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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because Basis has proved to be so successful in DC...oh wait they haven't even finished their first year here.

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Exactly!  And when the first Starbuck's opened in DC, everyone assumed it would be as successful as in Seattle.  People just don't understand how the DC demographic changes everything!   :roll: [/quote]

ha, funny, except turns out the only reason basis tucson looks good is because of attrition effectively making it a test in school like TJ or others.[/quote]

I'm personally fine with a challenging program, I just think there needs to be another path for students who aren't prepared for it.  If 25% of the class can handle the advanced curriculum then it's terrific that it is available for them.  However, there needs to be an alternative set of choices for the 75% who are dropping out.  Some kids may be several years ahead in math, but fairly average in reading.  Let them focus their energy where they excel.  I like this about the IB Program.  What I don't like seeing on the taxpayer dime is 75% of students being counseled out - there should be less intense options which keep them in the school.  I wouldn't be surprised if this a path which the PCSB is going to coerce or force Basis down, one way or another.  [/quote]

Basis does not track in English, and the kids were not counseled out - they chose to leave.  I think you can only flunk after the comprehensives.  But I don't see why, if the PCSB does not tell KIPP to find "less intense options" to teach their at risk kids to control their behavior, it could really ask Basis to water down its academic curriculum.  It would be like telling YY to stop requiring Chinese.

In terms of the taxpayer dime, Basis took kids after count day, and the kids who left mostly left recently, so arguably they have been undercompensated this year on a per diem basis.

I think Basis is so new that eventually everyone will be choosing it for the right reasons, because it is the best fit for their child, just like YY and KIPP, and there will be less attrition.  Rising tides do lift all boats - they just don't have to be the same tide, or the same type of boats.[/quote]

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