Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 23:41     Subject: Basis Mclean or Flint Hill?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:BIM is the #2 ranked private school in the whole DMV.

They are CRUSHING it!

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-high-schools/m/washington-dc-metro-area/

Ahead of everything, but Sidwell if u believe Niche.

Nobody does.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 23:37     Subject: Basis Mclean or Flint Hill?
Anonymous wrote:BIM is the #2 ranked private school in the whole DMV.

They are CRUSHING it!

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-high-schools/m/washington-dc-metro-area/

Ahead of everything, but Sidwell if u believe Niche.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2025 06:54     Subject: Basis Mclean or Flint Hill?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:BIM is the #2 ranked private school in the whole DMV.

They are CRUSHING it!

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-high-schools/m/washington-dc-metro-area/


Same stuff, different day. The BIM boosters will start to crawl out of the woodwork now that the selective schools are closing their application windows. Pretty much ZERO was seen on these boards about them when selective applications were still underway.

Gotta love those rolling admissions as a safety valve.


Do you not see that this 2021 thread was revived by someone trying to highlight the HOS’s departure, and immediately replied to by hating/lying trolls before any other comments rolled in?


it's true that the HOS is leaving after only three years to return to managing a school in China, the faculty has turned over substantially in the last five years, the second half of the school was never built out as promised, and Niche ratings are a garbage joke that no one else on DCUM ever refers to when discussing the truly selective schools, who stand on their own merits.

Facts aren't hateful, they just are. All of that can be easily verified.


Take your own advice at the end. You simply had to scroll up in this thread to see that he started in Fall of 2021 (think he actually started earlier but that was his first full semester), and he is leaving in the Fall of 2025. You then proceed to start your post with a lie and say he is leaving after three years.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2025 20:55     Subject: Basis Mclean or Flint Hill?
We would apply to Flint Hill. We would never apply to Basis in McLean. YMMV.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2025 13:59     Subject: Basis Mclean or Flint Hill?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:BIM is the #2 ranked private school in the whole DMV.

They are CRUSHING it!

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-high-schools/m/washington-dc-metro-area/


Same stuff, different day. The BIM boosters will start to crawl out of the woodwork now that the selective schools are closing their application windows. Pretty much ZERO was seen on these boards about them when selective applications were still underway.

Gotta love those rolling admissions as a safety valve.


Do you not see that this 2021 thread was revived by someone trying to highlight the HOS’s departure, and immediately replied to by hating/lying trolls before any other comments rolled in?


it's true that the HOS is leaving after only three years to return to managing a school in China, the faculty has turned over substantially in the last five years, the second half of the school was never built out as promised, and Niche ratings are a garbage joke that no one else on DCUM ever refers to when discussing the truly selective schools, who stand on their own merits.

Facts aren't hateful, they just are. All of that can be easily verified.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2025 09:48     Subject: Basis Mclean or Flint Hill?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:BIM is the #2 ranked private school in the whole DMV.

They are CRUSHING it!

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-high-schools/m/washington-dc-metro-area/


Same stuff, different day. The BIM boosters will start to crawl out of the woodwork now that the selective schools are closing their application windows. Pretty much ZERO was seen on these boards about them when selective applications were still underway.

Gotta love those rolling admissions as a safety valve.


Do you not see that this 2021 thread was revived by someone trying to highlight the HOS’s departure, and immediately replied to by hating/lying trolls before any other comments rolled in?
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2025 09:41     Subject: Basis Mclean or Flint Hill?
Anonymous wrote:BIM is the #2 ranked private school in the whole DMV.

They are CRUSHING it!

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-high-schools/m/washington-dc-metro-area/


Same stuff, different day. The BIM boosters will start to crawl out of the woodwork now that the selective schools are closing their application windows. Pretty much ZERO was seen on these boards about them when selective applications were still underway.

Gotta love those rolling admissions as a safety valve.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2025 08:53     Subject: Basis Mclean or Flint Hill?
Anonymous wrote:BIM is the #2 ranked private school in the whole DMV.

They are CRUSHING it!

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-high-schools/m/washington-dc-metro-area/

Oh hi! You’re back! I haven’t seen you here since BIM fell from #1. Needed a little time to get over the blow and rejoin the hype squad? Glad to see you’re feeling better about it.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2025 08:49     Subject: Basis Mclean or Flint Hill?
BIM is the #2 ranked private school in the whole DMV.

They are CRUSHING it!

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-high-schools/m/washington-dc-metro-area/
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2025 06:11     Subject: Basis Mclean or Flint Hill?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Basis independent head of school, Mr. Jason Shorbe is going back to China. He was at Basis McLean for the last 3 years. Has Basis McLean improved during these last 3 years?



The indisputable answer here is yes. The school went from <500 students during the worst of COVID to now around 700 students, while continuing to place seniors at the top universities every year. Doesn’t mean the school is perfect and is better than *name your favorite school here*. But the HOS has done as good of a job as anyone possibly can. The new HOS will be the current associate HOS so the past few years’ progress should continue seamlessly.

Btw, the HOS has been here since 2021 and won’t leave until Fall 2025. Also, there is nowhere near 50% teacher turnover since the current HOS took over in 2021. Previous posters have a personal vendetta with the school for some reason, and have no problem pulling facts out of thin air. As a parent, we have been very happy with the HOS over the past few years and am sad he is leaving but am also happy with the school’s decision to promote the associate HOS. Jury is still out on how it’ll turn out.


Get a 2020 yearbook and compare the faculty faces to who is on the website now.

Count.

See that the evidence bears out that level of faculty turnover. Then don't embarrass yourself denying what is easy to verify. That makes all the cheerleading even worse.

BTW, one of the many previous generations of management pledged early and often to build out the rest of the school once they reached 600 students. When is that planned now?
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 20:07     Subject: Basis Mclean or Flint Hill?
Anonymous wrote:Basis independent head of school, Mr. Jason Shorbe is going back to China. He was at Basis McLean for the last 3 years. Has Basis McLean improved during these last 3 years?



The indisputable answer here is yes. The school went from <500 students during the worst of COVID to now around 700 students, while continuing to place seniors at the top universities every year. Doesn’t mean the school is perfect and is better than *name your favorite school here*. But the HOS has done as good of a job as anyone possibly can. The new HOS will be the current associate HOS so the past few years’ progress should continue seamlessly.

Btw, the HOS has been here since 2021 and won’t leave until Fall 2025. Also, there is nowhere near 50% teacher turnover since the current HOS took over in 2021. Previous posters have a personal vendetta with the school for some reason, and have no problem pulling facts out of thin air. As a parent, we have been very happy with the HOS over the past few years and am sad he is leaving but am also happy with the school’s decision to promote the associate HOS. Jury is still out on how it’ll turn out.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 12:35     Subject: Basis Mclean or Flint Hill?
Anonymous wrote:Basis independent head of school, Mr. Jason Shorbe is going back to China. He was at Basis McLean for the last 3 years. Has Basis McLean improved during these last 3 years?


They turned over 2/3-3/4 of the faculty during his tenure, including many of the best STEM teachers.

And he became the longest-serving HOS in school history at three whole years. Most of the others rarely lasted a year or less.

Rah-rah-rah.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 11:59     Subject: Basis Mclean or Flint Hill?
Well, they learned how to buy Niche advertising. Looks like the CCP is brining him home to teach others on how to influence American schools.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 21:13     Subject: Basis Mclean or Flint Hill?
Basis independent head of school, Mr. Jason Shorbe is going back to China. He was at Basis McLean for the last 3 years. Has Basis McLean improved during these last 3 years?
Anonymous
Post 08/08/2021 12:40     Subject: Re:Basis Mclean or Flint Hill?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This review appeared on GlassDoor. Very accurate based on what we have read here and on other threads:

1.0
★★★★★
Former Employee, more than 5 years
Downhill since purchased by Spring Education Group
May 28, 2021 - Director of Student Affairs in McLean, VA

Pros

Some great colleagues and passionate educators

Cons

Terrible leadership, schools are not actually "independent," they are governed by a central office that doesn't care at all about the campus or the communities they serve, only care about making $$$. No one has the best interest of students or teachers in mind. Since being purchased by private equity Spring Education Group, things have gone further and further downhill. Positions have been cut and faculty are being asked to take on more and more on their already full plates. There are no performance reviews and all salaries are completely arbitrary, there is no scale or system to determine pay.

Advice to Management

Hire experts and allow them to do their jobs. Don't call yourselves "independent" schools and then treat them like charters or day cares. Provide your faculty with professional development, coaching, and consistent performance reviews.



Well said. The administration is horrendous. What other school has a Acting Head who started working at the front desk? She has hardly any experience and talks about "vendors" more than she does "students." I am a mother of two children who attended Basis for two years- got al A's- but left due to the lack of "whole child" experience and horrible administration. This is not sour grapes it is the TRUTH.


Well, I guess BIM gets 9th life with new HoS + COVID defects + TJ admissions changes. Good luck to those who keep sticking it out.


BIM has wasted the last three years with incoherent, incompetent management. They are back to where they were in fall 2018, albeit with several million dollars more vaporized in operating losses. No new facilities or dramatic additions to anything at the school, just back to the test-test-test-test-test-test-test "special curriculum" thing.