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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
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. If it was anyone's notion that they could just coast through BASIS as with a DCPS school, that was their own mistake.

It's a pretty big assumption that the students leaving are slackers. If it's true that parents are pulling their kids from BASIS, then BASIS is not delivering on its promise to educate the underserved students of DC, which is clearly in their marketing materials as their mission.

Whoa. How do you make that wild leap that BASIS isn't educating and is underserving? And particularly, how do you make the wild leap that students (and, as far as I know it's maybe as many as I can count on my fingers) even left for that reason? I know one family left because of an overseas assignment, and I know of at least one other case that had nothing to do with academics (it was about friends at the other school).

Underserving? Maybe your fifth-grader was ready for Calculus but BASIS would only go up to Algebra? Come on, now. "Under" is totally the wrong word here in every way. If anything, what they have been delivering goes well above and beyond what one could expect from most DC schools.
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Dial back your drama and acquaint yourself with a dictionary. There is a difference between a school that serves an underserved population, and a school that is under serving its population.

I'll speak slowly for you.

The population of students in DC are underserved. The public school system has not met their education needs. BASIS is supposed to provide to high quality education to all students. Students in poverty. Students who are underserved.

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