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Anonymous wrote:Depends on what your student is like. Based on their website, Deal is running at around 300-400 kids per each grade, as opposed to around 400 TOTAL for Basis, if you were to add up all students in all grades, 5th through 8th.

Some kids aren't into a big zoo of an environment, some get lost in the shuffle and so on, lose confidence being a small fish in a huge pond. Conversely, some kids really like being in a smaller, more intimate environment like Basis where everyone knows you by name.

a child would feel a bit small in a school that big, so if your child is one that likes to keep to them self, I suggest BASIS

Oh really? You suggest Basis? You don't say! I wonder where the next generation of Nobel prize chemists are... Basis? The next planet will be discovered at Basis. What would it take to re-launch manned spaceflight? Basis! If academics were basketball, do you know who'd win the Final Four tonight? That's right - Basis! I heard the entire graduating class of Harvard has asked if they can hand over their caps & gowns to Basis! you seem like a happy parent, you cheese puff


EVERYBODY on DCUM knows that there is a tireless Basis booster. Seriously you should just stop for a while, you've become such a joke that's it's the opposite of helpful. Pipe down or I'm going to let everyone know your little secret: you're the one who told the Princeton Mom that there was nothing over-the-top about her letter, and she should just send it on in to the Daily Princetonian - there's just no such thing as not knowing when to shut up, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on what your student is like. Based on their website, Deal is running at around 300-400 kids per each grade, as opposed to around 400 TOTAL for Basis, if you were to add up all students in all grades, 5th through 8th.

Some kids aren't into a big zoo of an environment, some get lost in the shuffle and so on, lose confidence being a small fish in a huge pond. Conversely, some kids really like being in a smaller, more intimate environment like Basis where everyone knows you by name.

a child would feel a bit small in a school that big, so if your child is one that likes to keep to them self, I suggest BASIS

Oh really? You suggest Basis? You don't say! I wonder where the next generation of Nobel prize chemists are... Basis? The next planet will be discovered at Basis. What would it take to re-launch manned spaceflight? Basis! If academics were basketball, do you know who'd win the Final Four tonight? That's right - Basis! I heard the entire graduating class of Harvard has asked if they can hand over their caps & gowns to Basis! you seem like a happy parent, you cheese puff


EVERYBODY on DCUM knows that there is a tireless Basis booster. Seriously you should just stop for a while, you've become such a joke that's it's the opposite of helpful. Pipe down or I'm going to let everyone know your little secret: you're the one who told the Princeton Mom that there was nothing over-the-top about her letter, and she should just send it on in to the Daily Princetonian - there's just no such thing as not knowing when to shut up, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on what your student is like. Based on their website, Deal is running at around 300-400 kids per each grade, as opposed to around 400 TOTAL for Basis, if you were to add up all students in all grades, 5th through 8th.

Some kids aren't into a big zoo of an environment, some get lost in the shuffle and so on, lose confidence being a small fish in a huge pond. Conversely, some kids really like being in a smaller, more intimate environment like Basis where everyone knows you by name.

a child would feel a bit small in a school that big, so if your child is one that likes to keep to them self, I suggest BASIS

Oh really? You suggest Basis? You don't say! I wonder where the next generation of Nobel prize chemists are... Basis? The next planet will be discovered at Basis. What would it take to re-launch manned spaceflight? Basis! If academics were basketball, do you know who'd win the Final Four tonight? That's right - Basis! I heard the entire graduating class of Harvard has asked if they can hand over their caps & gowns to Basis!

EVERYBODY on DCUM knows that there is a tireless Basis booster. Seriously you should just stop for a while, you've become such a joke that's it's the opposite of helpful. Pipe down or I'm going to let everyone know your little secret: you're the one who told the Princeton Mom that there was nothing over-the-top about her letter, and she should just send it on in to the Daily Princetonian - there's just no such thing as not knowing when to shut up, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on what your student is like. Based on their website, Deal is running at around 300-400 kids per each grade, as opposed to around 400 TOTAL for Basis, if you were to add up all students in all grades, 5th through 8th.

Some kids aren't into a big zoo of an environment, some get lost in the shuffle and so on, lose confidence being a small fish in a huge pond. Conversely, some kids really like being in a smaller, more intimate environment like Basis where everyone knows you by name.

a child would feel a bit small in a school that big, so if your child is one that likes to keep to them self, I suggest BASIS

Anonymous wrote:BASIS is a tough school, but is a good school for education,
If parents and their children think it's a too tough then they should just leave instead of complaining

Anonymous wrote:Depends on what your student is like. Based on their website, Deal is running at around 300-400 kids per each grade, as opposed to around 400 TOTAL for Basis, if you were to add up all students in all grades, 5th through 8th.

Some kids aren't into a big zoo of an environment, some get lost in the shuffle and so on, lose confidence being a small fish in a huge pond. Conversely, some kids really like being in a smaller, more intimate environment like Basis where everyone knows you by name.

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Anonymous wrote:BASIS is a tough school, but is a good school for education,
If parents and their children think it's a too tough then they should just leave instead of complaining

well, these comments are smart and dumb. But this says a lot

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Parents of some of the strongest students in the city will see the scores, and then won't put in for BASIS.

If the parents are that dumb, maybe their children aren't so strong.

[/b]Passing on BASIS because low DC CAS scores of its current 7th and 8th graders[b] -- assuming they actually are low -- would be foolish indeed. It is widely known that they are the least prepared for the rigorous curriculum.

They haven't taking the DC CAS yet this year.

Thanks for the tip, but we knew that.

They'll be taking the DC CAS later this month.

We were responding to a poster who asserted that, if this year's 7th and 8th grade scores are low, parents of "strong kids" will pass on BASIS next year.

First of all, remember that every student at BASIS taking the CAS this year came from somewhere else last year - and not all are equally prepared, depending on which schools they came from - and the first year's CAS scores will be in part reflective of their prior experiences. More likely, if any of the 7th and 8th graders at BASIS do end up struggling on the CAS, there's a good chance they are probably struggling elsewhere, i.e. probably not passing their comps either - they will then end up either repeating the grade and pulling up on the CAS next year with benefit of spending an extra year catching up on material they were behind on in the schools they came from, or pulling out of BASIS to drop back to a less demanding school. Personally, I'm anticipating that BASIS will do fine on the CAS exams, but either way I don't think it makes a lot of sense for prospective parents to base any decisions on the first year's' CAS scores.

Anonymous wrote:BASIS is a tough school, but is a good school for education,
If parents and their children think it's a too tough then they should just leave instead of complaining

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Parents of some of the strongest students in the city will see the scores, and then won't put in for BASIS.

If the parents are that dumb, maybe their children aren't so strong.

[/b]Passing on BASIS because low DC CAS scores of its current 7th and 8th graders[b] -- assuming they actually are low -- would be foolish indeed. It is widely known that they are the least prepared for the rigorous curriculum.

They haven't taking the DC CAS yet this year.

Thanks for the tip, but we knew that.

They'll be taking the DC CAS later this month.

We were responding to a poster who asserted that, if this year's 7th and 8th grade scores are low, parents of "strong kids" will pass on BASIS next year.

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Parents of some of the strongest students in the city will see the scores, and then won't put in for BASIS.

If the parents are that dumb, maybe their children aren't so strong.

[/b]Passing on BASIS because low DC CAS scores of its current 7th and 8th graders[b] -- assuming they actually are low -- would be foolish indeed. It is widely known that they are the least prepared for the rigorous curriculum.

They haven't taking the DC CAS yet this year.

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Parents of some of the strongest students in the city will see the scores, and then won't put in for BASIS.

If the parents are that dumb, maybe their children aren't so strong.

[/b]Passing on BASIS because low DC CAS scores of its current 7th and 8th graders[b] -- assuming they actually are low -- would be foolish indeed. It is widely known that they are the least prepared for the rigorous curriculum.