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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, I just googled the locations of BASIS schools. They’re all in NYC, DC, Sillicon Valley, Phoenix & Scottsdale. If their model is go great, why aren’t there any in some rural industrial town in Pa, Detroit, St. Louis, Memphis or Buffalo?[/quote]

You are confusing for profit BASIS Independent Schools (NY, Silicon Valley) with the free, pure lottery charter schools. The latter are in DC, Mesa, Phoenix, Baton Rouge and a bunch of other urban environments. Troll better. [/quote]

Just as there are wealthy and less wealthy areas of DC, there are UMC and poor areas of all of those cities, and where you locate makes a huge difference in which of those populations can actually get there. If you’re going to need to take 3 busses to take your kid to school, you’re probably not going to send them. [/quote]

No doubt. The point you miss is why the distinction between for-profit/tuition versus lottery admission-free charters is so important. The latter are available to anyone. If they are willing to take 2 buses they have a fair shot. As opposed to to tuition or IB schools that are based on wealth and birth luck. Get it?  [/quote]

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