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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Appropriate placement, yes,[b] push them down multiple grades,[/b] especially if they're URMs and at-risk, no way.

Yes, in Arizona, no in DC.  Won't fly politically, non-starter.  BASIS knows it so has taken the path of least resistance since its inception: no backfilling after 6th grade.
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That doesn't happen in Arizona either.  Few kids are enrolling even one grade level lower.  None are doing more than that.  There's a ton of self selection in entering the lottery for a grade higher than 5th.  For the most part, if the kids don't pass the tests to move into their age appropriate grade level, they turn down the Basis spot.  [/quote]

Does AZ use an admissions test?[/quote]
They don't use one for 5th grade.  If your child were to be entering in, for example, 7th grade, they would give the language arts and math 6th grade finals from a previous year.  If your kid passes, then they can start in 7th.  If they don't pass, they would start in 6th, assuming that the parent chooses to keep the kid's spot and enroll them at all.  There is a bit of wiggle room, and kids who are close to passing the grade level test still can enroll in their proper grade level, as long as the parents understand that the kid will need tutoring and a lot of support to catch up.

One huge difference between AZ and DC is that people in AZ are much less intense.  [b]If they learn that their kid is behind and not at all a good fit for BASIS when their kid fails the placement test, they generally don't send their kid. [/b][b] [/quote]

Yeah...I don't see that happening here. First, BASIS DC can't give a placement test, and if a kid did fail such a test, parents here would say the test is wrong and that BASIS should place their kid in the grade the parent thinks is appropriate. [/quote]

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