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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]10% of the 6th graders fail the end of year comps?  thats brutal (and demoralizing).  yes CAPE test scores in fall of 4th grade have percentiles on them.[/quote]

Yup, 10-15 percent every year through middle school. Not counting 5th, which doesn't have comps   (and not coincidentally, most kids return for 6th).

[b]It is brutal and demoralizing. The kids feel awful. And some of that BASIS anger you feel in the larger community is from parents whose kids went through this.
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(Of course people leave for other reasons, too, but undoubtedly a set amount of attrition is linked to failing comps.)[/quote]
Kids only need a score of 60% on the comps to pass the grade.  The comps are not particularly hard, and the bar to pass is pretty low.  Rather than being upset with Basis for making the kids feel awful, parents should be upset with the DCPS K-4 education that gave the kids such poor foundational skills.  Or parents should be upset with themselves for grossly overestimating their kid's ability.  [/quote]

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