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That's hilarious.  She's a hick from Arizona who has no idea what urban schooling is about to do to her "model."

The "workaholics" who are about to enter BASIS are the kids from Wards 4, 5, and 6 who are in 5th grade doing math at a 45% proficiency level, at best.  Oh, and they're calling their teachers disgusting and uncouth names at that.  No middle school in Ward 5?  Guess where all those kids who can't even do their multiplication tables are going to enroll!  Should be fun!  :)

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As for "hicks" versus urban, at 1.4 million, Phoenix (with several BASIS schools) has a population more than double Washington DC's 600,000; Tucson (another BASIS site) isn't far behind DC with a population of 520,000.

Arizona has its own issues, to include a huge number of kids who are not native English speakers - I spent a couple of years in the southwest in my youth and the high school I went to had huge issues with Mexican gangs as well, and it's only gotten worse since then.

Seems there's two paths:

Option 1.) they stick to the model, and refuse to compromise where it comes to academics, and the kids who cannot perform to expectations either come up to speed with tons of extra remediation work, while others wash out because they can't keep up with the extra workload that is required of them.

Option 2.) they compromise and kowtow to all of the whiners, critics and cynics and end up as yet another failed school like every other failed school in DC - is THAT what you really want?[/quote]

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