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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BASIS has a business model that pretty much depends on pushing/kicking out students. They dump kids during the school year and keep the per pupil fees. Then they dump kids every year (and never replace them with new ones) so they only graduate a minority of students that start in the schools. This makes their graduation/outcome data look extra impressive, even though the model fails most of the students that start in it.  
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[b]You guys seem clueless.

My next door neighbor's kid, a very hard working young man whom I have known for many years attended DC BASIS since its inception.
The first year,  he was a very happy 8th grader.

Year two was alright, except for the end of the year when one teacher decided to fail him without giving any prior notice for supposed plagiarism on a final exam. When hid parents asked for proof which could not be provided, the story changed; they were told that the "F"  was the result of his final exam not reflecting his writing style. During a meeting, the principal promised he would retake the exam, but after postponing the test several times, he was told point blank it would not happen. As for this year, he showed me his "CJ" notebook where his end of year grade was a 93 in that English. A couple weeks later, the grade was lower by 20% in the report card.

This young man and another classmate are totally convinced that the report cards and even the AP exams are being manipulated by BASIS data person who has the ultimate control over students' grades. This is a case of the truth being stranger than fiction.[/b]
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If you believe this malarkey then you need a tin foil hat! :roll: [/quote]

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