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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] What you're going to see if you start in 5th grade is that many of the casualties in 7th to 9th grades will be hardworking kids.  Why is this outcome better than finding kids with a good chance of doing well and keeping almost all of them?  This is why I suggest that you talk to your pols.  It might get you nowhere, but at least you could say you tried.
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Good insights, 18:02.  Question: in a city where testing in to a charter is a non-starter, how could the Basis model be adjusted to keep the hard-workers even if they can't pass the comps?  Is there a way without 'dumbing-down' the curriculum?  Just brainstorming here for fun because I'm not Olga Block but what if they took the students GPA into account along with the comps, so to capture the hard workers that don't test all that well?  Or is the point that even if they stayed they would not be happy.  And what about those who test in for aptitude but DON'T work hard, and yet pass the comps? (I'm picturing that in a personal way if you get what I mean).  Is the real problem the culture of rewarding academic entitlement attitudes to the detriment of acceptance of differences?[/quote]

Pp: what do you mean by "an academic entitlement attitude?"?[/quote]

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