BASIS: PCSB staff recommends conditional continuance due to SWD

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Anonymous wrote:There's nothing stopping them from opening more schools in Texas. It's not like they have a nationwide limit on the number of schools they're allowed to operate. DC has enough schools and if they exit, fine.

That's fine. Let's go back to 1990s when no one who could afford to sent their kids to any public schools in DC. Ah, those were the good old days, I tell ya.

DC charters are doing fine with SN kids right now and will continue to improve with or without Basis. The loss of Basis is just an issue for parents who want their kids to grind but refuse to consider Banneker. (Cue the “Banneker’s low SAT scores!” nonsense in 3-2-1 …)

Please name those well performing charters with well performing SN.

Also, pretty sure my 10 year old can't attend Banneker. But thanks for the labels and assumptions.

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The crux of the problem is that the ed powers in this city want to have it both ways: they want to continue to underfund charters relative to DCPS programs on a per capita basis while requiring the latter to provide DCPS-level support for SN students and English Language Learners. They don't want students with disabilities and poor kids to be excluded from the best public schools, but refuse to provide the GT education that would help the brightest poor kids students enjoy strong representation in the public HS programs offering the most rigor. They want high-performing test-in magnets that compare to the top performers in other US cities, but won't support the requisite K-8 prep and ability grouping to create them. Something has to give, with the charter board, OSSE and the Mayor's office turning a blind eye because they boxed themselves into a corner long ago. At BASIS, conveniently, it's support for SN and ELL. As long as a couple students a year from BASIS continue to crack MIT and Yale, no politician is going to mess with BASIS DC. It's no secret that the franchise has found far more fertile ground to expand its public school empire in Texas and Louisiana than in DC. The Charter Board is toothless without political backing.

Excellent summation. To that I would add that the failure of DCPS to address the bolded sentence is WHY ---20 years into charter schools---charters went from the original intent of being "niche" educational programs: dual language, montessori/experiential learning, etc.---into serving 45% of the kids currently using public education in the District. So now that charters are essentially a parallel school system, the first sentence---creating unreasonable expectations for charters as a result of underfunding---has become the reality.
What I would like to see is a charter that is expressly special-ed---like a charter version of LAB. And with an admissions system that either lets you lottery for it with an existing IEP, OR allows a charter to charter transfer for kids who are identified as needing greater services than the charter can provide. That would seem to be much more practical than the current world---which expects all schools to be all things for SPED kids. I have a SPED kid. We would never have lotteried DC into a program like BASIS and then demanded that BASIS accommodate DC. That would have unreasonable for both the schools and DC.

No, charters are federally required to serve kids with disabilities, and kids with disabilities are entitled to the least restrictive environment. Other charters figured it out and Basis has to as well. Period. BTW SN charters exist already.

BASIS simply can't fulfill its mission as the DC public HS offering the most math and science rigor while serving kids with a wide range of disabilities well without a dramatic increase in funding per capita. They just can't afford to hire the resource staff they'd need to do this. If they're forced to water down their curriculum to accommodate students with disabilities at the expense of their math whizzes, what they're going to do is exit the DC stage in search of greener pastures. No doubt that Texas would be thrilled to gain another BASIS campus, with no quibbles about how well SN and ELL students are accommodated by the franchise in the Lone Star State. In that case, you might be better off pointing the finger at the DC Council and Mayor for failing to pony up for funding than the BASIS franchise.

If they can’t comply with the law, I guess they have to shut down.

Yes. It's far better to shut down something that serves many kids well so that then all kids can go on to schools where they are ALL served poorly. Oh well!

If Basis can’t figure out how to serve an additional 20-30 kids with SN then they are doing a crap job as an organization. Clearly your view is that Basis shouldnt HAVE to comply with the law because Basis is special — ie your own special entitlement for your “advanced learner” because you’re scared of your IB school yet don’t want to move to MoCo.

PP here. I don't actually think they will have an issue to serve 20 more kids. I do have an issue with the attitude that the only priority that matters in this city is serving SN kids and that there is nothing more to the equasion that that.

oh ffs that’s some dishonesty. nobody said that SN is the only priority. this is about a school that fails to comply with its obligations.

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this is the core view of what BASIS is, right? The DC middle school your kids can go to if a school (perhaps other than Deal) your kids can go to if you want them to work hard and do homework and shit.

If your kid isn't able to do this from the get go, they basically want to shake you off. Super great special needs approach.

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The crux of the problem is that the ed powers in this city want to have it both ways: they want to continue to underfund charters relative to DCPS programs on a per capita basis while requiring the latter to provide DCPS-level support for SN students and English Language Learners. They don't want students with disabilities and poor kids to be excluded from the best public schools, but refuse to provide the GT education that would help the brightest poor kids students enjoy strong representation in the public HS programs offering the most rigor. They want high-performing test-in magnets that compare to the top performers in other US cities, but won't support the requisite K-8 prep and ability grouping to create them. Something has to give, with the charter board, OSSE and the Mayor's office turning a blind eye because they boxed themselves into a corner long ago. At BASIS, conveniently, it's support for SN and ELL. As long as a couple students a year from BASIS continue to crack MIT and Yale, no politician is going to mess with BASIS DC. It's no secret that the franchise has found far more fertile ground to expand its public school empire in Texas and Louisiana than in DC. The Charter Board is toothless without political backing.

Excellent summation. To that I would add that the failure of DCPS to address the bolded sentence is WHY ---20 years into charter schools---charters went from the original intent of being "niche" educational programs: dual language, montessori/experiential learning, etc.---into serving 45% of the kids currently using public education in the District. So now that charters are essentially a parallel school system, the first sentence---creating unreasonable expectations for charters as a result of underfunding---has become the reality.
What I would like to see is a charter that is expressly special-ed---like a charter version of LAB. And with an admissions system that either lets you lottery for it with an existing IEP, OR allows a charter to charter transfer for kids who are identified as needing greater services than the charter can provide. That would seem to be much more practical than the current world---which expects all schools to be all things for SPED kids. I have a SPED kid. We would never have lotteried DC into a program like BASIS and then demanded that BASIS accommodate DC. That would have unreasonable for both the schools and DC.

THIS. In the last 20 years, DCPS could have competed with charter "niche" educational programs by innovating, using the best school systems in other big cities as models. They could have ramped up their test-in HS magnet programs to offer BASIS level academics fed by test-in MS programs, like NYC, Chicago and Boston do. They could have introduced bona fide academic tracking across core subjects in most of their MS programs. They could even have created superior language immersion programs, with lotteries for native speakers across the board. DCPS didn't bother, hence almost half the public school students in the city are enrolled in charters, including the great majority of UMC families outside the Deal-Wilson catchment areas. Good for you, PP, for not demanding that a cash-strapped charter provides your student with state of the art SN programming.

when your ultimate argument is that it is unfair for parents to seek legally entitled education for their disabled kids, you lose all credibility as an analyst of the situation. what you REALLY think is that SN kids don’t deserve any resources or anything that takes away from your kid.

Again, if its so easy, simple, then why argue? I mean, its the law, isn't it. Should be a slam dunk to get whatever you think your kid is legally entitled to.

If I was in charge of Basis, sure. But all the Basis boosters here are saying they don’t think Basis should have to do it.

But why do you care? if you are 100% protected by simple legal rights, why do you argue with people?

I'm being pedantic, but trying to make the point that claiming "but the law" isn't enough, which is why you and other people are arguing. "The law" is always subject to interpretation, which is why, as so many SN parents here attest, it's damn hard to get the services their kids need. I suspect you are arguing with posters on this thread because at the end of the day it's not easy or simple. And not black and white. If you want advocates for SN services and support, perhaps a different approach is warranted.

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Anonymous wrote:this is the core view of what BASIS is, right? The DC middle school your kids can go to if a school (perhaps other than Deal) your kids can go to if you want them to work hard and do homework and shit.

If your kid isn't able to do this from the get go, they basically want to shake you off. Super great special needs approach.

According to the SN parents earlier on this thread, no. They actually say they are happy with the support Basis provides. Additionally, the Charter Board's complaints related not to the actual services provided, but to the enrollment figures, only.

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The crux of the problem is that the ed powers in this city want to have it both ways: they want to continue to underfund charters relative to DCPS programs on a per capita basis while requiring the latter to provide DCPS-level support for SN students and English Language Learners. They don't want students with disabilities and poor kids to be excluded from the best public schools, but refuse to provide the GT education that would help the brightest poor kids students enjoy strong representation in the public HS programs offering the most rigor. They want high-performing test-in magnets that compare to the top performers in other US cities, but won't support the requisite K-8 prep and ability grouping to create them. Something has to give, with the charter board, OSSE and the Mayor's office turning a blind eye because they boxed themselves into a corner long ago. At BASIS, conveniently, it's support for SN and ELL. As long as a couple students a year from BASIS continue to crack MIT and Yale, no politician is going to mess with BASIS DC. It's no secret that the franchise has found far more fertile ground to expand its public school empire in Texas and Louisiana than in DC. The Charter Board is toothless without political backing.

Excellent summation. To that I would add that the failure of DCPS to address the bolded sentence is WHY ---20 years into charter schools---charters went from the original intent of being "niche" educational programs: dual language, montessori/experiential learning, etc.---into serving 45% of the kids currently using public education in the District. So now that charters are essentially a parallel school system, the first sentence---creating unreasonable expectations for charters as a result of underfunding---has become the reality.
What I would like to see is a charter that is expressly special-ed---like a charter version of LAB. And with an admissions system that either lets you lottery for it with an existing IEP, OR allows a charter to charter transfer for kids who are identified as needing greater services than the charter can provide. That would seem to be much more practical than the current world---which expects all schools to be all things for SPED kids. I have a SPED kid. We would never have lotteried DC into a program like BASIS and then demanded that BASIS accommodate DC. That would have unreasonable for both the schools and DC.

No, charters are federally required to serve kids with disabilities, and kids with disabilities are entitled to the least restrictive environment. Other charters figured it out and Basis has to as well. Period. BTW SN charters exist already.

BASIS simply can't fulfill its mission as the DC public HS offering the most math and science rigor while serving kids with a wide range of disabilities well without a dramatic increase in funding per capita. They just can't afford to hire the resource staff they'd need to do this. If they're forced to water down their curriculum to accommodate students with disabilities at the expense of their math whizzes, what they're going to do is exit the DC stage in search of greener pastures. No doubt that Texas would be thrilled to gain another BASIS campus, with no quibbles about how well SN and ELL students are accommodated by the franchise in the Lone Star State. In that case, you might be better off pointing the finger at the DC Council and Mayor for failing to pony up for funding than the BASIS franchise.

If they can’t comply with the law, I guess they have to shut down.

Yes. It's far better to shut down something that serves many kids well so that then all kids can go on to schools where they are ALL served poorly. Oh well!

If Basis can’t figure out how to serve an additional 20-30 kids with SN then they are doing a crap job as an organization. Clearly your view is that Basis shouldnt HAVE to comply with the law because Basis is special — ie your own special entitlement for your “advanced learner” because you’re scared of your IB school yet don’t want to move to MoCo.

PP here. I don't actually think they will have an issue to serve 20 more kids. I do have an issue with the attitude that the only priority that matters in this city is serving SN kids and that there is nothing more to the equasion that that.

oh ffs that’s some dishonesty. nobody said that SN is the only priority. this is about a school that fails to comply with its obligations.

Dishonesty? Explain to me how the charter review said Basis failed to comply with obligations -- It didn't. It only said it was concerned about the enrollment numbers. It said the services it does provide are excellent and produce good results.

So if we're talking about dishonestly, let's address the issue that you are speculating based on a bunch of anonymous posts instead of based on the report itself. That's dishonest.

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Can someone explain to me why there isn't a 20-page thread on why school without walls has ZERO% special needs kids???

https://www.dcschoolreportcard.org/schools/1-0466

why the double standard?

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me why there isn't a 20-page thread on why school without walls has ZERO% special needs kids???

https://www.dcschoolreportcard.org/schools/1-0466

why the double standard?

See also: Banneker

https://www.dcschoolreportcard.org/schools/1-0402

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me why there isn't a 20-page thread on why school without walls has ZERO% special needs kids???

https://www.dcschoolreportcard.org/schools/1-0466

why the double standard?

Because it's not legal for charters.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me why there isn't a 20-page thread on why school without walls has ZERO% special needs kids???

https://www.dcschoolreportcard.org/schools/1-0466

why the double standard?

Because it's not legal for charters.

So you only care about what's legal? Not what's right?

You think it's really ok for the two test in high schools in DC not to allow any SN kids to attend?

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The crux of the problem is that the ed powers in this city want to have it both ways: they want to continue to underfund charters relative to DCPS programs on a per capita basis while requiring the latter to provide DCPS-level support for SN students and English Language Learners. They don't want students with disabilities and poor kids to be excluded from the best public schools, but refuse to provide the GT education that would help the brightest poor kids students enjoy strong representation in the public HS programs offering the most rigor. They want high-performing test-in magnets that compare to the top performers in other US cities, but won't support the requisite K-8 prep and ability grouping to create them. Something has to give, with the charter board, OSSE and the Mayor's office turning a blind eye because they boxed themselves into a corner long ago. At BASIS, conveniently, it's support for SN and ELL. As long as a couple students a year from BASIS continue to crack MIT and Yale, no politician is going to mess with BASIS DC. It's no secret that the franchise has found far more fertile ground to expand its public school empire in Texas and Louisiana than in DC. The Charter Board is toothless without political backing.

Excellent summation. To that I would add that the failure of DCPS to address the bolded sentence is WHY ---20 years into charter schools---charters went from the original intent of being "niche" educational programs: dual language, montessori/experiential learning, etc.---into serving 45% of the kids currently using public education in the District. So now that charters are essentially a parallel school system, the first sentence---creating unreasonable expectations for charters as a result of underfunding---has become the reality.
What I would like to see is a charter that is expressly special-ed---like a charter version of LAB. And with an admissions system that either lets you lottery for it with an existing IEP, OR allows a charter to charter transfer for kids who are identified as needing greater services than the charter can provide. That would seem to be much more practical than the current world---which expects all schools to be all things for SPED kids. I have a SPED kid. We would never have lotteried DC into a program like BASIS and then demanded that BASIS accommodate DC. That would have unreasonable for both the schools and DC.

No, charters are federally required to serve kids with disabilities, and kids with disabilities are entitled to the least restrictive environment. Other charters figured it out and Basis has to as well. Period. BTW SN charters exist already.

BASIS simply can't fulfill its mission as the DC public HS offering the most math and science rigor while serving kids with a wide range of disabilities well without a dramatic increase in funding per capita. They just can't afford to hire the resource staff they'd need to do this. If they're forced to water down their curriculum to accommodate students with disabilities at the expense of their math whizzes, what they're going to do is exit the DC stage in search of greener pastures. No doubt that Texas would be thrilled to gain another BASIS campus, with no quibbles about how well SN and ELL students are accommodated by the franchise in the Lone Star State. In that case, you might be better off pointing the finger at the DC Council and Mayor for failing to pony up for funding than the BASIS franchise.

If they can’t comply with the law, I guess they have to shut down.

Yes. It's far better to shut down something that serves many kids well so that then all kids can go on to schools where they are ALL served poorly. Oh well!

That does seem to be what some people want. Crabs in a barrel - tear down the ones climbing up the sides to escape - bring it all down to the lowest common denominator! God forbid DC has a public option that is academically advanced and super challenging ("that's no fair!").

I guess I don't really understand what the SN advocates on this thread envision. Is it their position all SN kids can handle algebra, physics, biology, and chemistry (because I think it is widely acknowledged that there a lot of non-SN kids that can't handle it/the school isn't a good fit for)? That SN kids should be socially promoted even though non-SN kids will not be socially promoted? How exactly does the SN support work at a school with a very demanding and difficult curriculum with year-end (exacting and stressful) comprehensive exams that must be passed for a kid to be promoted to the next grade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me why there isn't a 20-page thread on why school without walls has ZERO% special needs kids???

https://www.dcschoolreportcard.org/schools/1-0466

why the double standard?

Because it's not legal for charters.

So you only care about what's legal? Not what's right?

You think it's really ok for the two test in high schools in DC not to allow any SN kids to attend?

I don't love it and I don't think it's right. But that's the law at this time. So if someone is asking why there is a double standard, it's because the law allows for it.

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The crux of the problem is that the ed powers in this city want to have it both ways: they want to continue to underfund charters relative to DCPS programs on a per capita basis while requiring the latter to provide DCPS-level support for SN students and English Language Learners. They don't want students with disabilities and poor kids to be excluded from the best public schools, but refuse to provide the GT education that would help the brightest poor kids students enjoy strong representation in the public HS programs offering the most rigor. They want high-performing test-in magnets that compare to the top performers in other US cities, but won't support the requisite K-8 prep and ability grouping to create them. Something has to give, with the charter board, OSSE and the Mayor's office turning a blind eye because they boxed themselves into a corner long ago. At BASIS, conveniently, it's support for SN and ELL. As long as a couple students a year from BASIS continue to crack MIT and Yale, no politician is going to mess with BASIS DC. It's no secret that the franchise has found far more fertile ground to expand its public school empire in Texas and Louisiana than in DC. The Charter Board is toothless without political backing.

Excellent summation. To that I would add that the failure of DCPS to address the bolded sentence is WHY ---20 years into charter schools---charters went from the original intent of being "niche" educational programs: dual language, montessori/experiential learning, etc.---into serving 45% of the kids currently using public education in the District. So now that charters are essentially a parallel school system, the first sentence---creating unreasonable expectations for charters as a result of underfunding---has become the reality.
What I would like to see is a charter that is expressly special-ed---like a charter version of LAB. And with an admissions system that either lets you lottery for it with an existing IEP, OR allows a charter to charter transfer for kids who are identified as needing greater services than the charter can provide. That would seem to be much more practical than the current world---which expects all schools to be all things for SPED kids. I have a SPED kid. We would never have lotteried DC into a program like BASIS and then demanded that BASIS accommodate DC. That would have unreasonable for both the schools and DC.

THIS. In the last 20 years, DCPS could have competed with charter "niche" educational programs by innovating, using the best school systems in other big cities as models. They could have ramped up their test-in HS magnet programs to offer BASIS level academics fed by test-in MS programs, like NYC, Chicago and Boston do. They could have introduced bona fide academic tracking across core subjects in most of their MS programs. They could even have created superior language immersion programs, with lotteries for native speakers across the board. DCPS didn't bother, hence almost half the public school students in the city are enrolled in charters, including the great majority of UMC families outside the Deal-Wilson catchment areas. Good for you, PP, for not demanding that a cash-strapped charter provides your student with state of the art SN programming.

when your ultimate argument is that it is unfair for parents to seek legally entitled education for their disabled kids, you lose all credibility as an analyst of the situation. what you REALLY think is that SN kids don’t deserve any resources or anything that takes away from your kid.

Again, if its so easy, simple, then why argue? I mean, its the law, isn't it. Should be a slam dunk to get whatever you think your kid is legally entitled to.

If I was in charge of Basis, sure. But all the Basis boosters here are saying they don’t think Basis should have to do it.

But why do you care? if you are 100% protected by simple legal rights, why do you argue with people?

I'm being pedantic, but trying to make the point that claiming "but the law" isn't enough, which is why you and other people are arguing. "The law" is always subject to interpretation, which is why, as so many SN parents here attest, it's damn hard to get the services their kids need. I suspect you are arguing with posters on this thread because at the end of the day it's not easy or simple. And not black and white. If you want advocates for SN services and support, perhaps a different approach is warranted.

What kind of "different approach" do you think is warranted, when there are Basis advocates on here saying "Basis should be exempt from the law becuase it is special"? Is your question about what else should be brought to bear to ensure that Basis complies with the law, for individual kids, and for DC kids overall? There's no black and white here - the claims that some Basis boosters are making that Basis should just ... not follow the law. If what you're saying is that nothing can guarantee a specific outcome for an individual child, sure. But that's different from getting the services they are legally entitled to.

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Anonymous wrote:

The crux of the problem is that the ed powers in this city want to have it both ways: they want to continue to underfund charters relative to DCPS programs on a per capita basis while requiring the latter to provide DCPS-level support for SN students and English Language Learners. They don't want students with disabilities and poor kids to be excluded from the best public schools, but refuse to provide the GT education that would help the brightest poor kids students enjoy strong representation in the public HS programs offering the most rigor. They want high-performing test-in magnets that compare to the top performers in other US cities, but won't support the requisite K-8 prep and ability grouping to create them. Something has to give, with the charter board, OSSE and the Mayor's office turning a blind eye because they boxed themselves into a corner long ago. At BASIS, conveniently, it's support for SN and ELL. As long as a couple students a year from BASIS continue to crack MIT and Yale, no politician is going to mess with BASIS DC. It's no secret that the franchise has found far more fertile ground to expand its public school empire in Texas and Louisiana than in DC. The Charter Board is toothless without political backing.

Excellent summation. To that I would add that the failure of DCPS to address the bolded sentence is WHY ---20 years into charter schools---charters went from the original intent of being "niche" educational programs: dual language, montessori/experiential learning, etc.---into serving 45% of the kids currently using public education in the District. So now that charters are essentially a parallel school system, the first sentence---creating unreasonable expectations for charters as a result of underfunding---has become the reality.
What I would like to see is a charter that is expressly special-ed---like a charter version of LAB. And with an admissions system that either lets you lottery for it with an existing IEP, OR allows a charter to charter transfer for kids who are identified as needing greater services than the charter can provide. That would seem to be much more practical than the current world---which expects all schools to be all things for SPED kids. I have a SPED kid. We would never have lotteried DC into a program like BASIS and then demanded that BASIS accommodate DC. That would have unreasonable for both the schools and DC.

No, charters are federally required to serve kids with disabilities, and kids with disabilities are entitled to the least restrictive environment. Other charters figured it out and Basis has to as well. Period. BTW SN charters exist already.

BASIS simply can't fulfill its mission as the DC public HS offering the most math and science rigor while serving kids with a wide range of disabilities well without a dramatic increase in funding per capita. They just can't afford to hire the resource staff they'd need to do this. If they're forced to water down their curriculum to accommodate students with disabilities at the expense of their math whizzes, what they're going to do is exit the DC stage in search of greener pastures. No doubt that Texas would be thrilled to gain another BASIS campus, with no quibbles about how well SN and ELL students are accommodated by the franchise in the Lone Star State. In that case, you might be better off pointing the finger at the DC Council and Mayor for failing to pony up for funding than the BASIS franchise.

If they can’t comply with the law, I guess they have to shut down.

Yes. It's far better to shut down something that serves many kids well so that then all kids can go on to schools where they are ALL served poorly. Oh well!

That does seem to be what some people want. Crabs in a barrel - tear down the ones climbing up the sides to escape - bring it all down to the lowest common denominator! God forbid DC has a public option that is academically advanced and super challenging ("that's no fair!").

I guess I don't really understand what the SN advocates on this thread envision. Is it their position all SN kids can handle algebra, physics, biology, and chemistry (because I think it is widely acknowledged that there a lot of non-SN kids that can't handle it/the school isn't a good fit for)? That SN kids should be socially promoted even though non-SN kids will not be socially promoted? How exactly does the SN support work at a school with a very demanding and difficult curriculum with year-end (exacting and stressful) comprehensive exams that must be passed for a kid to be promoted to the next grade?

I think they envision that it could be a good fit if BASIS were willing to provide the support that is needed and BASIS should stop acting like its model is an immutable fact and cannot be modified for any reason. It's a choice.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me why there isn't a 20-page thread on why school without walls has ZERO% special needs kids???

https://www.dcschoolreportcard.org/schools/1-0466

why the double standard?

Oh, I bring that up every time we discuss Banneker. And Walls. Equally bad. Different legal situation in terms of IDEA, but 0% is wrong, as is express discrimination against SN (in the case of the former Walls principal). Although someone posted here recently that in fact Banneker does have kids with IEPs.