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[quote=Anonymous]I won't be surprised if BASIS encounters problems accelerating kids like crazy outside math either, and not for lack of will.  It's expensive to run pullout groups and advanced classes with low attendance.  It's also very difficult for a school to develop student timetables accomodating of  extensive "looping up" (younger kids taking certain classes designed for much older kids).

Basis wouldsurely have selected a roomier building, one with a gym and auditorium, if it had the spare cash to afford the staff to run a bona fide G/T program.  What is significant is the franchise's [i]willingness [/i] to do far more ability grouping at the MS level than DC public has seen to date.  They seem set on a great deal of acceleration even if almost all the kids on the highest tracks (or at least the youngest kids on the regular tracks) are, horrors, white and Asian.  Kudos to BASIS for taking this brave step when DCPS schools haven't yet.  If that statement makes me a booster, although my kids aren't of middle school age yet, fabulous.

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