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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's funny about these performative equity folks is that they purport to speak for black and low-SES students but give zero consideration to the black and low-SES students who are provided a first class education at BASIS. These people don't care about equity or black kids or low SES families, they care about a dumb talk track and scoring SJW points.  [/quote]

I don't think it's inconsistent to say that 1) Basis provides a generally better education than any DC charters or DCPS schools (which I agree with, which is why I send my kids there), and 2) the share of lower SES students, Black students, and Hispanic students at the school is way lower than in the DC public school pool, suggesting that the school could improve its outreach and retention of those groups, so that more of those kids could access that "first class education". I don't expect the Basis population to exactly represent the overall DC population, given the inequitable K-4 preparation, but it certainly could be closer.[/quote]

Enrollment at BASIS for 5th grade does not track DC school age demographics long before kids start peeling off. Your argument (and that of the insane person who, I agree, has ES age kids) is that somehow that is BASIS's fault. Why can't we at least consider that parents are making informed choices? Low SES tracks and correlates with AA in DC. That's a demographic fact. AA kids have across the board lower test scores across every grade. Schools in predominantly AA neighborhoods have poorer educational outcomes. Through no fault of BASIS, by the time those kids get to 5th they are well behind grade level and will require significant remediation and family/student intervention in order to do more than just survive.[b] Those families are CHOOSING not to put BASIS on their lottery list. It is an informed choice.[/b] Can we please press pause on the white guilt that tells black folks they are making the wrong choices?

The ire directed at BASIS would be better spent on ES that are failing kids long before 5th grade. But that's harder than picking the easy fight with BASIS on a free forum I guess.  [/quote]

In some cases it's an informed choice, but I (white, grad school educated) had several conversations with Black families who were intrigued when I told them about Basis but whose kids were in 5th grade already. True, it's just an anecdotal, but I'm sure that part of the reason for the enrollment disparity is that virtually all highly-educated families know about Basis, but fewer less-educated families do. I don't know if Basis could do more to get the word out, but clearly not all parents are making a fully-informed choice.[/quote]

I know you mean well, but this is an example of white folks infantilizing black people. BASIS advertises on city buses that go through historically black neighborhoods. It advertises open houses and shadow days on social media. It participates in all My School DC events. It does outreach through other underserved community resources. Your position seems to be that black folks need a white savior like you to educate them. It is well meaning...and offensive. Those parents you so kindly educated made a choice to be ignorant. Do you mean to tell me they entered the lottery and couldn't be bothered to click a link to BASIS? That's on them. It isn't on OSSE or DCPS or BASIS. 
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