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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You call it “gaming the system” but making sure a student gets a 3 on one AP exam by senior year should be the minimum goal of all schools.  This is not a high bar.  It’s sad that most schools don’t make “college readiness” more of a priority.  [/quote]

If Basis earned its CRI scores by teaching every student to that standard, you might be right. But they get those scores the easy way, by kicking kids out before senior year. They’re not increasing the numerator (college-ready students), they’re shrinking the denominator (high school seniors). Any school could do the same thing, without improving the quality of its instruction one whit. [/quote]

They don’t kick anyone out. They require you to repeat the grade if you don’t pass. If you choose to leave, that’s on you, but you should know that there are students who choose to stay and repeat grades until they pass.[/quote]

They may not kick kids out of the school, but they sure as heck prevent them from becoming seniors until they have passed an AP. And that’s all they need to do to ensure that the denominator (seniors) is always equal to the numerator (students who have passed an AP) so that the CRI at every Basis school is always 100. [/quote]

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