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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You also probably need to do some research to learn why DC decided to open its doors to charter schools in the first place -- it's because DCPS was failing the community in the 1990s.
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we're not talking about the wisdom of charter schools, we're talking about the wisdom of BASIS.[/quote]

BASIS is the #1 middle school in the city and has an incredible college-success rate. No one in the city is seriously thinking about closing this school; it will never happen. It's time to drop your DCUM campaign, "secondhand knowledge" poster. [/quote]

136 kids start in 5th grade at BASIS, and 63 enroll as seniors. I didn't go to BASIS and do the vaunted math program, but that's 46 percent. Winnowing out the 54 percent who don't meet the high standards and then saying "look at how successful our curriculum is, 90+ percent of the kids we graduate meet the standards!" isn't good educational strategy.

If that REALLY is the strategy you think works, let's send all the DCPS students who don't make CAPE standards to Alexandria, tally up the scores and the college acceptance rates for the kids who remain and call the whole thing a success! Or not, because that's insane![/quote]

Lots of schools have high attrition rates. It's not that unusual. People leave for all kinds of reasons. At our school (not BASIS), about two thirds of the kids don't graduate because they leave beforehand. [/quote]

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