Anonymous wrote:

You are both wrong. The BASIS DC report card shows that the student failed the comps. The comp grade is both shown separately on the report card and averaged into the final grade for the course. IIRC, it counts for 50%. Failing the comps absolutely shows up on the report card. There might be some grade inflation at BASIS, but there is no way that getting, say, only 40% of the questions correct on a comp will be inflated to a passing grade.

DCPS absolutely holds back 6th graders whose report cards show that they have failed the 6th grade at BASIS DC. Some DCPS schools are willing to overlook the failures on the 6th grade report card if the BASIS head of school calls the DCPS principal and explains how challenging the BASIS curriculum is compared to DCPS, but there are no guarantees.

As for AZ, I don't know enough about situation. Perhaps AZ public schools have the same policy regarding BASIS kids whose report cards show Fs. After all, why pull your kid out of any school mid-year? Why not let them finish out the year at BASIS, even if they might end up failing the comps? Well, if failing the comps means that they might have to repeat the grade even if they switch to a different school, then that is a very good reason to switch schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

You are both wrong. The BASIS DC report card shows that the student failed the comps. The comp grade is both shown separately on the report card and averaged into the final grade for the course. IIRC, it counts for 50%. Failing the comps absolutely shows up on the report card. There might be some grade inflation at BASIS, but there is no way that getting, say, only 40% of the questions correct on a comp will be inflated to a passing grade.

DCPS absolutely holds back 6th graders whose report cards show that they have failed the 6th grade at BASIS DC. Some DCPS schools are willing to overlook the failures on the 6th grade report card if the BASIS head of school calls the DCPS principal and explains how challenging the BASIS curriculum is compared to DCPS, but there are no guarantees.

As for AZ, I don't know enough about situation. Perhaps AZ public schools have the same policy regarding BASIS kids whose report cards show Fs. After all, why pull your kid out of any school mid-year? Why not let them finish out the year at BASIS, even if they might end up failing the comps? Well, if failing the comps means that they might have to repeat the grade even if they switch to a different school, then that is a very good reason to switch schools.

I did not say that I suspect BASIS inflates grades at all. I suspect DCPS inlates grades so as not to fail any failing students!

Anonymous wrote:How do you know that DCPS absolutely holds back kids who failed 6th grade at Basis?

Anonymous wrote:When we briefly registered at Marie Reed they were insisting on a birth certificate and I refused to provide it. I told them it was not on the required documents list. Considering English is the only language I speak, they seemed to back down, but it left me with a bad taste and switched to another school when our number came up.

Anonymous wrote:I will tell you that this is pretty likely complete bullshit. We ce from a charter (along with a number of other kids) for middle school and DCPS didn't even ask for their records. It was our IB school so we just registered and were good. Finally the charter called us (and others) to come pick up their records because the new school never asked for them even though we signed a release saying they could be sent over.