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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Yes, Basis can't refuse anybody as keeps getting pointed out repeatedly, and which nobody has disputed or disagreed with- but to the poster who insists on making that point over and over and over ad nauseaum, again, the achievement expectations at Basis are clear, to include taking a large number of AP courses. [b]As such, how would it ever make sense for someone to send their child who might not be capable of taking AP courses to Basis?[/b] Yes, anyone can send their child to Basis, and yes, Basis has to take any child - but does it make sense? If a child isn't going to college, then t's wasting his or her time to send him or her for AP courses. The rationale and reasoning of sending a child to Basis merely because you are fleeing bad DCPS schools only underscores how bad the DCPS system is and underscores the fact that there is a need for an alternative; those who attack charters ultimately only end up strengthening the case for why charters are needed.[/quote]

For the same reason people are planning to send their kids to a Hebrew immersion school, when very few, if any, will grow up to use the language in their daily life. Parents are trying to get out of their neighborhood schools, and they will pick any charter they can to make that happen. The problem that it creates for BASIS is when they try to live up to these promises of 8 APs. If, according to some salivating posters on this thread, kids can't keep up and should decamp to leave the school for some imagined population of frustrated GT students to have as their own, BASIS is going to need a strategy to keep the doors open. They will need to hope that in this small city, with demographics dissimilar to Tucson, they can find the population they claim success with to keep themselves open without compromise or remediation.

Time will tell.[/quote]

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