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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hill families who would have sent their kids to BASIS are, for the most part, not going to go down the Hill middle school path. They care about their kids’ education and are not going to roll the dice with those schools. [/quote]

I disagree. A lot of Hill families enrolled in Basis in 5th [b]out of a mistaken impression that the IB MS were “bad,” [/b]not because they like the Basis model. Many wash out of Basis and return. Fewer Basis spots would mean more enrollment in IB MS. [/quote]

The IB middle schools are "bad" by any objective measure. [/quote]

Enough - every thread does not need to be derailed into this 'who is best' contest. There is not one 'objective' measure to compare schools. There is the PARCC/CAPE, sure, but as been discussed WAY too much on this forum is how limited/skewed that one snapshot is when capturing what is happening at an entire school. Kids and families determine satisfaction with a school for a myriad for a reasons. Knocking out a ton of advanced courses early as BASIS does is not necessarily wrong, but it is not for all kids/families. There are great teachers doing great things in a lot of schools, and that isn't seen by looking at a data point. For a lot of families, the extra curricular offerings of public schools really do make a difference as well. So just stop with the 'all schools are 'bad'' - it's just repeating the same thing without actually being informed about why some families are happy with the schools they are at. [/quote]

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