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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Additionally, PCSB published data in December 2013, along with the DC Public Schools and Office of the State Superintendent of Education, about attendance and discipline trends in charter schools, which resulted in schools changing their policies and [i]expulsion[/i] numbers dropped by half. 
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Does anyone know where we can find this data?

BASIS has not expelled anyone so far as I know.  I know that BASIS does give kids who are failing classes and flunk their precomps advice that they need to think carefully about whether they can pass the classes and the comps at the end of the year because the consequences of failure are the same at BASIS and DCPS. They are forced to repeat the grade.  [b]This is a BASIS rule, but DCPS has made it a policy[/b].

In 6th grade the child has taken US History, math, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Latin and English.   He has to pass all the exams except math at the end of the year in these subjects which cover everything that was covered starting on day 1.  Furthermore, there is a BASIS wide portion of the test - half of the grade, where the teacher does not design  the questions.  The only time some of those answers do not count is when the topic was not introduced in class.  This is no small feat, and if you came from a failing school you still may be desperately trying to catch up.

[b] If they complete the year at BASIS, but fail comps and/or classes, DCPS will make them repeat the same grade in the fall, as will BASIS.  DC will not let a 6th grader go on to 7th if he has failed comps but I have no idea how many you have to fail. Unbelievably stupid, because it is possible for some kids if they are motivated to catch up enough to get 60's, which is passing. And many kids repeated the year at BASIS this year but if they fail now they will have to go through 6th grade 3 times. [/b]

In DCPS, unless the child fails 3rd,5th or 8th grade (comps start in 6th grade), [b]DCPS cannot, by law, hold a single one of their students back even if they only show up for class half the time and get all F's.  Social promotion is mandatory by law.[/b]  BASIS will not do it.  But DCPS CAN do it to students who were in a Charter school and failed the comps. What 6th grader wants to repeat 6th grade?   What 8th grader would want to? Many last year remained and did repeat a grade, but unless they pull out early they will be in 6th grade 3 times.  Especially if they are returning to their IB school where all their friends will now be a year ahead of them. So if they return to a failing school where virtually no students score Advanced on the DC-CAS, and where by law any 6th grader who was there and flunked gets to go on to 7th grade, these children have to have passed  the rigorous exams at BASIS unless they drop out (basically are forced) to give up early.  But it is not BASIS that is forcing them out.  It is DCPS.

I would like to change this rule.

PS illegal immigrants do not have visas, or have visas that have expired...[/quote]

I am very confused by your post.  At the top you say that DCPS fails kids who don't pass comps, and yet below you say that they don't.  Which is it?  Are you saying that if a child drops out of BASIS after failing 6th, and returns to DCPS that DCPS will place them in sixth?

Forcing kids who struggle out by threatening to fail them and then to tell DCPS they failed isn't really any better than expelling them.  It's highly unethical.  [/quote]

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