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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, I just googled the locations of BASIS schools. They’re all in NYC, DC, Sillicon Valley, Phoenix & Scottsdale. If their model is go great, why aren’t there any in some rural industrial town in Pa, Detroit, St. Louis, Memphis or Buffalo?[/quote]

You are confusing for profit BASIS Independent Schools (NY, Silicon Valley) with the free, pure lottery charter schools. The latter are in DC, Mesa, Phoenix, Baton Rouge and a bunch of other urban environments. Troll better. [/quote]

Just as there are wealthy and less wealthy areas of DC, there are UMC and poor areas of all of those cities, and where you locate makes a huge difference in which of those populations can actually get there. If you’re going to need to take 3 busses to take your kid to school, you’re probably not going to send them. [/quote]

No doubt. The point you miss is why the distinction between for-profit/tuition versus lottery admission-free charters is so important. The latter are available to anyone. If they are willing to take 2 buses they have a fair shot. As opposed to to tuition or IB schools that are based on wealth and birth luck. Get it?  [/quote]

It’s really unclear what point you are trying to make. [/quote]

Seems pretty clear to me. Your reply acted like whether a school charges tuition and has admission tests or is a charter school doesn't matter. Poster is explaining to you why there is a huge difference.  [/quote]

I don’t really think there’s that huge a difference if all schools are pulling a MC/UMC population…[/quote]

Then you are completely ignorant on the topic. Seriously, if you think a tuition, test-in school is no different than a pure lottery charter then you are exactly the entitled W3 prick you appear to be. The idea that you think low-SES/at-risk kids won't take a bus or two or three to get to a good charter astounds. Go back to your SAHM meeting, sister. [/quote]

Go ahead and post the FARMS rates for schools like Latin, BASIS, SWS and other schools that are located in places that make them difficult to access by Ward 8. I’ll wait.  [/quote]

Actually, I'll do it for you, since you seem to have such a hard time grasping the concept that it matters where a school is located:

Percentage of DC students that are at risk: 45.6%
At Risk kids at Latin: 13%
At Risk kids at SWS: 8%
At Risk kids at BASIS: 7%

So yeah... I do think having to take 2-3 buses to get to a school is a barrier to entry.  And I do think that BASIS and Latin intentionally located in a place where they would draw fewer at risk kids.  And I do think the lower percentage of at-risk kids is a large part of their success.

Signed,
BASIS parent[/quote]

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