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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They also want to reach underserved students.[/quote]

With the caveat that the underserved students are able to handle accelerated work.  If your child is below grade level, BASIS offers remediation for them to catch up but the student needs to put in the work.

Sending your child to a middle/high school that is known for an accelerated curriculum and then complaining about the fact that the curriculum is accelerated makes you an idiot.[/quote]

And yet, you'd still be not as big an idiot as the charter school parent who believes that a charter school doesn't have an obligation to serve every single child who comes through the doors, AND serve them all equally well.  Every. single. child. Equally. well.

It's not hard, it's the law.[/quote]

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Not at all true.  It is not the law.  Equal access, yes.  Equal opportunity, yes.  Accommodation, yes.  Those are law.

Everyone gets an A, no.  Sorry.  Everyone gets a free pass to the next grade, no.  Sorry.  Neither of those are law.
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Nice strawman, bug eyes.  FAPE doesn't demand that everyone gets an A.  It does demand that everyone receives the accommodations, and services, and supports necessary to access the curriculum.  So if Johnny or Jamal or Juanito can't take Calculus when he's 10, you don't get to keep holding him back until he's 14 in the hope that he drops out.  You have to provide a math curriculum he can access.  Even if it means you have to offer 5th grade math.[/quote]

But Johnny, Jamal or Juanito do have access to 5th grade math at BASIS.  They just have to stay in the 5th (or maybe 6th) grade to get it.  They might even be able to get it in 7th grade for a couple more years as BASIS offers a modified curriculum during its first few years of operation.

What they won't get is a promotion to 8th grade (or maybe even 7th) while taking 5th grade math.  To get to 8th grade, they'll have to master 5th grade math and probably 6th.

By the way, FAPE does not "demand that everyone receives the accommodations, and services, and supports necessary to access the curriculum."  FAPE demands only that [b]children with disabilities[/b] not be excluded from participation [b]solely due to their disability[/b], where "disability" is a [b]physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more major life activities[/b].

Coming from an elementary school that didn't teach you how to add and multiply fractions is not a disability.  Having a hard time with algebra and having to work harder than your peers to understand it is not a disability.

You might find the following site helpful, PP:  [url]http://www.ncld.org/parents-child-disabilities/ld-rights/what-is-fape-what-can-it-mean-my-child[/url]

Pay close attention the the "FAPE myths" column, especially the myth "Children with disabilities are not required to pass state-approved assessments that demonstrate State standards," keeping in mind that BASIS is its own LEA.[/quote]

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