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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last year there were roughly 15 kids interviewed.[/quote] Source? How on earth would you know the total number of Basis kids interviewing?[/quote] Emphasis on “roughly” (I.e., I don’t know the exact total number). But last year all BASIS kids with 4.0s got interviews. My current BASIS 9th grader was one of them. We saw a bunch of BASIS kids at Walls on interview day. And my socially plugged in kid knew of others. Plus there were some parents of accepted students who met up to decide whether to enroll (I was one of them). Again “roughly” nine BASIS kids were accepted. Five or so enrolled at Walls and four or so stayed at BASIS (including my child, who has no regrets). I can name most of these kids by name but there are likely others I don’t know of, thus my rough numbers. This year they changed the process in a way that hurt BASIS. That said, I don’t think there was a huge conspiracy from the Administration. [b]Just a couple of clueless teachers who didn’t understand the consequences. [/b] The longterm English sub (who also taught 9th grade) in particular was likely unhelpful, since I know at one point this winter she was pretty much failing every 9th grader. But who knows. [/quote] I have no dog in this game, but I'm a Basis parent who could *totally* see this happening. My family is considering this scenario as we think of colleges, and grades are As except for the 89 that DC has gotten in two of this man's classes. Funny how that math works out to exactly 89 over several trimesters in several classes. He likes to think of himself as some kind of hard a$$ teacher who doesn't give As. Ugh.[/quote]
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