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[quote=Anonymous]Question about demographics at Basis, if I dare.  Is the 5th grade cohort more high-SES/white than the 6th?  Much more so?  What about 7th and 8th?  Are most of the higher grades students  mostly low-SES or what?

When PPs talk about a school willing to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations, what about one willing to challenge the hard bigotry of driving out most high-SES parents before HS by catering mainly to low-SES kids, hurting the brightest and most disciplined poor kids by depriving them of middle-class peers?  How can the teachers at Basis differentiate without leaving advanced/GT kids behind?  They're only tracking for math, right?  In all grades?  How much tracking for math?

I ask this in all seriousness -we've got a shy 4th grader in DCPS EotP who's bored about half the time at school, although he loves his Johns Hopkins CTY summer classes (which we've done for two summers now).  Paying for privates would be a real stretch, leaving us to wonder whether moving to take advantage of suburban test-in programs might be our best route to challenge for him.  We're not crazy about Deal for now - still too many tough and low-performing kids being bused in, and not enough tracking/ability grouping.

Our son may or may not get a spot at Basis for 5th, all depends what the lottery looks like in 2013, but he would probably test-in to a suburban GT program.  And even if he didn't test in, he could take advanced classes at a suburban middle school.  He doesn't need a strong emphasis on organizational or life skills--we're two PhDs who provide that at home--but he does need tougher subject matter and a faster pace if he isn't going to become a discipline problem at school...

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