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Who ever said anything about taking kids "who obviously won't be able to handle" the curriculum, or "the intention of culling them"?    With respect to admissions and who attends, they aren't doing anything different than any other charter.[/quote]

Right - it's not policy -- it just works out that way.  BASIS is in the clear and the true G/T kids have an opportunity to shine and to slip in to the school as others drop out.  Only the kids who ultimately can't cut it will suffer.[/quote]

If they drop out, it will be that they will self-select out.  And the reason they won't be able to cut it will probably have more to do with a variety of external and/or pre-existing issues, such as coming from poor schools that didn't prepare them or instill a work ethic in them, from coming from households full of disruption, from not having adequate support outside of school and so on.  It's really more a commentary on what goes on outside of the school than it is on the charter itself.  There's only so much that any school can fix, and schools like Basis go above and beyond what public schools offer - Basis for example offered intensive tutoring sessions in many locations throughout the city over the summer (STARS program) to get kids up to speed.  [/quote]

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