Anonymous
03/12/2025 22:30
Subject: Banneker vs BASIS
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.
What are you talking about? BASIS helped my kid go from BASIS to Walls.
Anonymous
03/11/2025 17:46
Subject: Banneker vs BASIS
I'm not the PP you're responding to, but I can tell you this. You're going to have to be thicker skinned to roll with the punches with teens at a DCPS high school.
BS, any middle-class DC denizen who isn't incarcerated could move to the burbs.
If you don't want to move, you need to accept subpar public high schools for the DMV, which isn't to say that your own kids could thrive at one.
BS, any middle-class DC denizen who isn't incarcerated could move to the burbs.
If you don't want to move, you need to accept subpar public high schools for the DMV, which isn't to say that your own kids could thrive at one.
Anonymous
03/11/2025 17:19
Subject: Banneker vs BASIS
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.
This is really coming across as insensitive to the many of us who are in DC and can’t move/do not want to move to the suburbs, and want to optimize DC public education for our children.
I am following up on this thread with a rising 9th grader for next year.
Please stop telling people to move, just because you can.