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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are also open, by the way, about th fact that around 10 percent of the kids do not pass their comps at the end of the year and actually cannot return (without repeating the grade). The admin said that most of these kids do not return, so Definitely lots of the attrition is coming from that. It's the only public school in DC that doesn't do social promotion, and their curriculum is very accelerated on top of that.[/quote]

I wish people in this thread would stop characterizing BASIS middle school as being “very accelerated.”  It’s not. The math is completely normal for middle school. The science, while split into three classes (that only meet a couple times a week) is the same core science that is taught in middle school.[/quote]

That is simply not true. They take Algebra 1/geometry in 7th, and Algebra 2/Geometry in 8th, and then take precalc in 9th. There are kids doing that in DC, but they have tested out of the highest level at their DCOS and it is an exception. To expect that of everyone at the school is highly unusual.[/quote]

When I was in a gifted program 30 years ago, we took Alg 1 in 7th grade. It was definitely not the normal track.[/quote]

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