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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope.  BASIS can work with kids who need more support.  What they can’t do - like pretty much any school - is overcome a complete lack of support or interest at home in a child’s education.  There’s a different between helping a student who needs extra support and helping a student who needs EVERYTHING.  It’s crazy how people on this forum tend to hold BASIS to a standard that no other school is subjected to.  They are great at educating kids from great backgrounds - like pretty much any school.  They are also great at providing a much better education to anyone who can/wants to commit to it.  Kids from great backgrounds at often do well despite the school they attend and not because of it.  At BASIS kids from all backgrounds are exposed to a vast amount of material at a much younger age.  This is not appropriate for the vast majority of people - including kids from high SES backgrounds.  This is what many people don’t seem to realize.  It’s also okay to have some schools best at bringing up the bottom students and some schools best at raising the top.  [/quote]

+1.  If you look at the test results of at-risk kids at BASIS after they have been there a few years, you will see that they are doing very well--in fact, much better than other DC public schools.[/quote]

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