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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it is approved, one way that it could help is by forcing families to choose early on whether they are going the BASIS route or taking a different path. This will mean fewer kids leaving elementary schools at 4th grade so the schools won't have weird tiny/combined classes (Brent and I think Ross) or take in a bunch of new kids for 5th grade. Some kids will still leave for Latin or elementaries with preferred feeder patterns, but it could help a bit. [/quote]

Making the 5th grade statistics school-wide will not be a boon to a lot of these schools.  Lower-performing earlier grades will threaten the progress a lot of these schools have made (and in turn the progress they have made/hope to make at schools like SH, EH, and Jefferson).  DC shouldn't allow a Basis elementary — it is a huge threat to progress in DCPS.[/quote]

Except for the schools immediately adjacent to this future BASIS elementary, I don't think any one DCPS school would lose enough kids to BASIS to make a big difference. It's going to require both a good lottery number and an enthusiasm for BASIS, and many people don't have both of those things.[/quote]

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