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[quote=Anonymous]Basis Arizona mom or dad, you're a jem to offer us insight when you don't have a dog in this fight.  Please stick to your guns and don't let the grease the manic boosters are tossing your way sink in.  I'm not the only newly-minted DC Basis parent with questions for the likes of you.

I already feel like I'm on the like it or lump it road, keeping in mind that Basis is paradise compared to our IB school.  Fortunately, having immigrated from Asia, graduated from an Ivy, and socked away enough to cover a private, for high school anyway, I feel like I'm in a better position to challenge than some of the other parents.

If you're still there (generous of you if yes), I'd like to ask about attrition.  What does it look like at your kid's campus?  Roughly what percentage of kids are dropping out during or after 5th...6th...7th...8th...9th...10th..11th....?   Do most of the dropouts fail comps?  Only after 6th grade or during subsequent years?  Do those failing actually repeat grades?  Are dropouts being replaced?  Replaced for which grades and under what circumstances?  How does all the dropping out impact student morale?  I think of the misery of my PhD program, where faculty "eased out" at least 10% of the students every year before the All But Dissertation stage, leaving about half of those who started.  We were all running scared for several years, hardly the optimal environment for learning.  Is that how Basis feels, like a campus of the unhelpfully worried?  Or do most of the kids roll with the punches where comps are concerned, drawing healthy motivation from the threat of failing comps?  Is is mostly low-SES kids who go by the wayside as a result of failure?  To your knowledge, have parents challenged when comps have been failed, individually or as a group?

Insight on attrition issues would be much appreciated from my end, if not necessarily from the DC community at large.  Thanks.

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