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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
But again, 21:33, they don't have a track record in DC.

I'm not sure why you have such a hard time acknowledging this very simple fact.

DC BASIS is still an experiment here.

So in essence, you are saying that the children of DC, of whom a great many are low SS AA, will not be able to make it at Basis and therefore Basis will fail. Honestly, this is an outrageous assumption. [/quote]

Um, no, I didn't say that. Not in essence and not in fact. In fact, I didn't mention the children of DC at all in that three line post. I didn't talk about SES or AA students either. I didn't even talk about BASIS students. I made no assumptions, outrageous or otherwise.

I stated a FACT.

BASIS doesn't have a track record in DC. That's all I said.

Their reputation in Arizona is well earned, but this is the first year BASIS has been open and it doesn't have a track record in DC. In a few years, there will be some data that shows whether the BASIS model works in DC the way it works in AZ.

I can't figure out why such a simple fact makes some boosters go crazy with the accusations about what was never said.

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I'm not the previous poster but have been in similar threads on this before - The question has been asked repeatedly of why, given their established track record in Arizona, there is this deep skepticism repeatedly expressed by posters that they can't replicate the same kind of success here.  What is it that makes DC so special?  Maybe you personally didn't suggest it, but other anti-Basis cynics have repeatedly suggested that DC is very different, primarily because of its large number of low-SES AA students (which basically suggests low-SES AA students are fundamentally incapable of more solid academics - something I don't necessarily agree with).  But certainly this is your opportunity to explain what is driving your own cynicism and reservations, rather than just saying "no, no, no" to everything - which doesn't really say anything useful.[/quote]

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