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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd rather have my children in a school where two-thirds of the families don't vote with their feet between the entry year and the terminal year.
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Attrition is not voting with your feet.

People leave Basis for different reasons.  And there is no social promotion or backfill.

I would rather have my kids at a school where they are challenged and taught above grade level.

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Yes.  BASIS DC is the only public school in DC that doesn’t socially promote and backfill.  So, of course, the upper grades are much smaller than the lower grades.  Not sure how that is a bad thing for a 100% lottery school.[/quote]
100% lottery school is a misleading descriptor that's been bandied about on DCUM for more than a decade. Fact is, BASIS DC overwhelmingly attracts families whose children can easily handle both the middle and high school curricula. What this means is that no more than 3% of 6th-8th graders being asked to repeat a grade to remain in the program annually (down from around 15% in the first few years). Claims that most families leave in the face of unstainable rigor is a tired canard.

In fact, families leave mainly because the facility is lousy and crowded, teacher turnover is high and pay inadequate, too many teachers are inexperienced, most families want more than AP prep in a high school curriculum, DC public offers slightly better choices for HS than MS EotP, and BASIS leadership and high school extra-curriculars are weak.

This thread has been better than other recent BASIS threads because more parents of HS students are admitting to key problems than usual![/quote]

Beating a dead horse again?  Your rigorous attacks on BASIS DC are truly "unstainable."[/quote]

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