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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The charter board's longstanding obsession with meeting the needs of under-served populations, a local variant of tunnel vision, is on display yet again in this video.

What's wrong with mainly serving high SES families whose in-boundary schools are train wrecks, along with anybody else who cares to lottery in, at BASIS DC from K to 12th grades?  Why not cater to well-heeled tax payers in a bid to keep more of their income and property tax dollars in the city, along with anybody else who cares to lottery in?

There aren't even 20 public schools in the city with enough white kids to pull them out by subgroup on PARCC testing, yet the charter board is fussing about the percentage of FARMs students at BASIS. There are already more than enough public schools catering to the poor in this city. Give poor kids a chance to rise with the high SES tide at a new BASIS elementary school. It's a no brainer.  Fingers crossed for a vote for expansion in Dec.  [/quote]

Go back and read the early pages of this thread. I'm willing to bet Basis middle school will look a lot different if they add K-4. Many high SES families will opt out for elementary and be blocked out for middle school.[/quote]

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I'm certainly not willing to bet.

With thousands of high SES families in the city lacking an acceptable by-right ES, and very few parents WotP opting for charters, I can't see BASIS MS demographics shifting measurably if they add not one but two K-5 schools, as planned. Come on, half of Capitol Hill lacks a K-5 program acceptable to most parents.  Plenty of parents in the Tyler, JO Wilson, Payne and Miner Districts, and possibly even Ludlow and Watkins/Cluster, would try to lottery into a BASIS ES, as long as it were in Wards 5 or 6.  Heck, such a school would even pick up some Maury and Brent families looking for more challenge, and a path to a strong MS and HS.  [/quote]

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