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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BASIS boosters talk about challenge, challenge, challenge as though that's all it's going to take to convince a critical mass of affluent families to stay through HS.  But well-educated parents who can vote with their feet choose schools, and stay with them, for various reasons.  They are often looking for facilities and social environments/peer groups comparable to those in the burbs and at privates (where colleagues and friends send their children).  From these threads, I gather than BASIS only plans to graduate around 50 kids, with each class smaller than the one before.  The unsual population pyramid alone is going to drive out families with kids passing comps, how many, nobody knows.  It would be great if you could discuss potential deal breakers without getting accused of this and that.  The like it or lump it mentality projected here isn't doing BASIS any favors.  
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Well, at the risk of making controversial assumptions, let's suppose that

(1) high-SES kids have a significantly higher pass rate on the comps than low-SES kids due to family support, tutoring, etc.; and

(2) after a few years of the accelerated curriculum at BASIS, comp-passers will be less likely to leave on their own to pursue a less accelerated curriculum at a DCPS, MoCo, or VA public school or at a private.

Then, as the BASIS class size shrinks from 160 in fifth to 50 in 11th, the percentage of high-SES kids will increase dramatically.

Assumption (1) has a high probability of being correct.  The unknown with BASIS is how often (2) will hold.

My suspicion is that it will take a lot to lure a high-performing multi-year BASIS comp-passer away, but who knows. [/quote]

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