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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, BASIS DC isn’t allowed to backfill. The Arizona BASIS schools do backfill. They also administer a placement test at every grade, and have no qualms about making your child repeat several grades if necessary, whether your kid enters in kindergarten or 11th grade.[/quote]

Why would it not be allowed?[/quote]

Because the BASIS network requires that, if you backfill, you must administer a placement test at every grade & have kids repeat however many grades the testing seems necessary. Regardless of the grade the student is attempting to enter.

Do you really think that would fly around here? [/quote]

So you're saying that BASIS headquarters is *choosing* not to allow BASIS DC to backfill in a way that DC charter governance will allow. [b]BASIS headquarters could make an exception to their rule, and they're choosing not to. [/b][/quote]

Why would they do that? It would ruin their model. Their model is tracking & competency. Allowing the school to backfill without requiring placement tests & grade repetition defeats the purpose of the school.[/quote]

+1 The fixation from these people is so weird. Don't like it, don't enroll. If these people spent a fraction of their energy making their own schools better they'd be better off. I cannot imagine being this fixated on a place my kids doesn't attend. The strangest part of it all is that these people seem conflicted: they see to be both jealous of and thirsty for BASIS while they complain incessantly about BASIS.[/quote]

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