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[quote=Anonymous]New poster, with a 4th grader and a profoundly dead-ended MS feed, with a question for boosters, bashers and a group I'm going to term the "worried well" alike.   
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If you had to bet, roughly how many of the high-SES kids now enrolled (primarily white in the District, hoping we can all deal with that tired fact by now without anybody pitching yet another hissy fit) do you think will be left in the BASIS HS once it extends to 12th grade?[/i]  It sounds like the middle school is around half high-SES.

The boosters continually look to the Arizona experience for inspiration although the state doen't share DC's history of the middle-class largely steering clear of public middle and high schools in recent decades.   If the school is going well so far, as one PP after another asserts, can we expect the sort of middle-class exodus all the other public middle and high schools in the city continue to experience?   Yes or no?

I'm not impressed with Latin MS and Deal failing to get most of their high-SES students to the high schools they feed into, and/or other public high schools, and I'm not prepared to send my kid to any school anywhere that's predominantly low-SES.  The curriculum may be world-class, the teaching first-rate, the facilities stellar, the administration competent, but if most middle-class families leave before the end, I'd rather not start just the same.

The potential for galloping middle-class attrition is what concerns me about Basis so far, not more.  My kid is good at math and disciplined enough to excel at this and that (from karate to playing piano).   Is anybody else concerned?

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