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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Per PP's helpful analysis of the top schools in DC for ELA and Math, it looks like Deal academically comes out on top for middle school. I guess the fights, drugs and other dysfunction I hear about on DCUM isn't affecting kids academically? I know that came across sounding snarky, but it's not intended to. I'm a parent with children IB for Deal (in the future) that has concerns when reading DCUM, but these PARCC results seem to tell another story. [/quote]

+1, Deal looks good and performance is really not different than BASIS[/quote]

Wait-- so a school can backfill-- more than backfill, take students by-right at any time of year-- and yet perform as well as BASIS? AMAZING. I never would have thought such a thing is possible! Tell us, Deal, how do you manage this stunning feat, which is impossible according to BASIS?[/quote]

stupid argument. it’s not like hundreds of at-risk kids are moving into the Deal zone. The Basis lottery unequivocally means that more at-risk kids have access to Basis than to Deal. [/quote]

Bingo. Such a weird example out little BASIS hater chose to make his point. I don't think I'd have chosen W3 privilege as the example of access for low SES. Every at risk family in DC has an equal shot at BASIS. No one who can't afford to live IB for Deal does.[/quote]

Then how does Deal end up with a much higher percentage of *actually enrolled* at-risk kids, SPED, and ELL? It's as if you think being "100% lottery" somehow holds BASIS back even if the actual enrollment is very low at-risk.[/quote]

No one at BASIS cares about your fake concern for at risk kids. Your fixation is unhealthy.[/quote]

+1.  This Deal parent should pull his/her kids out and enroll them in one of DC's many failing charters with 90% at-risk kids.  Equity demands it.[/quote]

I'm not a Deal parent. And I'm not a BASIS parent either. Do you have any explanation for why Deal performs as well as BASIS despite these differences?[/quote]

1.  Your numbers are wrong.  See the official DC links posted earlier.

2.  Basis is 100% lottery and draws randomly from all over DC.  Deal is an in-bounds school in the richest part of DC.

3.  As noted earlier, Walls and BASIS have the highest 9th grade PARCC scores in DC, even though Walls is a selective school.

4.  As noted earlier, "at risk" covers a lot of different things in DC.

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1. No, my numbers are more up to date than those links.
2. BASIS does not draw randomly, it draws according to sibling preference which perpetuates its existing demographics, and has poor retention of certain populations. Lottery is not the only factor in shaping the school. Deal is only 78% in-boundary and receives students from many elementary schools and locations.
3. This isn't about 9th, it's about you explaining how Deal and BASIS have equivalent performance despite BASIS having certain advantages.[/quote]

You are ignoring the biggest advantage:  Deal draws students from the richest part of DC.[/quote]

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