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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many schools don’t participate in the equitable preference program. That’s not unique to BASIS.[/quote]

Ok, but what has BASIS made this choice? [/quote]

DP. Does it even matter though? You've chosen to focus on this, presumably because you seem to believe that it supports your theory that BASIS isn't a "good" school. If you prefer a school that offers Equitable Preference, there are more than a few that you can choose from. But not every school is required to offer this so using it as a way to attack BASIS is silly. Even if it did offer EP, you'd likely still find a problem with it.[/quote]

It's not because I want a school that offers the preference. It's because I want a school that performs well *relative to demographics* because I think that's the more meaningful way to assess quality of teaching, and I think it's misleading and unhelpful to claim that BASIS is superior when really it just has easier demographics, and has them on purpose based on its own policy choices. You'll cry "100% lottery!" as if that's the only factor, but it's not. Schools have lots of ways of influencing which students enroll and are retained.

I would like BASIS boosters to explain why BASIS is unwilling to do the more challenging educational work that other schools are willing to undertake.[/quote]

The equitable access preference is mostly about virtue signaling. Every school doesn't need to be singularly focused on "equity."  It's ok for a school to be focused on providing challenging academics for the students who are admitted through a roll of the dice lottery.  [/quote]

Straw man. Nobody is advocating a "singular focus on equity". I'm asking why BASIS is deliberately choosing to have a lower at-risk population than many other schools. What is the reason for that choice?[/quote]

Explain why you keep repeating that BASIS is deliberately "choosing" to have a lower at-risk population. How is it choosing? Are you saying it's manipulating the lottery? Are you saying that it reviews the financial information of students on the waitlist to determine who gets to enroll?

And surely you're aware of other lottery-based schools with similarly low at-risk populations, right? Are all of them deliberately "choosing" those demographics? [/quote]

It's a choice because BASIS could implement the at-risk preference and has chosen not to.

Other lottery-based schools are at least trying, by implementing the preference, or they already have a higher at-risk percentage than BASIS does.[/quote]

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