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Anonymous wrote:We live in DC EotP, where the BASIS elementary school will take off in the next few years and the most gentrified Ward 6 elementary schools will suffer as a result. Nothing to be done: the pols won't give a hoot.

lol

No one is going to choose BASIS over Mann or Key or Stoddert

Not true. Our family is actually at BASIS (a Cardozo feeder so an easy choice for us) and there are many families from Hardy feeders here.

The Hardy and Deal zoned families seem like some of the most "BASIS"-y (highly academic) kids, because they are actively choosing this over a great option for typical kids (as opposed to the rest of us in Shaw/Capitol Hill, where some families choose it just to have a decent middle/high path, but the kids find it a bad fit).

I’m grateful for the 5th grade year at basis. Really cleaned up some of the poor dcps teaching

^^^^^. Don’t feed the troll ^^^^^

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Anonymous wrote:Please stop engaging the "for-profit" troll. He chimes in with the same thing on every BASIS thread. There is no reasoning with him. Just let him be. He will chime in on every page or so and then go away when he doesn't get desired attention.

(And, no, I will not be replying to for-profit troll-boy if he replies to this.)

it is a legitimate question to be discussed when considering whether BASIS should be expanded.

It really isn’t. It is a legitimate question when discussing whether DC should allow for profit charters. But that is a much larger issue than one in particular. Please keep your global anti-charter comments on a non school-specific thread.

So, we're allowed to discuss, in the abstract, the concept for for-profit charters, but in a thread specifically about whether we want an expansion of a for-profit network, we can't discuss it?

BASIS' track record is clear, and it's clear that for some kids it's the right choice, at least in terms of test results, but that for the majority of kids who enroll at 5th grade, it is not the correct place for them. The only thing left to answer is whether that is worth our money. I would give the benefit of the doubt to a non-profit, but knowing that this network is built to enrich shareholders and not educate children, I have every right to object on those grounds.