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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Lastly, Basis does not counsel anyone out. [/quote]

Ha. Oh, you are serious? I teach 8th grade in DC. I have students who are on a 3rd grade level in math, who come to school 3-4 days a week, who are not on ADHD medicine even though their moms insist that they have ADHD and need all kinds of accommodations. I have students who constantly disrupt, walk out of class, etc. i have students whose parents say they are smart and potentially gifted, even though the kid has an IQ of 74. Do you think these kids will not enroll at BASIS? They will. And when they do, Basis will have no choice but to counsel them out.[/quote]

As a teacher, I totally agree. While I did not get into this profession to watch my students fail, being in the classroom has shown me that I can only do so much without real support from parents. Teachers have very difficult decisions to make with regards to giving our all to the few students whose skills are so low that they are disruptive to mask their deficiencies, at the expense of the students who are on or above level and can actually access the content. I also think academic tracking is good so long as there are multiple entry points, offering students more advances material and rigor in a variety of subjects and allowing them to work on their level in others. The problem is that until standardized test measure growth instead of aiming to meet some unrealistic level across the board we will continue on this path to nowhere with our educational system.[/quote]

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