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[quote=Anonymous]PP likes to pretend there is no baseline - but the reality of it is that BASIS has already done this already with their accelerated LEAP program, which already has a proven and demonstrated track record working in a half dozen schools in Arizona - and they have the same program on track for DC.  They have already successfully put a great many students through Algebra I in 5th and 6th grade, placed there via testing, and already had them successfully continue on through Calculus and other advanced math courses.

It's not as though BASIS DC is some speculative, brand new thing that someone just dreamed up on the back of a napkin yesterday, and is now happening in a vacuum - it's been in the making since the 1990s.  In addition to Math, BASIS also has an established track record in their LEAP programs for accelerating English, Science and History and the LEAP students begin taking AP courses in 8th grade.  Our son is in BASIS DC and is on track to take these LEAP courses and is excelling in Algebra and his other courses.  For us it's real, it's genuine and we ARE seeing success.  Let's stop pretending that none of this is workable, that none of this has ever been tried and that the BASIS model is a brand new, completely untested, far-out experiment - because it's anything but.

And, it boggles the mind that people would be so staunchly opposed to the possibility of the DC area ever getting any kind of accelerated curriculum option.  Why must we fight to deliberately keep the bar extremely low and deny students any option of ever having a more robust curriculum?  Can anyone out there name any other free public option in the DC area that offers in this kind of accelerated program?  I can't.[/quote]

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