Reply to BASIS Lottery ONLY for 5th grade?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "BASIS Lottery ONLY for 5th grade?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

I don't know how it works in other places, but in DC, charter schools are forbidden to have entrance requirements. It wouldn't be equitable for students who have access to supplemental or accelerated curricula to have an increased chance to access a public school (and charter schools are public).[/quote]

Elsewhere, they can't have entrance requirements to get into the school as a whole, but they can have them to get into a specific grade.  If you get in from the lottery for 7th, but can't pass the algebra I readiness test, they'll let you in for 6th grade but not 7th in my state.  I'm fortunate in that my DD was already prepared for 7th grade Algebra and had no problems with passing the BASIS algebra readiness test.

On that note, the DC BASIS policy of only admitting in 5th grade is pretty silly.  My DD entered in 7th and has a 96% average through GP1 and GP2.  Clearly, smart kids are more than capable of entering and succeeding at BASIS in grades beyond 5th.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics