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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, the kodak moment for Washpo was to see the student holding the placard with the mis-spelled word for turquoise.  Gotta love it!!!

12:34, do you really want to go there in regards to charter, private and public?  I think not.   Hush.[/quote]

You DO understand that BASIS hasn't even yet begun their first set of regular classes and as such, the kid that couldn't spell "turquoise" and the kid that hit the other kid are both products of k-4 in DCPS and other DC schools?  Not being able to spell "turquoise" and having disciplinary problems represents a failure at DCPS and elsewhere, long before coming to BASIS.  It says far more about them than it does about BASIS.

And, "go there?"  In terms of the basic facts and figures, we already are there.  Nearly half of DC's students are in private schools and charters - and collectively they have lower dropout rates,  better performance, and higher college placement rates.

"Go there" as in 3...2...1... we next hear someone play the race card and claim the difference is because they are rich white kids in response to charters and privates as has been done countless times before?  Guess what, most of the BASIS students in those WaPo article are AA - so that argument already just went sailing out the window. [/quote]

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