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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What SN supports does BASIS allegedly fail to provide?  From my experience, they provide a lot of organizational/executive functioning support, before and after school time to get help from individual teachers.  The general structure of the school is helpful for kids with ASD or ADHD.

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It doesn’t fail to provide anything. All the report said is that it should do a better job advertising to SN students and show what supports it provides. That’s it. It can (and will) still claim to be a very rigorous school that demands a lot of its students. Nothing will really change here. BASIS is a lottery school— if level 4 SN parents choose not to lottery in, that’s not the school’s fault.[/quote]

+1. There's nothing showing that BASIS is not able to support SN kids. It's just showing that BASIS doesn't have as many as other schools. If BASIS can show that it has the supports and advertises them, it's not its fault if kids don't come. Now personally, I wouldn't send my SN kid there, because I know it's not a good fit for my kid. But that doesn't mean it isn't a good fit for others.

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:roll: I feel like this is groundhog's day.  Basis has an obligation to educate SN kids - it cannot just say "Whoops, bad fit!"  The charter board instructed Basis to come up with a plan to recruit AND RETAIN more SN kids, and that is going to require devoting more resources to it.  We can argue what the implication is about Basis's drasticall low numbers of SN kids, but I think most fair observers know it's because Basis has viewed itself as not having to make any accommodations and just relying on saying "not our niche" so that SN kids don't even enter the lottery. [/quote]

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