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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BASIS seems to have a single goal - graduate students who are admitted elite four-year college programs.

If your kid isn't the type who's likely to be admitted to a top four-year college, why submit them to the "hell" of the preparation at BASIS?  Why tangle repeatedly with inflexible and creepy upper admins?  If, all things considered, the child isn't being treated remotely fairly month after month, school year after school year, is there no alternative program for your child anywhere in the Metro area, even if you have to move to find it?  Why beat your head against the wall at BASIS?  Why put your kid in a situation where you'd probably have to file a case with the DCPS Ombudsman, or sue to compel BASIS to obey the law?  I ask this having filed a civil rights related case with the DCPS Ombudsman last year.  She promptly took the case (promoting the opposition to back down before OSSE could haul admins into embarrassing meetings).

It sounds like a strong suburban MS program, where admins were motivated to meet the needs of 504 and SPED kids would be a much better fit for the lot of you.[/quote]

Why would you assume that a child with a 504 would not be the kind of kid that would go to a 4 year college? Jeez! BASIS should be held accountable for following the law, my child deserves FaPE as much as any other child. And FYI, My kid does very well at Basis DC, when they receive their accommodations and their accommodations are super easy ones to follow and implement. They adore science and have an affinity for math. The teachers are great,  it's the creepy admin that care about the bottom line and not educating kids that need I it nor closing the achievement gap that are the ones putting us through hell. [/quote]

I'm not assuming that.  It's just that BASIS isn't just aiming to send its grads to 4-year colleges, they have their sights on MIT, Cal Tech, Ivies, elite liberal arts colleges, military academies, first-tier public universities etc.

BASIS should be held accountable for a lot of things, as a franchise and a DC branch.  These include purposely rehabbing a building without creating a library, stage, or any outdoor space (even my equally cramped Manhattan school installed a basketball court on the roof), offering what's surely the weakest MS PE program in the DC public system, forcing kids who aren't ready for algebra to take it in 7th grade to avoid being held back a grade, luring parents to enroll with promises of fictional LEAP classes, hiring an college counselor without college advising background etc.  Above all, they should be held accountable for actively weeding out half their MS kids without taking responsibility for doing this.

Unfortunately, the creepy admins putting you through "hell" are part of the package.  Much as I admire you for standing up to them, if you find yourself needing to do this repeatedly, as it sounds, it's probably time to either up your game at OSSE and/or court, move on, or make your peace with the hellishness of it all.

Closing the achievement gap?  For a handful of low SES superstars identified young enough and given special chances and support, maybe.  For most low SES DC kids, however motivated and determined, impossible.
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Our kid wants to go to MIT or Cal Tech, and gets at least distinguished honors every term,and has disabilities-most bright kids at geeky tech schools do--they deserve a great education, and don't deserved to be bullied into less of one by anyone. And we have upped our game, thank you.[/quote]

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