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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Planning to move to VA or go private for an International Baccalaureate HS program which teaches our family's language at a level one or two years past AP.

What I find about DC public schools is that the high needs population in the city, in both traditional schools and the charter sector, motivates school leaders up and down the chain to ooze paternalism, e.g. you have to study a language for years in school, or calculus, or whatever, or you won't be able to ace a slew of AP exams. Total BS.

BASIS assumes that kids starting after 6th grade couldn't handle the science and math curriculum, so none can enter. Nonsense. There are more high-powered public middle schools than BASIS in this Metro area and in other US cities, e.g. [b]the one I attended in NYC (Hunter College Middle School). [/b][/quote]

Talk about "high needs population" and look no further than the NYC magnets that base admission on a single high stakes test and the supporters who fight tooth and nail and the state level to preserve the status quo, no matter how paltry the number of resulting black and hispanic accepted. Historically black and hispanic students are systematically overlooked and never given the necessary support to seek out and secure these opportunities, no matter how academically capable they may be.[/quote]

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