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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ I have little doubt that it's some anti-charter activist who started this thread, sensing what they thought was blood in the water to serve their aims.

It's unbelievably cynical and heartless for anyone to use special needs students and their families and their private lives as pawns in some kind of political chess game, and as such, starting this thread was highly inappropriate.

For anyone to be so intrusive, cold and heartless by posting speculations about special needs students and to drag their personal lives through message boards is awful - and if the OP would treat students at other schools so poorly by doing so, one can only assume they treat their own students as poorly - no true advocate for special needs students would have done the same.[/quote]

The thread was not started about a special  need kid.  The original post only said that a child in 5th grade had come back to his/her DC's school.  If the posts about the special needs kid is true, it happened before school started not when this thread was started.

My understanding of the question was more along the lines of whether kids were leaving because Basis was too much.  Frankly, I find this just as bad because even if the kid is not special needs his/her and the family don't deserve to be discussed on a message board.  
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Specifics of any particular student aside, the idea behind BASIS is that it's a school that tries to bring back some academic rigor and actually tries to challenge students.  As such, sure it might be a bit much for some students, but that's nothing new.  I believe some of the DCPS schools like Banneker and Walls have a bar to meet with regard to admissions requirements, whether grade point average or placement test, and obviously not everyone makes the cut there as well, so they are "a bit much" for many students as well.[/quote]

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