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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect a lot of the kids who are held back will just leave and go back to regular public school where they'll be socially promoted, receive differentiated instruction and out of the hair of the BASIS crowd that doesn't want anything but the best kids.

Most BASIS parents will be satisfied with this arrangement because it's better for their own kid, assuming it's not their own kid that's being held back.

Soon parents of marginal kids will know better than to send their kid somewhere where he/she will be humiliated and the  intellectual segregation will be complete -- all on the tax payers dime and at no cost to parents of high-achieving kids.[/quote]

I think you are absolutely right here. I think it's the way BASIS will ultimately achieve its goals in DC.[/quote]

I do not like the characterization as something nefarious and equivalent to getting an exclusive education on the public dime. But I question what is wrong with having a school that addresses the needs of gifted (or adacademically advanced) kids and may not be a good fit for others.  There are certainly schools that serve non-gifted kids well.

It is not about getting an advantage, it is about getting a child's needs met.  Why are children who are gifted academically not entitled to having their needs met?  [/quote]

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