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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not everything is for everyone.  I repeat.  Not everything is for everyone.  Some kids will be tremendous athletes and some will not make a school’s team.  Some kids will be stars in a school play and others will be stuck doing set design.  And some kids are capable of significant academic rigor and some are not going to do well in school.  Not everyone belongs on the same sports team just like not everyone belongs in the same classroom.  DC only takes issue with the latter and finds that academic differentiation would be inequitable.  Academics must be the same for everyone even if other abilities are differentiated without controversy.  It’s ridiculous.  BASIS is equitable in the only way DC will allow it: treat everyone the same.  The difference is that the level that everyone is going to be treated at BASIS is at a high level and not the lowest common denominator.  Don’t like it?  Enjoy your DCPS.  Parents who have any academic standards at all would not consider most DCPS middle and high school options EOTP.  Until that changes, BASIS is a godsend for families with academic kids and high educational standards.  It’s okay to have a place for them, too. [/quote]

Oh come on. Nobody is saying you have to treat everyone the same. [b]DCPS has advanced classes in some of its schools [/b]and charter schools are allowed to do that too. People are only objecting to BASIS' promotion policy because it's effectively counseling out. [/quote]

Zero schools EOTP. If you and your kind were 1/100000 as focused on DCPS offerings as you are targeting BASIS, you might actually improve things. You choose the easy way out; complain about BASIS with 650 kids instead of focusing on the other 100k in DC schools. Performative nonsense. [/quote]

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