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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apparently no one on this thread went to the info session last week.

I don't think BASIS should be given permission until they do something about their attrition rate, because Olga Block said the attrition between 8th and 9th in the BASIS model consisted of students who were not "college bound," and here that is definitely NOT the case, we are having atypical attrition (assuming she was telling the truth) so again, DC is different.  Until BASIS can stem a little of the profound exodus to Walls and Wilson, and prove to be a viable high school, the Charter Board should not accept what is surely going to be anothery pyramid model, this time in an elementary school.  Because BASIS already knows they can refill the ranks in 5th grade. There are quite a few kids who choose BASIS over Deal, at least initially.  But what happens at the best BASIS schools does not apply here, because we are not being run like one of the best BASIS schools.[/quote]

You said all that needed to be said regarding topic.[/quote]

Actually there was not a "profound" exodus to Wilson and Walls this year. I have been to just about every meeting since before the school opened and never heard Olga say that kids leave because they are not college bound at all.

As for supposedly not being run like one of the best BASIS schools, I have to disagree. BASIS DC is actually doing quite well in AP pass rates in comparison to other BASIS schools. All teachers are trained by BASIS headquarters. We have lots of very good teachers. Is the school perfect? No, but neither is any school.[/quote]

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