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[quote=Anonymous]It’s been said before and worth repeating: Not everything is for everyone.  There is so much outrage that BASIS sets such high standards and refuses to yield them.  Well there’s equal outrage that DCPS and many other charters fail to provide anything close to those high standards (particularly at the MS and HS levels) so that capable students feel like their needs are also being met.  Should every school only be concerned with the lowest common denominator??  The goal is to educate everyone.  Raising up the bottom and taking care of the harder to educate kids does not have to be done at the expense of challenging the capable students but unfortunately it is almost always done that way around here.  Teachers cannot teach several levels at once without a lot of help that is never given to them.  Every student deserves to meet their own potential and BASIS professes to provide whatever support it can to students who are struggling there.  At the end of the day, some students there realize they are just not as academically inclined and leave the school (or leave the school for a variety of non-academic reasons) and THAT IS OKAY.  It’s also okay for high achieving students to have a public school in DC which meets their academic needs, too.  If you feel it’s not fair to compare BASIS PARCC scores to other DC schools for whatever reason then just don’t.  Ironically, few people think twice before comparing LAMB to the other Spanish immersion charter schools which take new students at every grade level even though LAMB does not and has a much smaller number of students in the upper grades taking PARCC.  There are many reasons to avoid making comparisons between schools because there are so many nuances.  The more useful comparisons right now is to look at a single school’s own history and get a sense for the trajectory. [/quote]

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