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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's worse?  Being "humiliated" by the wake-up call of possibly having to repeat a grade because a school like Basis holds you to an expectation of actually learning the material (and, that [i]is[/i] after all why you are in school in the first place - to learn the material), or suffering the far greater, life-long humiliation that your school didn't care if you learned the material, and just socially promoted you from grade to grade, ultimately flinging you out into the adult world barely functional, barely able to read, add or subtract, and accordingly unprepared and unable to ever get a decent-paying job?

It's frankly mind-boggling that anyone with a bonafide interest in DC's educational would [i]ever[/i] [b]defend social promotion[/b].  Those who do have in effect already given up on the children's education and future.

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The defense of social promotion is that research says that retention is worse.  What students need is identification of the need for intervention and intensive remediation.  Like every other public school, Basis will be required to provide that.

So, if students aren't able to keep up with the class, then Basis will need to provide a method - perhaps multiple methods - to continue to educate them according to the DC standards.  If they aren't taking AP courses, so be it.  If they have to hire extra staff and create extra classes, so be it.  They cannot counsel those students out.  They can't flunk a raft of them out either just because they're not passing advanced courses.  If Basis wants a selective student body, it will have to go private.

IF DC wants a selective MS, it will have to create one using some mechanism other than weeding kids out of a charter school.[/quote]

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