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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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This is a huge concern for me. Having weathered this sort of pressure as a PhD student, I can't imagine someone choosing it for their 11 year old. It's not appropriate for children.[/quote]

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