're the one claiming that BASIS is a great school. Prove it.

Yep, someone's on a personal crusade against charters. But as history's shown, that battle's lost and the charters have been gaining ever more steam as progress rolls onward.