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

[b]If your kid isn't the type who's likely to be admitted to a top four-year college[/b], 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]

That's where the manipulation is.
BASIS has a small percentage of outstanding students who would do very well in any school -- in fact  in bigger schools, they will be exposed to so much more, even in the sciences.
For the rest, BASIS decides which students/families are welcome to stay and which students need to leave -- thus the pre-comps/comps and the finals -- 2 exams which count for almost 2/3 of the whole year.
They want your family? the comps/final grades will be quite high.
A former BASIS parent once told me that seen printed certificates for the 90's club --  almost 3 weeks before the end of the quarter year and a week before the comps had even started.
The school doesn't want your student? The grades can be pretty good (all A's and B's throughout the year and nothing to worry about) but then the final report card comes and the overall grade is downgraded by 30-40%. It happened to my very hard working kid who was doing well at BASIS, or so we thought, until we were slapped by the F's...

So the policy is that with an "F" in the finals, the A's received throughout the year will become C's and the B's will be  D's.  All kinds of strange reasons will be given which are all based on opinion and cannot be measured. It would not make much difference in middle school but to obliterate a young person's high school GPA simply just because they can is outrageous. By the same token, there are students considered "brilliant" at BASIS, who would be considered average elsewhere.

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What do you allege that the school's motive is? Like, if you're kid was getting As and Bs all year and actually did well on the comps, why on earth would they want to get rid of them if all they care about is high achievement? This story makes literally no sense.[/quote]

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