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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If only it were all so lol hilarious. BASIS wants a very small senior class where at least a few students get to colleges admitting in the single digits. Many parents want BASIS as is. A few want a better education than AP test prep and superior leadership. Nothing will change because demand will remain sky high. Move on.[/quote]

That's absurd.

Why would they *want* a small senior class?  There's no basis for that assertion.

The reality is that the class size shrinks because 1) you can't transfer in and 2) kids (and their parents) self-select out of the system if they don't like it.  Some go to Walls in 9th grade, and some go other places and there's nothing wrong with that.

Still, a very good acceptance list for around 60 graduating seniors in a non-application charter school in DC.[/quote]

You have a student at BASIS? That's indeed what the BASIS franchise wants in DC. Students could transfer into BASIS' HS if the franchise were to work that out with DCPSCB. They don't even try to work it out. The Arizona campuses have always let high school students transfer in.

IMHO far more kids would stay for HS in DC if the program was better led and managed, if the curriculum was a little more flexible and intelligently implemented, and if enrichment and ECs were better, particularly at the HS level.

I have a sibling in Arizona who's had at least one kid in a BASIS program for over a decade. Things sound much better there. [/quote]

I have two - one is graduating this year.  They both have been there since 5th grade.[/quote]

NP. I call BS. No one who actually had a kid at BASIS would feel the need to say "they have been there since 5th grade."[/quote]

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