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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can a child enroll into Basis if they have failed grades at other schools?  [/quote]

Of course!  The law does not allow for selective admissions![/quote]

However, if he wants a spot in the 7th grade or higher, he will have to pass a placement exam.  There is no placement exam for 5th and 6th.

(I think the placement exam requirement is waived for the first year the school is in operation, so next year's 7th and 8th graders might not have to test in to those grades.) [/quote]
How do you pass a PLACEMENT EXAM? It is a placement exam, not an admission exam! All students will take the placement exam.[/quote]

You correctly answer the minimum number of questions required for placement in the grade you would like to enter.

If you take a placement exam with the intention of being placed in the 7th grade and you are placed in the 7th grade, you have passed the placement exam.  If you are placed in the 6th grade you have essentially failed the placement exam.[b]  Is this idea so controversial?[/b][/quote]

Yes, it is if you don't create an alternate track for the children who are unprepared.

The 6th grade state average for math proficiency is [b]50%[/b] and a LOT of those kids will be at Basis.  Those are students who aren't even doing 6th grade math.  Getting them up to speed on 7th & 8th grade math is going to be an uphill climb, to say the least.  Retain, retain, retain isn't productive - it will not help them to succeed.  You have to take them through the material, just more slowly.  Some of them probably have Special Needs diagnosis - you can't just fail those kids, you have to create an individualized education plan.  This is not a nice accommodation - it's the actual law.[/quote]

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