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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
  Parents of some of the strongest students in the city will see the scores, and then won't put in for BASIS.
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If the parents are that dumb, maybe their children aren't so strong.[/quote]

[/b]Passing on BASIS because low DC CAS scores of its current 7th and 8th graders[b] -- assuming they actually are low -- would be foolish indeed.  It is widely known that they are the least prepared for the rigorous curriculum.
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They haven't taking the DC CAS yet this year.[/quote]

Thanks for the tip, but we knew that.

They'll be taking the DC CAS later this month.

We were responding to a poster who asserted that, if this year's 7th and 8th grade scores are low, parents of "strong kids" will pass on BASIS next year.

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First of all, remember that every student at BASIS taking the CAS this year came from somewhere else last year - and not all are equally prepared, depending on which schools they came from - and the first year's CAS scores will be in part reflective of their prior experiences.  More likely, if any of the 7th and 8th graders at BASIS do end up struggling on the CAS, there's a good chance they are probably struggling elsewhere, i.e. probably not passing their comps either - they will then end up either repeating the grade and pulling up on the CAS next year with benefit of spending an extra year catching up on material they were behind on in the schools they came from, or pulling out of BASIS to drop back to a less demanding school.  Personally, I'm anticipating that BASIS will do fine on the CAS exams, but either way I don't think it makes a lot of sense for prospective parents to base any decisions on the first year's' CAS scores.[/quote]BASIS is preparing for the DCAS and is determined to beat the other schools in the CAS and will probably do so[/quote]

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