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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]However, and I note it well, he has not put a foot wrong so far, where Cameron by this time was already deep in 8La.[/quote]

Yes but BasisEd sure put their two feet in the wrong place, because now Sean is just across the river preparing to run a private school when I would wager had they offered to pay him more to stay in DC he would not have taken the promotion that burned him out and would still be with us and so would a lot more kids, and those that weren't might be getting credit - but both at Walls and Wilson you have to take Geometry.  But taking AP World History over again if you got a 5 on the AP?  Insanity.

And losing over half of LEAP last year plus tons of others, having many who remained from LEAP not taking AP Chem (teacher sent out a desperate email before the start of the year), and no LEAP section at all this year, would not have happened if Sean had stayed.  Basis usually does know how to prepare kids for AP exams - even in DC we are doing pretty darn well as Sean (who, again, gave the talk last year about our local AP performance) explained.

My one complaint is that the AP CS course, while full of kids who can teach themselves, is full of kids who will have to teach themselves.  NOT a good choice of a teacher.  Oh well.  These kids are smart and they will get it.  And the required APs are really not fair to those who aren't well rounded.  But that has to do with the high school curriculum at BASIS in all its schools, not BASIS DC in particular.  But it is something parents should consider before they continue on to the high school.

I think Eyerman was a good choice, but he is no Sean Aiken.  Doesn't have the charisma, the positive energy, etc....[/quote]

The height of idiocy for Walls or Wilson to want BASIS kids to re-take material they already had just because Walls and Wilson don't have their shit together.  You DO NOT have kids who got a 4 or 5 on their AP course retake it.  And likewise, they ALREADY HAD Geometry.  If nothing else, that's a disincentive to leaving BASIS. [/quote]

It is an antiquated DCPS policy that only allows 2 credits to be transferred from middle school, one in a world language and one in Algebra I.

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