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[quote=Anonymous]From what I have seen, BASIS goes above and beyond, where it comes to meeting the needs of kids.  They offered STARS tutoring, they are offering extra reading and math labs, they are bending over backwards to bring kids up to speed.  I believe they also have specialists for special needs, a behavioral specialist, and a psychologist.

While they offer an accelerated "leap" track, I would not characterize them as "gifted".

As for attrition, I think there were some who didn't take BASIS seriously, didn't investigate, and who didn't expect the curriculum to be as challenging as it is.  A lot of students coming from other DCPS schools just coasted through without ever having to work hard.  From talking to some parents, they say their kids got easy 'A's at their prior DCPS schools without even trying - at BASIS they found they had to work a lot harder for those 'A's.

Many parents I know express shock and surprise at the basic knowledge deficit from DCPS schooling that they didn't realize their kids had prior to coming to BASIS, for example extremely weak math skills, and are amazed at how much more their kids are learning at BASIS.  [/quote]

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