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[quote=Anonymous]New to the discussion, but I've perused the last half dozen entertaining pages.

Come on folks, at some point, common sense really ought to intervene.

Basis needs help from the city to screen applicants, or it will run into the same sort of embarassing trouble Yu Ying has (whether that's one white kid, two, or ten on their non-immersion track).  It's just as goofy to think you can build a great Chinese immersion school with hardly a bilingual kid on hand as to think you can churn out Ivy Leaguers without identifying a group of kids with the right stuff from the get go.  Those of you who think it will be peachy if Basis ousts two-thirds of its students must never have been in a doctoral program where this happens.  The cutthroat atmosphere was awful for me and my classmates and it won't be pleasant for DC middle schoolers.  Bite the bullet, find the right kids (a good mix) and build community over the years, affording students career building personal and professional ties for life, like the independents do.  Find the modus operandi or don't make the taxpayer foot the bill - no brainer.

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