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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Because they are taking PUBLIC school money so yea it concerns anyone with a child in public school.[/quote]

They aren't "taking" anything. They are getting a capitated payment for educating kids that DCPS doesn't have to. Your ire would be more sincere if it was aimed at charters with bad educational and testing outcomes. Instead you come here day after day and how at the moon and rail against the top performing school in DC. You and yours aren't actually interested in educating kids outside of JKLM and JR, you desire only to protect an entrenched WTU, bloated public school infrastructure.

Charters are here. Deal with it. Now go back to your WTU meeting and make some more unreasonable demands.[/quote]

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