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[quote=Anonymous][b]Well the city has a magnet HS and many parents are not bothering to apply to the school. Ask yourself why. [/b]

You mean Walls?  Banneker?  Ellington?  All three are technically academic magnets, they just aren't all that tough to be admitted to, or graduate from.  Could it be that many parents aren't "bothering to apply" because Banneker's average SAT scores, which DCPS makes public, are lower than the national average?  And according to the Post, in a given year, Walls gets 0-1 kid into Harvard, while Thomas Jefferson in Alexandria gets a dozen.  TJ's student body is only about twice as large as Walls'.

My great concern about Basis, although my kid will try it for at least 2012-2013, is that the students needing remediation who strolled in will monopolize instructor time and energy.  Although Basis may not keep such students long, while they stay, they will invariably slow gifted kids down.  Basis, being a charter, lacks a mechanism to remove students who are behind the curve.  They can, and surely will, stick around to repeat grades.  
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