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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not "a million" nor etched into stone.  They can add students, they can make it up next year, et cetera, et cetera.

And, just to point out....

[b]They know what their numbers are, they know what their financials are, they know what their model is.[/b]  They've been doing this for 20 years, they've successfully started and run at least a half dozen schools, I believe that's far more than anyone here on this thread ever has or ever will, [/b]I tend to think they know a thing or two more about how all of this works than any of us here does.  This is what they do.  [b]And accordingly, if they aren't concerned, then neither am I.

But of course, if anyone here is so brilliant and has such deeper insights into how schools can and should be run, then I wonder why that person isn't out there starting and running an even better school than BASIS.  Submit a charter document to the PCSB.[/quote]

Please see below: it appears that BASIS is no longer intending to run a BASIS school in DC.
AND please correct me if I am wrong, [/b]ASAP[b]

"Volunteers Needed:  BASIS DC Information Sessions for 2015 – 2016 School Year
Please help get the word out to prospective families interested in learning more about BASIS DC.  Consider posting the following information to your neighborhood list serves, newspapers or sharing via emails. 
 
The next of many BASIS DC information sessions for prospective families [b]with rising students in 5th – 9th grades are scheduled for November 24th and December 17th.[/b]  Information sessions are held at the school from 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.  For more information or questions, please contact....."

Please, unless this is a terrible misunderstanding, tell me how accepting students in 5th-9th grades is following their tried and true model of only accepting students in 5th and 6th grades.

Please tell me [b]again[/b] how losing the money for the 6th grade (probably more like $300k) was no big deal.

Please tell me [b]again[/b] how losing some of our "top students" was no big deal because we only had to wait until BASIS DC was "fully enrolled"  (according to our HOS) because the BASIS model takes into account constant attrition.

[b]Please explain to me how this follows the BASIS "tried and true model" of 20 years.[/b]

This is [b]NOT[/b] the way they run other BASIS schools.

Please tell me I am wrong, and give me examples of other BASIS charter schools where they accept 9th graders.

Please, please, find some way to reassure me,  and please help me understand what is happening here.

Please help me figure out how and why and with what plausible explanation, [/b]if it was so easy to "replenish" our 5th and 6th grade population[b] by just shifting a few things around they would possibly be considering enrolling new students [b]after 5th and 6th grade, the absolute cut off for every other BASIS charter school[/b]

Please tell me what this means for us, for our children, and for the future of BASIS DC.

I will rend or rent every garment I have if you can offer an explanation for this email that rocked me to my core.

They made a mistake coming in here accepting students past 6th, because they seemed to fail to realize that given mandatory social promotion, some of those students would not even be able to read.  They recovered from it.

What are they doing now?

[b]Someone, please explain this email to me.[/b]

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