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[quote=Anonymous]Sorry you are going 16:40, reasons make sense.  We are in 6th and on the fence for now.

I understand that Basis wasn't in a position to start just with 5th, adding a grade a year, as they'd have liked - the friendly head told me as much.  DC Charter was short-sighted in not working w/them on that one.

I see a problem with how the school started with kids in upper grades who won't follow the full-fledged curriculum.  The writing is on the wall for v. few of these kids to crack top colleges, like Latin's 1st graduating class this year, making the school a tougher sell to high-ses families that it needed to be.

Pretty clearly, what's going to happen is that once the 1st hs class graduates, just like at Latin, high-ses parents with suitable kids shopping for a ms will see a sea of black faces in pictures and get nervous.  A harsh reality that a world of good-intensions-imported-from-Arizona can't erase.

I wish they had experience in another heavily black inner city.  Such an experience would have informed their planning.  Before you guys clobber me, I'll add that I'm AA.

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