BASIS just isn't a very happy school. No matter how impressive their college results are, many of their best students still leave, or try to. I wonder if Banneker's worth it for other reasons.

With Affirmative Action in the past in college admissions, at least formally, you can't help but wonder if Banneker's academics are serious enough to get the same kind of college results used to get.

It doesn't sound like the family expected anything. Since the student was fully prepped for a particular AP, the school should have encouraged and helped the kid take the exam, although he was a 9th grader. The family did research well: they found a testing site that would let the kid register. Apparently, the kid aced the exam. A one-size fit all curriculum only gets any particular high school so far.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody denying that nobody has to put up with BASIS being a bully towards public school parents.

Good friends bailed from BASIS to Stuart Hobson and DCI. Their children are at Walls now. Most of the BASIS families who tried to get out via Walls failed, although their kids were A students throughout middle school. We also know kids who went from Jefferson Academy to Walls, and Eliot-Hine to Banneker.

OK? What is your point?

I have 99th percentile kids. I prefer BASIS middle school to SH, Eliot-Hine, DCI and Jefferson Academy because it's the only school among those options that will give them appropriately challenging material to learn. It's incredible how much the kids are learning.

I totally recognize that other families will make different choices, as they should. Why are you so bothered by my choice?

Not an honest question. You come here painting with too broad a brush, claiming that BASIS serves the brainiest well across the board. Not our experience. We should've left earlier, before my kids' friends departed for other high schools (none for Banneker), before BASIS shot down my kid's request to take an AP language in 9th grade. He took the exam elsewhere, scored a 5. At his new school, he was permitted to skip AB Calc for BC Calc, just like I was at Hunter as a teen. I'm bothered by false advertising and poor treatment of students for my tax dollars.

Woah! You thought they would let your kid take an AP language in 9th? That is on you. Their attitude on this is fully documented. Sounds like you didn’t research well.

Anonymous wrote:This.

BASIS vs. Banneker? Neither. Both are seriously 2nd rate.

Move to VA or MoCo, OP, or try for fi aid at a private.

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This.

BASIS vs. Banneker? Neither. Both are seriously 2nd rate.

Move to VA or MoCo, OP, or try for fi aid at a private.

NP. Untrue that any kid is free to take any AP language exam at BASIS in 9th grade. Correct that some students wind up taking the odd AP elsewhere.

Speak for yourself. This BASIS parent cares about AB vs. BC Calc at BASIS. Stupid system, making students take both. To my knowledge, that's not the norm in top high school STEM programs around the country.

I wouldn't object to language instruction starting from the beginning at BASIS, with appropriate advanced classes, or at the very least authorized independent study, for the strongest language students. Just go to DCI, right? We tried for 6th grade; no lottery luck.

Inflexible. For the most part, absolutely. Do I have a better option short of moving to the burbs? No. Would Banneker be better? Possibly but clearly not for STEM.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody denying that nobody has to put up with BASIS being a bully towards public school parents.

Good friends bailed from BASIS to Stuart Hobson and DCI. Their children are at Walls now. Most of the BASIS families who tried to get out via Walls failed, although their kids were A students throughout middle school. We also know kids who went from Jefferson Academy to Walls, and Eliot-Hine to Banneker.

OK? What is your point?

I have 99th percentile kids. I prefer BASIS middle school to SH, Eliot-Hine, DCI and Jefferson Academy because it's the only school among those options that will give them appropriately challenging material to learn. It's incredible how much the kids are learning.

I totally recognize that other families will make different choices, as they should. Why are you so bothered by my choice?

Not an honest question. You come here painting with too broad a brush, claiming that BASIS serves the brainiest well across the board. Not our experience. We should've left earlier, before my kids' friends departed for other high schools (none for Banneker), before BASIS shot down my kid's request to take an AP language in 9th grade. He took the exam elsewhere, scored a 5. At his new school, he was permitted to skip AB Calc for BC Calc, just like I was at Hunter as a teen. I'm bothered by false advertising and poor treatment of students for my tax dollars.

Let's see.

DC has 134 charter schools and spends $1.18 billion a year on charter schools. BASIS DC represents a tiny fraction of this (way less than 1%). Yet you complain about BASIS DC and your "tax dollars."

No one cares that you went to Hunter or that you kid took an AP language in 9th grade (presumably one he learned at home) or that he skipped AB Calc.

+1.

Any kid is free to take an AP language exam in 9th grade at BASIS DC or otherwise. Obviously, this is going to be a kid who already knows the language. Not sure what the point of that is.

BASIS requires Calc AB but some kids take it in 9th grade and do BC in 10th grade. Not sure how that hurts the kid since they can take multivar in 11th grade and college linear alg in 12th if they want. Gee, BASIS DC is so mean and inflexible...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody denying that nobody has to put up with BASIS being a bully towards public school parents.

Good friends bailed from BASIS to Stuart Hobson and DCI. Their children are at Walls now. Most of the BASIS families who tried to get out via Walls failed, although their kids were A students throughout middle school. We also know kids who went from Jefferson Academy to Walls, and Eliot-Hine to Banneker.

OK? What is your point?

I have 99th percentile kids. I prefer BASIS middle school to SH, Eliot-Hine, DCI and Jefferson Academy because it's the only school among those options that will give them appropriately challenging material to learn. It's incredible how much the kids are learning.

I totally recognize that other families will make different choices, as they should. Why are you so bothered by my choice?

Not an honest question. You come here painting with too broad a brush, claiming that BASIS serves the brainiest well across the board. Not our experience. We should've left earlier, before my kids' friends departed for other high schools (none for Banneker), before BASIS shot down my kid's request to take an AP language in 9th grade. He took the exam elsewhere, scored a 5. At his new school, he was permitted to skip AB Calc for BC Calc, just like I was at Hunter as a teen. I'm bothered by false advertising and poor treatment of students for my tax dollars.

Let's see.

DC has 134 charter schools and spends $1.18 billion a year on charter schools. BASIS DC represents a tiny fraction of this (way less than 1%). Yet you complain about BASIS DC and your "tax dollars."

No one cares that you went to Hunter or that you kid took an AP language in 9th grade (presumably one he learned at home) or that he skipped AB Calc.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody denying that nobody has to put up with BASIS being a bully towards public school parents.

Good friends bailed from BASIS to Stuart Hobson and DCI. Their children are at Walls now. Most of the BASIS families who tried to get out via Walls failed, although their kids were A students throughout middle school. We also know kids who went from Jefferson Academy to Walls, and Eliot-Hine to Banneker.

OK? What is your point?

I have 99th percentile kids. I prefer BASIS middle school to SH, Eliot-Hine, DCI and Jefferson Academy because it's the only school among those options that will give them appropriately challenging material to learn. It's incredible how much the kids are learning.

I totally recognize that other families will make different choices, as they should. Why are you so bothered by my choice?

Not an honest question. You come here painting with too broad a brush, claiming that BASIS serves the brainiest well across the board. Not our experience. We should've left earlier, before my kids' friends departed for other high schools (none for Banneker), before BASIS shot down my kid's request to take an AP language in 9th grade. He took the exam elsewhere, scored a 5. At his new school, he was permitted to skip AB Calc for BC Calc, just like I was at Hunter as a teen. I'm bothered by false advertising and poor treatment of students for my tax dollars.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody denying that nobody has to put up with BASIS being a bully towards public school parents.

Good friends bailed from BASIS to Stuart Hobson and DCI. Their children are at Walls now. Most of the BASIS families who tried to get out via Walls failed, although their kids were A students throughout middle school. We also know kids who went from Jefferson Academy to Walls, and Eliot-Hine to Banneker.

OK? What is your point?

I have 99th percentile kids. I prefer BASIS middle school to SH, Eliot-Hine, DCI and Jefferson Academy because it's the only school among those options that will give them appropriately challenging material to learn. It's incredible how much the kids are learning.

I totally recognize that other families will make different choices, as they should. Why are you so bothered by my choice?

Don’t feed the trolls.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody denying that nobody has to put up with BASIS being a bully towards public school parents.

Good friends bailed from BASIS to Stuart Hobson and DCI. Their children are at Walls now. Most of the BASIS families who tried to get out via Walls failed, although their kids were A students throughout middle school. We also know kids who went from Jefferson Academy to Walls, and Eliot-Hine to Banneker.

OK? What is your point?

I have 99th percentile kids. I prefer BASIS middle school to SH, Eliot-Hine, DCI and Jefferson Academy because it's the only school among those options that will give them appropriately challenging material to learn. It's incredible how much the kids are learning.

I totally recognize that other families will make different choices, as they should. Why are you so bothered by my choice?

The point (and I'm a different poster who has seen my child's friends have the same experience) is that BASIS will not help your child get into SWW because they want to keep "their" kids on the path for BASIS high school. Such behavior is shameful. They should want the best for kids who attend their school.

Huh? So the Basis network should have easy classes and give everyone 4.0 so those in DC can go to Walls under the current asinine selection system there? Are you really that clueless?

No thanks.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody denying that nobody has to put up with BASIS being a bully towards public school parents.

Good friends bailed from BASIS to Stuart Hobson and DCI. Their children are at Walls now. Most of the BASIS families who tried to get out via Walls failed, although their kids were A students throughout middle school. We also know kids who went from Jefferson Academy to Walls, and Eliot-Hine to Banneker.

OK? What is your point?

I have 99th percentile kids. I prefer BASIS middle school to SH, Eliot-Hine, DCI and Jefferson Academy because it's the only school among those options that will give them appropriately challenging material to learn. It's incredible how much the kids are learning.

I totally recognize that other families will make different choices, as they should. Why are you so bothered by my choice?

The point (and I'm a different poster who has seen my child's friends have the same experience) is that BASIS will not help your child get into SWW because they want to keep "their" kids on the path for BASIS high school. Such behavior is shameful. They should want the best for kids who attend their school.

Anonymous wrote:Nobody denying that nobody has to put up with BASIS being a bully towards public school parents.

Good friends bailed from BASIS to Stuart Hobson and DCI. Their children are at Walls now. Most of the BASIS families who tried to get out via Walls failed, although their kids were A students throughout middle school. We also know kids who went from Jefferson Academy to Walls, and Eliot-Hine to Banneker.

OK? What is your point?

I have 99th percentile kids. I prefer BASIS middle school to SH, Eliot-Hine, DCI and Jefferson Academy because it's the only school among those options that will give them appropriately challenging material to learn. It's incredible how much the kids are learning.

I totally recognize that other families will make different choices, as they should. Why are you so bothered by my choice?

Nobody denying that nobody has to put up with BASIS being a bully towards public school parents.

Good friends bailed from BASIS to Stuart Hobson and DCI. Their children are at Walls now. Most of the BASIS families who tried to get out via Walls failed, although their kids were A students throughout middle school. We also know kids who went from Jefferson Academy to Walls, and Eliot-Hine to Banneker.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, because you must be the kind of conformist family BASIS caters to. You’re unlikely to speak anything but English at home and your kids probably aren’t accomplished musicians, artists or into student/govt politics. We didn’t fit in, couldn’t take the controlling admins after 9th grade. Switched to a private. Kid was admitted ED to a top 10 SLAC in the fall.

Telling us your private high school is better than a free PCS is not the flex you think it is.

Signed,
Someone who speaks English at home (the horrors!!!!)

Huh? This foreigner can't follow the vernacular, let alone the "flex."

Stop being a bully towards public school parents who have found the best option for their kids. We can't all go to private school.