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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the PP caught up in the at-risk percentage at BASIS:  Ask yourself why you care so much that BASIS has a low at-risk population if you don’t have students there and never will.  
There are so many schools that prioritize the at-risk population and you can probably get your child into one of them.  So why does BASIS’s existence bother you so much?  Nobody at BASIS thinks a higher at-risk population would ruin the school.  At-risk students are just the least likely to succeed at the school because they tend to lack families who care a lot about their education and those students would not be socially promoted (just like anyone else).  So even a preference that initially gets them in (should BASIS ever decide to have one) would certainly not guarantee that they actually stay.  BASIS has invested money and energy into advertising in different communities to attract students from all over the city and seems to have attracted a truly diverse student body in many ways as opposed to a student body that is “diverse” because it has some minimum percentage of an at-risk population which is all you seem to care about.  [/quote]

Tough diversity talk for a high-income school with such a low [b]AA retention rate[/b].[/quote]

You have tried to get someone to bite on that data for 4 pages. No one has because it is meaningless. What does 77% mean? How does that compare to overall retention rates at BASIS? Over what period? How does that 77% compare to other schools? How does that compare to other schools as measured against overall and other demos?

My favorite part of that number on which you fixate (besides the fact that you are a white person) is that BASIS promotes or doesn't based solely on grades. No social promotion. No subjective measures. Kids either pass to the next grade or they don't. Even by BASIS-fixated hater standards, arguing some racist conspiracy is insane.

I feel sincerely sorry for your kids.[/quote]

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