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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have to agree that calling charter schools private/public is a misnomer and misleading.  They are run on public funds and cannot require students to pay private funds for their education.  Perhaps they are not run by the government, but they are not "private" in the way that anyone commonly understands the term.  Privately-run public school has a very different connotation than a public private school and you know it.
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Oh I didn't catch that post, that wasn't me (I am now seeing why you call each other by your time stamps). ... I see what you mean about the connotation.

Whatever... Not sure why I posted here... each BASIS experiment is a local affair and BASIS DC is in its infancy... It will generate knee-jerk hostility but that is just sound and fury. If 5% of what I hear about the DC public school system is true, you need choices and hopefully BASIS will deliver. I wish you all the best of luck. Again, my only advice based on experiences at the Tucson campus (which may be utterly inapplicable to the DC campus) would be to stay engaged with the admin, and be a continuing part of defining what BASIS is (within the general parameters of an excelling, academically rigorous model) and to ensure that an appropriate balance is maintained between test/content oriented rigor and other facets of the educational experience.[/quote]

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