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[quote=Anonymous]BASIS has a K-12 learning model.  Currently DC is an outlier in providing only the second half of the model.  Based on this thread, some parents think students come in “better balanced” from a “normal” ES or “better understood” by their as being a good candidate for academic rigor when they are entering 5th grade.  But the current school is just simply not following the complete model of the curriculum.

Contrary to the sentiments on this thread, BASIS is not opening an ES to “screw over” Capitol Hill families, nor is it starting at K (instead of preK) to “prevent” lower SES or at risk students from entering.  There is no such conspiracy taking place.  It’s simply a learning model that they are trying to implement in its entirety as they do everywhere else.

Maybe DC should or must be different from other BASIS schools for other reasons.  But it’s not unreasonable for the school to want to try to improve student outcomes and attrition by having students start at the beginning rather than entering at half time.  [/quote]

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