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What are you smoking, PP?  It is a permanent trend, by design, not a secret.  The AZ campuses ensure that most of the middle school students don't stay for high school.  Somewhere between half and two-thirds of the middle school students have been gone by high school at the original campuses since the 90s.  That's the BASIS model.  [b]The franchise gets away with weeding out most of their public school students by 9th grade[/b] everywhere they operate. [/quote]

Huh.  In my kids' BASIS school, it is true that they go from 180 5th graders to maybe 70 graduating seniors.  It isn't due to weeding out underperforming kids, though.  Some kids leave because BASIS is too small to have competitive sports teams, large orchestras, big drama programs, etc.  These kids want a more normal high school experience with all of the things available at larger schools.  Also, there are some elite test-in magnets (somewhat comparable to TJ) that draw off large portions of the BASIS crowd.  [/quote]

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