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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Keep patting yourself on the back for not choosing Basis.  So you have no connection to Basis but feel the need to bash it and predict that it will "fail" for what purpose other than justifying your own reasoning for not sending your kid there.  Whoopdidooo![/quote]

New poster.  Wait a minute - sounds like the previous PP signed up initially, then got cold feet for good reason.  Such posters surely don't want any particular DC public school to fail; they want and deserve selective admissions but aren't served by current options.   [b]Only highly gifted kids aren't served well[/b] - the special needs kids are, the performing arts-minded kids are at Duke Ellington, the "slow" kids and sport-oriented are all over the place.  What's sad is that while high-SES families find a way forward,[b] for the most part, low-SES G/T kids get thrown under the bus[/b].

I see a purpose in pointing out that tossing kids who couldn't score proficient on the DC-CAS into the same classes as kids who probably could have scored "advanced" for a higher grade level than their own isn't sound policy.  Where's the "bashing" in making factual statements about bona fide deficiencies in DCPS and DC Charter?  Far too many upper-middle-class parents continue to hit the road for privates and the burbs and we are all poorer for the exodus (if nothing more, our property values don't benefit).  The city should stem the tide somewhere, as NYC does - calling such parents names is what serves no purpose.

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I agree that tossing kids who couldn't score proficient in DC-CAS into the same class as kids who score high isn't sound policy, it's masking the problem rather than actually dealing with it.

But I'm not sure I'm following the line of thinking in your first statement.  How exactly are low-SES G&T kids being thrown under the bus?  G&T kids regardless of SES should do fine at schools like Latin or Basis, aside from logistical challenges like transportation, and whatever challenges the young learner may have at home - which would face the low-SES student regardless of school choices.  Even if DCPS established a school specifically for low-SES G&T students I am sure those same challenges would exist there as well.[/quote]

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