Anonymous
Post 06/19/2023 22:38     Subject: BASIS DC will seek to expand to include K to 4th grade
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Commuting to an elementary school is much more parent dependent than to a middle school. This will make the school less accessible to children whose parents, nannies’ can’t drop them off.


And people for whom this commute is on the way. Hill staffers coming from NW, certain big law folks coming from anywhere (law firms are right nearby) or CH folks heading downtown seem to be the obvious targets. Depending on whether they offer before care, it could skew high income because of commute + late start flexibility.


??? No one even knows where this school will be located.


Everyone knows where this school will be located. Every split basis campus does things the same way.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2023 21:56     Subject: Re:BASIS DC will seek to expand to include K to 4th grade
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I would have commuted 2 miles to BASIS from our house in the upper grades if they'd been teaching things our DCPS doesn't seem to offer. These include hard enough math, serious writing instruction and well-taught science classes. My kid has hardly learned a thing in 5th grade in DCPS. She had a lot of fun with her friends of many years, but that was about it.

Be careful what you wish for, CH parents of little kids. If BASIS opens a K-4 campus, the odds of your kids being admitted to their 5th-12th grade program are going to plummet in short order.

My kids go to a Hill ES that folks use. The chatter in the playground about this expansion is almost uniformly negative. Parents know exactly how bad this is. The only people in favor are the IB MS ideologue supporters… and I totally get why they’re excited.


Please ask people to oppose it at the DCPCSB.

The IB MS supporters are going to run out of runway in a few short years and when they don’t get into Walls and end up with the choices of Eastern or moving they’re going to really regret their inane cheerleading.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2023 21:06     Subject: BASIS DC will seek to expand to include K to 4th grade
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Commuting to an elementary school is much more parent dependent than to a middle school. This will make the school less accessible to children whose parents, nannies’ can’t drop them off.


And people for whom this commute is on the way. Hill staffers coming from NW, certain big law folks coming from anywhere (law firms are right nearby) or CH folks heading downtown seem to be the obvious targets. Depending on whether they offer before care, it could skew high income because of commute + late start flexibility.


??? No one even knows where this school will be located.


True, but they want to keep it near the original school. Plus, in other cities where the BASIS lower school is separate than the upper school, the schools tend to be near each other.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2023 21:04     Subject: BASIS DC will seek to expand to include K to 4th grade
Anonymous wrote:Most people I know at Maury don’t want to go to BASIS in the first place. They’d rather be at either Latin, or even at EH than at BASIS.


Sure, Basis is a lot more rigorous than those schools. So, it attracts the more academically motivated.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2023 15:58     Subject: BASIS DC will seek to expand to include K to 4th grade
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Commuting to an elementary school is much more parent dependent than to a middle school. This will make the school less accessible to children whose parents, nannies’ can’t drop them off.


And people for whom this commute is on the way. Hill staffers coming from NW, certain big law folks coming from anywhere (law firms are right nearby) or CH folks heading downtown seem to be the obvious targets. Depending on whether they offer before care, it could skew high income because of commute + late start flexibility.


??? No one even knows where this school will be located.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2023 15:53     Subject: BASIS DC will seek to expand to include K to 4th grade
Most people I know at Maury don’t want to go to BASIS in the first place. They’d rather be at either Latin, or even at EH than at BASIS.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2023 15:14     Subject: Re:BASIS DC will seek to expand to include K to 4th grade
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I would have commuted 2 miles to BASIS from our house in the upper grades if they'd been teaching things our DCPS doesn't seem to offer. These include hard enough math, serious writing instruction and well-taught science classes. My kid has hardly learned a thing in 5th grade in DCPS. She had a lot of fun with her friends of many years, but that was about it.

Be careful what you wish for, CH parents of little kids. If BASIS opens a K-4 campus, the odds of your kids being admitted to their 5th-12th grade program are going to plummet in short order.

My kids go to a Hill ES that folks use. The chatter in the playground about this expansion is almost uniformly negative. Parents know exactly how bad this is. The only people in favor are the IB MS ideologue supporters… and I totally get why they’re excited.


Is it supposed to be a surprise that parents from Brent, Maury and LT are not in favor? Those are obviously the people most impacted; they have viable ES options and then have 135 seats in 5th to try and match at. If BASIS expands their odds go down in 5th and they will have to make a decision about whether they want a guaranteed MS/HS path more than they want IB ES.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2023 15:11     Subject: BASIS DC will seek to expand to include K to 4th grade
Anonymous wrote:Commuting to an elementary school is much more parent dependent than to a middle school. This will make the school less accessible to children whose parents, nannies’ can’t drop them off.


Lots of people do it to MV, YY, TR, etc. It is the charter model. Your post is silly.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2023 14:30     Subject: BASIS DC will seek to expand to include K to 4th grade
Anonymous wrote:Commuting to an elementary school is much more parent dependent than to a middle school. This will make the school less accessible to children whose parents, nannies’ can’t drop them off.


And people for whom this commute is on the way. Hill staffers coming from NW, certain big law folks coming from anywhere (law firms are right nearby) or CH folks heading downtown seem to be the obvious targets. Depending on whether they offer before care, it could skew high income because of commute + late start flexibility.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2023 13:58     Subject: BASIS DC will seek to expand to include K to 4th grade
Commuting to an elementary school is much more parent dependent than to a middle school. This will make the school less accessible to children whose parents, nannies’ can’t drop them off.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2023 12:52     Subject: BASIS DC will seek to expand to include K to 4th grade
Anonymous wrote:This opens BASIS up to way more than the good CH elementary schools. People in CH will have to make a choice. Of course they hate that.


This doesn’t make a lot of sense. In which way was BASIS not open to others before? Seems like this could be net positive for people from bad IBs: another choice and at a time folks at good CH IBs may not use it. But it’s not like BASIS wasn’t equally open to them before?
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2023 10:45     Subject: BASIS DC will seek to expand to include K to 4th grade
This opens BASIS up to way more than the good CH elementary schools. People in CH will have to make a choice. Of course they hate that.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2023 10:22     Subject: Re:BASIS DC will seek to expand to include K to 4th grade
Anonymous wrote:I would have commuted 2 miles to BASIS from our house in the upper grades if they'd been teaching things our DCPS doesn't seem to offer. These include hard enough math, serious writing instruction and well-taught science classes. My kid has hardly learned a thing in 5th grade in DCPS. She had a lot of fun with her friends of many years, but that was about it.

Be careful what you wish for, CH parents of little kids. If BASIS opens a K-4 campus, the odds of your kids being admitted to their 5th-12th grade program are going to plummet in short order.

My kids go to a Hill ES that folks use. The chatter in the playground about this expansion is almost uniformly negative. Parents know exactly how bad this is. The only people in favor are the IB MS ideologue supporters… and I totally get why they’re excited.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2023 10:04     Subject: BASIS DC will seek to expand to include K to 4th grade
Anonymous wrote:Many parents tend to spend more energy In strategizing and commuting to proof that they are so wise and on top of their game, instead of keeping kids in local school and actually spending times and resources on making kid's personal and educational experience improve.


Sounds like you have been lucky enough to never have had your child in a truly dysfunctional school.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2023 10:00     Subject: Re:BASIS DC will seek to expand to include K to 4th grade
I would have commuted 2 miles to BASIS from our house in the upper grades if they'd been teaching things our DCPS doesn't seem to offer. These include hard enough math, serious writing instruction and well-taught science classes. My kid has hardly learned a thing in 5th grade in DCPS. She had a lot of fun with her friends of many years, but that was about it.

Be careful what you wish for, CH parents of little kids. If BASIS opens a K-4 campus, the odds of your kids being admitted to their 5th-12th grade program are going to plummet in short order.