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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even the worst performing DCPS would have high test scores if allowed to only serve the easiest students. Basis is a public school: if they want public money, they need to serve all students.[/quote]

There is a cohort of people who send their kids to Basis in order to escape the "serve all students" trope which held their kids back in DCPS elementary schools. [/quote]

This.  I would argue that DC middle schools fail to serve all students because they don’t [b]offer tracking of all subjects[/b] which is standard in most schools in this country including our neighbors next door in VA and MD[/quote]

Not necessarily.  I have a child in an Arlington MS, where my ex lives.  The only subjects that are tracked at her school are math and non-ESL English. There are no test-in MS magnet programs in Arlington.  Most of her classes are essentially easy As.  I could have sent her to BASIS, but wanted the good facilities and enrichment offered at a VA school.  Her school has an indoor track, great theater, playing fields, computer labs, library, school greenhouse and gardens etc.  My ex and I actually supplement quite a bit, with outside book clubs, weekend language classes, a writing tutor etc.[/quote]

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