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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]no textbooks[/quote]

this was a response re DCI

virtually no textbooks at BASIS either, but no chrome books instead the Blocks make millions off their "curriculum" while kids take notes filling in the blanks from power point presentations.  Almost an equal waste of teachers, but more quality control (and profit) in the curriculum for the for-profit Block organization which supplies DC and every other public charter with the curriculum.  Private schools are straight up for profit so no lines have to be crossed or concealed.  Still a better education in terms of middle school than Latin

the one exception is math, where they use Saxon to "meld in" Geometry which is why all kids who leave who have not taken Calculus have to take Geometry at Walls or Wilson, and Geometry is measured on the SAT so it seems worth a year.

Latin offers two years of Algebra I (7th and 8th) if you want to catch up you take Algebra II and Geometry in 9th grade
oddest system I had ever heard of before skipping Geometry
but my kid got a good score on the first AP Calc exam at BASIS in 10th grade - simply not possible at Latin or Wilson[/quote]

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