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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Uh, holy sh*t. This is bizarre. "A fighting chance"? "No chance in the world"? "Play make believe"? "Truly and deeeeeeeply desires"? "REALLY number one choice"?

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Right. What they mean is a fair number of their applicants are fleeing the poor blacks. [/quote]

I mean, we are and we aren't. On the one hand, we signed up for Basis because it's a school in which our kids can learn at academically advanced levels, and the race and income levels of their classmates are irrelevant. On the other hand, as anyone who hasn't had their head in the sand for the past 200 years knows, race and income are hugely correlated with academic achievement, so there's no way in which race and income are not relevant to this discussion. But when Basis has an at-risk rate of only 9 percent, there's certainly room for more disadvantaged but ambitious kids. That letter is bad, but at least it doesn't sugar-coat the fact that helping kids who need more support means more work for the school. I read it as saying that they will support motivated but underprepared kids, but not totally unmotivated kids.[/quote]

BASIS has 9% at-risk. Some schools have even lower rates. Let those schools pick up their numbers before criticizing BASIS and it's poor performance meeting the needs of at-risk students. Remember, anyone at-risk student in DC can attend BASIS, unlike some schools that exclude at-risk students.[/quote]

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