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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think it was necessarily for incoming students to be "advanced", but there is definitely an expectation of rigor, an expectation that the curriculum will be accelerated and will push hard on subjects like math and science, that there will not be social promotion, and accordingly that kids and parents will need to be committed, motivated and hard-working.  It's not a school for slackers. [b] If it was anyone's notion that they could just coast through BASIS as with a DCPS school, that was their own mistake.[/b][/quote]

[b]Do you really not hear how obnoxious that sounds?  Do you really believe that parents of students who are struggling are supposed to give up and have low expectations for their children?
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I am not a Basis parent, I don't have a dog in this fight.  What I find amazing about these sorts of assertions, is the underlying assumption that families with children "less special" than [i]your[/i] [b]snowflake[/b], are supposed to back-off, bow out, and/or give up, so that you can direct all the resources to your child.  It's all their fault, for not agreeing with your worldview that your snowflake deserves extra-special treatment, at tax-payer expense.

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No but many parents believe just putting their child in a rigorous school will suddenly make their child smarter/attentive/eager to learn and it doesn't work like that. If the basics are lacking, they will never get anywhere.[/quote]

Then it's the responsibility of the school to allocate resources and use research based methods (hint: this doesn't mean retention which has been shown time and time again to not work) to address the lack of basics in the students they are serving.

DC  law does not allow schools to refuse to serve kids because they are missing the basics.  Basis knew that when they chose to come here.  It also does not allow schools to fail to educate the kids sitting in their classrooms.[/quote]

I seriously do not appreciate the repeated use of the term "snowflake" on this forum, it has distinctly racist undertones, as though we are talking about some supposedly special and unique little WHITE child.[/quote]

Your unfamiliarity with the etymology of the term doesn't mean the rest of us are racists.  It means you're so busy being agitated that you can't be bothered to be educated.  There's no color thing involved, and if you had even half a clue you'd know that.  [/quote]

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