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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why it would be so awful simply to identify and attract kids who could and would do the work at Basis?

If a DC charter school can't pick kid who would be a good fit for the school, change the law, or make the school a DCPS school, or the first DCPS-charter hybrid (at a time when DCPS officials have started making public statements about creating such schools).   PPs call this approach a "fantasy," when it's the norm in cities all over the country, large and small.

My older child attended a selective admissions MS in NYC, before we moved to NW.  Most of the kids were black or Latino from low or moderate-income families.  They had come up through talented and gifted ES programs.   Nobody got held back because almost everybody could and would do the work required.  The system was simple, uncontroversial and it worked.   Without instituting ES TAG programs, isn't DC simply cutting corners on trying to launch a high-powered academic MS attended by many low-income students?  The more I hear about how Basis will run, the less inclined I am to think that it will achieve its goals.

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By all means, create a magnet school.  That isn't the objection.  The objection is that you can't use charters to do it.[/quote]

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