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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Plenty of fools in DCI feeders and DCI, if not total fools. Many feeder families gladly bail for Latin and BASIS, ending the pretense that they were taking the language learning seriously.[/quote]

LOL, not impressed by lackluster Latin and Basis sucks for anything but academics.

I’ll take DCI with a well rounded experience at a bigger school any day.  Also data doesn’t support your premise that many families are bailing at all, they are tracking to DCI.

Lastly, you are showing your ignorance but lots of families and kids who are serious about Spanish.

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Hope a majority of DCI students can at least hit grade level for reading.  Math seems hopeless.[/quote]

COVID has affected everyone and if you look at DCI, they are doing better than the overwhelming majority of middle and high schools in the city.

Their scores are actually pretty close to Latin.  Basis self selects so not sure why people on here use them as a comparison.  Apples to oranges.[/quote]

I thought that BASIS DC was 100% lottery?

Also, with the feeder system, language requirement, etc. DCI can't fairly be considered 100% lottery.  So, DCI is even more "selective" than BASIS, whatever that means.

Thus, DCI's poor results seem even worse by comparison.[/quote]

Families self select, meaning only families that will fit with their methodology choose to lottery and/or take seats at BASIS. [/quote]

+1. Basis also self selects by not providing support or accommodating all families.  Look into how many at risk, IEP, ELL kids they have and you will be shocked.  They also counsel our kids that don’t meet their expectations or can’t fit into their rigid structure of academic requirements.

Everyone knows about the above.  It’s absolutely laughable that [b]PP is trying to convince anyone on this board that Basis doesn’t self select [/b]in the above since and is less selective than DCI.  
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No one suggested BASIS families don't self select (although BASIS does not self-select, families do). Of course they do. The issue many of us are taking with you and others is the idea that somehow every charter is not admitting students that self select. At DCI it is kids who want/have an aptitude for bilingual education. You and others seem to be arguing that kids choose DCI because it is better than their IB option but not because they really want to be there or are a great fit, yet you ignore that same dynamic exists at BASIS as well. The mental gymnastics you all have gone through to pretend that only BASIS's lottery results in self selection and DCI's or Latin's doesn't is laughable.

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Not PP, but there is a huge difference between self-selecting in PK or early elementary school (feeders) and self-selecting in middle school.
By 4th grade, you have a much better sense of what kind of learner your kid is.

On the tour at BASIS, they said unabashedly that they want a school of hard-working nerds who don't mind not having a field or play area and that they know it won't be the right choice for everyone but they weren't going to change. It wasn't the right choice for my family and we stayed at the DCI feeder for 5th grade, but I appreciated that they were very upfront about what type of kids thrive there. I wish that DCI had a track for high achieving but more laid back kids, but my impression is that apart from math and language that tracking won't happen until maybe 9th grade?[/quote]

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