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[quote=Anonymous]The sad reality is that a good many of the low SES kids who can indeed "do the work" won't have the time as teens.  Their cash-strapped families will rely on them to work part-time jobs as much as 30 hours per week to earn money to cover bare essentials, babysit a lot for children in the extended family, do most of the housework, shopping etc.  Moreover, they are unlikely to have quiet, well-lit places to study at home, or the sense of well-being, to focus.  I say this having taught sciences in a G/T program in FL where around 10% of the FARMS kids who entered in 2nd grade were still there, taking 6-10 AP classes or pursuing the IB diploma, in 12th.

If most other high SES families go along the way, we will go.  I want my kid to enjoy HS, not to feel like a fish out of water if she mentions how she visits family and friends abroad regularly, shares her home with a foreign au pair caring for a younger sibling etc.  Latin simply isn't keeping all that many high SES or white families to 12th, and neither is Wilson, and these schools will probably emerge as Basis' main competitors.

Will this particularly DC charter be different from all others to the point that we will enter an alternate universe where most high SES parents don't vote with their feet eventually?  In'shallah as the Arabs say (God willing), but I'm not holding my breath.

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