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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your description of kids who don't pass the comps as 'slow' sounds kind of haughty but I guess what you mean is 'underperforming for various reasons'.[/quote]

Nope.  I mean slow academicallly, however it sounds.  I certainly don't mean gifted low-SES/AA kids.

My older kid is slow at music and art, and probably couldn't be taught to fix a car to save her life.  She doesn't shine at sports, dance or drama either.   But she's a star academically, particularly at math.  At Sidwell, she's in math class exclusively with other math whizzes, like her cousins in Fairfax MS G/T programs.  At Latin, a good quarter of the kids in her classes lacked basic skills, keeping her back.  Latin just started teaching 7th grade algebra when she probably could have handled the subject in 6th (or so her Johns Hopkins summer CTY math instructors told us).

We decided not to enroll DC2 at Basis out of concern that too many slow kids would keep him back, too.  We met other parents who admitted that their kids didn't even test proficient on the 4th grade DC-CAS, let alone advanced, although they went to decent DCPS schools, and grew concerned.  He's staying in his WotP ES for now, and then we'll probably move to MoCo because we can't afford privates for two.  Some of the Basis slow kids will surely go on to make millions, I just don't want them in class with my kid.  Yes, I know Basis tracks for math.

I don't believe that Basis will fail many kids, at least not after summer school/try number 2.   They alone decide what a pass is.   Buyer beware.

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