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[quote=Anonymous]+1.  For an intelligent exchange on the merits of selective admissions and ability grouping vs. in-class differentiation at the ES & MS levels, you need to get off these DC threads and on those for independent schools, and VA and MD public schools.

DCPS and DC Charter parents will invariably claim that serious ES & MS ability grouping is unfair, unrealistic or both, given the current political calculus, helping explain why it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.  Dead-ended to raise such points here.

If a high-end kid was in a DCPS or DC Charter ES or MS before Basis, you can bet that they're coming in without having having been challenged unless their parents arranged challenge outside school.  I say this having done my practice teaching at a MoCo Center for the Highly Gifted, where the curriculum was at least 2 years ahead of anything I've seen for 4th & 5th grade throughout DCPS and DC Charter.  Not a bad thing that Basis will track for math, but I'll be really surprised if they don't water subject matter down in DC.

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