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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is the 2017 list of where they actually went:

The colleges and universities that the BASIS DC Class of 2017 will attend include:

Boston College

University of Dallas

Bowie State University

Johnson & Wales University

Barnard College

Georgia State University

University of Maine

Hampshire College
Princeton University

Haverford College

George Mason University

University of Dallas

Montgomery College

Culinary Institute of America

Morgan State University

Coppin State University[/quote]

That’s a pretty good list. As good as many privates. [/quote]

These schools are all fine. The issue I see is that the students put in way more hours and crammed in a lot of busy work to achieve these schools while kids in the burbs did half the amount of work yet got the same results.

IN other words, [b]the work at BASIS is not significantly more advanced than any basic suburban high school in this area, they just have more homework, busy work and is likely poorly taught and rushed through[/b].

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Do you know this to be true, or are you just speculating? If you live in the suburbs where all high schools are pretty good, I can see how you'd be unimpressed. But for students in DC, a citywide public high school that regularly produces these college acceptances is really exciting. Maybe you need to live here to understand the significance.
-DC native, not a basis parent[/quote]

I live in the area suburbs and have my entire life. I am well aware of the challenges with DC public schools. but the demographic stats for BASIS are close to other close in suburban high schools that get the exact same results for colleges. It's very likely that these kids killed themselves for nothing and they could have achieved the same results elsewhere.

[/quote]Elsewhere like in the suburbs? What part of "DC Public and Public Charter Schools" are you missing? The demographics that matter are [b]DC[/b].[/quote]

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