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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]its not the drop between 8th and 9th because thats a natural exit point (to private/dcps application hs/other more typical hs option with more ecs etc.).  its the attrition after 6th/7th and during hs that raises eyebrows.[/quote]

10 percent of the students don't pass the end of year exams at the end of 6th grade, and they can't move on to 7th until they pass. Some families retake the test but many move on.

This isn't a rumor or a guess, it's info that's freely shared by BASIS admin.

That's why the lack of social promotion is linked to attrition.[/quote]

In 6th, 7th, and 8th grade at BASIS, students take an end-of-year Comp in each of their non-elective classes. As another poster explained, "failing the Comps" means getting less than 60% on at least one Comp.

The Comps are not "gotcha" tests -- they test the most fundamental information taught in each class, the material that teachers have gone over time and again. If a student paid a reasonable amount of attention in class and did the homework, it would be difficult to fail the Comp for that class. It is not a high bar. And then, if anyone fails a Comp, they can study for it again, retake it, and pass. The point of the Comps is not to "weed out" students -- it's to make sure that they understand the most basic material that they were supposed to learn in each class before moving on to more complex material.

Last year, from time to time I heard my child complain that two students were disruptive in class. At the end of the year, those two students happened to be the only two students my child knew of who had failed the Comps. I think it was because they weren't paying attention and weren't trying (and not because they somehow weren't capable of learning the material).    [/quote]

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