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[quote=Anonymous]PP, I don't see how they've strayed from that ideal.  They have raised academic standards, they do foster a culture of learning, they do utilize objective benchmarks, and they do hire passionate and talented teachers.  How do you see it as having changed - and particularly, how is it that you are presuming to diagnose BASIS DC from afar, never having seen it for yourself?

Regarding what's "unhealthy" - what may be an "unhealthily high" bar for one student may be perfectly fine for the next.  Certainly there are kids who won't be able to meet the demands.  Consider that there are kids in DC for whom even the watered-down DCPS curriculum is an unattainable bar to meet which already causes them stress and backlash in life.  And then you've got the BASIS honor roll and 90s club.  There's no one-size fits all solution, and BASIS isn't trying to serve the many thousands of students in the entire DC system.

But again, as someone asked, what's your proposal?  What is your better solution?  I was also raised to question authority, but even with that background, I learned that it's easy to question and poke fingers at things, but proposing solutions is the far harder thing to do.[/quote]

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