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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's the thing about charter schools, this vaunted school "choice" has a cost. If your kid isn't succeeding they will be encouraged to leave. That way test scores stay up and kids who need expensive supports are someone else's problem. We didn't lottery into Basis but a few of my kid's classmates did. None lasted more than two years... and they came from precisely the sort of families that schools like Basis were supposedly created to help. [/quote] BASIS is the only school in DC that has this kind of attrition pattern. It's not about charter schools, it's about BASIS. And there are also public schools with accelerated curricula who encourage students to leave if they can't handle it (just not in DC), but because they're allowed to screen their students via grades and test scores, it doesn't happen as often as it does at BASIS. [/quote]
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